"Gladiator, gladiator, gladiator, Swords and Sandals, Gladiatorrrrr!"You grew up playing the legendary Swords and Sandals turn based combat game series. These games have been played over half a billion times. Swords and Sandals is nostalgia, Swords and Sandals is life.
Hey everyone! Apologies for the delay in patching the [i]Classic Collection[/i]! I've been super busy lately, between this game, looking after my little son, maintaining the mobile versions of the games and working on the new game [i]Spartacus[/i], my time has just felt non-existent!
Good news is there's a new patch up for the game! Here are some of the latest additions / fixes - this is for Windows only right now but a Mac patch is coming soon too.
[b]Global Changes][/b]
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[*] Players can now return to the main menu by clicking Quit Game. This was a lot trickier to implement than I thought, but it's working now. You can go back and forward between games without having to reload the main game every time.
[*] New background image added to random backgrounds
[*] Fixed a bunch of broken tweens and typos in the games
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[b]Swords and Sandals II[/b]
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[*] Fixed a bug where enemy trivia didn't show up properly
[*] Resized orange parchment on battle UI to fit screens better
[*] Fixed a bug where ammo was not showing for characters in battle
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[b]Swords and Sandals Crusader[/b]
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[*] Fixed a bug in the Leadership spell that would sometimes freeze the game
[*] Fixed some blurring issues on sprites in battle
[*] Fixed a bug where the game would sometimes pause between arrow fire exchanges
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[b]Swords and Sandals IV[/b]
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[*] Potential fix for the Arena tiles showing 'Closed for repairs'. (You may find this causes some glitches or undefined character names, if so, let me know!)
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I will keep patching this game over the months and years, it just might take me a while as many of the bugs are from code written in 2006 that *used* to work but just has totally broken in newer versions of Windows etc, things like Tween engines that once worked now sometimes fail, collision detection is done differently etc! It's a creaky machine :)
Once again, thankyou all so much for supporting the S&S series and I look forward to bringing you more adventures in Spartacus and Swords and Sandals VI in 2019 / 2020 and beyond!
Cheers, Oliver Joyce
Whiskeybarrel Studios