HISTORY Great Battles Medieval Beta Patch v1.01

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:01 pm

Hi guys

we have some great news. We've listened to your feedback and made some great changes to Great Battles Medieval. We've even created an entire new campaign for you to play! You'll be amazed!

Download the Beta patch from http://www.slitherine.com/files/gbotma/ ... _v1.01.exe

Change list
• New play mode – Blood mode. In blood mode you take casualties in battles and get no free healing, so must recruit replacements. This was the most requested feature change so we did it! This makes the game much harder! You can play any campaign with this turned on or off. After each battle you must pay to recruit replacements so be very careful as you could easily end up with a situation where your army cannot win. This is not for the feint hearted.
• Complete new campaign – “The honourable Knight”! Load up the patch and you'll see a new icon on the campaign wheel. This campaign has been designed to be played in Blood mode so beware!
• Completely new ambient sound scape. All maps have new ambient sound effects and triggers. Much much better!
• More army customization options. You can have a choice of 3 different basic colours for your men. English troops can be red, yellow or black. French can be dark blue, light blue or green. 2 new shields patterns per side have also been added. This really adds a huge amount to the army design. Very cool.
• When in blood mode you'll see new UI button to heal individual squads that are damaged and the entire army.
• There is a fix for the NVidia drivers issue so you should be able to go back to the latest drivers and it will work. We could not get NVidia to fix their driver bug so we worked around it!
• The in battle morale bar now shows the points at which a squad will become shaken and rout. Useful for planning when to use battle cards.
• The mouse zoom rate has been improved. You can also tweak the rate from insude the user settings file.
• The Scenario editor allows you to customize enemy army uniforms more easily.
• The Scenario editor allows you to set up the banner and tile colours for enemy sides. E.g. in the new campaign the English have been coloured Black.
• Tutorial 1 – fixed a big where the players general could get killed by peasants.
• Tutorial 2 – fixed a bug where rallied enemy troops broke the flow of the tutorial.
• Hostages scenario bug. Stop routed enemies rallying and killing the hostages.
• Tourney scenario bug – this now ends when the general has lost all its men.

We think this is an awesome free upgrade and we'd love to hear your feedback. The new campaign has been played but needs some more feedback on the balancing side. Is there enough money or not. Give it a try and let us know if you feel it needs any tweaks. Good luck and have fun!

comradep · Post by **comradep** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:38 pm

Great news.

I'll get back to playing the game again now that the morale bar is more user friendly.

zachanscom · Post by **zachanscom** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:31 am

sounds good. thanks

lordzimoa · Post by **lordzimoa** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:18 am

Thanks Destraex!

Some new pics:

Cheers,

Tim aka LZ

GallantZirocool · Post by **GallantZirocool** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:27 pm

will this be available when the game comes out on xbox 360?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:41 pm

Will what be available?

lordzimoa · Post by **lordzimoa** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:15 pm

I think he wants to know if the Xbox 360, PS3 and retail PC versions that will come out Q1 2010 will be patched to the latest version and include the Beta patch improvements as described above.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:21 pm

Some of them were already in 360/PS3 and we bolted them back in to PC - others may not work so can't say for sure at this time if they will all be in.

GallantZirocool · Post by **GallantZirocool** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:38 pm

yes that whas what i ment lordzimoa and thanks fore the reply