Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes News

See the complete list of changes on the forum
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=992

Updates to Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

New features

• 10 Steam achievements
  
• New optional deferred rendering system with day night cycle, screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO), depth of field, rim lighting, unlimited dynamic lights, etc...
  
• Combat GUI: new damage font effect
  
• Diagonal movement and combat now possible
  
• Roaming characters
  
• Normal maps, specular maps and parallax maps
  
• New GUI elements
  
• New sound effects
  
• Added torches
  
• New vegetation models
  
• New screen effect seen on critical hits
  

Updates

• Some SSAO performance optimization
  
• Conversation GUI: game text speed slider affects text fade-in speed
  
• Conversation GUI: raised LMB press fade speed by factor 10
  
• Conversation GUI: correct behavior with LMB if text has been fully faded in
  
• Conversation GUI: correct behavior of mouse wheel when conversation dialog windows are active
  
• Many improved camera systems with additional options in game
  
• Improved navigation (character avoidance, ground slope affects acceleration)
  
• Improved performance
  
• Improved terrain textures
  
• Increased global games peed by 20%
  
• Removed the quick talk button
  
• Improved grid fading
  
• Improvements to the English text
  

Fixed

• Invisible Mandy if killed during the first fight before she entered the party
  
• Disabled entity slider
  
• Conversation GUI: invisible characters
  
• A rare problem where characters have been assigned wrong grid cells
  
• Memory leak that caused items not to be cleaned up after loading a save game
  
• Indoor levels are now cached out
  
• A selection particle rotation problem
  
• A GUI problem with special attacks and right mouse button
  
• A rare crash in the event system
  
• An AI problem with characters being both in seduced and berserk states
  
• On occasion the dialog system would freeze if it focused on a dead NPC
  
• Some items overlapped in the inventory system
  
• Added a tool in the root game directory to help bypass the config tool for those experiencing problems
  
• Many minor fixes
  

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Updates to Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Optimized english language texts
  
• Trinigy vision engine update to 7.6.24, may improve stability (depends on DirecX SDK February 2010, you may need a local directx update)
  
• Optional code for positioning hardware cursor (better results on lower framerates)
  
• Performance improvements in quest
• and dialog-system (fixes cyclic fps drops)
  
• Config tool: added background music
  
• Config tool: added windowed option
  
• Config tool: added disable intro-videos option
  
• Config tool: removed tahoma font dependancy (fixes a crash on some machines)
  
• Fixed a bug where pressing escape in the option menu the first time would mess up the menu system
  
• Clamped the mouse speed to 0.1
  
• More error outputs if the gfx hardware does not meet the requirements
  
• Charmed chars are auto-uncharmed if game goes into explore mode (fixes misc potential quest deadlocks)
  
• Camera: iso move speed has been increased
  
• Camera: height angles have been changed to avoid level collisions
  
• Necessary release files are now copied into the related MyDocuments folders (write access is required, otherwise an error occurs)
  
• Alternate improved exception handling with the option to send debug reports anonymously
  
• Fixed a bug where you could not attack anymore after a levelup
  
• Fixed a bug where the conversation would not continue if the related partners were out of processing range
  
• Changed chocochicks fraction to friendly in order to avoid some movement deadlocks
  
• Changed fraction of three soldiers in riverwind in order to avoid a movement deadlock situation
  
• Dawnclaude is set to invisible before he joins the party (otherwise it was possible to kill him in advance)
  
• Fixed a tooltip for dawnclaude not showing up
  
• Added cheats (tba later)