Wesnoth 0.8.8

Post by **isaac** » December 5th, 2004, 4:20 pm

As you already know Miyo is no longer with us (don't worry, he is still alive), so I will craft releases from now on. As if Miyo's casualty weren't hard enough, our Mighty Rabbit Cedric has also resigned. My best wishes for them.

This release includes great new portraits for The Rise of Wesnoth campaign, updated translations, several scenario fixes and a new multiplayer scenario.

We have also worked in unit balancing and 6 new units are available too.

Of course, lots of bugs have been fixed and the code has been cleaned up.

You can check details at http://changelog.wesnoth.org.

Downloads:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wesn ... z?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wesn ... 5?download

Wesnoth-lite should be fully working Wesnoth, it just lacks music and story images (making it smaller and therefore faster to download):

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wesn ... z?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wesn ... 5?download

As a fallback you can also get files from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/wesnoth/ and http://files.wesnoth.org/ - you should first try to get files through SourceForge or Savannah to help us save bandwidth.

devsrv.wesnoth.org is running 0.8.8 and can be used for multiplayer games.

Instructions for bug reporting can be found - http://wesnoth.slack.it/?ReportingBugs

Debian GNU/Linux packages are already available and Mandrakelinux, Mac OS X, BeOS and Microsoft Windows packagers have been informed.

As this one has been my first release I've made some mistakes, I expect this release is good enough and I will do my best to make next release better.

Enjoy it.

Isaac

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » December 5th, 2004, 4:52 pm

How come Deathblades are not included in multiplayer?

Post by **quartex** » December 5th, 2004, 5:05 pm

I don't know. When asking for them to be included, I forgot to ask for them to be put into multiplayer. Obviously not every new unit gets put into a multiplayer faction. Personally, I think they'd be great in multiplayer, although I'm not sure if they would unbalance the undead faction. But perhaps they shouldn't be included until people who know faction balancing better than me can discuss faction balancing issues. I'd love to see them get included eventually.

Post by **turin** » December 5th, 2004, 5:09 pm

This must be the third time Cedric has resigned.

i suppose its permanent this time.

anyway, its cool TROW is portrait complete... i wish i could say the same for EI. *cough*Jetryl*cough*.

Post by **quartex** » December 5th, 2004, 5:12 pm

Hopefully Cedric will still come back and visit.

Post by **isaac** » December 5th, 2004, 5:24 pm

How come Deathblades are not included in multiplayer?

Because you didn't asked your question yesterday

Shade · Post by **Shade** » December 5th, 2004, 5:28 pm

isaac wrote:
How come Deathblades are not included in multiplayer?
Because you didn't asked your question yesterday

Ooops, my bad. I forgot to ask if they should be added to 'Age of Heroes'...

Post by **quartex** » December 5th, 2004, 5:38 pm

But currently in multiplayer, if you level up a skeleton, you can make it into a deathblade?

Post by **turin** » December 5th, 2004, 5:43 pm

quartex wrote:But currently in multiplayer, if you level up a skeleton, you can make it into a deathblade?

yes, there's no ifdefs in the unit.cfg file.

Circon · Post by **Circon** » December 5th, 2004, 5:47 pm

*looks around for Windows*

Does anyone else think that Elilmaldur looks completely NUTTY in the new TROW portraits? With the updated Wose graphics, I believe I'd actually prefer a normal Ancient Wose.

SaintDust · Post by **SaintDust** » December 5th, 2004, 5:59 pm

tar.gz is there a version for windows?

Post by **quartex** » December 5th, 2004, 6:39 pm

Nutty? Is he a beech tree?

sanna · Post by **sanna** » December 5th, 2004, 7:02 pm

Circon wrote:Does anyone else think that Elilmaldur looks completely NUTTY in the new TROW portraits?

I love Elilmaldur.

ArtillaryGoat · Post by **ArtillaryGoat** » December 5th, 2004, 7:21 pm

I am too stupid to compile something. When will the disk image version be released?

Post by **quartex** » December 5th, 2004, 7:48 pm

to quote Miyo: IRWIR (it's ready when it's ready). You'll have to wait until someone like Sithrandel or Crimson Penguin posts a disk image. Sometimes we mac users have to wait several days. You'll just have to be patient.