Meridian4 has announced the release of a new patch for their strategy RPG, Grotesque Tactics – Evil Heroes. The game pokes fun at traditional Western and Asian-inspired fantasy game norms. The ‘Epic Patch’ weighs in at 74megabytes and is available for download the game’s official support website.
Epic Patch (Version 1.2.0.2)
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
