DF2012

posted on January 28th, 2012, 7:13 pm

ThreeToe here. While Toady One is busy putting on the final touches for the next release, I thought I'd give you some details and impressions I've had while testing it.

Adventure mode is about 100,000x as fun. Huge cities with dungeons filled with loot and ancient pyramids crawling with undead. The new city maps are just awesome, and the fact that you have to eat and drink now really adds to the feeling of going on long journeys.

Dwarf mode is enriched as well. Most of the migrants you get now are historical figures, meaning they have their own skills and family lineage that goes back to the dawn of time. One thing I like doing is turning all the new rangers into marks-dwarves because they are already good at it. Another thing I noticed, but I hesitate to promise anything, is that the game runs way faster than before.

I caught a vampire too. A fisher-dwarf accused the expedition leader, who I knew was innocent of course. So I had my sheriff drag the fisher-dwarf to the dungeon. I had no hammer, so he had to wait to be executed while we forged one. After 50 hammer strikes I knew I was right, because he lived.

I think this release will be numbered among the mighty. And it's coming right around the corner.

Anybody else getting hyped for the next release? I know some people in these parts of the web are DF players... Stop collecting ☼adamantine socks☼ and give me a shout!

[Nutter]

posted on January 28th, 2012, 7:33 pm

Last edited by Nutter on January 28th, 2012, 7:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

*Hands Terra !!≡Goblin bone bolt≡!!.


Oh, sorry about that.
Think I might be a bit giddy.
The whole running faster thing sounds nice if true.