Titan Quest Patch 1.30 Readme

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Titan Questô VERSION HISTORY

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Patch 1.30 Changes - 3/05/2007

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GENERAL:

- Fixed a bug where screen shake would occur across all players in a

multiplayer game when it was caused by one player

- Fixed a bug where Merchants dialog would not play in some localizedlanguages

- Fixed vitality damage resist so it shows properly in the UI

- Fixed a bug where disabling the day/night cycle did not work in a

multiplayer game

- Fixed a crash bug where projectiles would travel outside the rendered

gameplay space

- Fixed a crash bug where the physics engine could attempt to accessobjects after they had been removed from the world

- Fixed a crash bug where the game could possibly attempt to update the

location of a character that had already died

- Fixed a crash bug affecting defective monster patrol points

- Fixed a crash bug involving target leading with projectiles

- Made code adjustments in preparation for Titan Quest Immortal Throne

expansion including version compatibility and MOD compatibility

- Fixed virtual memory test to allow for machines with more than 4 gigs of

virtual memory

BALANCE:

- Increased the unique item drop rate on boss chests on both first



encounters and subsequent playthroughs

- Increased the unique item drop rate on Epic and Legendary "exclusive"

monsters

- Reduced the difficulty on Typhon on normal difficulty level

- Fixed several pieces of common equipment with extreme armor values

- Fixed an issue with the Ancestral Warrior skill where it was not

improving as skill points were invested at higher levels

- Adjusted the Study Prey skill

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Patch 1.20 Changes - 9/15/2006====================================================

GENERAL:

- Fixed Ensnare to work while wielding a staff

- Several skill descriptions updated for clarity

- Fixed particle effect artifacts remaining on the ground when fighting

Barmanu

- Fixed Ormenos so that he is no longer invincible if a player does not

enter the combat area and engage him immediately

- Fixed characters freezing when using an item that grants the charge

ability and dual wielding

- Fixed pets occasionally causing boss chests not to open

- Implemented the ability to turn the day/night cycle on and off. Day/night

cycles are currently on by default.

To turn day/night cycle off, go to the My Games\Titan Quest\Settings

directory and open the options.txt file after changing any option in game.

Find the setting called "dayNightCycle" and change its value to false. If

the setting does not exist, add the line ìdayNightCycle = falseî to the end

of the options.txt file.

BALANCE:



Nature

- Heart of Oak life bonus reduced

- Regrowth benefits start lower and end higher

- Increased Call of the Wild life, damage scaling and Maul bleed damage

- Increased rate of Sylvan Nymph energy regeneration and maximum hitpoints- Refresh now subtracts duration from the remaining cooldown time of skills

- Changed max and/or ultimate levels for the following: Survival Instinct,

Sylvan Nymph, Sanctuary, Call of the Wild, and Briar Ward

Hunting

- Increased speed bonus conferred by Wood Lore

- Increased effectiveness of Gouge Skill

- Decreased pierce resistance reduction of Study Prey

- Added bleed damage to Art of the Hunt

- Removed active energy cost from Trail Blazing and added energy reserve

- Increased damage of Marksmanship and Scatter Shot Arrow- Changed max and/or ultimate levels for the following: Art of the Hunt and

Exploit Weakness

Spirit

- Converted Ternion to a fixed spread attack and increased elemental damage

penalty

- Decreased radius of Arcane Lore

- Increased vitality damage on Death Nova

- Lowered elemental bonus of Unearthly Power

- Changed total speed to run speed on Dark Covenant

- Increased Liche King energy regeneration and physical and pierce resists- Increased Outsider energy regeneration, cooldown timer and damage but

decreased his duration

- Changed max and/or ultimate levels for the following: Outsider, Summon

Liche King, Cascade

Defense

- Increased physical damage caused by Shield Charge

- Increased protection conferred by Battle Awareness

- Increased effectiveness of Rally

- Changed Pulverize and Disable damage bonus from percent to absolute

- Changed Shield Smash to use defensive reduction instead of physicaldamage

- Fixed Disable skill to require a shield be equipped instead of a melee

weapon

- Changed max and/or ultimate levels for the following: Adrenaline, Focus,

Battle Awareness, and Recovery

Earth



- Added DEX bonus to Earth Mastery skill

- Increased effectiveness of Brimstone

- Increased effectiveness of Stone Skin

- Changed max and/or ultimate levels for Core Dweller skill

Storm- Increased effectiveness of Freezing Blast

- Changed max and/or ultimate levels for Summon Wisp skill

Rogue

- Increased Disarm Trap damage vs. traps

- Increased bleeding damage on Lucky Hit

- Increased damage scaling of Envenom Weapon

- Increased the damage, range, and fumble of Poison Gas Bomb

- Increased the pierce and bleeding damage of Shrapnel

- Increased pierce damage of Throwing Knives

- Changed max and/or ultimate levels for the following: Shrapnel, DisarmTrap, and Throwing Knives

Warfare

- Increased the radius of Triumph

- Added bleeding damage to Crosscut and Tumult

- Decreased cooldown on War Wind and Battle Rage

- Increased damage for Crushing Blow and Counter Attack

- Decreased the damage absorption and +Offensive Ability of Battle Standard

and removed spawn delay

- Increased energy cost of Ancestral Horn

- Adjusted War Wind damage, allowed use of Onslaught, and added chargeability

- Changed max and/or ultimate levels for the following: Ancestral Warrior,

Battle Standard, and War Horn

Monsters

- Raised the difficulty of monsters on the path to Olympus Summit

- Increased monster innate armor

- Increased life and damage of various monsters

- Adjusted AI controllers for various monsters

- Fixed or added skills for the following monsters: Olympus Limos, Olympus

Cyclops, Zombie Captains, Jungle Creep, Neanderthals, Djinn, and OrientWidow spiders

- Added projectile leading ability to various monsters to more effectively

hit moving players

Epic and Legendary Monsters

- Increased Global physical damage modifier

- Increased Global hitpoints modifier



- Increased elemental and secondary damage types modifiers

- Increased unarmed damage skill and added it to several monsters

- Decreased resistances, attribute bonuses and absolute offensive and

defensive abilities

Boss Monsters- Changed Typhon encounter and difficulty. Typhon now actively uses all of

his powers. He no longer requires interaction with the statues. The

statues are no longer attackable.

- Increased Yaoguai skill use

- Increased hitpoints on the Prince of Blade and Prince of Bow

- Increased Minotaur skill usage and speed and added fire damage

- Adjusted Talos skill usage frequency and damage

- Reduced Yeti hitpoints and increased frequency to use skills

- Increased power of Xiao and extended pursuit range

- Increased Nessus hitpoints

- Increased the frequency of Hydra breath attacks and lowered hitpoints- Increased Cyclops speed and damage in Epic and Legendary

Shrines

- Adjusted all of Typhon's shrines for the new encounter

- Battle shrines now give bonus to all damage types

- Increased damage of Epic and Legendary Shrines of Thorns and Frostbite

Shrines

Player

- Player resistance penalties for disruption, stun, life leech, mana leech,

and bleed for Epic and Legendary removed- Adjusted life and energy attribute bonuses conferred by skills

QUESTS:

- Fixed the Caravan in Trouble quest failing to trigger in Epic and

Legendary

- Fixed Limos Epic and Legendary quest rewards

- Fixed several Legendary jewelry quest rewards

ITEMS:

- Added level requirements to Epic and Legendary gear

- Increased armor cap in Epic and Legendary

- Adjusted base stats for armor, weapons and shields



- Fixed Bracers of Atlas to grant a skill

- Fixed Energy Shield on Prostasia ring

- Fixed Armor of the Burning Blade not appearing on the female characters

- Fixed Pagos sword missing texture

- Changed and/or updated stats and completion bonuses for all relics and

charms

- Updated art for Epic and Legendary charms

- Relic drops are no longer exclusively region specific and some can now be

found in other acts

- Cooldown reduction removed from unique rings and several relics and

charms

- Added Epic and Legendary only rare affixes: Mammoth, Kingly, of the

Siren, of the Betrayer

- Club attack speed adjusted on all common and unique clubs

- Increased drop rates of the higher level potions in Epic and Legendary

- Increased unique item drop rates on non-boss monsters

- Decreased chance for unique drops off of chests

- Increased healing from health potions in Epic and Legendary

MULTIPLAYER:

- Fixed clients failing to gain experience when joining a game that has a

character with a much higher level

HISTORY:

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GENERAL:



- Fixed crash issues involving teleporting

- Fixed pathing crashes involved with entering and leaving underground

areas

- Fixed crashes involving the Alt-Tab function

- Fixed crash issue which could occur when standing at the same coordinates

as an item and attempting to pick it up

- Fixed a bug where items would occasionally fall through the world when

they are dropped or unsuccessfully picked up

- Fixed a bug where storing manual character back-ups in the SaveData

folder would cause those characters to not be visible on the character

select screen

- Improved character auto back-up system

- Implemented texture reduction matrix which allows the low graphics

settings to use more compressed textures and improves performance on low

end systems

- Implemented the ability to turn shadows on and off. Shadows are currently

on by default.

To turn shadows off, go to the My Games\Titan Quest\Settings directory and

open the options.txt file after changing any option in game.† Find thesetting called "Shadows" and change its value to false.† If the setting

does not exist, add the line ìshadows=falseî to the end of the options.txt

file.†

- Fixed the 'Fatal Error' message appearing when trying to boot up Titan

Questô with Virtual Memory turned off†

- Implemented a minidump file into the crash logging system

QUESTS:

- Fixed bug in quest system where quests updating on certain conditions

could cause the game to crash and corrupt quest data

- Fixed situation where players were not given credit for quest completion

while leaving the game upon completing a quest



- Fixed Quest NPC issue where NPCís were not completing their animation

cycles and awarding proper quest tokens to advance the quest. This is in

reference to issues some players were having with some of the ship captains

updating as well as Phaedrus in the Catacombs.

- Fixed host quest log from being updated when an ungrouped client entersTitan Questô with certain quest items in their inventory

- Fixed host quest log from being updated when an ungrouped client enters

Titan Questô and proceeds with critical path quests

- Improved the thread safety of the quest state saving system

EDITOR:

- Fixed array values not working properly where importing a record in the

Art Manager

- Fixed issue where impassible terrain was not viewable on ATI cards

MULTIPLAYER:

- Fixed disconnects and the inability to host a game for certain network

devices which were unable to process network packets over 1400 bytes.

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Patch 1.11 Changes - 7/24/2006====================================================

GENERAL:

- Changed mouse input to swap left and right buttons when the option is

selected in Windows

- Fixed NPC dialogue fading when bumped by pets

- Fixed crash when loading a custom map in-game that contains a sheep

herder

- Fixed a word wrap error in monster and NPC name dialogs that appears in

some languages

- Implemented Time Smoothing to reduce hitches and decrease blur when the

player character is moving



- Implemented logging system to track crashes in Titan Questô. Upon a

crash, Titan Questô will create a log file named "Exceptions.txt" in the My

Games\Titan Quest directory.

- Implemented Triple Buffering to allow smoother gameplay and less blurring

with V-Sync enabled.

To enable Triple Buffering, go to the My Games\Titan Quest\Settings

directory and open the options.txt file after changing any option in game.

Find the setting called "tripleBuffer" and change its value to true. If

the setting does not exist, add the line ìtripleBuffer=trueî to the end of

the options.txt file. Note that enabling triple buffering uses more Video

memory, so you may have to try it both ways to find the correct setting for

your system.

VIDEO:

- Fixed a 'Fatal Error' message appearing when the game is booting up after

the update process on a system with a Mobilityô RadeonÆ 9200

- Improved video memory test to correctly identify 128 MB ATI RadeonÆ x300

and ATI Mobilityô RadeonÆ 9200 cards

- Fixed graphic elements becoming corrupted when running NVIDIAÆ 6600

series card over a long period of time

- Fixed crashes and graphical corruptions related to low video memory on

PCs

MULTIPLAYER:

- Fixed slow down in gameplay due to large amounts of player chat

- Fixed items being lost in the trade window if the server shuts down while

the trade window is open

EDITOR:

- Portal selection with the portal link tool can now be selected from the

front and the back. Previously some portals required 180 degree rotation

to be selected.

- Portal status colors will now render properly with the portal link tool



- Impassable terrain and sector layers will now be visible when using ATI

cards

- Fixed issue where building the mini-maps could discard unsaved work

- Fixed the sector layer list not properly updating when deleting a sectortype

- Fixed system modal dialogs showing up behind the Editor window

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GENERAL:

- Fixed dialog windows closing when NPC moved to avoid other characters

- Implemented character backups to allow recovery in case of

character file corruption

- Fixed a memory leak

MULTIPLAYER:

- Improved stability and network performance

- Fixed relic/charm completion bonuses being different fordifferent players

- Relic/charm completion sound now heard only locally

- Fixed lobby sort arrow

- Fixed crash caused by teleporting in multiplayer after players used Rally

skill

- Fixed crash casued by hitting excape key when game browser is refreshing

the server list

- Fixed game browser performance issue

- Fixed internet connection problem with custom maps

IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of updates to the network code, only

patched versions of Titan Questô can connect to a patched server.



Anyone playing on the internet will recieve the patch automatically.

However, in LAN (local network) games, if any player receives the

error "Unable to connect to server," then they should make sure

they are updated to the latest patch.

GAME IMPROVEMENTS:

- Improved inventory auto-placement (items are now placed

vertically then horizontally)

Documents

Titan Quest Patch 1.30 Readme