UFO: Afterlight New Patch v1.7 Released

Posted by: GameBorder Staff on 2009-01-28 11:03:57

Prague, Czech Republic January 26th - 1C Publishing EU, ALTAR Games and IDEA Games are pleased to announce the latest improvement to squad based strategy game UFO: Afterlight. Over two years from the original release of the PC game UFO: Afterlight, the developer’s continue to support their dedicated fan community with game updates and gameplay optimizations. Amongst other things, the UFO: Afterlight 1.7 update includes an application which allows the user to change the game’s language. You can download the patch from
http://www.ufo-afterlight.com/pages/support.html#patch_1.7
The UFO: Afterlight 1.7 update includes the following:

NOTES

* This patch supports the following language versions: English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Italian & Chinese.
* This patch adds an application called Localization Pack Manager which can be used to change the game's language.
* It is recommended to start a new game when upgrading from v1.5 or any earlier version of UFO:AL.


CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.
Fixed:

* Add-on duplication bug.
* Expedition Commander and Expedition Soldier mix up in research item names.
* Drones no longer get paralyzed by Beastman paralyzing ammunition.
* It is no longer possible to get additional characters to join your team by allowing a drone to get killed during a mission.
* It is now possible to fix the "corrupted ground textures" problem by disabling bump mapping for ground models in the "Graphics" option menu (thanks to Stucuk and Lord Storm).


New/changed features:

* Removed some shader restrictions to allow the game to run on a wider variety of graphics cards.
* The game now displays a dialog box when an enemy attacks your home base.
* It is now possible to change the item mode for all selected units at once.
* Enemies use different fire modes based on the distance to their targets.
* The game will now use different quick save files for tactical and strategic modes.
* The game no longer generates capture missions on enemy main bases.


Modding related changes:

* Third armor add-on slot is now visible when using mods that enable it