Mac Gaming News - Dominions 3: The Awakening 3.15 Fixes Bugs, Adds Spells

by , 11:20 AM EST, March 7th, 2008

Shrapnel Games announced the immediate availability of Dominions 3: The Awakening 3.15 on Friday. The update for the turn-based fantasy game added several new spells and fixed a list of bugs including a scale spread issue.

The new patch added a long list of features that includes:

• MA & LA Ulm sexier.
• Ulm Iron Faith: Black Priests in MA Ulm, Priest Smiths.
• Iron Faith spells: Iron Darts, Iron Blizzard.
• Iron Angel, MA Ulm summon to battle enemy sacreds and magical beings.
• Guardians got Black Halberds that stun enemy sacreds.
• Ghoul Guardians no longer sacred, but got Black Halberds.
• Halt Heretic: New ability on Iron Angel, Ulrich hero and Lord Guardians.
• Plate armors slightly better. Ulm plate armors more so.
• LA Abysia sexier.
• Slayer cult: Anathemant Slayers, common slayers noncapital.
• LA Anathemants got death magic.
• LA Smoulderghosts sacred.
• Warbreds: huge humanbreds bred for war.
• Late Abysian Hero
• Fossilized Giants, LA Abysian summon.
• Altered spell: Hidden in Snow more expensive and gives more units. Also more
• effective with luck, magic and turmoil.
• New spell: Hidden in Sand. Summons dust walkers if cast in a wasteland. More
• powerful in luck, magic and turmoil.
• Altered spell: Flight is personal.
• New spell: Gift of Flight.
• New icons: Halt Heretic, Animal Awe, Spy and Assassin.
• Avalon witch changes: Crones strat move 1, mother and daughter random nature/air.
• New national militia events for UW nations.

The update also fixed several bugs and added balance changes:

• Scale spread bug fixed.
• Ermor domkill upped to proper levels.
• Old militia event made rare.
• Peshti got Kite Shields.
• Peshti Spearman strat move 2.
• Bogatyr strat move 3.
• Some more strat move fixes.
• Plague Scythe -> twohanded.
• Exarch and Kosheij got robes.
• Grid Druzhina cold res 50.
• Fivefold Angel stump attack instead of fist.
• Simargl Falchion -> bite.
• Simargl patrol -> 10.
• Bloodlord helmet.
• Rigor mortis no longer affects inanimates.
• Internal Alchemy works properly.
• Demonbred got correct age.
• Forester and Bakemono scout stealth fix.
• Moose Riders cheaper 45 -> 30.
• #coldpower mod command fixed.

Dominions 3: The Awakening is priced at US$54.95 and is available at the Shrapnel Games Web site. The update is free for current users.