Changelog for Patch #3 - January 27th

Fixed issues/bugs
UPnP will no longer crash the game.
Lack of playable avatar will no longer crash the game.
Improved reports on disconnect and connection failed.
Game crash on startup due to old gamer with long name fixed.
Game terminates properly on crash.
Save data wipe bug on multiplayer disconnect fixed.
Boss crashes in Chapter 6 and 12 fixed.
Servers limited to 4 simultaneous steam users.
Players that have not selected a slot when the game starts is kicked.
Server browser no longer displays games of a different version.
Version miss match check.
No longer possible to bounce between islands in Chapter 6
Fixed interrupted dialog from Vlad in Chapter 6.
Fixed trigger sequence in Chapter 9.
Chapter 12 boss damage texture added.
Fixed a bug where a client was locked in an animation.
Delayed message from steam no longer forces player into game.
Challenges are now playable using the French version


New features/balancing
Added version number in menu.
Added server password. (player requested feature)
Default undie-time changed to 0.5s (Staff of the Dead)

Known Issues
Beam spells merging sometimes crashes game with stack overflow (for real)
Chat still awkwardly positioned.
Self-shields sometimes get out of sync
Players are still able to have multiple summons
Server list sorting not implemented
Network congestion on high ping (>400ms) connections still problematic.
Game stutters slightly on some systems despite good performance (cause known, fix pending)
Steam attempts to install XNA framework every time game is launched or rare occasion
Game sometimes hogs uplink bandwidth - (Being researched)

Workaround

pending (waiting for patch to be deployed)

ADDITIONAL INFO:

Please follow these general steps and hopefully it'll help most of you.

Make sure you're on a computer that has sufficient juice:

MINIMUM Requirements
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7
Processor: Intel® Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Hard disk space: 2 GB Available HDD Space
Video: NVIDIA® GeForce 8800 or equivalent
Direct X-compatible sound card
DirectX® 9
3-button mouse, keyboard and speakers
Internet connection for multiplayer

We've seen that a bunch of players are reporting that the game is running poorly on their netbooks/laptops without proper graphics cards. This is the primary reason why their game is acting up.

Make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics card. Visit www.nvidia.com or www.amd.com.

Make sure your have the following installed (should have autoinstalled)
XNA Framework (Link to microsofts website)
Microsoft .net framework 3.5 (dotNetFx35setup.exe) - (Link to Microsofts website)

We (devs and publisher) are still super committed to fix stuff that's broken and make sure you guys can have a great time with the game.

Additionally we've also have a bunch of improvements planned and will be patched in as soon as the major issues are out of the way! These are based directly off your input

Keep letting us know if there's anything else we can do!

Thanks again for playing and watch out for friendly fire!

/ Paradox & Arrowhead Team

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