New spore patch has arrived (Spore v1.01)

This message was edited 5 times. Last update was at 09/28/2008 17:08:01

http://www.spore.com/patch

The focus of this patch is to fix some bugs that have been reported and to respond to feedback we've been seeing from the community about tuning and stability. We managed to squeak in a few fun things too; there's a cool cheat that allows you to turn your creature into a blocky representation of themselves, a new "inspection" feature for the creature creator to browse the parts stats that you have applied to your creature, and the much-requested "evoadvantage" cheat - you'll now be able to start a new creature game with a more evolved creature of your choice!

To get the patch, launch the EA Download Manager to download and install it. If you didn't install the EADM when you installed Spore, you can get it from http://files.ea.com/downloads/eacore/eadm-installer.exe.

This is a PC only patch. Mac users should check back soon!
Features

* New Cheat: "evoadvantage". Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. Start a new game with one of your more evolved creatures!
* Display part statistics when you are in Build mode. Rollover any part and hold down the 'i' key.
* New Cheat: "blocksmode". Turns creatures into their blocky representations.
* More style filters. Open the cheat window and type: "stylefilter -microscope" or "stylefilter -norainbows" or "stylefilter -nextgen" to see the new styles
* Added 70 new planet scripts with a low terraform score, especially of the "hot and high atmosphere" type

Graphics/Aesthetics

* Animation improvements
* Improved the planets fogging, blooming and lighting
* Fixed animation issues with tool handling, hand walking and some of the more oddly shaped creatures

Tuning

* Creature phase: Improved the pacing towards the end of the game, and increased the challenge in Normal and Hard modes.
* Tribe phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
* Civilization phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
* Space phase: Made Empires in Easy and Normal modes demand reasonable amounts of money in exchange for peace and adjust the level of punishment if the player doesn't pay
* Space phase: Made disasters less likely to occur in Easy and Normal modes and increased the time between each attack from the enemy empire when the player is at war.

Miscellaneous

* Creature phase: Improved the way posse members behave during threatening situations and fights.
* Space phase: Made finding your home world and colonies easier in the Galactic view.
* Tribe phase: Made it so that tribe members can travel on steep hills if they need to do so now, but their speed will be reduced a lot.
* Fixed an issue with attacks not working on some bigger animals and larger animals not dying correctly
* Fixed collect mission not completing correctly when all parts have been collected
* Fixed problems with the "Rolling Thunder" and "DÃ©jÃ Vu" achievements not being awarded as they should
* Fixed floating parts not being deducted from the budget when loaded into creator
* Fixed an issue with the rotation rings not resizing correctly when a part was resized and improved their look
* Fixed an issue where the terraforming score of planet could differ when revisiting a solar system
* Fixed the keyboard controls for zoom & pitch in the Colony Planner not working properly
* Fixed a crash that could occur when watching an epic creature attack a city
* Fixed some issues where the game would freeze when using the Creature Tweaker tool or when capturing a planet in solar view
* Fixed an issue where not all tribe members would obey the raid order when a large group was ordered to raid
* Fixed an issue where banning a creation from one of your other saved games would black out the main menu

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MOAR APTCH PLZ

THX 2 U

theres a patch?

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 09/18/2008 23:49:07

here's the notes for the patch.

http://www.spore.com/patch

-caryl

Maxis - Thank you for the patch!!!!!!!!

maxislucky wrote:here's the notes for the aptch.

http://www.spore.com/patch

-caryl

thanks caryl!

Kinda disappointing but I guess that's just from someone who's been playing WoW recently.

We aren't paying monthly for this game so I guess we can't expect uber patches but it is nice that they fixed some bugs.

New Cheat: "evoadvantage". Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. Start a new game with one of your more evolved creatures!

AWESOME

wow. this is no light patch. thank you very much for the very speedy updates. this is a great sign for the future of spore.

thank you, to the whole team.

NICE!!! this fixes a LOT of the ongoing complaints we´ve been seeing! real quick too!!

obviously, ppl will continue to post about their insatisfactions, but hey! with that kind of response, this game can only get better!

thanx Caryl and Maxis crew!

this really shows for a fact that you guys have been listening to what we have to say!

thanks again for making such a great game, and for caring to make it even better!

Spore love: +50

yay, another 2-3 like that, then a content patch, and spore will really ROCK

rattslayer wrote:yay, another 2-3 like that, then a content patch, and spore will really ROCK

x2

shinu1729 wrote:Kinda disappointing but I guess that's just from someone who's been playing WoW recently.

We aren't paying monthly for this game so I guess we can't expect uber patches but it is nice that they fixed some bugs.

More proof that gamers are unreasonable? I mean - they can't do anything right can they?

I can't even read this forum anymore nothing but whiners here....

EA - thank you for patching so quickly!