ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I'm asking this mostly out of curiosity because I don't know a thing about game development, but also out of annoyance - why has there been no patch in so long?
I know darkgod was on vacation for some time, but why did we not get a patch with the bug fixes that were done by then? What's the point behind holding back on releasing fixes and already finished content?

Because the next patch is a major version and it's not ready yet DG likes to release substantial patches.
And we had a small bugfix patch literally 2 days ago.

Sheila wrote:DG likes to release substantial patches.
And we had a small bugfix patch literally 2 days ago.

I'd (and I know of a bunch of other people) much prefer more frequent, smaller updates than one huge update. For example the first Halfling racial not working on steampowers was fixed in June (according to darkgod), yet that fix has not been added to the main client.
Also, that patch literally didn't include any game-affecting fixes.

last time i checked, launcher was laggy as f***, and completely unusable, so i have to move things manually.
so, i sort of appreciate not having to do that for every single small thing.

Radon26 wrote:last time i checked, launcher was laggy as f***, and completely unusable, so i have to move things manually.
so, i sort of appreciate not having to do that for every single small thing.

Nobody forces you to update the client you play on. If it's "such a big deal", then just wait a few patches. Your point makes literally no sense - either you don't update and then you've got what you've got right now, or you do and then you've got a better, not so stagnant experience

As other have said, major releases contain much stuff. I try to keep patch releases in sync with fixes of the main branch but sometimes I:
- deem them too potentially dangerous to risk breaking saves
- deem them too untested
- forget

As for frequent releases; the process is very cumbersome, both for me, players, stores. Nothing prevents you from trying the master branch on git though; hell I love that as I can get testing on stuff not released yet

darkgod wrote: Nothing prevents you from trying the master branch on git though; hell I love that as I can get testing on stuff not released yet

How does one do that?

Cold we maybe get a summary of majorish changes\additions coming with 1.5, for those of us too lazy\stupid to look through git?

I'm pretty sure that is how the change list is made.

You'll get it when it's time.