ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Are the 1.05 saves compatible with the new 1.06 version?

They're supposed to be, but when I tried to load my last 1.0.5 char I got dumped in the character creation menu instead. So YMMV.

I don't believe they are; All my characters have vanished post-patch. Granted, I'm not sure whether that was because I finally registered/created an account before patching or because of the patch.

Use the "show incompatible" checkbox

So with steam's automatic game updating, and ToME's tendency for incompatible saves between versions, will that create any issues in the future, or is that being designed around?

darkgod wrote:Use the "show incompatible" checkbox

Thanks darkgod! I did this and it worked like a charm, at the very least between 1.06 and 1.10.

The big change in save file compatibility came between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5.

As a general guideline, when looking at the release notes:

Most changes to way talents work should take affect as soon as you load in the new game version.

Changes to zones and objects that are persistent throughout the game (like artifacts, dungeon levels, npcs, etc.) will not take affect if they were already created in the current game, before upgrading to a new version.

Changes to quests (generally won't update), dialogs (generally will update), and other things are more gray.

There are exceptions, of course.

There's some pretty serious wierdness with damage types - import a char from 1.05 and expect a LOT of items to be dealing/resisting hybrid or damage + status types.