Black & White

version 1.100 developer beta

company: Lionhead (www.lionhead.com) /
         Electronic Arts (www.ea.com)

homesite: www.bwgame.com

THIS IS A DEVELOPER BETA PATCH
There will be no support from EA regarding this patch for Black & 
White. If you want to report any bugs with this patch, PLEASE DO NOT 
CONTACT EA CUSTOMER SUPPORT. Fill in the bugreport.txt file included 
with the patch and email it as an attachment to 
bwbeta1@lionhead.com. Before downloading the patch, you should read 
carefully the Limited Warranty and the Limitation of Liability 
below.

When you install this patch, you will only be able to play 
multiplayer with those people who have the same patch installed.

FIXES
The following problems have been identified and fixed.
* Your Creature occasionally locked up and could not be moved via 
the leash.(001V1.1.BETA)

* On Land Five your Creature is cursed by the enemy. The problem 
which led to this curse being transferred with that Creature into 
the Multiplayer game has been fixed.(002V1.1.BETA)

* The few cases of Internet log-in problems, whereby an Incorrect 
Password message has been returned despite the password being valid 
has been fixed.(003V1.1.BETA)

* Two save game bugs which occasionally caused a 
crash.(004V1.1.BETA)

* Creature occasionally forgot learnt info when moving between 
lands.(005V1.1.BETA)

* If the game is restarted the creature now recovers correctly from 
the curse. If loading from an old save game, the curse will be 
removed once the last village belonging to Nemesis has been taken 
over and the game is saved and reloaded.(006V1.1.BETA)

* SafeDisk boot-up problems with Windows 2000 have been 
fixed.(007V1.1.BETA)

* Multiplayer game select bug sometimes prevented a player from 
joining.(008V1.1.BETA)

* All ISPs now work reliably with the Lionhead game 
server.(009V1.1.BETA)

* The word "Death" no longer said when villagers die of old 
age.(010V1.1.BETA)

* The line "Another god is about to take over your village" is now 
only heard when relevant.(011V1.1.BETA)

* Bug fixed whereby tapping a Food or Wood Miracle gives massive 
amount of that resource.(012V1.1.BETA)

* The Hermit Challenge can now be completed if a Creature eats the 
Hermit.(013V1.1.BETA)

* Bug whereby player could cast certain Miracles, and allow the hand 
influence to run out in mid-cast in order to replenish the Miracle 
now fixed.(014V1.1.BETA)

* Two Out-Of-Sync bugs have been fixed in Multiplayer 
game.(015V1.1.BETA)

* No longer possible to get stuck in The Gods' Playground when 
quitting a game from there using Alt+F4(016V1.1.BETA)

* Creature can now die when under a Freeze Miracle.(017V1.1.BETA)

* Worship Site bug where villagers took massive amounts of food has 
been fixed.(018V1.1.BETA)

* Creature does not become more evil after being punished for 
fishing, eating animals or grain.(019V1.1.BETA)

* Creature's natural desire to eat other villagers has been 
reduced.(020V1.1.BETA)

* Creature doesn't become constipated if you punish him for 
pooing.(021V1.1.BETA)

* Smoothing added to rotation of villagers.(022V1.1.BETA)

* Now impossible to cheat by placing a new Village Centre in virtual 
influence, then picking it up and using its influence to move it 
further.(023V1.1.BETA)

* Advisors are now quicker to warn about imminent Village 
loss.(024V1.1.BETA)

* Animation blending bug in villagers, causing unwanted visual 
effects has been rectified.(025V1.1.BETA)

* Bug involving placing a scaffold, saving, then loading and being 
able to pick up or split the scaffold has been fixed.(026V1.1.BETA)

* Worshippers' desire for food is now more related to their 
hunger.(027V1.1.BETA)

* Loading bug involving Creature leashes fixed.(028V1.1.BETA)

* 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee video card issues addressed.(029V1.1.BETA)

* Blind women fix on land 4. If the game is restarted the random 
error in the blind women script will be fixed.(030V1.1.BETA)


IMPROVEMENTS
The following improvements have been included with Patch v1.1:
* Black & White will now allow people to skip the tutorial and/or 
Creature development section early on Land One if they have played 
the game already. If the current profile already has a Creature, or 
there is more than one profile on the machine when a new game is 
started then a requester box appears asking if you want to skip the 
intro. There are 4 options in this box. The first is to start the 
game normally. The second is to skip the beginning tutorial and 
quests and go straight to selecting your Creature. The third is to 
skip all of the story quests on land one; this means that after 
selecting your Creature, he automatically gains all initial 
knowledge, the big Creature Guide doesn't exist, and the vortex is 
open. You can of course still spend as much time as you want on this 
land. The fourth option is to keep your original Creature.  This 
option is the same as option three, but you don't select a Creature, 
and your old Creature remains. If you select the last option and 
your current profile doesn't have a Creature then option three is 
executed instead.(031V1.1.BETA)

* Pressing 'S' for villager statistics now displays the sex of the 
villager using shading and colour.(032V1.1.BETA)

* It is now possible to lock a Multiplayer channel to prevent others 
from entering.(033V1.1.BETA)
