GemRB V0.5.0 is out

The GemRB team is proud to announce a new major release. The berserking development rage still hasn’t ended and only a month since the last release a few important milestones have been reached. Combat and various actions are now much improved, many of the projectiles that were hardcoded in the IE now work, time is handled better … Coupled with a bunch of other bugfixes and new features this means that now a few of the games are roughly playable beyond their starting areas!

Currently only the sources are available.

Full changelog digest:

New features:

• SoA, ToB and PST are roughly playable beyond their first levels
• combat: dual-wielding, APR, proficiency and style boni, dexterity bonus, initiatitive and speed factor, individual combat rounds
• many IE’s hardcoded projectiles and support for projectile sounds
• IWD2 GUI now works after chargen too
• bg2 chargen now levels to the correct level
• summoned and charmed creatures can be ordered around
• actor tooltips (name and injury status)
• running, initial variable values and portal animations in PST
• hardcoded monk bonuses

Improved features:

• dialog, actions and triggers
• combat mechanics, animation, feedback, ranged combat
• matters of time and matter
• levelup, dual classing, multiclass handling
• focus: scrolling while paused is now possible
• animations (projectile, creature)
• pathfinding
• area music restarts when there’s no music playing
• disarm trap checks skills
• various guiscripts
• bugfixes

Applied patches:

• #2802190 jbmetz (improve the rpm spec handling)
• #2802437 danamin (patch bomb sanitizing bg1 chargen + bg2 code share)