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Today we have released a minor update with some important fixes and improvements. You will find it on the download page.


The biggest change fixes the long standing issue causing multiplayer ping (latency) to be far higher than necessary. Ping will now be about half what it was in the past, which should make it the same as you would see in other games. This will effectively double the responsiveness of multiplayer, so when you place an order it will happen sooner than before. It should make it easier to play games with players from remote regions. If you are interested in the technical details, we neglected to disable Nagle's algorithm (TCP_NODELAY) which meant smaller packets were concatenated into larger ones, causing unnecessary delays.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused average network ping to be about twice as high as necessary
• Certain graphics cards would cause the game to crash when the map was loaded (Intel 965/963)
• Belarusian letter Ў had upper and lower case swapped in fonts
• Fixed some crashes related to timing that mainly affected servers (server admins: send us your log files if your server crashes so we can investigate)

Balance:

• Marketplace trade rates have been significantly changed to more accurately reflect the value of resources

Improvements:

• Map editor shows the number of fish in water bodies
• Improvements to the map editor elevation tools
• Holding shift while placing a house keeps the house selected instead of switching to road
• Hints are now easier to read on a dark background
• The number of building materials delivered to an under construction house is shown when it is selected
• Limited the number of labourers that will build a house simultaneously (to prevent situations such as 20 labourers all trying to build a gold mine)

We are still working on features for the next major update which will hopefully include better army control and a more complete standalone AI.

Please continue to report any issues to us. Many of the bugs fixed in this update were due to users submitting crash reports and emailing us with their problems.
Lewin and Krom.

Thank you, Lewin and Krom, for that I'm looking forward to playing it
Keep up the good work! It just keeps getting better and better!

By the way: There are no changes to bowmen in this update? Maybe I have forgotten, but I thought that there was going to be some changes made to make them more powerful?

Ben I'm sure there will be changes in the future concerning archers/bowmen, because everyone agrees they are useless.

i am having problem: i downloaded from USA server, installed and then when launch the game. it freezes when loading fonts :S

Those changes are still planned, but we want to test the balance thoroughly in a private release (sent to anyone who asks for it) before we make it public. This release was just a "hotfix" because we fixed some important bugs like the high pings.
I'm not sure why that would have happened. How long does it freeze for? It could freeze for a few seconds but it shouldn't be long. You could try reinstalling and restarting your computer. If that doesn't fix it post your latest log file here (the first item in the folder Logs) so we can find out exactly where it crashed.
Cheers,
Lewin.

About Itlerion's complain: Freezing thing was fixed already, it was just the anti-virus blocking the .exe (file considered threat).
Nothing from another world... game runs fine now.

Glad to hear it. The virus checker was correct, KaM Remake is a threat to your social life, work and study

You are SO right! My friend was wondering why I stopped hanging out with her as much I used to, I have been falling behind in my schoolwork, and my house has been getting very dirty. All because of wasting time with KaM!

download page has problem

PS: problem fixed

Hi, I'm trying to install server update "kam_remake_server_r4186.zip" but I dont know how to do this?
I Downloaded and upnack the files in main folder, and I dont know what to do now?
Trying to start "KaM_Remake_Server_win32.exe" file and this is what I saw:



After this, no matter if I start game while having this window or not, game still shows version 4179, and in multiplayer games, sometimes I see players on new maps, whitch I do not have.
How to install this update?
And sorry for my english!

The update is just for dedicated servers, you don't need it to just play the game. In fact that update only fixed bugs on Linux servers so you don't need it even if you were hosting a dedicated server on Windows.

Thanks I missed that its only for Linux. But what about new maps? I saw few times players on different maps whitch I dont have. I dont have screen, but for example name of the map was "cool new map" (but in my language), or "cool new map 2", and once I saw named map, but I dont remember the name. Next time I'll do screenshot.
Maybe these maps were just made and added somehow?