Patches

Patch updates Unreal Tournament 3 and includes bug fixes, AI improvements, UI enhancements and much more.

Download the Unreal Tournament 3 v1.03 Patch (257 MB)

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Download Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria v1.05a Patch

Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria v1.05a Patch Notes:

• Elfslayer properly replaces Dwarfslayer on the Elfguard.
• The upgrade cost to an Inn now properly reports as 1000 gold (instead of 2000).
• Right clicking on a skill in the unit upgrade window brings up the correct Help Content.
• Retinue/Mercs/Heroes now added to the 'next unit' cycle.
• Reports menu properly displays totals for human side as dead players are removed.
• Update the retinue items on View Warlord Menu after Shatter has been cast.
• Add +2 life bonus to siege units when attacking a city.
• Added the Amthor Warlord for the Amthor campaign to the Warlords directory.
• Fix bug in MP where AI units sometimes gain 100 or more levels when attacking remote players.
• Fix bug in MP where remote players units sometimes appear as phantom stacks after AI captures and razes a city.
• Note: This is just an executable update plus the Warlord for the Amthor campaign.

Download the Supreme Ruler 2020 5.3.1 Patch (63.8 Mb)
Download the Supreme Ruler 2020 5.3.1 - 5.3.2 Patch (965 Kb)

Download the Supreme Ruler 2020 Demo (352 Mb)

Supreme Ruler 2020 5.3.2 Patch Notes:

New Scenario added: African Dragon

– As South Africa you must make a pre-emptive strike against a Chinese-supported Zimbabwe.
New Scenario added: Paraguay's Problem
– Play as Brazil, Venezuela or Argentina in a fight for control of South America.

Update Three Changes

- Auto save no longer turns off after victory/defeat and 'play on'
- More AI considerations before declaring war (nearness, deployed units)
- Added additional AI/HQ attack possibilities
- Fixed rare 'city provides no supply creep' issue
- Building on River Cities fixed
- Construction of Oil Derricks and Oceanic Complexes improved
- High Tech facilities techs (generally Cold Fusion) fixed
- Sea Piers can no longer be built in some unsupplied areas
- Minor number formatting (ie 1.02M as 1.2M) fixed
- Game Settings Panel (CTRL-SHIFT-S) added
- Fixed an uncommon 'elimination-leaves-pockets' bug introduced in U2
- Land Supply Hotspots now function correctly
- AI Units will call for resupply
- Supply Units will return to base to refill
- Unsupplied in-transit territory now provides a trickle of fuel
- Allied Victory added as Lobby Option
- AI leaders Will build Military & Industrial Facilities
- Ministers will build facilities under certain priorities
- Visual indication of resource shortages
- AI better understands 'no units' experimental scenarios
- Fixed occasional AI Unit Deployment/Performance issue
- Malmo bridge crossing allowed
- Non-Synth Facility construction restricted to terrain-supported levels
- Show-Replaced Unit Design Filter setting engaged
- Existing production capacity shown in tooltip when building industries
- Garrisons will deploy when surprise-attacked, instead of surrender
- German Advance Scenario settings fixed to start as Poland again
- Unit meshes on-map default to middle size (set by SHIFT-J)
- Numbers now shown in monospace font in parts of UI

> Various minor changes made to city names, equipment file, regional information, population, map resources, flags
> Six new 3D unit models added
> Over 10 new Technologies added; Over 70 new units designs added

Download Armageddon Empires v1.08b Patch [Windows] (5 Mb)
Download Armageddon Empires v1.08b Patch [Mac] (5 Mb)

Armageddon Empires v1.08b Patch Notes:

UI Improvement
Special bonus damage including the combined arms bonus is now displayed in the battle results dialogue box for ground to ground combat. Damage modifications for armor special abilities are also displayed.

Bug Fixes
Fixed bug where the Triage special ability was not being used efficiently by the AI's when deciding on army builds.

Fixed rare AI vs AI battle bug where one AI had not had its intel object updated to show the opposing AI as attacking him in the hex.

Fixed bug where Great Kabaagh would retaliate when any nuke exploded not just those target for him.

Fixed bug where Plague did not continue to spread between units and continue to weaken units once Plague Mother was terminated.

Fixed bug where espionage success could cause false indie resource collectors (which are really outposts) to be displayed.

Fixed bug where Attack card could use munition in Air to Air Challenge.

Fixed bug where munition card was not being cleared when choose next attack card for air to air intercept was occurring.

Fixed bug where Plague Mother could move her Plague Hut onto a independent minefield and take it over until she moved away.

Fixed bug where AI goal to try and capture out of supply hex could cause script error if army assigned to goal was destroyed.

Fixed bug where Tactical Genius special ability was not being applied for Retreat Challenges.

Fixed bug where presence of an enemy hero could cause the AI to reject a deployment hex for an outpost even though it could control the hex and hunt the hero.

Fixed bug where capturing an enemy hero in an enemy minefield caused an error because of a fault in the hex control algorithm.

Fixed bug where siege status might not be correctly determined if undetected enemy stealthed army was still present after another army exited hex.

Fixed bug where destruction of ground based SAM by HARM could cause crash if it was last card in Army.

Patch removes CD check from the original Halo: Combat Evolved for PC. Patches for the Halo Custom Edition and Dedicated Server are also available.

Download Halo v1.0.8.616 Patch (3 Mb)
Download Halo Dedicated Server v1.0.8.616 Patch (2 Mb)

Download Halo Custom Edition v1.0.8.616 Patch (3 Mb)
Download Halo Custom Edition Dedicated Server v1.0.8.616 Patch (2 Mb)

Download Mass Effect Patch 1.01a

Mass Effect 1.01a Patch Notes:

• added some infrastructure support for additional downloadable content
• updated the image of the Batarian race in the codex
• fixed an issue where the center channel for hardware audio wouldn't play correctly sometimes
• fixed an issue where the hardware mouse pointer would disappear when first selected
• fixed an issue where Shepard did not auto-crouch when entering cover in some places
• fixed a tool-tip indicating a game restart is needed before enabling hardware or software audio if the option was changed
• fixed an issue where ambient conversation would not be heard from rear speakers sometimes
• fixed a text string to make it clearer on how to exit a vehicle
• fixed a text string so the tool top for dragging the map is clearer in French languages builds

Mass Effect Configuration Utility

• fixed a crash running on certain multi-core AMD systems
• fixed an issue where video RAM was not being reported properly on certain cards

Download the Pro Cycling Manager 2008 v1.0.2.2 Patch

Pro Cycling Manager - Tour de France 2008 v1.0.2.2 Patch Notes:

* CORRECTION : protection against cheating in ladder mode on the GameCenter

The race only starts when all players have finished loading : pause in now possible.

If, at the end of the race, there is only one active player the race does not count towards the ranking. The host can no longer disconnect or wait until all other players have disconnected in order to race alone.

* CORRECTION : crash after on-line track races
* CORRECTION : evolution of fitness in career mode
* CORRECTION : certain default schedules contained errors
* CORRECTION : automatic creation of "exported_results" folder
* CORRECTION : various changes to game interface

* ADJUSTMENT : AI behaviour
* ADJUSTMENT : evolution of attributes
* ADJUSTMENT : update of database

* STAGE : cont_2hc_georgia_4.xml
* STAGE : cont_2hc_georgia_5.xml
* STAGE : cont_11_japancup.xml
* STAGE : cont_21_algarve_4.xml
* STAGE : cont_21_bessege_4.xml
* STAGE : cont_21_settimanainter_3.xml
* STAGE : cont_2hc_luxembourg_02.xml
* STAGE : cont_11_wallonie.xml
* STAGE : top_france_grandtour_stage_01.xml
* STAGE : top_italie_grandtour_stage_20.xml
* STAGE : top_liege.xml
* STAGE : top_milan_sanremo.xml
* STAGE : top_tirreno_stage_5.xml
* STAGE : top_tirreno_stage_6.xml

Patch Notes:

This patch adds support for Win2k, interface fixes, reliability fixes, and French language fixes.

Download the Incredible Hulk v1.1 patch (77 Mb)

Patch Notes:

• The in-game server no longer traps users in spectator mode .
• one more crash fixed.

Download the TrackMania Nations Forever v2.11.15 Patch (4 Mb)

So you are a developer that wants to make a game but you want it to appeal to a certain audience. How do you make sure your game will get the attention of the gamer you want? UK based Gameshadow, which offers an automatic PC game patch service, has announced a new feature called Gameshadow Metrics that aims to give "real time reports on PC gamers' playing habits and preferences."

Gamers that download and install the Gameshadow program are apparently being tracked not just on how many patches they download but also what hardware they have on their PCs, what games they like to play most and more stats. The makers of Gameshadow claim that such data mining is safe for gamers, saying " . . . we fully protect our gamers so that nothing can be tracked backed to individuals." Still having yet another program that tracks our PC usage is always a little bit "Big Brother" like to us.

A new update for Lighthouse Interactive's Sword of the Stars: Born of Blood was released today, bringing the game up to version 1.5.3. Notable enhancements, balance tweaks, and new additions include a few vital artificial intelligence optimizations, pre-requisite bug fixes (what would a patch be without a few of these?), and performance optimizations to ensure that the game runs as intended on a wide variety of system configurations.

Download the Sword of the Stars: Born of Blood 1.5.3 patch from Big Download

If you are a fan of the February 2008 released first person shooter Frontlines: Fuel of War, then you want to pick up the new 1.1.1 PC patch for the game right here at Big Download. The minor patch for the Kaos Studios developed game is mostly for bug fixes.

If you have yet to try the game for yourself, Kaos recently released a full beta PC demo of the game, containing two maps from the full game. Kaos has announced plans to release new downloadable maps for the game along with a new Conquest mode but so far that new content has yet to be released.

Download the new Frontlines: Fuel of War patch at Big Download right now

That was fast. The powers that be (also known as Tarn Adams) have buckled down to fix most of the glaring issues with version 39a that we reported on yesterday. While playing with the new world generation features was fun (a single human with one leg fighting off an entire horde of elves? Awesome!), it didn't sate us like the standard gameplay could. It is with great pleasure, then, that we may now play 39b.

Dwarves no longer sleep forever, you can travel around in adventurer mode without getting the annoying "You can be seen" message all the time, caves are once again appearing, the health care and hauling labors now appear on the labors list for each dwarf, and generated animals no longer start out drunk. There's many more fixes, but those are the major ones. This is purely a bugfix version, but it makes the game once again playable. You can download the new version from Bay 12 Games. Remember that you can use any worlds or saves from 32a onwards in a new version.

Whether you like military shooters, innovative first-person platforming, or racing, Big Download had something for this past week. In fact, we had surprisingly a lot, considering that most game publishers are holding their cards until next week's huge E3 conference.

Next week is sure to be a big week (and rest assured we'll be on top of every new file that pops up amidst the frenzy), but hopefully this will be enough to tide everyone over until then! Here are just a few highlights from the latest new downloads

	HAWX Developer's Diary #1 HAWX is an air combat game in the same near-future world as Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. In this video, a developer talks about the game, and of course there's footage as well.
	Frontlines: Fuel of War Beta Demo Try out this shooter that tries something a little bit different with territory control.
	LEGO Batman Bruce Wayne & Poison Ivy Trailer A humorous sneak peak at a couple of the characters from the fourth entry into the LEGO pop culture franchise series.
	GRID 1.2 Patch The acclaimed racing game gets some important bug fixes.
	Mirror's Edge Story Trailer A beautifully animated sneak peak at the storyline and setting behind Mirror's Edge, an innovative first person parkour game.

Tilted Mill has released a new patch for Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile, updating their city-builder to version 1.3. The patch fixes a few bugs, adds compatibility for Windows Vista, and premieres many new features such as four new plazas and two shrine variants.

Download the Children of the Nile 1.3 patch from Big Download