Athelas 1.7.4

Athelas 1.7.4

Press Update in the launcher, or unzip it over your Athelas folder: your settings, saves and achievements are
kept. Each Xbox game builds itself again the first time you press Play (about 30 seconds).

New in the launcher

• The Third Age's menu music plays when its box is in front, read from your own copy of the game, and it is in
  the Minstrel on the Journey page.
• New backgrounds: every game's page and box now rotate The Two Towers' gallery (film stills and concept art)
  and The Fellowship of the Ring's loading-screen sketches, from whichever of the two you have. The Xbox Return of the
  King only has four small menu pictures, which looked blurry on a large screen.
• The Third Age saves a still of each film you watch (in TA-Xbox\art), for its backgrounds later on.

Fixed

• The Return of the King (PC): button pictures still white in the combo list and the upgrade shop (#34). Those
  screens draw text at double brightness, which washed the pictures out; they now keep their colours.
• The Return of the King (PC): the special ability in Options (#34) shows the controller's two buttons, like the
  rest of the controller column, instead of "Buttons 7 + 8".
• The Third Age: stutter in screens that rewrite their text every frame (the sharper text redrew it each time);
  and a possible crash when closing the game.
• Settings: the Vulkan renderer's description now says plainly that it is untested and has no anti-aliasing,
  HDR or upscalers yet.

Coming soon

• The Third Age in other languages: translation subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese,
  Polish, Dutch, Swedish and Russian, as the other three Xbox games have them.

Checksums (SHA-256)

• Athelas-1.7.4.zip: 23e8711a766935e0549d519d6208b71a441f06ba14a7f15d89dec6c5ea0beb82
• Athelas-1.7.4-arm64.zip: 105a253b00da30e04794cae52d2a429fbed6547b2c8766c020416909fa73aa26