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POLF 3D 1.3.0

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@oNdsen oNdsen released this 25 Sep 21:16
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v1.3.0
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Download polf3d.zip below, unpack it and start Play.cmd (Windows, PowerShell 7.2 or newer – nothing else).
This is the last version you have to fetch by hand: from now on the game updates itself.

New:

  • The game updates itself. Once a day the title screen asks GitHub for a newer release – one request, in the
    background, and the options menu or -NoUpdateCheck turns it off. When there is one, a line on the title screen says
    so, U shows what is new, and Enter downloads polf3d.zip, checks its SHA256 against the release notes, keeps the
    files it replaces in polf3d-backup-<version>.zip next to the game, installs and restarts. Saved games, settings and
    your own mods stay. ./Start-Polf3D.ps1 -Update does the same from the command line, and Update-Module polf3d
    asks the console.
  • Play.cmd is now a launcher that is gone the moment the game runs, so that an update may replace it too. Should
    the game not start, PowerShell keeps the window and the reason on the screen.
  • The keys of the title menu stand in brackets: [Enter], [G], [U] ...
  • The story of the project, and what it is really about: HOW-IT-WAS-BUILT.md.

Fixed – the first three by Ben Richards (@The-Running-Dev), thank you:

  • A map row with an odd number of characters is rejected instead of silently losing its last one.
  • A mod whose later section is malformed no longer leaves its earlier sections half installed.
  • A saved game is checked in full before a single thing of the running game is replaced: a damaged or foreign file is
    refused and the game goes on.
  • The pause menu let you save in the arena and in the onboarding; such a game could never be loaded. There is no
    saving there now.
  • Demos and dungeon records name the version that made them. A demo from an older version is reported as such –
    "recorded with POLF 3D 1.2.0, this is 1.3.0" – instead of as doctored.
  • A machine managed by an organisation gets a plain answer: the start script checks PowerShell's language mode
    (AppLocker, WDAC) and says what that means, and Play.cmd explains an execution policy set by Group Policy.
  • A guest takes the host's bonus map as a name, never as a path.

SHA256 of polf3d.zip: e4c26c3b719bd1a0aa9875bb3b451af7139da4093814f96f730edabe07c5efde

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