patches – The Guild of Messengers

News roundup #5

Fri, 29 May 2020 17:24:43 +0000

After more than three months, a new update was posted in Thursday about Firmament. It mentions how, in the first few months after the Kickstarter’s end, Cyan needed to hire more employees, especially in the art department; Rand’s enthusiasm for the story, but the need to improve on the gameplay and setting aspects of the game; encouraging internal feedback from all stages of production; the official hiring of a member of the Starry Expanse team; and the transition to a fully work-from-home model.

On Wednesday, a new MOULa patch was released (OpenUru#159); here are the release notes:

Win10 mouse handling fix
Increased the avatar step offset by a tenth of a foot (less tripping)
Panic link fixes
Lots of internal engine fixes
Physics update [the client will not close with a stack dump if PhysX Legacy is not installed]
Build improvements and changes
Upgraded Database minor release
One step closer to new fan content!

On April 1, Corvus released a video of a reproduction of Tay (from Riven) he made in Dreams (Media Molecule).

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News roundup #4

Sat, 23 May 2020 00:27:53 +0000

The Mysterium Committee has announced that there will not be an in-person convention in August this year. However, some form of online gathering is still being planned. Refunds will be available, but also will roll-overs to next year’s in-person convention. More details will be announced soon.

realMyst: Masterpiece Edition has been released for the Nintendo Switch on Thursday 21, with a 20% discount for a limited time. To celebrate the launch, the Cyan Store is also having a 20% discount on all merch. GrayDragon is also giving away a few codes on the Cyan Discord server.

There will be a MOULa server downtime on Wednesday 27, starting at 11:00 KIT. The update has lots of under the hood changes, but also includes the long awaited fix for the Windows 10 mouse bug from the GoW.

Episode 10 of The Lost Art machinima by Mystitech Productions will premiere on Saturday 30 at 14:30 KIT.

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Weekly news roundup #2

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:15:42 +0000

On Thursday, a small update for MOULa was released, 918.OpenUru#153:

the status message on the login screen now works, and also displays the donations coverage for the previous month;
marker games are now limited to 300 markers, as some of the larger decoration sets were causing issues to the server. However, the problem persists, so for a while all marker games will be disabled.

Cyan also retweeted the announcement from Limited Run of the pre-orders for the physical edition of realMyst for the Nintendo Switch, on February 28 at 10 am ET.

A new update for Firmament was also published, with a video giving some insights into the development process.

If you enjoyed Ars Technica’s recent interview with Rand about the making of Myst, a nearly 2-hour long extended version came out on Friday.

The Digital Antiquarian wrote a detailed essay on the history of (the original) Myst, in the context of what people were playing in 1993.

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URU: Complete Chronicles Patch Beta 1.1.4

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:29:51 +0000

For the first time in many years, Cyan has released a new patch for URU: Complete Chronicles! While the patch doesn’t add new content per se, it does fix a few annoying bugs that cropped up with Windows 10 and added HD support.

To quote Chogon’s forum post:

1) Version displayed in the title of the game window (if in windowed mode)
2) Win10 Cursor fix (from Adam Johnson and Joseph Davies)
3) HD resolution support (16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratio resolutions).
4) DirectMusic disabled

To download the patch, simply click here. Be sure to back up your installation before attempting the patch!

For further updates from Cyan, be sure to check back here!

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