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<h1>Battle for Wesnoth 1.8 Release Notes</h1>
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<p><em>March 2010</em>. It is once again time for that thrill
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you've all been waiting for, a Wesnoth stable release. The Battle for
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Wesnoth team is proud to release version 1.8 of <em>The Battle for
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Wesnoth</em>, a <a
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href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html'>free</a> <a
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href='http://www.opensource.org/'>open-source</a>
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turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme and roleplaying
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elements. The game is <a href='#download'>available for download</a>
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now for Windows, Mac OS X and various GNU/Linux distributions.</p>
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<li>
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<a href='#game'>What's New in Wesnoth 1.8</a>
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<a href='#players'>For Players</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href='#campaigns'>Campaigns</a></li>
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<li><a href='#multiplayer'>Multiplayer</a></li>
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<li><a href='#general'>General</a></li>
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<li><a href='#campdev'>For Campaign Developers</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li><a href='#download'>Download</a></li>
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<li><a href='#more'>More Info</a></li>
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<br/>
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<h2 id='game'>What's New in Wesnoth 1.8</h2>
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<p>The improvements this time around include one entire new
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full-length campaign, hundreds of new and revised unit portraits, four
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new music tracks, some UI redesign, and substantial improvements in the
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game's AI.</p>
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<h3 id='players'>For Players</h3>
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<p>To help the player keep those who are loyal to him alive, these units
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are now marked with an overlay symbol that looks like a bronze ring.</p>
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<p>The names on maps and other images can now be localized to the
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player's language; several languages already use this new feature. For more information and tutorials, look at the wiki article
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on <a href="http://wiki.wesnoth.org/ImageLocalization">Image
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Localization</a>.</p>
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<h4 id='campaigns'>Campaigns</h4>
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<p>A new campaign, <cite>Delfador's Memoirs</cite>, tells the tale of
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how a mage-apprentice rose to become Delfador the Great. This campaign
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was imported from the <a
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href="http://wesnoth-umc-dev.sourceforge.net">Wesnoth-UMC-Dev
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project</a>, where it spent almost a year being adapted for
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mainline.</p>
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<p>We've continued to polish and improve the mainline campaigns.
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The hero Kaleh's custom advancements in <cite>Under the Burning
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Suns</cite>, long a source of problems, have been redesigned in a more robust
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and streamlined fashion. Significant continuity problems in <cite>Heir to the
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Throne's</cite> "Cliffs of Thoria" scenario have been fixed.
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Some scenarios in <cite>Legend of Wesmere</cite> have been rewritten
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and significantly enhanced. An early version of its multiplayer port
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is available to test Wesnoth's multiplayer campaign feature.</p>
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<p>There are four new full-orchestral music tracks: <cite>Casualties
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of War</cite>, <cite>Into the Shadows</cite>, <cite>Over the Northern
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Mountains</cite>, and <cite>Journey's End</cite>.</p>
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<p>The game AI has been significantly debugged and improved; it
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chooses recruits/recalls better, and does smarter target selection.</p>
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<h4 id='multiplayer'>Multiplayer</h4>
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<p>The operating system's GUI can be told to notify the player that it's his
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turn to play.</p>
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<p>The multiplayer lobby has been completely redesigned for improved
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ease of play and better appearance.</p>
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<p>Random numbers are generated on the Wesnoth multiplayer server during MP
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combats. This makes certain kinds of cheats and out-of-sync conditions
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impossible, at the cost of breaking compatibility with versions before
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1.7.3.</p>
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<h4 id='general'>General</h4>
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<p>The right sidebar on the main game display has been tuned for
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usability. It now gives more prominence to the selected unit's
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terrain defence percentage and time-of-day modifier.</p>
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<p>There is a new monster unit: the Water Serpent. Additionally, the
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Dwarvish Scout from Under the Burning Suns is now part of normal
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Dwarvish sides in campaigns. Several other unit lines — most notably
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the Drakes — have been completely redone with improved art and
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animations.
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A remake of the merfolk units out of our Art Director's
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virtual pencil has been completed in this release cycle.
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(But most animations are still missing for them.)
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<p>Add-on descriptions are now accessible from the add-on download dialog via a
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button.</p>
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<p>Most translations have been updated. In addition, Vietnamese has returned, and we have a new transliteration, English in the Shavian alphabet.</p>
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<h3 id='campdev'>For Content Developers</h3>
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<p>This year Wesnoth was once again a Google "Summer of Code" program;
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one of its major results was a complete rework of Wesnoth's support
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for multiplayer campaigns. Sides in multiplayer games are now
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persistent and can be carried over from one multiplayer scenario to
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the next. The leaders of AI sides are now able to recall from their
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side's list. As a side effect it is now possible to have more than
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one leader with the ability to recruit per side.
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</p>
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<p>Another Summer of Code result is a new framework for Wesnoth's
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artificial intelligence. The AI can now be scripted to significantly
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change its behavior in different story settings and in response to
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campaign events, give enemy sides more distinct tactical
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personalities. It is possible, though not easy, to use scripting
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languages (formula_ai, lua) to create alternate AIs that are also scriptable.</p>
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<p>A new tool called the <a
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href="http://wiki.wesnoth.org/CommandMode#Extra_Debugging_Commands">"gamestate
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inspector"</a> allows a content developer to view the values of
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the WML variables, ai configuration, and the recall list while a game is in progress.</p>
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<div><a href='images/start-4-full.jpg'><img src='images/start-4.jpg' alt='Wesnoth Screenshot'/></a></div>
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<p>New Orcish Village and Orcish Keep terrain graphics improve the
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options available to map designers.</p>
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<p>We've also achieved excellent results with our inaugural 'Summer Art
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Scholarship' program. This has led to dozens of new portraits, as well as a
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complete rework of the Drake sprites. We hope to continue this program in
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coming years.</p>
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<p>We paid a lot of attention to world continuity, from small details
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like replacing earth-human names for characters up through larger ones
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like putting many new placenames on the main map. The main Wesnoth
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history timeline has been tweaked to eliminate various minor
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inconsistencies.</p>
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<p>We kept the promise we made in 1.6 when we had to remove Python for
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technical reasons; WML events an AI components can now be written in lua. The
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integration of lua in the wesnoth game engine is advanced enough to
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even allow the coding of WML action tags with lua definitions that can
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read and modify game state variables in the C++ core.</p>
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<h2 id='download'>Download</h2>
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<p>Battle for Wesnoth is made available under the <a
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href='http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html'>GNU General Public License</a>
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(GPL). Source code is available from <a
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href='http://www.wesnoth.org'>wesnoth.org</a> where you will also find
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instructions for <a href='http://wiki.wesnoth.org/CompilingWesnoth'>building
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from source</a> on a range of different operating systems. Ready-to-go
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packages are also available for most popular operating systems,
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including Linux and Windows and Mac OS X.</p>
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<a href='http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/files/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.8.tar.bz2/download'>Source code</a>
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<a href='http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/files/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.8-win32.exe/download'>Wesnoth for MS Windows</a>
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<a href='http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/files/wesnoth/Wesnoth_1.8.dmg/download'>Wesnoth for Mac OS X</a>
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<p>You can get up to date information about downloads at the <a
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href='http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Download'>downloads page</a>. There you can also
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find packages and instructions for other platforms once they are available.</p>
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<p>If you downloaded previous versions of the game, you might be interested in
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downloading the <a
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href='http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Download_Xdeltas'>xdelta</a> files only.</p>
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<h2 id='more'>More Info</h2>
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<a href='http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/wesnoth/tags/1.8/changelog'>Full Changelog</a>
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(English, very long)
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<li><a href='http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/wesnoth/tags/1.8/doc/manual/manual.en.html'>User's Manual</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://www.wesnoth.org'>Wesnoth Official Website</a> (English)</li>
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<li><a href='http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.6'>Wesnoth 1.6 Release Notes</a></li>
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