Black & White

version 1.100

company: Lionhead (www.lionhead.com) /
         Electronic Arts (www.ea.com)

homesite: www.bwgame.com

The following problems have been identified and fixed.
1. Your Creature occasionally locked up and could not be moved via 
the leash.

2. On Land Five your Creature is cursed by the enemy. The problem 
which led to this curse being transferred with that Creature into 
the Multiplayer game has been fixed.

3. The few cases of Internet log-in problems, whereby an Incorrect 
Password message has been returned despite the password being valid 
has been fixed.

4. Two save game bugs which occasionally caused a crash.

5. Creature occasionally forgot learnt info when moving between 
lands.

6. If the game is restarted the creature now recovers correctly from 
the curse. If loading from an old save game, the curse will be 
removed  once the last village belonging to Nemesis has been taken 
over and the game is saved and reloaded.

7. SafeDisk boot-up problems with Windows 2000 have been fixed.

8. Multiplayer game select bug sometimes prevented a player from 
joining.

9. All ISPs now work reliably with the Lionhead game server.

10. The word "Death" no longer said when villagers die of old age.

11. The line "Another god is about to take over your village" is now 
only heard when relevant.

12. Bug fixed whereby tapping a Food or Wood Miracle gives massive 
amount of that resource.

13. The Hermit Challenge can now be completed if a Creature eats the 
Hermit.

14. Bug whereby player could cast certain Miracles, and allow the 
hand influence to run out in mid-cast in order to replenish the 
Miracle now fixed.

15. Two Out-Of-Sync bugs have been fixed in Multiplayer game.

16. No longer possible to get stuck in The Gods' Playground when 
quitting a game from there using Alt+F4

17. Creature can now die when under a Freeze Miracle.

18. Worship Site bug where villagers took massive amounts of food 
has been fixed.

19. Creature does not become more evil after being punished for 
fishing, eating animals or grain.

20. Creature's natural desire to eat other villagers has been 
reduced.

21. Creature doesn't become constipated if you punish him for 
pooing.

22. Smoothing added to rotation of villagers.

23. Now impossible to cheat by placing a new Village Centre in 
virtual influence, then picking it up and using its influence to 
move it further.

24. Advisors are now quicker to warn about imminent Village loss.

25. Animation blending bug in villagers, causing unwanted visual 
effects has been rectified.

26. Bug involving placing a scaffold, saving, then loading and being 
able to pick up or split the scaffold has been fixed.

27. Worshippers' desire for food is now more related to their 
hunger.

28. Loading bug involving Creature leashes fixed.

29. 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee(TM) video card issues addressed.

30. Blind women fix on land 4. If the game is restarted the random 
error in the blind women script will be fixed.


IMPROVEMENTS
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The following improvements have been included with Patch v1.1
1. Black & White will now allow people to skip the tutorial and/or 
Creature development section early on Land One if they have played 
the game already.
If the current profile already has a Creature, or there is more than 
one profile on the machine when a new game is started then a 
requester box appears asking if you want to skip the intro. There 
are 4 options in this box. The first is to start the game normally. 
The second is to skip the beginning tutorial and quests and go 
straight to selecting your Creature. The third is to skip all of the 
story quests on land one; this means that after selecting your 
Creature, he automatically gains all initial knowledge, the big 
Creature Guide doesn't exist, and the vortex is open. You can of 
course still spend as much time as you want on this land. The fourth 
option is to keep your original Creature. This option is the same as 
option three, but you don't select a Creature, and your old Creature 
remains. If you select the last option and your current profile 
doesn't have a Creature then option three is executed instead.

2. Pressing 'S' for villager statistics now displays the sex of the 
villager using shading and colour.

3. It is now possible to lock a Multiplayer channel to prevent 
others from entering.
