On October 1st Drog Black Tooth has released a new version of his Unoffical Arcanum Patch! After almost 10 years (last version has been released in December 2009) he decided to give us even better version of an already great patch. Even though some of the changes might be considered as questionable by some, it adds many interesting features nonetheless and includes HQ Townmaps, HQ Music and HR patch as well which makes the installation of Arcanum mods that much easier.
You can download it here: http://terra-arcanum.com/drog/uap.html#download
But let the man speak for himself:
In the spoiler below you will find full changelog:
I've heard about him trying to get some funding for this but figured there was a slim chance of him doing anything but with 1.5 patch released it's time to give him some PLN: http://terra-arcanum.com/drog/uap.html
Edit:
Workaround for Win 11 players:
You can download it here: http://terra-arcanum.com/drog/uap.html#download
But let the man speak for himself:
Drog Black Tooth said:
In the spoiler below you will find full changelog:
Version 191001 (1.5)
- Patch version is now displayed in the main menu at all times.
- HQ Music and HQ Townmaps packs are now included in the base patch by default. Additionally, HQ Townmaps have also been compiled for the Vormantown campaign and other stand-alone modules.
- The Extra Animation pack is now also part of the base patch, it's been redone from scratch with painstaking care, plenty of bugs and nuances with it were ironed out, more engine patches have been added to make all the animations play properly.
- Added a '-cheatmode' switch, which enables Troika's original cheat mode, see Documents\Cheat Mode.txt for an explanation on what it does.
- Included much longer ambient tracks recovered from a pre-release build of the game.
- Included an improved version of Virgil's Debug menu, which now works with all 3 versions of Virgil. New features include making everyone in the party catch up to the player's level and going to secret locations, such as Cattan, Fan Graveyard and Old Blind Master's hideout.
- High Resolution Patch now has 32 bit color depth support (and defaults to it) for better Windows 10 compatibility.
- Music is now available for all modules, not just the main campaign.
- Added aging, every year everyone's age stat gets increased by 1.
- You can now disable your party members auto-level scheme and distribute their character points yourself if you so desire.
- For this reason, a 'schematics' option has been added to the party member context menu so that even the followers without this dialog option will still be able to craft items if they have invested into technology.
- Swapped R and Space keys around for an easier switch to the combat mode, and moved Quick Load from F8 to F9 to prevent accidental presses since Quick Save is F7.
- Fixed the Pure Melee-Dodge auto-leveling scheme. Now it always reaches DX 20.
- Stiletto now bypasses AC and DR.
- Fixed issues with large jackets/rags inventory and paper doll graphics.
- Fixes issues with the Half Ogre Island captain sometimes not spawning (mostly affects High Resolution Patch).
- Restored the original art for medium and small venom jackets.
- Added missing graphics for small size barbarian armor.
- Added ground art for different barbarian armor.
- Spirits Snake's amulet is no longer a copy of Dorian's Amulet, now has its proper art restored.
- Orcs (and Gar) can now wear technological plate armor.
- Gar is now a full blooded orc game logic wise (meaning race name, race icon etc) to further trick the player, all the way until the reveal where his stats will change to human.
- Creatures summoned by NPCs not in the player's party will no longer attack others without provocation.
- NPCs will longer cast Purity of Water in combat, since it's just a Beauty increasing spell
- Reverted from earlier patches: removed the permanent follower glitch failsafe hack.
- Reverted from earlier patches: Half Ogre Island is teleportable again.
- The magic weapon button is now purged on save load to prevent glitches.
- Moved Tarant's starting location to the other end of the bridge.
- All former Extra Pack content has now been merged in the base patch.
- Clockwork Physician is now red in color (just like Medical Arachnid) while Explosive Decoy is green.
- Adjusted Schreck's Pistol's stats, from D:1-20 to D:5-25.
- Adjusted Levered Machine Gun's stats, from D:1-40 FT:1-5 to D:10-40 FT:1-10.
- Fixed a mana calculation issue with the Teleportation spell, which made it not cost any charges if put on an enchanted weapon, like the Staff of K'an T'au.
- It's no longer possible to accidently drink the Cure the Blind potion.
- Arronax's shell is no longer destroyable with AoE spells or grenades.
- Added item descriptions for Tech Manuals, Stiletto, various grenades and explosives.
- Fixed a number of issues with Stringy Pete's quest. Now, killing Molly Williamson botches the quest in your logbook and gives you the curse. Joe Bob Williamson's dialog script is working now. The map to Stringy Pete's cove now has correct inventory art.
- Added side bezels to the bottom panel graphics.
- Fixed broken shading on CreateChar and PreGenChar menu backgrounds.
- Fixed minor graphical artifacts in the character sheet menu background.
- Fixed a number of issues with various inventory and barter menu backgrounds.
- Fixed the ShopMap (green grass field) sometimes bleeding through loading screens.
- Fixed slightly off text offsets in character sheet -> tech ranks.
- Removed a patch of broken tiles just outside the map border at the Crash Site (including the townmap).
- Removed many bushes from the ship's deck on the Half-Ogre Island.
- Dark Elves and Ogres NPCs now have different portraits from Elves and Half-Ogres.
- Fixed a mana calculation issue with the Teleportation spell, which made it not cost any charges if put on an enchanted weapon, like the Staff of K'an T'au.
It's no longer possible to accidently drink the Cure the Blind potion.
Arronax's shell is no longer destroyable with AoE spells or grenades.
Added item descriptions for Tech Manuals, Stiletto, various grenades and explosives.
Fixed a number of issues with Stringy Pete's quest. Now, killing Molly Williamson botches the quest in your logbook and gives you the curse. Joe Bob Williamson's dialog script is working now. The map to Stringy Pete's cove now has correct inventory art.
Added side bezels to the bottom panel graphics.
Fixed broken shading on CreateChar and PreGenChar menu backgrounds.
Fixed minor graphical artifacts in the character sheet menu background.
Fixed a number of issues with various inventory and barter menu backgrounds.
Fixed the ShopMap (green grass field) sometimes bleeding through loading screens.
Fixed slightly off text offsets in character sheet -> tech ranks.
Removed a patch of broken tiles just outside the map border at the Crash Site (including the townmap).
Removed many bushes from the ship's deck on the Half-Ogre Island.
Dark Elves and Ogres NPCs now have different portraits from Elves and Half-Ogres.
The game icon has been redrawn from scratch.
I've heard about him trying to get some funding for this but figured there was a slim chance of him doing anything but with 1.5 patch released it's time to give him some PLN: http://terra-arcanum.com/drog/uap.html
Drog Black Tooth said:
Edit:
Workaround for Win 11 players:
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