CHANGELOG: Add changes for version 1.2

CHANGELOG

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+= Arx Libertatis 1.2 "Mega Mega Mega"  (TBD) =
+
+Gameplay:
+
+* Added an alternate, less strict rune recognition algorithm (enabled by default) (feature request #289, #653)
+* Made rune recognition less dependent on framerate (bug #856)
+* Added an alternate bow aim mode
+* Added gravity to arrows unless fully charged
+* Fixed weapon durability degrading faster at higher framerates (bug #790)
+* Fixed poison and magic resistance bonus from equipment and cheats being ignored in some cases
+* Fixed player ascending infinitely when attacked while levitating (bug #640)
+* Fixed Slow down (Rhaa Rune (decrease)Movis Rune (movement)) spell affecting user interface and input and improve player movement while it is active (bug #534)
+* Fixed hunger dropping below 0% when overeating (bug #132, fix is also applied when loading save files)
+* Higher caster level now makes the Curse (Rhaa Rune (decrease)Stregum Rune (magic)Vitae Rune (life)) spell more effective against NPC Damages, Armor Class and Damage Absorption instead of less effective
+* Calculated Armor Class, Magic Resistance, Poison Resistance and Damages stats now include attribute and skill modifiers from items and spells (bug #322)
+* The Critical Hit chance now includes item and cheat modifiers
+* The Negate magic (Nhi Rune (remove)Stregum Rune (magic)Spacium Rune (field)) spell and effect now correctly follows the target
+* Fixed player not receiving experience for kills by summoned creatures
+* Fixed selection of replacement weapon when the equipped one breaks to select one that is similarly powerful
+* Fixed maximum player Health and Mana ignoring attribute modifiers from items and spells while the MAX or MAR cheats are active
+* Fixed Akbaa not attacking the player after using his tentacle attack twice (bug #584)
+* Fixed spells without mana drain using the mana drain from previous spells
+* Fixed Confuse (Rhaa Rune (decrease)Vista Rune (vision)) spell ending immediately (bug #615)
+
+Graphics:
+
+* Windows: In multi-GPU setups (Optimus/PowerXpress) the more powerful GPU is now used by default
+* Added a configurable FPS limit independent of vsync, defaulting to the display refresh rate
+* Added a field of view setting (feature request #404)
+* Re-added a fullscreen gamma option (feature request #254)
+* Added support for fullscreen modes with different refresh rates
+* Added anti-aliasing to alpha cutouts (color key anti-aliasing, alpha to coverage and sample shading
+* Added an option to disable anisotropic filtering (feature request #96)
+* Added options to disable view bobbing and camera shake (feature request #405)
+* Fixed missing blob shadows under dragged entities
+* Fixed wrongly displayed light flare when dragging a torch (bug #783)
+* Fixed water and lava not being animated while the night vision spell is active (bug #1053)
+* Fixed scaling of flares around lights with higher resolutions
+* Fixed light flares showing through scene geometry or disappearing when the light is still visible (bug #120)
+* Fixed light flares showing through non-interactive entities (e.g. doors that are opening or closing)
+* Fixed light flares being drawn in front interface elements including notes (bug #1145)
+* Fixed light flares being disabled when the player book is open
+* Fixed flashes, flares and other effects appearing in front of the cinematic border
+* Fixed missing dynamic lighting for far away scene geometry (bug #1213)
+* Fixed amount of sparks, flame and smoke particles depending on the framerate
+* Fixed cinematic light flicker depending on the framerate
+* Fixed VSync setting not being applied until the game is restarted
+* Fixed water and lava animation overlay (bug #512)
+* Fixed map rendering glitches with buggy OpenGL drivers (bug #539)
+* Fixed Negate magic (Nhi Rune (remove)Stregum Rune (magic)Spacium Rune (field)) and Trap (Aam Rune (create)Morte Rune (death)Cosum Rune (object)) spell effects not rotating
+* Fixed overzealous entity culling (bug #588)
+* Fixed weapons and equipment always being drawn in front of the player hands and arms
+* Fixed player hands clipping with walls in first person view
+* Fixed arrow object rotation not matching direction
+* Fixed missing arrow trails (bug #538) and improved the effect (also used in the Speed (Mega Rune (increase)Movis Rune (movement)) spell)
+* Fixed NPC animations not playing when close to the player (bug #270)
+* Fixed missing aura when a protection spell ended before a Lower armor (Rhaa Rune (decrease)Kaom Rune (protection)) on the same target
+* Fixed Ylside blow up effect only disappearing when looking at it (bug #122)
+* Fixed lighting only being updated every other frame (bug #75)
+* Increased depth buffer from 16 bits minimum to 24 bits to prevent Z-fighting (bug #759)
+* Linux: Fixed missing anti-aliasing for some drivers
+
+Interface:
+
+* Added options to scale the player book, HUD and cursor with larger resolutions (feature request #391, #996)
+* Added an option to limit speech width on wide screens (enabled by default)
+* Fixed scaling and positioning of magic flares when casting with higher resolutions (bug #535)
+* Fixed scaling of cinematics with higher and wide resolutions
+* Add an option to letterbox or fade out cinematics with wide resolutions (fade by default)
+* Fixed player book and minimap being stretched with wide resolutions (bug #211)
+* Fixed minimap texture filtering changing when hovering map markers (bug #570)
+* Added anti-aliasing to HUD element borders (even without MSAA)
+* Improved quest book text layout
+* Added options to control the in-game font size and weight
+* Increased default font weight for text in the player book and notes to improve readability
+* Improved shop inventory sorting
+* Added crosshair when aiming with a fully charged bow
+* Sorting the inventory now never drops items to the ground
+* Fixed missing quest book background when there are no quest entries (bug #1021)
+* Fixed wrong items being highlighted when in combine mode (bug #121)
+* Add missing item halo when combining items
+* Fixed item halo being displayed in front of dragged items
+* Fixed too small font size at resolutions slightly above 640x480
+* Fixed rendering of runes in the player book
+* Removed light affecting the world when clicking on runes in the book
+* Tweaked how spell/stealth/equipment/torch icons move when opening the inventory
+* Fixed purse halo not showing when selling certain items
+* Fixed health and mana gauges not being hidden during the death animation (bug #806)
+* Fixed position of number in cursor when distributing skill points
+* Fixed level transition icons on the map not being displayed correctly (bug #782)
+* The player book is now closed when returning to mouse look mode (bug #143)
+* Fixed missing characters after forced line breaks in text (bug #718)
+
+Controls:
+
+* Added raw mouse input support and an option to control mouse acceleration
+* Fixed border turning (bug #255) and added an option to disable it
+* The "Resume game" menu entry and quickload (F9) now load the last save if no game is running (feature request #45)
+* Added a keyboard shortcut for drinking cure poison potions (not bound by default)
+* Added a keyboard shortcut to enter level transitions (feature request #105)
+* Add an auto ready weapon mode that only triggers on enemies
+* Player book and notes can now be closed using Escape (feature request #409)
+* Improved item drag and drop behavior
+* Improved drag threshold to make it less likely to accidentally drag an item when Shift+clicking it (bug #1225)
+* Fixed being able to exceed item stack size limits in some cases (bug #1111)
+* Added the ability to drop stacks of items to the floor or throw them (feature request #36)
+* Added the ability to pick up stacks of items outside inventories while holding shift (stealth mode shortcut)
+* Items can now be dragged across saves and level transitions
+* Fixed rotation of dragged and thrown entities (bug #591)
+* Fixed invert mouse setting affecting turning via keyboard or screen borders
+* Fixed double-click only working for the first slot in the Action binding (bug #795)
+* Mouse grab now released during cutscenes, conversations and cinematics
+* Fixed mouse not always being centered when exiting mouse look mode
+* Mouse look mode is now cancelled on focus loss to prevent the cursor being continuously warped to the window center
+
+Audio:
+
+* Added an option to enable OpenAL Soft's virtual surround (HRTF) support (enabled automatically when using headphones)
+* Re-added environmental audio effects (reverb) using OpenAL EFX (the game uses only one relatively neutral environment)
+* Added a config option to select the audio device (feature request #379)
+* Restored more spell sounds and fixed spell sound positions
+* The Harm (Rhaa Rune (decrease)Vitae Rune (life)), Ignite (Aam Rune (create)Yok Rune (fire)) and Douse (Nhi Rune (remove)Yok Rune (fire)) sound effects now correctly follow the caster/target (bug #740)
+* Added an option to mute audio when the window is not focused
+* Fixed duplicated page turn sound when clicking top tabs in the player book (bug #1125)
+* Fixed casting sound being played on level load when restoring persistent fields of protection
+* Fixed bare handed entity hit sound being repeated each frame
+* Fixed sound position when dousing torches
+* Added missing panning for ambient sounds
+* Audio listener orientation now uses the camera pitch (only noticeable with HRTF)
+* Fixed audio suddenly cutting off when getting too far from sources
+
+Menu:
+
+* Added text and audio language options (available languages depend on your Arx Fatalis version)
+* Added German, Italian, Russian and Spanish localization of new menu strings (feature request #1006)
+* Improved customize controls menu:
+* Overwriting bindings no longer moves the old key (bug #717)
+* Key bindings can now be removed using the escape key (feature request #408)
+* Displayed key names now use the current keyboard layout
+* Fixed removing duplicated key assignments
+* Fixed being locked out of the config menu when binding the 'toggle fullscreen' action to the left mouse button (bug #1136)
+* Fixed UI not updating properly when changing key bindings (bug #717)
+* Sliders and option widgets can now be controlled using the mouse wheel or by clicking at the desired position
+* Fixed checkbox mouseover area (bug #528)
+* Fixed disappearing menu textures after resizing the window (bug #275)
+* Fixed slow cursor animation and shorter cursor trail with higher framerates
+* Increased the save thumbnail size
+* Added support for Unicode save names (feature request #1032)
+* Improved editing support in the save name textbox, including copy & paste support
+* Improved date/time display in the save list
+* Added additional highlighting and improved positioning to the credits
+* Added the libraries and tools used for the build to the credits
+* Added support for scrolling the credits using the mouse wheel or keyboard
+* Fixed credits scroll position changing on window size changes
+
+Windowing:
+
+* Switched to SDL 2 for windowing and input (task #506) - SDL 1 backend will be removed in the next version
+* No longer grabs all keys when fullscreen (with SDL2)
+* The default ("Desktop") resolution now selects fullscreen windowed mode (with SDL2) (feature request #300, #449)
+* Added an option not to minimize the fullscreen window on Alt+TAB (feature request #814)
+* Added a new high-resolution icon
+* Screen saver is no longer inhibited while in the menu in windowed mode
+* Windows: Disabled OS-level DPI scaling (bug #706)
+* Windows: Fixed missing window icon
+* Linux: Translated the .desktop file to Italian and Spanish
+* macOS: Handle Command + Q shortcut to close the window
+
+Modding:
+
+* Added support for loading uncompressed FTL files
+* Added a blender plugin for FTL files
+* Added support for extending localization strings in mods
+* Added a ^camera system variable returning the active camera
+* Added a ^dragged system variable returning the item being dragged
+* Added the ^angle* and ^view* system system variables returning the rotation of the player or another entity
+* Fixed ^gamedays system variable to give the number of days since the playthrough start instead of the the number of 10-days
+* Added the -o flag to the spellcast script command to orphan the spell after being cast
+* Added library and python wrapper for decompressing FTL files
+
+Debugging:
+
+* Added a script console (feature request #356)
+* Added more debug views and made the key binding configurable (feature request #1500)
+* Added --skiplogo, --loadlevel, --loadslot and --loadsave command-line option to skip startup logos or load a level or save file on startup
+* Added support for loading save files by drag & drop
+* Added ability to rename saves to arxsavetool
+* Added a --benchmark command-line option
+* Added a --override-gl command-line option and extension_overrides setting to control used OpenGL extensions
+* Changed to OpenGL debug context and enabled ARB_debug_output for debug builds or with the --debug-gl option
+* Added a config option for the vertex streaming buffer size
+
+Tools:
+
+* Added support to arxunpak to extract all resources as seen by the game (default when no arguments are given)
+* Added support to arxunpak to create resource manifests with checksums
+* arxunpak now handles non-ASCII characters in filenames
+* Unix: Added support for different French and Russian Arx Fatalis CD versions to the data install script
+* Unix: Added support for different localized demo versions to the data install script
+* Unix: Fixed support for copying non-English data files from Steam installs in the data install script (bug #829)
+
+Performance:
+
+* A lot of code cleanup and various performance tweaks
+* Reduced number of redundant OpenGL state changes
+* Improved vertex upload, now uses persistently mapped buffers when available
+* MSAA is now disabled for interface draw calls where it does not make a difference
+* Optimized particle effect rendering
+* Changed blood rendering to only need one draw command per particle
+* Disabled denormalized floating point numbers on x86 and ARM for better performance
+* Added a performance profiling tool
+* Changed magic missile spell to only use one sound source instead of one per missile
+* Improved CPU usage when the window is minimized
+* Improved pathfinding performance, especially when the target is unreachable (bug #652)
+* Windows: The OpenGL context is no longer re-initialized on resolution changes
+* Unix: Enabled -ffast-math in release builds (was already enabled for MSVC)
+
+Other Fixes:
+
+* Significantly improved the item-world collision test: thrown or dropped items should no longer get stuck in walls, hover above the ground or fall through the ground or walls (bug #50, #556, #956)
+* Fixed screenshot shortcut (F10) always overriding the same file
+* Fixed potential resource leaks
+* Fixed direction of player speech outside cutscenes
+* Save files now correctly store game time for playthroughs longer than 1193 hours (AL 1.1.x and older as well as AF 1.21 simply ignore the additional data)
+* Fixed inconsistent state (weapon equipped while not in combat mode) when loading a save that was created while in combat mode
+* Fixed persistent arrow trails if arrows get outside the world
+* Fixed game time not being reset to 0 when starting a new playthrough after having an old one loaded
+* Fixed ^sender script variable possibly changing during script execution
+* Fixed a buffer overflow when saving with very long script variables
+* Fixed missing black bars in a cutscene in the castle of Arx (bug #1014)
+* Fixed Akbaa tentacle not being hidden when it is supposed to be in the Ylside bunker
+* Fixed crashes with item stack sizes or player gold amounts above 999999
+* Fixed wrat teleport breaking when saving and loading during the teleport
+* Fixed inconsistent weapon attachment when saving while in combat mode (bug #581)
+* Fixed getting stuck in a cutscene in level 5 (bug #1293)
+* Made saving more robust against unexpected filesystem errors (bug #439) or other programs opening the save file (bug #1218)
+* Improved handling of corrupted inventories in save files (bug #1445)
+* Fixed initial player position when starting a new game after already having loaded an existing game (bug #140)
+* Fixed minimap reveal status not being reset when starting a new game (bug #1349)
+* Fixed script variables not getting cleared on new game
+* Fixed an error when a resource file size changed after the game start
+* Fixed various crashes:
+* Fixed a crash when loading saves with more than 1500 entities in a single level (bug #375)
+* Fixed a crash when the entity whose inventory is open is destroyed (bug #843)
+* Fixed a crash when the caster or target of a spell is destroyed (bug #951)
+* Fixed a crash when the entity selected for combining is destroyed (bug #452)
+* Fixed a lockup when throwing items at certain objects
+* Fixed problems when loading save files with bugged entity positions (bug #894, #995)
+* Fixed asserts with very high player stats not obtainable during normal gameplay (bug #942)
+
+Technical Changes:
+
+* Fixed build with CMake 3.5.0 or newer
+* Fixed Windows XP support with newer MSVC versions
+* New dependency: GLM 0.9.5.0 or newer
+* macOS: New dependency: iconutil (from Xcode) or icnsutil for building the .icns icon
+* New crash reporter dependency: WinHTTP / libcurl 7.20.0 or newer
+* Dropped support for CMake < 2.8.3
+* Dropped support for Boost < 1.48
+* Dropped support for Qt < 4.7
+* Added support for using libepoxy instead of GLEW to load OpenGL functions
+* The unity build is now enabled by default
+* No longer stores deleted entities in save files if not needed
+* Added SDL 2 fall-back for error dialogs
+* Cleaned up missing data files error dialog, ask before running arx-install-data
+* Added support for statically linking Freetype and ZLIB
+* Color output is no longer enabled if $NO_COLOR is set or if $TERM is unset or set to "dumb"
+* Added support for setting a runtime libexec search dir different from the install path
+* Added support for the ARX_PATH environment variable under Windows
+* Added support for storing .pak and loose files in a data subdirectory
+* Added support for loading data files relative to the executable
+* Added support for configuring additional data search paths
+* There is now a dialog on crash and the crash report is prepared even if the Qt-based reporter is not available
+* Fixed build on newer macOS versions
+* Save files now track which playthrough they belong to (not used in the UI yet)
+* The arx binary now displays a graphical error dialog when passed bad command-line arguments
+* Changed passwall cheat to bypass culling
+* Removed the need for a custom vertex shader
+* Added support for using OpenGL ES-CM 1.x when desktop OpenGL is not available
+* Add a script warning when a command is missing parameters
+* The Gold linker is used and link time optimizations are now enabled automatically when building from source
+* Enabled address randomization for the main executable in MSVC builds
+* Made .pak loading case-insensitive on all platforms
+* Windows: Added support for statically linking Qt in the crash reporter
+* Windows: Support using a 32-bit crash reporter for a 64-bit arx process
+* Windows: Added Unicode filesystem support (feature request #786)
+
+Removed Features:
+
+* DirectX backends (Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectInput)
+* Video bit depth option
+* Support for loading uncooked objects (.teo) and scenes (.scn)
+* Removed link_mouse_look_to_use config option
+* Removed the unused killme script command
+* Removed the unused stack, code, rgb and sub-commands from the zoneparam script command
+* Remove stubbed-out -a flag from the set script command
+
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 = Arx Libertatis 1.1.2  (2013-10-17) =
 
 * Fixed a crash when hovering over map markers after the window was resized (bug #547)