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The second public beta is here, correcting most of the issues reported from the first beta. Grab it at the Tain.

Please report any bugs you find on the Public Beta 2 bug reporting thread. This will be the final beta of 1.8, so it's especially important that everyone report any issues they want fixed.

Project Magma is proud to announce that the official public beta of Myth II version 1.8.0 is now available. Spanning three years of work and including several hundred changes and fixes, 1.8.0 is our biggest update yet!

Download here: http://tain.totalcodex.net/items/show/myth-ii-1-8-0-public-beta

Watch the 1.8.0 Promo Video!

Everyone is encouraged to install the beta, and help test the next version of Myth II. We need your help to find any bugs, so that we can fix them before the final version.

A summary of the changes from version 1.7.2 can be viewed here:
1.8.0-Changes-Brief.txt

Please post all bug reports regarding Myth II 1.8.0 in this thread.

Heroes Who Dare has been tempered in blood & fire and is now awaiting your playing pleasures.

You will face multitudes of incoming platoons, devious scouts, cannon barrages, and the 4 Shades; Cormorant, Phelot, Scaripant, and Turquine, each defending against any assault on the World Knot they currently control.

All you have to do is find a way to navigate past all these enemy forces, locate their World Knot, then signal its location for an airstrike to disable it.

Update (Feb 11): Teaser #8 only has one new unit. That makes 13 new units shown!

Laws of Evil is a 5 level total conversion plugin for Myth II: Soulblighter. In preparation for its nearing completion, Khellek has kindly acquiesced, after much arm twisting, to allow showing these teasers.

We will be showcasing 2 random units with a small flavor of their demeanors once a week, over the next 8 to 10 weeks, starting tonight. Even though only a single animation of each unit will be revealed, these are completely new, completely animated, completely Fear'ed, completely completed units that are currently scripted in LoE.

Check out more details or give some feedback in this thread.

At long last, Project Magma is proud to announce the release of the Valley of Despair SoLo-CooPerative map by GHOST®.

Valley of Despair is a total update of The Journey Continues, the very first map GHOST® created and released back in August of 2000. It has since, on and off over the past 5 years, been completely redone, with single minded determination to make VoD everything and more than was originally accomplished in TJC.

So, without further ado . . .

What is included in this plugin:

Valley of Despair
Desperate Measures
The Gauntlet
A Bridge Too Far
and . .
Stair of Grief (hi-res)

And, just in case that doesn't excite you enough to go dig out your dusty Myth CD , then consider the following bonus . . .

To compliment this momentous release, GHOST® and Pyro have put together the Valley of Despair - Interface plugin for those of us who like to change the look of Myth every now and again.

The archived news articles have been reorganized. A total of 43 missing articles from 2003 - 2005 and 2007 have also been restored. They contain their original links which might no longer work. Enjoy taking a stroll into the past.

Project Magma is proud to announce the release of Myth II 1.7.2 for Linux.

No longer will Linux players have to resort to using Wine or booting into Windows to take advantage of the latest improvements to Myth II or to play online with other players. Instead, they can now enjoy the same native Myth II experience alongside existing Windows and Mac players of the game.

The Linux release of Myth II 1.7.2 is fully compatible with Myth II 1.7.2 on other platforms, allowing it to run the latest plugins available on The Tain and to play online on Mariusnet.

Download the Myth II 1.7.2 Linux Installer or the Linux Demo today. The Myth II 1.7.2 Linux installer can be used to upgrade an existing Myth II installation or to install the updated version directly using an original Myth II CD.

Going forward, we expect future updates to the game to be released on all three platforms simultaneously.

Myth II 1.7.2 Final is now available:

http://projectmagma.net/downloads/myth2_172/

Myth II Version 1.7.2 is the latest instalment in the 1.7 series of updates, bringing massive performance improvements, numerous bug fixes and several new features to the game.

Below are some of the highlights of the 1.7.2 update:

• Massive OpenGL optimizations, especially with detail textures (2x - 5x as fast on modern hardware)!


• New DirectX10/11 rendering backend!


• New event-based input system that guarantees every character typed will be registered.


• New preference to automatically save multiplayer films.


• Elimination of up to two ticks of baked-in latency in the Myth net code.


• Overhead map zoom level will now be saved between games.


• Fix for the endless "Waiting for other players..." dialog.


• Type-to-seek functionality for the new game, recordings and saved game lists.


• Restored custom plugin images in the single-player new game dialog.


• Added new high resolution icons.