Forge Beta: 10-03-2014 ver 1.5.28

[CyanKnight]

Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts is coded to trigger on any kind of damage, rather than just combat damage.

[lujo]

In case anyone is suffering from constant crashes, specially in the Quest Tournament Mode, like I was: updating to Java 8 really solved pretty much everything for me. I've spent around 6 hours playing after updating to Java 8 and got no crashes so far.

Maybe I was the last Forge player to update to Java 8, but in case there's people out there who haven't updated yet (to be fair, the automatic Java Update won't tell you about this newest version), here's a link to the download page.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 33155.html

It's not that simple for XP users, I went through this recently. You need to find a hacked version of Java 8 or hack it yourself with a hex editor. You also need it to download the most recent pictures using krazythefox picture downloader.

I posted a link to it but I can't find the thread right now, it must've been deleted when it was made into the snapshot builds sticky or something.


Also, anyone know where one could get the latest snapshot while krazy's server is clogged up?

[Fizanko]

I doubt all those NPE and concurrent errors are related to the java versions, they're bug that drdev and the other devs that probably are all on java8 anyways have been experiencing and fixing too.

Now about window XP, a couple of weeks ago Oracle fixed the problem that prevented java8 to be installed on window XP
https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/t ... of_java_on

Oct 15: The recent JDK 8 Update 25 release includes a fix that enables installation of JDK 8 on Windows XP. It remains an unsupported platform and all recommendations in this blog entry still apply.

So if one is interested in installing java8 on window XP, it's now possible without hacked version or using hexedit yourself by just going directly from the https://java.com/ website and download the java8 update 25 available now

But note that some applications may have trouble with java8 (not related to window xp), a friend of mine that play minecraft had problems with some mods that required the latest version of java7 and wouldn't work with java8

Now for the snapshots, there's only 2 places that offer snapshots for regular user :
http://www.krazyweb.net/forge/
and
http://cardforge.org/releases/snapshots ... i-desktop/
but the cardforge website is rarely updated during development, so the snapshot available there may be older than the one on krazyweb

[lujo]

Oh, wow, so they finally fixed it? Cool!

And I was asking because krazyweb is stuck on the version from 3 days ago, and I see stuff had been fixed since then - where are people getting r28040?

I'd love to follow the "update to latest version" instruction

[Fizanko]

Maybe they build Forge themselves, there's some instructions here if you're interested :
http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Forge ... ild_System

can't say if this is up to date, i'll just patiently wait.

[Chris H.]

I built and deployed to the cardforge site a new snapshot based on SVN rev 28045:

forge-gui-desktop-1.5.29-20141021.174633-6.tar.bz2

forge-gui-desktop-1.5.29-20141021.174633-6-osx.tar.bz2

[Fizanko]

Thank you very much

[Vecc]

Good to know about all that.

Still, updating really did fix the vast majority of the errors I was getting specially in Quest Tournament mode, so I guess it's worth mentioning. I didn't really change anything else that I can attribute the added stability to. My system is W7 64 bits, by the way.

[drdev]

Yeah, I can say for sure that Java 7 vs. 8 has nothing to do with the issues, as I still have Java 7 on my development machine. All the broken behavior was just the result of a refactoring I was working on that I've now fixed most of the bugs for. The good news is, after this refactoring, Forge is one step closer to offering network play.

Thanks to everyone for your patience and continued support of Forge.
-Dan