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A new patch has been released for Ancients of Ooga on Steam dealing with many of the common issues. The fixes are:

- Full screen mode now works and can be set from the game's settings
tool (OogaSettings.exe)
- All supported languages are now working (English, Spanish, French,
Italian, German)
- Broken achievements have been fixed
- Final level won't hang
- Hover beans floating now takes time into account so that CPU speed
won't effect how far you hover.
- Camera always tracks player (scrolling of mouse wheel was locking camera)

Also, a demo for the game was created and added to Ancients of Ooga's page. If you are experiencing any problems with these issues still not working correctly, please let us know here. If you are having additional issues which were not addressed by this patch, or which have occurred since patching, please post that here as well.

Well, I do have additional isses: The bonus levels are gone. Before the patch, there was an additional realm to play, AFAIK the DLC from the Live Arcade version which was included in the Steam version (which is great, I'd like to add). Now, it's gone. Completely. Entirely. I couldn't play it before the patch as the last level didn't want to complete.

Another issue is with the configurator utility. First, it's impossible to find. Ask Valve to link that in the Steam context menu for that game. Second, it barely supports any resolutions. More needs to be added. BTW, I volonteer to do that, just give me the source code and I'll add all the resolutions PC users are used to.

Next thing: The main menu chapter selector is broken. Thanks for adding that, it's a nice thing, but it's useless as it only allows to select the first level, no matter how far I am in the game.

Another issue, a really big one, is saves being reset. I am not the only one suffering from that, after the pach, I was put back at level 2 or so of the flapper realm.

Another thing is that some achievement descriptions are really hard to understand, at least in German. If you are, I'll try to find a way to read the English descriptions and provide proper translations.

Don't get me wrong. I am thankful for the patch, this all is meant as constructive feedback.

I'm interested in the game, and downloaded the demo. However, the screen is a disaster. It looks like pixelated "snow". I assume this is a known bug? Maybe there's no support for my video card? It is nVidia.

The game itself works, the demo is broken.

Whatever you did with the hover beans now prevents me from floating high enough, and it worked before the patch.

Core i7 860
GTX 480
8 gigs ddr3
win7 home premium 64 bit

please fix this. Thanks.

Also, I had to start over from the beginning after the latest update. But fullscreen does now work.

I still have the no sound problem. And as i said in my other thread ... I have hundreds of games (not exaggerating for effect). And there sound works.

I have a number of sound devices on my comp for music creation stuff so maybe that could be it but I cant be alone in this can I? Shouldn't the game just be using windows default?

No sound info is being sent to any of the devices from what I can tell.

I'm not going to buy it if I can't try it out first. Otherwise I have no idea if I'm going to enjoy playing it or not.

I've bought too many bad games to be willing to throw more money away.

I purchased the game from STEAM, but can't find any patch on the STEAM website. How do I know if I have the latest version of the game?

You do have the latest version. Steam takes care of it.

Everyone, thank you for sharing the issues you're having. If we don't know the issues, we can't fix them. I've been speaking with the developer on this project and here are some points he's shared with me to pass along to you:

1. Bonus levels are "gone" intentionally:
The bonus levels are now integrated into the other realms of the game and will appear as the players play through the regular levels rather than having to select them as a different/seperate realm. This was how the Steam version was originally intended to be played. The different order of the levels could be a contributing factor to why some saves are starting on a different level than before the patch. These save game issues are being looked at to make sure they are all working properly, as well as menu selection, and we will try to fix any issues there.

2. Additional resolutions may be added later, but we can't verify there will be no issues with hud, menus, etc. if the resolutions are set to anything other than the supported modes. However, the resolution can be set to anything manually from gameInstanceSetup.ini

3. The demo not working is a bit of a mystery. Any additional info on what exactly happens when you try to run it would be helpful.

4. The hover beans issue is caused because some computers are running the game too fast. A cap is being put on the frame rate to keep this from happening until we can come up with a better solution.

5. The "no sound" problem seems extremely rare, and we have no explanation for it. We're using basic direct sound libraries (although it is from Feb 2007, so they're a little out dated.) We're not really sure how to proceed on this one. Any further information may be helpful.

Be aware that another patch is in the process, and we will fix as many of these issues as we can.

Another patch was released today that addressed the following issues:

- Level selection screen from the main menu was only allowing the 1st
realm and level to be selected. Now all realms and levels that have
been unlocked can be selected from there.

- Removed instances of "trigger" throughout text that referred to Xbox
360 controller triggers.

- Hover beans now time out appropriately for systems capable of
running the game at 50+ fps

- Frame rate is capped at roughly 120 fps to prevent timing precision
loss on non-floating point timers.

- Disabled mouse controls in the audio settings menu as it was behaving badly.

The sound issue has been looked into but we have been unable to reproduce the issue and have had no other reports of it.

Yeah, my problem also relates to the demo. Downloaded the Demo on Steam, loved the game ... but my enthusiasm is quickly waning because...

The purchased version does not recognise that I have played the demo... and yes I upgraded to the full version via the in game prompts.

Because of this I have lost all achievements but more importantly all game progress.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Wow, sorry for the late reply, somehow I missed responding to this post, even though I looked up the problem. For those who are curious about this still, or run into this problem, the Steam version of the game does not transfer achievements earned in the demo to the full version when purchased, that is by design and not a bug. We apologize for the inconvenience that may cause in re-earning the achievements.

thanks...