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A new MacOS Beta build of The Bard's Tale Trilogy is now available which resolves graphical errors that can appear while playing on an M1 or newer processor. To access this Beta branch, right-click The Bards Tale Trilogy in your Steam Library > Properties > Betas > (within that Betas selection screen in the upper-right corner, click the drop-down box and select the Beta-Beta option). Click the X to close that box out, and then you should see that to the right of the game name in the library list it will now have a [beta] tag. Mac users, please report back in this thread to let us know if you continue to see any graphical errors in this version of the game.
Hi all, Krome Studios and inXile entertainment are pleased to announce that the new build of The Bard's Tale Trilogy now available includes native macOS support! In addition to our MAC gaming friends being able to play the game, there are several bug fixes in this build (4.34):
Hi all,
Today we've pushed a new build for The Bard's Tale Trilogy live on the "beta" branch on Steam. This build has both an updated Windows build, as well as a build for OSX!
Fixes/differences for the Windows build from the previous release are noted below.
We're hoping to have a short open beta period on Steam only, and then, if all is well, do the full release for both Steam and GoG.
We've set up a new discussion thread for OSX issues on the "OPEN BETA" forum - please post any problems there!
https://steamcommunity.com/app/843260/discussions/1/1607148447810808434/
Cheers!
Fixes since v4.29
We're happy to announce a new patch for The Bard's Tale Trilogy is now available on both "default" and "beta" branches! This is a primarily a bug-fix release, though there are also some gameplay changes. Please see the notes below for details. Additionally, we've added some support for overriding the selected language. Any issues, please let us know! LANGUAGE SELECTION There is now an option to override the selected language (the one set by the "Language" tab on the properties of the game in your Steam library). If you launch the game with the "-lang=" commandline (without quotes) you can select English, French, German, Spanish, Polish or Russian language by adding the 2 letter code, ie -lang=en -lang=fr -lang=de -lang=es -lang=pl -lang=ru Additionally - once this new build has been run for the first time, there will be a new file called "lang.txt" created on your PC, in the "%appdata%/../locallow/InXile Entertainment/The Bard's Tale Trilogy" folder on your PC. If you edit this file, you will be able to then override which language the game is displayed in; following the directions found within the file. GENERAL FIXES
Hi all,
We're pleased to announce that we have a MAJOR patch for the Bard's Tale Trilogy ready for release... actually it's out right now!
Here's a shiny new trailer showcasing some of these major changes!
For those of you who have been on the beta testing branch, please note that the below includes some of the features that were in the v4.07 beta release.
There are a LOT of changes to go through, so we've tried to break it down into major segments.
We hope you enjoy these additions to the game! Please let us know any problems you see.
Cheers
Linds
inXile Entertainment and Krome Studios are pleased to announce that The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate has been released for The Bard's Tale Trilogy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd6n8hoa6EU&feature=youtu.be
As mentioned previously, Thief of Fate is huge in scope, and we hope that you all enjoy the blood, sweat and tears that have gone in to making it as fully realized as possible. We have greatly enjoyed remastering these classic games, and appreciate all the assistance that the community has given us for the remaster.
In addition to the release of Thief of Fate (now available on the default branch!), there are a variety of new quality of life and polish additions to all three games, as well as Legacy mode. A full list of changes is below, but the major points are:
Hi all!
As we have previously mentioned, we're working away furiously on the Thief of Fate remaster, but it's going to take a little more time to get all the various elements in place, to make it the best that it can be!
As promised, we have made a new BETA branch available in Steam, which has our current work in progress version of Thief of Fate. The game is fully playable (completable from start to finish), but various art for monsters, locations and environments are not complete; and there may be bugs throughout the game.
This BETA version is for the people who would like to participate in the final development push for the Bard's Tale Trilogy. It will be lacking in the spit and polish that will be in the final release. If you just want to play the game and relive past glories, we would recommend waiting for the full release.
If you wish to access this BETA build:
Hey everybody!
So we've been doing a lot of work on Thief of Fate - reading through the clue books and the manual; looking at the original map illustrations - and there is just so much that was layered into the lore, but wasn't able to be displayed on screen because of the technical limitations of the time.
We want the Bard's Tale Trilogy version of Thief of Fate to be the best that it can be. That means that we want The Palace to look like it's underwater. To make Gelidia not only be a land of eternal winter, but look like it too. For Urmech's Workshop to have mechanical walls (and occasionally, be filled with oil).
Because of all of this (and more - oh so much more!), Thief of Fate and the Legacy mode aren't going to be ready until early 2019.
We want to make it very clear that this is nothing to do with money, nor inXile's recent acquisition by Microsoft. This is simply that we (inXile and Krome) want to make the game be the best it can be - and we need more time to get it all in place.
One of the things that weve enjoyed since the games launch in August is the conversation with our fans. Now that were in the final stretch of development, were taking this delay as an opportunity to offer a peek behind the curtain. To that end, we plan on creating a Beta branch on Steam as well as a Thief of Fate Beta specific forum area. Before Christmas 2018, we'll populate this Beta branch with a version of Thief of Fate that will be playable (but will have some bugs) - with some of the art (enemy cameos, dungeon art and such) not complete. We welcome peoples' feedback and comments on the beta and we'll keep you all informed on progress as we approach the full release.
As Steam is the development platform for the game, this beta will only be available for Steam users. GOG users will, of course, receive the finished product on the same day as Steam users.
We've included a taste of the work-in-progress art below, so you can see some of these things that we're talking about and hopefully get a feel for what we're trying to get in place and why we're taking the extra time.
Cheers
Linds
Thief of Fate Remastering Comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAcUTNs4cbs&feature=youtu.be
C-64 to Remaster Enemies
Please note we only had still frames for the C-64 images!
Urmech Dungeon Environment
Gelidia Environment - The Land of Eternal Winter
Chronomancer Female Portrait
InXile Entertainment and Krome Studios are pleased to announce that Volume II - The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight - has been released for The Bard's Tale Trilogy.
To ensure that you have the latest update to the game with Volume II unlocked, please close and relaunch Steam, to add the download to your queue.
To try to cover some of the questions that people may have, on changes that have been made to The Destiny Knight for the remaster, we've compiled a short list of the major items below, along with general fix notes for across both games. We have blacked out some very heavy spoilers, so if you want to go into the game spoiler-free, please do not highlight the blacked out text.
Hi all,
We just wanted to let you all know that we're in the final stretch for the Bard's Tale 2 release. The game is going through QA testing now, and we're fixing various bugs as they come up. We are happy to announce that the game will be arriving tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23rd.
There are a few cool things coming in the release that we thought we'd share with you, as a taste of what is to come (soon!) in The Destiny Knight (please keep in mind these are compressed GIFs).
The Wilderness
Seamless Map Transitions
New City Art
And, of course, the monsters!
Spell Effects
Hi all,
Version 1.09 has now been pushed from beta to live. It contains a few things we felt was worth pushing prior to BT2 release (which we have been focusing on over the last couple of weeks).
We've added the OpenGL renderer. To access it to you create a shortcut to the game exe and add the -force-glcore commandline to it. We've heard this can be useful for WINE users, though people have had success running the standard DirectX version on WINE.
We've done some significant performance improvements to the city. it should help with people on below-min-spec machines, and with laptop battery draining.
Major Changes
Hi all,
Version 1.07 of The Bard's Tale Trilogy is now ready to release with lots more QoL improvements and bug fixes. Thanks for everyone's input!
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy is Now Available on Steam!
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.
inXile Entertainment, the studio led by Interplay founder and industry icon Brian Fargo, is proud to announce the release of The Bards Tale Trilogy, a complete remaster of the legendary series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality-of-life gameplay improvements, The Bards Tale Trilogy is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics. The title is now available for Windows PC on Steam with a retail price of $14.99.
Features of The Bards Tale Trilogy include:
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