NetHack 3.6.0 Released After a 12-Year Wait (nethack.org) 76
An anonymous reader writes: For the past 12 years, NetHack 3.4.3 has been the most recent version of the classic roguelike dungeon exploration game. On 7 December 2015, the official NetHack DevTeam announced the release of NetHack 3.6.0. While the release contains some new features, the most exciting part of the announcement is perhaps the DevTeam's move toward a more open development model: "We've migrated our internal source repository to Git, with plans of providing a publicly available 'current maintenance version' in the future." Bugzilla will be used for defect tracking.
NetHack 3.6.0 is dedicated to the memory of the author Terry Pratchett. Besides the Tourist character class inspired by his stories, NetHack now contains "a huge number of quotes from many of the Discworld novels."
NetHack 3.6.0 is dedicated to the memory of the author Terry Pratchett. Besides the Tourist character class inspired by his stories, NetHack now contains "a huge number of quotes from many of the Discworld novels."
Just in time... (Score:5, Insightful)
Released just in time for the Hogswatch sales season! Yay!
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Of course there is a root user. Just use sudo -i to become root, then run the installer/make install/whatever
Or, as I have stated enough times to get banned from the ubuntu forums, just run sudo passwd and set a password for the root user - then anything expecting to be able to su -c or whatever will work too.
Celebrate!! (Score:3, Informative)
This calls for a round of the NetHack Song!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlPgy0ysoJk
has the lawyer knocking yet? (Score:3)
Has the estate lawyer come knocking yet?
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Terry was a fan of Nethack. I think his surviving family members will have no objection against honoring his memory in a game he loved.
Re:has the lawyer knocking yet? (Score:5, Informative)
Quotes are protected under fair use principles in all Berne Convention signatory countries. They couldn't come knocking even if they did want to.
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Lawyer are those licensed to extort you, not people who enforce the law.
If someone asks you for money they have no claim to and you pay up, then it's your own damn fault.
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Claiming "opinion as a fact" when no such identification is implied. Welcome to slashdot.
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This is one of the most entertaining AC threads I've read on Slashdot for a long time. And I've been reading Slashdot for a long time.
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you think...
Opinion as fact, welcome to slashdot.
You do realise that the very words "I think..." are exactly what mark that out as an opinion, and not a statement of fact?
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As Terry's daughter is overseeing his properties I expect she won't go all Rowling-Warner on something like this.
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"Forbidden
You do not have permission to access this document."
I smell a wumpus (Score:4, Funny)
Good thing I have my quiver of crooked arrows.
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Good thing I have my quiver of crooked arrows.
I've had a Scroll labeled FOOBIE BLETCH, waiting for this day.
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Happy the game is in still Development... (Score:2)
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Happy the game is in still Development.... I really thought all work stopped completely and 3.4.3 was going to be the last version ever made by the Dev Team.
I'd still fire up the old version and play it. So many happy memories. I also was lucky enough to enjoy the color versions of NetHack, Larn and Moria on the Amiga.
Eric Raymond did the initial conversion to Git (Score:2)
It's good to see the veil lifted on Nethack development. Give ESR a little bit of credit for helping them out.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6389&cpage=1#comment-1207141 [ibiblio.org]
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NOTABUG, WONTFIX, PEBCAK.
Finally some real news on slashdot (Score:1)
Yeah, this is actually newsworthy. And with actual link to the devteam's page, without 3 levels of blogspam indirection.
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Different AC here: I think what the parent is suggesting is that Slashdot submitters collectively endeavor to up their game and link to the source of the information. He's being a bit of a dick about it, but I think the idea is sound.
Submitters: If it's a science post, link to the pape
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VR Support (Score:5, Funny)
Will they be adding VR support soon?
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It's In Your Imagination.
Beats any R-based VR.
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Pretty pointless from a gameplaying perspective though. A red & in ADOM (not sure if there are Balors in Nethack?) is way more scary than anything that can be done in VR or any graphical layer.
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Hrmmm... I have a DK2 and I almost want to do this...
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There are various variations - Vultures Claw presented 3D isometric view.
Re: VR Support (Score:1)
I have that on Linux and UnNetHack on Android.
Re:VR Support (Score:4, Informative)
Will they be adding VR support soon?
Yes, you can now play Nethack in VR http://www.vrdesktop.net/ [vrdesktop.net]
Kind of sad, really (Score:3, Insightful)
Honestly I had hoped that nethack would rest easy. After all, the game was essentially finished. There wasn't anywhere left to go and things were great. There's something to be said for a stable game that doesn't change no matter how often the players do. Unfortunately there is a rather loud group of people who want new, new, new and if it's old it sucks. "If it's not being developed, then it sucks!" and this attitude is a real problem IMO. ESR himself states quite plainly "I am pissed at them for being secretive and doing fuck-all with the codebase" as if there was a problem with that. This is the same attitude that led to Mozilla Firefox going off the rails, developing for the sake of developing instead of doing what's needed.
I've already heard nethack referred to as "an early, brutal roguelike, not recommended" which put a dagger in my heart. Now they're putting a bunch of Pratchett quotes in? Sheesh.
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Who says the players change? I've had it installed on one device or another since I first found it (early 90s.....before that it was Rogue).
Pet name: WandTester
If he lives past level 4, he's usually especially powerful. Also, it sucks to run into him and my ghost.
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Who says the players change? I've had it installed on one device or another since I first found it (early 90s.....before that it was Rogue).
You missed "Hack" between NetHack and Rogue. Hack was allright, NetHack was originally a reasonably close follow up but has diverged with all the extras. Some will like those, others will miss the simplicity of Hack.
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There were new critters the last time I played - gas spores that exploded when they were killed. Had to learn to keep a safe distance. Spells of stink bomb that killed critters in another room. At the deepest levels, there was green slime monsters that turned everything they bit into green slime.
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You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
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The game was far from essentially finished. In fact, it never will be finished. User interfaces get better, exploits are discovered, and NetHack fixes and incorporates this to remain challenging and fresh. In fact, the update is quite timely as there are a lot of issues with NetHack 3.4.3 which now get addressed!
This doesn't mean it gets the streamline treatment modern AAA titles get. In fact, rather the contrary. The new nasties are *really* nasty. NetHack now is a lot more unforgiving than NetHack 2.3 I b
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Yes, yellow fungus give you hallucinations, along with certain potions. Everything object around you then looks like valuable artifacts, while monsters become totally mixed up. A black dragon appears to be as harmless as a slime mold, while a grid bug looks like a rock giant.
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Ya know... The damned thing works natively in Linux and probably someone's already ported it to run on your toaster, remote control, car dashboard, and even installed a server on an IoT light bulb. Using WINE isn't *really* mandatory but, I suppose, someone had to.
World of Nethack (Score:1)
The game is now massively multiplayer. With all the new armor and weapon choices your character can now look like @ or @ and even @ !
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Yes, but if you want an @ it's an IAP.
Sourceforge.net ? (Score:2)
Looks like they decided 12 years ago where to host their binaries :)
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