New Upgrades - Introduction
"New Upgrades" - what is that?
The 'New Upgrades' patch is the first serious, yet *unofficial* mod for the 'In The Wake of Gods' add-on. Why 'serious'? Because it uses not only scripts but also changes many graphics, animations, properties and even hard-coded features. And why 'unofficial'? For a few reasons - the most important is the fact that it contains a few recoloured creatures which in the present situation (after realising there's a creature number limit) couldn't enter the game as completely new creatures, but they were quite necessary to make as much logical uprades as it was possible. The only sollution was to *replace* some other wog creatures with the new ones, what for obvious reasons cannot be done in the official WoG versions. So taking this, as well as a few other reasons in cosideration I even didn't try to get the presented features into the offical WoG version, but in theory it is always possible.
This patch has one main goal - to give every town 3 new creature upgrades and a new building that would enable them. Although, those main elements are present in a new script (which is optional of course and can be turned on or off in the wogify menu), their realization required many unoptional changes in the game like replacing 6 creature animations. I remark: the patch was not created to introduce new creatures (they aren't the most important and the main work was not concentrated on them), but to introduce the new upgrading system. The patch was also made compatible with other WoG elements as well as it was possible and tested in search of technical errors or bugs. However it can still cause balance problems.
You can install 'New Upgrades' if you have the newest WoG version - 3.58F AND *you're plaing with the stack experience feature turned ON*. Otherwise, some creatures won't have all of their abilities. The patch probably will not be compatible with the 3.59 version, but I think that by then a new, compatible version will be made. If anyone decides to make a map using the elements from this patch, please add a note that the user must first download and install 'New Upgrades' before playing the map.