Some details about version 1.08 of The Dark Mod were released earlier on this month on the news section of TDM’s website. The main change is that the team behind it, Broken Glass Studios, is preparing the mod for going standalone – this is since the Doom 3 source code was released last year. Standalone means that Doom 3 will no longer be required to be installed on a system in order to play TDM.
But hang on before you get too excited, because 1.08 won’t be fully standalone. The mod will run without Doom 3 perhaps, but many of the fan missions created for it won’t, seeing as they rely on Doom 3 assets.
Other improvements include a sound upgrade, new NPC characters like the Builder Acolyte (you may remember this from early TDM screenshots – the guy in the turquoise outfit) and the Elite City Guard (remember him from Thief II – the one you couldn’t knock out with a blackjack no matter how hard you tried?), as well as more forgiving AI (I thought it was more than forgiving all ready), and improvements to object physics.
See the whole list of changes over at the TDM wiki.
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