Dark Messiah patched

By Tom Bramwell Published 9 November, 2006

No more teleporting lockpicks.

Valve reports that there's a patch available through Steam for Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, which should sort out a number of tedious bugs. And if you bought the game in a box rather than an internet, you can download a patch for that too.

So what's sorted? Well, here are a few highlights: "Indestructible shields are now really indestructible." "Fixed teleporting that could occur when using lockpick." "Fixed invisible wall present on level 7." And "Fixed Percy getting stuck in a window."

Which reminds me - Rob moved house last week, and, well, if you couldn't get a sofa in through a front door, would your first instinct be to try and raise it through the first floor window using ropes? Somebody should patch him.

The point of which, I suppose, is that everything has bugs these days and you shouldn't hold it against Dark Messiah - especially since it's really quite good. Read our review for evidence.

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  • Zerimski #1 5 years ago

    I'd probably try the backdoor first, but through the first floor window would certainly be an option failing that.

  • mkreku #2 5 years ago

    Actually.. Dark Messiah was not particularly good. I got tired of the repetitive combat after 15 minutes.. and then there was nothing else to the game. The levels were also stupid: why do orcs fill every room in every cavern with traps and spike beds?? I probably kicked a hundred orcs down cliffs because, for som odd reason, whenever I walked past, they would immediately walk up to a ledge with their backs turned to me. Idiotic.

    The game was way too short too. And the character development system was unfulfilling. Not even the graphics were as good as the Source engine is capable of.

  • smoison #3 5 years ago

    mkreku must have smoked crack while playing.

    I love it, even though i've only played a few hours so far the amount of spells and sword moves you learn make it really great.


    Best FPS since FEAR IMO. But I'm glad their is a patch cause I sometimes get crashed to desktop.

  • jellyhead #4 5 years ago

    I've seen Tristram Shandy, getting your percy stuck in a window would really hurt.

  • patriot #5 5 years ago

    Dark messiah is better than oblivion... There I said it!

  • Moonprince #6 5 years ago

    Much better.

  • UncleLou #7 5 years ago

    Absolutely love the game - it's coming from a similar game design philosophy as Thief, Ultima Underworld and a few more.

    Great action game, great dungeon crawler.

  • El_MUERkO #8 5 years ago

    i havent run into many problems in singleplayer but i cant play mulitplayer and judging by the 20 servers shown on steam (most of which are half full) lost of others cant either

  • Salaman #9 5 years ago

    Does it fix the bloody CTD when you try to pick up your backpack on level 7 bug?

    /cries a little


    Edit: Vague bug fix descriptions FTW :-)

    - Fixed a potential first person hands animation problems

    Edited by 1 at 09/11/06 @ 11:53

  • neil_likes_bums #10 5 years ago

    Far more concerning is the threat of teleporting toothpicks. Small chunks of pork and sweetcorn could cause chaos.

  • azwipe #11 5 years ago

    got the patch, still crashes to desktop, still get white noise instead of npc voices

  • Macross #12 5 years ago

    2 things I did (now I rarely see any problems) are:

    activated the console and typed: mat_picmip 1
    which does lower the graphical quality by an almost unoticable amount but solved all stuttering and noise problems that I was getting (and sped up loadtimes).

    downgraded my graphics drivers to forceware 80.20
    which solved most of my crashing problems (it still does occasionally but nothing compared to before)

    I love this game now that I works, but I hate zombies and their stupid poison flob they keep spitting at me :p

  • Lawlost #13 5 years ago

    This game is driving me mad. My rig may not be the newest and fastest on the block but it plays Half Life 2 fine. I thought this patch would improve the incredibly long load times and stuttering sound .....nope. Not only that when I tried to load the auto save it crashes .... not to the desktop but to a black screen with cursor. A ctrl alt del does not even bring it out of its black screen stupor. I end up hard booting the machine. Get the next patch out or it's ebay for this game.

    /rant over

  • Lawlost #14 5 years ago

    ok apologies all round. @Macross your advice is spot on the graphics are not quite as good but the game is certainly playable, no sound stutters and load times are much improved. To anyone else with problems follow macross' advice. To activate the console go to keyboard controls and click on advance.

  • Mr.Gordons #15 3 years ago

    i liked it...