{"id":4002,"date":"2011-04-06T23:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T22:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2011-04-06T23:49:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T22:49:01","slug":"distant-worlds-return-of-the-shakturi-gets-a-major-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/distant-worlds-return-of-the-shakturi-gets-a-major-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi Gets a Major Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Matrix Games and <span>CodeForce<\/span> have announced today the release of a major new update for Distant Worlds &#8211; Return of the <span>Shakturi<\/span>, the first expansion pack of Distant Worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The patch version is 1.5.0.8 and introduces AI improvements such as AI fleet handling, invasions, colonization and research aspects. The update includes also a big list of bug fixes and enhancements affecting colony balance and diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Note that Distant Worlds &#8211; Return of the <span>Shakturi<\/span> requires that you have the original Distant Worlds game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Download the patch from <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixgames.com\/products\/398\/downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can find the detailed list of changes of this new patch, all the changes since the latest 1.5.0.1, <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixgames.com\/forums\/tm.asp?m=2764724\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more information regarding Distant Worlds have a look into my Distant Worlds <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/2011\/02\/distant-worlds-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> and into an <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/2011\/02\/distant-worlds-return-of-the-shakturi\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a><span> about Return of the <span>Shakturi<\/span>. You can find additional information about Distant Worlds <\/span><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/2010\/01\/distant-worlds-a-new-real-time-4x-space-strategy-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Find the DW discussions in the DW official <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixgames.com\/forums\/tt.asp?forumid=782\" target=\"_blank\">forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Note that I did the DW <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/2011\/02\/distant-worlds-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a><span> upon the original version of the game, the released version, so the score is significantly lower than the actual game current value. DW is much better now after patches and especially after the release of the Return of the <span>Shakturi<\/span> expansion. I highly recommend you have a look at Distant Worlds (with the Shakturi expansion) at the stage it is now.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Matrix Games and <span>CodeForce<\/span> have announced today the release of a major new update for Distant Worlds &#8211; Return of the <span>Shakturi<\/span>, the first expansion pack of Distant Worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The patch version is 1.5.0.8 and introduces&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[216,74],"tags":[181,331,330,327,328,329],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-patches","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-distant-worlds","tag-distant-worlds-download","tag-distant-worlds-patch","tag-distant-worlds-return-of-shakturi","tag-dw-ros","tag-return-of-the-shakturi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}