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June 21st 2011, 11:54 AM
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JugglingDink
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Hey, can someone tell me what the difference is between a patch and a new version? I thought they were kinda the same thing...

Anyway, I've updated Power Of Blood to extend the timers by 30 seconds, fix some typos, fix some errors in the readme and walkthrough, and make the Warrior's Challenges slightly easier. I'm guessing I'd say it was a patch rather than a whole new version, seeing as it doesn't actually add anything new, only fix/improve existing things. Oh, and if I upload it as a patch, I'm assuming I would choose the Upgrade From option, rather than Upgrade To? As far as I can tell it works fine with old save files, but if someone downloads the patch then won't that erase their save files and force them to start off from scratch again? Or do I not upload patches as a .dmod file?

Sorry, I'm still kinda newbie at this side of DMOD's (Patches and New Versions and such...).