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Posted May 28, 2015
Epic, old school, hardcore.

<span class="bold">Serpent in the Staglands</span>, a true modern cRPG adventure, is available now for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 10% launch discount!

<span class="bold">Serpent in the Staglands</span> is a delightfully pixelated take on the cRPG genre. Inspired by a bronze age Transylvania - the world you'll be exploring is a fully realised setting filled with lore, politics, and its own brand of trouble. You are a god. A kind of god anyway, a celestial being placed on earth with no way home and your immortality slipping. Survival is your one concern - in classic cRPG style, <span class="bold">Serpent in the Staglands</span> isn't here to be easy or to hold your hand - it's a non-linear story on a vast, unmarked map filled with quests that are yours to follow (keep your notes handy!). With hundreds of skills and a combat system that focuses on being prepared, Serpent in the Staglands is about to give you its own brand of hell.

<span class="bold">Contest:</span> All that serious talk of hardcore doom and gloom... Let's lighten the mood with a piece of classic humor!
A serpent and a stag walk into a bar...
Follow the link, check out the rules, finish the joke, and win epic loot!


Can you survive <span class="bold">Serpent in the Staglands</span>? You can find out now, DRM-free on GOG.com! The launch discount will last for 24 hours, until Friday, May 29, 11:59 AM GMT.
Posted May 29, 2015
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HenitoKisou: Really? are you tried play in fullscreen? because what I see is you maximized window. I playing it on laptop with 1366x768 native resolution, screens attached. Game automatically calculate size of sprites and things so they aren't stretched, pixellated or blurred.
crt 17 inch

default resolution 1024x768 @85hz (recommended)

max resolution 1280x1024 @75hz

see attachment


like i said, i can easily buy a modern screen but then i'd be lying 'sick' all the time so no modern flatscreens for me, no tft , led, plasma, nothing, just plain old teevees and old CRT monitors.
There are few people who also need these, but since there are to few, nothing will be done to change the new screens so that everyone can watch at them.
Its quite complicated to explain.
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Posted May 29, 2015
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Ravenvolf: I'm interested in this game if, and only if, they release the patches on gog. Their current plan is to only release patches and DLC through their ingame client. Which downloads the updates from their servers, with no way to save the patches so that you can install it later. That is a big no no for a DRM free game in my books.
same here, but since i cant get the tiny stuff to look readable on my poor old crt 17 inch,(no i cant use nowadays monitors)
and the demo is also flagged as a trojan or so by my AV...
i replied a few posts back with a screenshot and more info.

for now i stay away from this game.
Like i said i played thousands of demos, have in total more then 600 games (drm free) and 300 plus casualgames aswell (drm free) and they dont cause my AV to delete the exe and place it in quarantain, so the demo is using weird or exotic unpackers or other stuff that might trigge some AV.

I even played lots of 1 hour bigfishdemos (drm loaded) to see if i like the casual game so i can buy it later on drm free retail disk and mu AV hasnt quarantained anything.

I could post this in the site of the dev or send a mail but they only be blaming the AV, in the past some even said , use another AV but i stick with kaspersky cause it works perfect for me and keeps my pc clean
i also use mbam and i wont abandon that aswell.

Its up to devs to not make use of funny or exotic or nonstandards packers which might triggrt a alerts, even so called false positives.

If 1000s of games i played wont trigger anything then why did the demo?
i played lots of indiegames demos and no alert...

When i start the serpent demo game and click anything in the menu |BOOM the file is deleted and quarantained.
scanning using any av both offline and online total virusgard will show safe, because they check they dont run the exe in an environment.

Some exes seem to trigger things only when clicked on or run, some even as soon as a folder is opended.
All this info can be googled for there tons of info about how some malicious stuff works in the tech forums.

I assume that sites who sell games legidly are also clean of false positives, you cant expect the AV and antimalware to do all work in preventing false positives, cause if it was really there fault then any exe should trigger it, since i have 1000 exes, and none triggers anything the blame is not with the AV.
Post edited May 29, 2015 by gamesfreak64
Posted May 29, 2015
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Ravenvolf: I'm interested in this game if, and only if, they release the patches on gog. Their current plan is to only release patches and DLC through their ingame client. Which downloads the updates from their servers, with no way to save the patches so that you can install it later. That is a big no no for a DRM free game in my books.
Post on the developer's board here. Let them know how you feel. The developer seems open to suggestions. No harm in letting them know.
Posted May 29, 2015
So I downloaded the demo and encountered a weird error.

When I go to extract it, I get a message that says something like "A Problem is Preventing This From Being Encryped" and "Copy Without Encryption?"

I've never seen this before. I downloaded from the company site (Serpentinthestaglands.com or something like that?). Should I just click okay? Or is something wrong with this file and I should delete it?

Also, who names the Windows .zip of their game demo "Windows" instead of "SerpentInTheStaglands" LOL.
Posted May 29, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: So I downloaded the demo and encountered a weird error.

When I go to extract it, I get a message that says something like "A Problem is Preventing This From Being Encryped" and "Copy Without Encryption?"

I've never seen this before. I downloaded from the company site (Serpentinthestaglands.com or something like that?). Should I just click okay? Or is something wrong with this file and I should delete it?

Also, who names the Windows .zip of their game demo "Windows" instead of "SerpentInTheStaglands" LOL.
well i havent got that message i only got 'change to a free trojan like memory virus' :D
as for the zip name : windows

thats ridiculous... they should call the demo gamename$ where gamename$ is the name of the game :D



i assume you have an AV? check the file with the AV it probably checks out fine, i my ase aswell, but running it went wrong.

i think this devs should sort some things out :D and triple check his zips.
Post edited May 29, 2015 by gamesfreak64
Posted May 30, 2015
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gamefood: Thanks a lot! :)
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HunchBluntley: I second Potzato's sentiment: this is one of the rare good ideas for a GOGmix that doesn't seem to have been done already. +1!
Off the top of my head, some other games on GOG that have demos are the titles ([url=http://www.gog.com/games##sort=date&amp;devpub=soldak_entertainment&amp;page=1]<i>Din's Curse</i> et al.) and <i>Meridian: New World</i>.
Thanks a lot to you as well! :) Also for the tips; I mixed these games in.
I want to share the kudos with Leroux since this GOG-Mix was his idea, so if you all like it press his green buttons :)
Posted May 30, 2015
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Ravenvolf: I'm interested in this game if, and only if, they release the patches on gog. Their current plan is to only release patches and DLC through their ingame client. Which downloads the updates from their servers, with no way to save the patches so that you can install it later. That is a big no no for a DRM free game in my books.
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tremere110: Post on the developer's board here. Let them know how you feel. The developer seems open to suggestions. No harm in letting them know.
Thanks, I created that thread, haha.

I asked gog a couple of weeks ago to change my username on here too but still haven't heard back from them.
Posted May 30, 2015
The developer is contacting GoG about doing patches on GoG.

Most of my concerns are much more at ease now :)
Post edited May 30, 2015 by tremere110
Posted May 30, 2015
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P1na: and now I've got my key, I might give it a try this weekend.
me too!!
Posted May 30, 2015
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gamefood: Thanks a lot to you as well! :) Also for the tips; I mixed these games in.
No problem. :)
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gamefood: I want to share the kudos with Leroux since this GOG-Mix was his idea, so if you all like it press his green buttons :)
Done!
Posted May 30, 2015
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Niggles: me too!!
What a coincidence, I intend to do that too!
Posted May 30, 2015
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Posted May 30, 2015
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tremere110: The developer is contacting GoG about doing patches on GoG.

Most of my concerns are much more at ease now :)
Sounds good, thanks for the info!
Staglands sounds like it might be worth it, more and more everyday.
Posted May 31, 2015
I started playing it (basically just created a character) but I did feel like I wanted to check the manual after that. Yet, there's no manual on the GOG extras. What's up witht that?
Posted May 31, 2015
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P1na: I started playing it (basically just created a character) but I did feel like I wanted to check the manual after that. Yet, there's no manual on the GOG extras. What's up witht that?
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HenitoKisou: You still have online manual:
http://serpentinthestaglands.com/manual/index.html
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HenitoKisou: As for manual, they mentioned it for GOG too at a later date and Steam folks will have it for download where online version is:

As we’ve mentioned before, do read The Manual prior to playing. You start the game proper right out the gate, so your tutorial is in that text. We’ll be getting it packaged up for GOG and the folks with Accounts with us a standalone soon, and Steam folks will be able to download it from the link above.
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HenitoKisou: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649838104/serpent-in-the-staglands/posts/1237453
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