Spore Patch Now Available

October 17, 2008

Spore Patch Now Available

The Spore universe continues to
evolve with a new patch available now for download. In response to Spore
players’ and community members’ feedback, this patch fixes reported bugs, tunes
gameplay, offers an added way of selecting multiple items to delete/ban in
Sporepedia and introduces a cool new cube planet style.

Click here to download
the new Spore patch.

This is a PC only patch. There will
be one available to Mac users in the near future.

Features

• Hold down the Control key in
  Sporepedia to select multiple creations for deleting or banning

• Hold down the Shift key in
  Sporepedia to select a range of creations for deleting or banning

• New planet style: Cubes

Graphics/Aesthetics

• Fix for game entry screen turning
  black when banning a creature in a Saved game

• Fixed issue with flora card in
  Sporepedia

• Space phase: Fixed graphic issue
  with water levels not updating properly with terraform tools so that visible
  water and atmosphere levels will now correspond in the Atmosphere monitor

• Fixed problems introduced via
  atmospheric and drought terraforming tools

• Improved gaits for multi-legged
  creatures

• Improved gaits for creatures with
  2 limbs, but without any feet

Audio

• Space phase: Fixed missing VOX in
  some animations in Comm Screen

• Fixed audio issue with switching
  mode to 5.1 breaking music and VOX

• Fixed audio syncing issue when
  minimizing and/or maximizing Spore before opening video

• Fixed crash with city music player
  when Save and Load dialogs are present

• Fix for audio lag and missing
  models due background loading slow-down on certain single-processor machine
  configurations. This fix improved overall stability on this machine
  configuration

Tuning

• Space phase: Tuned relationship
  status to update in communication window after completing a mission

• Tribe phase: Tuned Normal
  difficulty mode to make social game easier

Miscellaneous

• Fixed the ESC key to consistently
  skip the Spore introduction movie

• Creators: YouTube video uploads
  are set to private. Go to YouTube.com and log in. Then go to Account >> My
  Videos to set them to Public if you want to share your videos with the world

• Creators: Fixed limb joints not
  being selectable behind other limbs

• Tribe phase: Fixed crash while
  harvesting fruit and fish

• Space phase: Fixed timing bug
  using Planet Buster during Grox invasion

• Space phase: Fixed destroyed
  turrets mission

• Space phase: Fixed crash when
  zooming out to full galactic view from the center of the galaxy

• Fixed for game entry screen
  staying zoomed in after deleting a game and entering/exiting Sporepedia

• Space phase: Fixed City Hall
  updating bug. City Hall will now update to correct version if player has
  chosen a new City Hall during the transition from Civilization phase to Space
  phase

• Space phase: Fixed Vehicles
  updating bug. Vehicles chosen in the Colony planner will now update without
  requiring the player to leave and re-enter a planet’s atmosphere

• Fixed crash when transitioning
  from Tribe phase to Civilization phase

• Discontinued the Bad Baby
  Achievement