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About Usurper

Welcome to Usurper, a fantasy game filled with fast paced action, violence and instant death. This game has only one purpose : to give you a good time without the need of reading any lengthy documentation. You can actually enter the game and go berzerk straight away. However, you can consider continuing to read and perhaps learn something that can keep you alive for a while.

You can choose to play as a lonewolf adventurer/warrior who seek gain only for yourself, and care little for anything else. You can also form teams in which you and your comrades fight for each other. In either case you should always concentrate your efforts on the dungeons. It's in these huge cave areas that your fortune can be made, or your life end... There are over one hundred dungeons stretching from the top of the huge mountain, down to it's deepest level. It may be said at once that no creature has ever returned from the deeper levels. The ancient legends say that on Durunghins bottom there is a "thing" so powerful that the worlds destiny can be altered with it. But the legends also say that the guardians of this "thing" goes beyond everything your worst nightmares can bring forth... Well, no one has ever reached beyond the magic 90th level--you might be the first. You can take your team with you to the dungeons. It is almost always better to have more than one to face those monsters.

Completing the final challenge at the bottom of the huge mountain will reward you with immortalization in the chronicles. Your name will live forever.

It is important to note that in the dungeons, many strange creatures lurk around. Some will eventually approach you and offer different things. Your response will ultimately lead to either riches or to death...

If you don't fancy strolling down the dungeons, you can do other things. You can visit the Dormitory, where many of the characters take their rest. You can kick them out of their beds and challenge them for a fight, or perhaps try to murder them while they sleep...

You will always have opponents in this game, not just the monsters you challenge in the dungeons, but also computer controlled characters. These guys are not always nice. Some will try to slain you just for the hell of it! The dungeon monsters, on the other hand, are always there waiting for you.

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READ ME for important information

  1. First, and foremost, THE DOS AND WIN32 VERSIONS ARE NOT COMPATABLE WITH EACH OTHER. The data file formats are slightly different (due to a difference in data types), so a game reset with EDITOR.EXE cannot be used with USURPER32.EXE (and a game reset with EDITOR32.EXE cannot be used with USURPER.EXE). I've added a check to ensure that you don't run the wrong Usurper, but it's still possible for you to do a reset with EDITOR.EXE and then try to use the player editor in EDITOR32.EXE, and if you do this, THINGS WILL BREAK!
  2. Secondly, if you're having issues with maintenance taking a LOOOOOONG time to run, there's two game settings to have a look at:
    • The first setting is #139, which controls whether to use file or record locking when reading/writing data files. In my experience file locking is much faster than record locking, so I recommend setting this option to 1.
    • The second setting is #153, which controls whether NPCs can marry and have kids. In my experience setting this to NO (along with #139 to 1) causes the time to run maintenance to drop from several minutes to just a few seconds.
    YMMV with these options, but hopefully they'll make automatic maintenance tolerable

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Latest Release

The latest release of Usurper is currently 0.21a, and comes with both 16-bit DOS and 32-bit Win32 EXE's, along with the GNU GPL licensed source code.

To download the latest release, Click Here

This release fixes a dungeon fight problem that went unnoticed in the DOS version for years, but caused the Win32 port to crash (it was related to how the monster's armour absorbed damage). So if v0.21 crashed for you, try this v0.21a

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Usurper v0.21 was the first release with a Win32 port. It also included a minor fix related to the assassin backstabbing command.

To see previous versions not compiled by me, try this page.

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