Etrom the Astral Essence English Patch description
Etrom is a project that will bring gamers an immersive, dark future world where warring societies are divided

Etrom is a project that will bring gamers an immersive, dark future world where warring societies are divided not just by walls, but by laws, secrets, religions and the terrifying Void Lands. In a world with fantastic technologies, the people will find their future in ancient civilizations governed by mysterious hidden energies.

Etrom is an epic adventure that takes you across realms and cities, through democracies and "nazi" dictatorships. It is a journey through space-time portals, amongst the Thrones of the Abyss, and beyond the gates of the City of Light. With a huge number of locations, and settings it plunges the player into a world of rituals, fraught with secret-service plots and held together by dark spells.

Etrom is an endless journey with AND against demons from the dark past, secret divinities, dragons, mechs, hovertanks, multiple races and intelligent entities from across space and time. From a brooding world of megacities you will set out across many dimensions and realities to face the men and gods projected into the absolute infinity.

Etrom is a GAME dedicated to lovers of adventure, to the readers of comics and fantasy novels, to role-playing gamers and to anyone brave enough to face its challenges.

Here are some key features of "Etrom the Astral Essence":

· A deep and involving Storyline set in a dark, futuristic, "neo-gothic" world where technology and a fantasy Middle Ages collide
· Frequent and Bloody Battles: from close combat with an Astral Axe to long range fights with Energy Weapons (Assault rifles, Sniper rifles, heavy machine-guns, Hyper rifles, Disruptors) and amazing Quest Spells
· Astral Transformations (Inner Demon, Dragon Guardian, Abyss Knight, Lux Soldier, Legio Infenalis)
· Pilot futuristic MECHS
· Explore more than 70 huge levels and secret levels in the 4 States, the Mysterious Void Lands and the Dungeons of the Abyss.
· Face Hordes of Enemies and Powerful Enemy Gods
· Powerful Enemy Gods;
· Play a truly Non-Linear Game Structure
· 7 possible endings!
· Free and Strategic management of the Character's Inventory
· Free and Strategic management of the Characteristics;
· Over 500 types of armor, objects, energy weapons, power-drugs, magic items


Requirements:

Minimum Requirements:
· Microsoft© Windows© 2000/xp (xp service pack 2)
· PC with 1000 MHz equivalent or higher processor
· 512 MB of system RAM
· 2.5 GB available hard disk space
· DVD-ROM drive
· DirectX 9.0c
· Graphic Card 64Mb compatible with DirectX 9.0c
· Sound card compatible with direct sound
· Microsoft© Mouse or compatible pointing device
Reccomended:
· Microsoft© Windows© XP/2000
· PC with 3 GHZ equivalent or higher processor
· 1 GB of system RAM
· 2.5 GB available hard disk space
· DVD-ROM drive
· DirectX 9.0C
· Graphic Card 128Mb (PixelShaders 2.0 & VertexShaders 2.0 compatible)
· Sound card compatible with direct sound
· Microsoft© Mouse or compatible pointing device


What's New in This Release:

NEW FEATURES:
· New Control System (F1 to activate the Auto-Camera)
· Config. Auto-Save
· Direct Link to the Hangan's Gun Shop: Active the cheat-mode Ctrl+PM and then press H (use this only if the "equipment" mission is accomplished or you may experience crashes)
· all previous patch changes:
NEW OPTIONS ON START WINDOWS:
· VSync Disabled
· This option allows to disable the Vertical Video Sync. It can speed up the general fluidity of the animations (increasing the Frame Rate). In some cases horizontal lines could appear.
· Software Vertex Processing
· Some low-profile videocards (in most cases, the on-board ones) have tech specs close to the limits of the
· Product's Minimum Requirements. Enabling this option it can be forced to use the CPU instead of the GPU
· for certain graphic operations (eg. mesh skinning). The CPU will do more work, probably resulting in a general decrease of the game speed (decreasing the Frame Rate).
· Safe Mode
· On certain critical configurations and with some videocards' drivers the game could be unstable.
· This option decreases the performances and increases the controls of the application to manage system's
· Threads/Processes. In particular it enables the DirectX (tm) multi-thread mode.
BUG FIX:
· Ammo Bug
· Time Power (now can't disappear at the end of a Time-Mission)
· Technical Improvements and Better GC Compatibility