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Oh my fucking god!  I got an email this morning saying that Die by the Sword Xtended was released by Hazard.  I had no idea a project like this was even being worked on!  I had hoped there would but the only DbtS community left was VERY inactive.  This has seriously made my day and I just fucking woke up!  Here are some of the improvements

Xtended is a modification of several parts of Die by the Sword.
It includes the following features:

- fixes several bugs that may lead to crashes on modern PCs
- new Direct3D9 graphics engine
- supports all screen resolutions (even wide-screen)
- supports Antialiasing and Anisotropic texture filtering
- Fullscreen and window mode
- loads textures in full 32bit quality (16 million colors) instead of just 8bit (256 colors)
- allows you to override textures with new ones without replacing any existing files
- the override method supports high resolution textures
- new cool pixel shader effects for lava and water
- a modmanager included in the Launcher
- press F12 in game to save a screenshot to the “screenshots” subfolder

More features like an improved scripting engine are planned for future releases.

The only thing I could possibly ask for now is improved networking!  If you have Die by the Sword, PLEASE download this mod!  It brings back life into a game that has long been forgotten which should never have in the first place!  If you do not own Die by the Sword yet, you can get it VERY cheap off of Good Ol’ Games for about $6 and is COMPLETELY DRM free.  I’ve been using GoG.com for awhile and I love it!

Here’s a video I made quickly of me playing this with a few mods

Die by the Sword Xtended mod page

I also suggest downloading the mod pack he has posted on that forum post
-—-Direct Download for Hazard’s Mod Pack

Die by the Sword GoG.com store page

-Raptor

[edit]Version 1.01 of Die by the Sword Xtended has just been released!  You can grab it over at the Hazardous Modding forum.

-Raptor