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This bothers me quite a bit so I will make a new post about it. It seems announcements and combat log has been deprecated from gamelog.txt in the steam release. I have a script I used to tail the gamelog in the free version and not being able to use gamelog.txt breaks this usability. It was really useful to be able to tail the log in a separate window on a second monitor, I could keep up with the latest stuff happening with a glance. The script also parsed the properties of stones and gems to tell me what the material was used for, as I don't know those by heart. I believe this would be easy to bring back to the steam version and hope it is just an oversight at the moment.

- No capability to review past announcements. Obviously players will want to review announcements of things happening in case they missed something, or when they're currently busy and they want to look later.
- Similarly, no capability to review past combat logs. Obviously players will want to review these in the future, they are fun and can allow you to view how a dwarf died. Solution for both of these could be to have a dedicated tab somewhere that lists them. You know, a "log" menu with different tabs for reports, announcements, combat, ect.

A simple (I assume) fix would be to bring back announcements and combat log into gamelog.txt in the install folder. This functionality seems to have been removed in steam release. This also would bring back the possibility to tail the gamelog-file in a separate window, which was super useful at least for my purposes.