Alien Arena 7.53

[Irritant]

Eh, what the hell, here is the official press release, replete with some media

Alien Arena version 7.53 is now released!

Some of the new general features for this release include:

• Extended use of VBO for big performance increases
• Signifigant improvements to bot AI
• "Dm Lights" server option
• Improvements to menu code
• Improved stats algorithms
• Entity definition files
• Optimized and improved vegetation rendering
• Variety of bug fixes and code cleansing
• Two new maps
• Optimizations to IQM and MD2 rendering
• New "Ultra" skill level
• Speed hack detection improvements

Version 7.53 features some very signifigant performance gains for people who like to run the game on higher settings, as well as some very nice improvements/bugfixes to the bot AI. We have also added two new maps, as well as the entity definition files which now allow for custom reconfiguration of a map's entities, plus a number of other updates and bugfixes. For a complete changelog see http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.53.txt

Alien Arena 7.53 screenshots:






Alien Arena also has some new 3rd party content portals where you can grab the latest and greatest 3rd party levels as well as some of the "retired" classics!

http://code.google.com/p/aa3rdparty/
http://3rdpartyalien.3r.funpic.de/index.html

For more information about Alien Arena visit http://red.planetarena.org

[toneddu2000]

You guys are making an incredible work! Compliments!

[Irritant]

Next release will be breaking the net protocol for the first time in the game's history.

[toneddu2000]

?!?

[Baker]

Next release will be breaking the net protocol for the first time in the game's history.

What features or issues or "things that you do not like" are you going to be addressing? Sending more info to the client for the purpose of 2D game elements or rendering effects?

[Irritant]

Next release will be breaking the net protocol for the first time in the game's history.

What features or issues or "things that you do not like" are you going to be addressing? Sending more info to the client for the purpose of 2D game elements or rendering effects?

The main thing will be changing the server framerate, so that means older clients will no longer be able to deal with that.

But yeah, we will be expanding a number of things for 2D and rendering, as well as likely adding a Lua scripting element for effects.