OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:
Alien Arena: Mercury Edition has been released!
After months upon months of work, the newest version of Alien Arena has been unleashed with a number of new features, graphical enhancements, and a much faster rendering game engine.
Some of the new features for this release include:
- Major improvements in map rendering speed
- HD lightmaps
- IQM mesh animation now handled in GPU for major performance gains
- Particle rendering optimizations
- Fixed issues with ATI and shaders
- Soft shadowmapping for vegetation and players
- Cubemapping on mesh and map surfaces
- New glass and water effects
- Weapon switching has been made significantly faster
- TCA now best two out of three
- Various player models received poly increases for smoothness
- New armor models
Mercury Edition screenshots:
Trailer:
Direct link - http://red.planetarena.org/files/trailer2k12.wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNVWIsq6dk
For more information about Alien Arena and to download the game visit http://red.planetarena.org
Changelog - http://red.planetarena.org/aachangelogs/7.65.txt