Warsow

Finally! After 8 months of non-stop coding, mapping, modelling, drawing, fighting, balancing and analyzing, the Warsow team has finally reached yet another milestone in its development cycle! I am very proud to announce the next major release of Warsow: version 0.4!

Let's get right at it, what will 0.4 bring? A small summary of some of the major changes (for a detailed overview, check out the changelog):

Changelog
§ WarsowTV
- broadcast matches in-game to a large amount of viewers
- Full multipov streaming
- Added small minimaps for watchers

§ Engine
- New advanced renderer features (bumpmapping, specularmapping, shadowmapping)
- Optimizations! Increased performance over 0.3
- Outlines now handled by engine, ability to switch on or off
- Profiles: ability to quickly use some predefined graphic settings

§ Maps
- Replaced old wdm2 by TdM's/bLx' Chromo Dynamic
- Replaced old wdm11 by Grumx' Rage
- New TDM maps by Daze: wdm8 - Baxandall and wdm19 - Format
- New TDM map by jal/Daze: wdm9 - Supersym
- New duel map: wdm10 - Deflected
- Retextured most maps to take advantage of new renderer features

§ Models
- New Weapon model: Instagun
- New Player model: Bobot

§ Gametypes
- Tweaked iTDM (domination style gametype)
- New CTF rules
- Added Duel Arena (1v1 ClanArena)

§ Bots
- Advanced movement (bunny hopping, dashing and wall jumping)
- Ability to time items
- More natural behaviour

§ Tweaked movement system
- Added forward bunny hopping
- Increased gravity, compensated by higher jump strength

§ Tweaked weapon settings
- Gunblade: Regenerates ammo, instant fire, added splash damage (trickable!)
- Riotgun: Spiral pattern, increased damage slightly
- Rocket launcher: More splash damage, more self damage, decreased projectile speed (1000 up/s)
- Grenade launcher: Strong grenade explodes on contact, tweaked projectile trajectory

§ Tutorials
- Included basic movement demo-tutorials
- With subtitles, voice-over and recams to explain basic movement and bunny hopping

§ Windows, linux and Mac compatible
- However in beta state, Warsow 0.4 is the first release to run on OSX http://www.warsow.net/forum/img/smilies/big_smile.png
- Windows in both .zip and installer

This is a selection out of some of the bigger changes from the changelog. There's much more to explore, so I suggest you go on and download your 0.4 flavour of choice (as usual, only a full release and no update available as there were too many media changes), right after these thanks:

Thanks to everyone who put effort into this release, thanks to all the coders, mappers, testers and team members for dedicating their free-time in making this release possible! Thanks community for all the feedback in forums and devblog throughout the development process. Thanks to everyone who supports Warsow!

Bron: www.warsow.net
Download: www.warsow.net/?page=download