Lockdown Protocol 0.16.0 alpha release news

This release brings again a lot of improvements to the game. Especially sound effects and overall audio has gotten much better. There is some new content too: One new weapon, new enemy type and three new levels.

I uploaded some new gameplay video footage from one of the new single player levels:

And a screenshot from the new multiplayer level:

Here is a full list of changes since 0.15.0 alpha release:

• Added alternative aim/shoot animation for heavy weapons.
• Added level completion music.
• Added laser rifle.
• Added two more single player levels.
• Added new multiplayer level called Armory (new demo multiplayer level).
• Added dynamic audio filters (reverb).
• Fixed music stopping in case of decode buffer underrun.
• Added laser sight to zapper.
• Guard speech bubbles replaced with actual voices.
• Added security announcement voices.
• Tweaked some of the first levels based on game play tests.
• New skin texture for security guards.
• Added new guard type armed with pulse rifle.
• Made laser/zapper beams fade out at range limit.
• Minor tweaking to human walk animation.
• Made jellyfish collision body a bit larger to make it easier to hit.
• Fixed temporary corrupted electric weapon beam pattern when fired for the first time.
• Fixed beam weapon particle effects stopping too early.
• Optimized particle rendering for lower batch count.
• Fixed reconfigure.exe launcher not working with Wine.
• Fixed annoying delay in platform/elevator interaction on multiplayer client.
• Removed lowest lighting quality option (fixed function).
• Show score at end of player name instead of kill count in single player games.
• Fixed missing player name change notifications on server in multiplayer matches.
• Fixed guard AI unintentionally shooting during "stun delay" after getting shot.

In order to simplify things the lowest lighting quality (fixed function) option has been removed. I finally made some sort of guess on minimum hardware requirements:

• 1.6Ghz processor
• 1GB RAM
• DirectX 9.0c or OpenGL 2.1 compatible 3D graphics card with 128MB of memory. Intel's HD2000 and later integrated GPUs should work too.
• 100Mb of disk space available.