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Do you like old school deathmatch with modern features but none of the frills that have ruined the raw purity of the genre? How about rich, colorful, arcadelike atmospheres? How about...retro Sci Fi? Then you're going to love what Alien Arena has in store for you! This game combines some of the very best aspects of classic deathmatch, and wraps them up with a retro alien theme, while adding tons of original ideas to make the game quite unique. Alien Arena is a furious frag fest with arenas ranging from the small, to the massive. With game modes such as Capture The Flag and Tactical, there are terrific team-based experiences to be had as well as 1v1 duels, free-for-all, and dozens of mutators to alter the game play to your liking. The community is friendly, as well as prolific. Dozens of maps, models, and various accessories have been created by community members to add on to the game experience.

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Version 7.32 of Alien Arena has been released, fixing a critical bug, as well as adding some more new features and content.

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Yes, it's only been a couple of weeks, but a critical bug when using Nvidia 191.xx drivers has forced us to put out a new release much sooner than anticipated. Despite the frantic moments, we also were able to squeeze in a few new features, as well as a new level! Also, it should be important to note, that because of some compatibility issues, we removed the automatic video settings on first run, and have reverted back to defaulting the game to medium settings out of the box. Players should be advised that the game will likely run just fine on a mid-range or better system if you enable higher graphical settings.

Features added for 7.32 include:

  • Fixed critical bug when using Nvidia 191.xx drivers
  • Dynamic world shadows using shadowmaps
  • New map, dm-zion2k9
  • Splash damage now triggers hit indicator sound
  • New spawn effects

Here is a peak at the new map, Zion2k9!

Zion! Zion, reborn!
Last Days of Zion... Connector hall in Zion


Future work for Alien Arena will continue, as we have begun work on improving our antilag code and some other gameplay related items, as well as some items that for now remain a little more clandestine. Our next release will be targeted to occur some time in the winter or spring of 2010. So for now, grab 7.32 and enjoy!

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Newbez
Newbez

k thanks. first comment

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pjmiller435
pjmiller435

Brilliant work and design =)

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TheHappyFriar
TheHappyFriar

the error isn't in the nvidia drivers, it's the hardware choice. 8)

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Rukus_
Rukus_

This game is great. I can play it on almost anything.

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Irritant_new Author
Irritant_new

It's realy scaleable, if you have even a moderately decent video card you should be able to crank the settings up pretty good and have decent FPS. There have been alot of optimizations and changes in the last year with the renderer.

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SlickMcRunFast
SlickMcRunFast

Doesn't work on Ubuntu 9.10. AHhhhhhhh

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Irritant_new Author
Irritant_new

You need to recompile the binaries, thanks to Ubuntu not being up to date with libjpeg. Our next release will fix that issue.

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