Warsow 0.4 released news

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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!

Posted by hangy on Jan 20th, 2008

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):

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 :D
Windows in both .zip and installer

Download now from ModDB

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!