Alien Arena 7.31 released!
October 8th, 2009 by irritantVersion 7.31 of Alien Arena has been released today for windows and linux users! In addition to some exciting new content, there are also a number of engine improvements, optimizations, and gameplay enhancements.
Some of the new features in this release:
Improved shadow volumes with self shadowing.
Vertex buffer object management.
Sound improvements/bugfixes.
Security fixes.
Anisitropic image filtering.
New weather effects.
Callvoting.
Duplicate player renaming.
Two new levels.
Auto detection of settings on first run.
Run time optimizations.
For a complete changelog look http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.31.txt
Alien Arena is open source, free to play, and sets a new standard in freeware FPS gaming. To download the game(windows or linux), or for more information, screenshots and videos, visit http://red.planetarena.org
This post was submitted by irritant.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Dots
October 9th, 2009 at 8:25 am
yeah … it doesn’t work in Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
there are still some serious sound issues, the game won’t even start
October 10th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I finally got alien arena to work with OpenAL 1.9, I would like some feedback from other users to know if this game is compatible with OpenAL 1.8 or if there is a problem with Ubuntu’s package.
October 11th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I’ve had the same issues with OpeanAL 1.8 on Debian “Lenny” 32bit, in fact it was your comments that helped me get it working :)
Anyway I didn’t actually want to risk forcing OpenAL 1.9 just to try the game so I got it running but with no sound (just built from source and redirected libopenal.so.1 symlink temporarily). I guess I’ll wait until Debian moves 1.9 from unstable to testing. Not sure if the alieanarena devs jumped the gun with this or the Debian package maintainers are way behind but it was annoying either way :-/