War§ow 0.4
January 20th, 2008 by hylk0rWar§ow 0.4 was released yesterday; thanks to hylk0r for the heads up:
- 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
Warsow is an open source multiplayer first-person shooter derived from the Quake 2 codebase which focuses on speed and trick jumps for movement physics.
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