Patch 6-24-2009

Written by David

Friday, 10 July 2009 14:52

NOTICE: THE HOTKEYS HAVE CHANGED! up arrow = accelerate hold shift = turbo left / right = turn enter = start chat / send chat WEAPON GROUP HOTKEYS: 1 = weapon group 1 2 = weapon group 2 3 = weapon group 3 4 = weapon group 4 HOTKEYS WITHIN A WEAPON GROUP: space = primary all weapons in current group (unless you are dead, then it respawns you after 2 seconds) a = fire first weapon in current group s = fire second weapon in current group d = fire third weapon in current group f = fire fourth weapon in current group LAND: l = land on friendly station Features include: * Creating / Deleting characters. Each account can have up to 6 characters, each with their own statistics and data held on the server. There are now actual TEAMS! Ian (Tenma) has been working hard on the backstory for the game, and will post up a very abridged version on the forums (along with the team logos) in the next day or so. * Ranking system. We have a first revision of our ranking system (with 13 ranks in the patch) It uses a custom experience system we are working on to calculate the rankings, and soon we will tie it into the forum so your character rank(s) will be visible under your forum avatar! * Overhauled / cleaned up user interface. We have removed the lame "game quitting when the server is down", and made the network errors much nicer. * Graceful server shutdown (meaning you will be warned before the server shuts down). * Weapon grouping system: No more "primary" and "secondary" fire. Each ship can have up to 10 groups of weapons each containing up to 5 weapons. Currently the groups are pre-assigned by the server, but customization will be added in one of the upcoming weekly patches. Weapon groups can be switched using the # keys, and each weapon in the group can be fired individually (using a/s/d/f/g) or all can be fired at the same time by using space. * Overhauled the HUD to be much less intrusive. We went for a minimalist approach that takes up as little space as possible. * VASTLY improved chat. The chat window is now MUCH, MUCH bigger, and if your mouse is not over the window, the chat text fades out over time (leaving you with a cleaner hud view). There is also a much bigger chat history. * On the server end, we have some very cool improvements. We keep detailed kill/death statistics which we will make searchable / viewable later using a website that is in development. * Bots choose slightly better weapons when they have a better chance of killing you. This makes them a bit harder to kill. * Support for 64 bit on Windows (Mac is still in testing) * Smarter bots

Last Updated on Friday, 10 July 2009 17:38