Prerelease of Rival Species Alpha 1260 (update39)

[Bahl]

all right, new version u24 is up ^^.

[Bahl]

DONE: at some point, the points were negative after hitting each other. from then on they continued to add up negatively while shooting each other too

KNOWN: the jetpacks still seem to be slow

DONE: the victory messages were bogus: when i died, my own team won due to extinction of the enemy team

DONE: sometimes the weapon sounds and effects are played from outdated positions

KNOWN: sometimes particles appear as red dots

[Bahl]

awwight, we got new update ^^ (u25) have fun!

[Bahl]

reports from todays first test sesssion:

DONE: bad icon for claws

DONE: high speeds for tombspider

DONE: I could get dreadnaight after playing 2 rounds *badly*

DONE: more clips for clipbased weapons

KNOWN: marines shooting from there groin

DONE: heal should be restricted to friendly units

DONE: i dindt die when my tombspider vehicle died

DONE: termis can swim

DONE: levelchange didnt seem to work

DONE: the destroyer assumed a crusifix pose when killed

DONE: the radar sprite at levelchange and in general the dynamically loaded sprites are crashy.

[Bahl]

well, if we test, then its most likely around 20:00 GMT. that means 6 o'clock in the morning for you... and it's not so very likely that we test at all these days. I guess you'll have to wait for the release and see to find some Australian fans. We had a few.

[Bahl]

well, at weekends, we can sometimes test at very different times... late in the night or in the morning.

[Bahl]

all right, we've got yet another new update ^^. i hope were getting to a state where i can release a new full version soon!

[Bahl]

and yet another bug report... :

DONE: messages seem to get lost a lot with high ping. that affects ammo counters, shooting effects etc.

DONE: hitting with HeavyBolter seems hard. it seems like one needs to aim below.
++ i dont kow if i fixed that one, but the changes concerning recoil and spread seem grave, so we better wait and see. ++

DONE: the lascannon seems to have spread
++ should've less spread now. ++

DONE: the lascannon seems not to do much damage and takes ages to reload

DONE: still, sounds and effects of guns get played at the own position after the spawn of another player

[Bahl]

and we've got a new update :-)

http://www.banntal.de/rivalspecies.com/files/rspecies_1260_u3_to_1260_u27.zip

[Alhaus]

DONE: Capping all the flags dosn't trigger a round end
++ if you are alone, then that is true. if you are with a second player then capping the first one ends the round ++

KNOWN: Cant see weapons in first person view for the IW dread (you know how the end of the plasma cannon stick out a bit)

DONE: I can afford every class after one capture. capping a flag gave me an insane amount of lives. As a marine after each cap my lives changed thus: 5 > 24 > 103 > 416 >1671

DONE: Lives get reset at the end of each round

KNOWN: After a few caps i got a negative score on the scoreboard -93952.2

CANT: On Fortress i was spawning near the first wall where the 2nd flag is from the BT base.
++ im spawningon the wall ... ++

DONE: When you were shooting at me from a distance with the assault cannon your bullets were going sideways
++ do you have the screenshot of that? ++

[Bahl]

DONE: and you can afford every class

DONE: i was trying to precache a few tenthousand sprites

DONE: as well i think  that map changing doesnt work because it alwazs changes tot he first map  in the file

DONE: and it doubles the siye of the mapfil on the clienside each start of the game

DONE: can you see teh map on the radar?

DONE: sometimes shooting effects go sideways when one cant see them on his own (thats a direct result)

KNOWN: shooting from my dead body until coming into sight

DONE: the wraith  is not silent, instead the flayed one is

KNOWN: termies skip

[Bahl]

and another one :-)

http://www.banntal.de/rivalspecies.com/files/rspecies_1260_u3_to_1260_u28.zip

[Bahl]

CANT: last used weapon isnt working
++ works perfectly for me (middle mouse button) ++

DONE: Grenades really do need re doing... you cant throw them right

QUESTION: how do you turn autoreload on?
++ Options -> Multiplayer -> Advanced. The default values will then get active (which is automelee and autoreload on). ++

KNOWN: roundend without proper restart
++ we need ore experience with it ++

DONE: points pinata several thousand points per hit

DONE: stuck at map origin... because we had another area active which was not allowed anyore

CANT: attacks dont get animated and audible and their ammo doesnt show: dreadnaught hammer, terminator stormbolter
++ i need more info on how to reproduce it ++

DONE: and i should really adjust the plasma particle config

DONE: the deathmenu spawn areas dont care for ownership

DONE: my plasma shot goes through you the grenade model for them is extremely small and has no hitbox

DONE: ive distributed my config. i guess i should disable givepoints

DONE: =][=Apo. Alhaus: your muzzelflash is in the wrong place and your shooting sideways again
Bahl: yeah .. well this shotting sideways is really weird...
Bahl: seems to hapen with fast weapons.. i dont know
=][=Apo. Alhaus: your not shooting sideways
=][=Apo. Alhaus: but your bullets are gongi sideways
=][=Apo. Alhaus you were actually hitting mwe
Bahl: yeah.. well your client doest get the correct angle..
Bahl: and i wonder why...
Bahl: maybe i can find a better solution for that problem

DONE: iw leader the pic shows a marine^^

DONE: the deathmenu also displays all the useless spawn locations that arent available..

KNOWN: there are dreads allowed here... (rs_ca_command)

DONE: add a CHARGEABLE for the powerbar to allow a weapon to power up to scale its damage

[Bahl]

http://www.banntal.de/rivalspecies.com/files/rspecies_1260_u3_to_1260_u29.zip

new one :-D less buggage i hope ^^.

[Bahl]

thanx for the testing :-). i experienced a similar message serverside. there is a double delete somewhere in the code. (meaning a pointer already deleted gets deleted again.) i guess ill have to e more carefull and set pointers to zero after deleting. i fear it inside the priority queue for my new event management system. (which reduces serverload by eliminating object think functions. we ha d aprolem with that earlier with weapon thinks leading to server lagg.)