Sunday 10 June 2012

Primary Coupler's Released... Version 1.4 Is Up!

Just released Version 1.4. Get it here...

Changelog:
  • Nuked the f*** out of Mission 4 (the Train Mission). All the treadmilling 3D scenery is GONE! (I told you I nuked it.) Now it's just a flat slab of bsp in a skybox with a scrolling texture (of the same 3D scenery). This should really cut down on the net traffic. It's not quite as pretty, but it gets the idea across: you're on a moving train - now let's get down to killing aliens.
  • Reduced the difficulty of spawners in Mission 4 - including cutting down a lot of the buzzers (thanks enex for the suggestion). 
I still have to revise the spawners for Missions 1 and 3, but I'll do that later. For the time being, I suggest you don't go harder than "Hard" - as that is kindof equivalent to regular Alien Swarm "Insane".

Will also raise the ceilings on Mission 1 in some spots, to make them more grenade launcher friendly. (But remember: Mission 1 isn't an outdoors mission - it's a space station. A grenade launcher might not be the best weapon to use inside a cramped space station. I always respect the invisible fourth wall [which is the ceiling in a top-down shooter].)

Anyway, 5 releases in 3 days... I am now going to go take a little time off and watch Prometheus... Finally!

Have fun killing crawlers.

4 comments:

  1. oh ,update very fast~~i hope new mission~~

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  2. Hi,

    mission 4 still too lagy..
    i tested v1.4 on my host ("create public game"), played solo
    net_graph 1 -> pings 300-500.. its horible and sic.

    but your maps are cool, respect.

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  3. Harry, did you delete the old vpk? Are you certain about that?

    At what point does the mission get too laggy?

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  4. v1.4 its my first version, i didnt try older version.

    beginning of the mission: rendering problems (?) the wagon sometimes isnt transparent, the background is black. After 30 seconds you can see all the scenery, ~ 200ms pings. First land aliens - ping ~500ms (my english is weak, sory, i used google translate for this fragment of text)

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