Battlezone II 1.3pb4a released

[GSH]

See http://www.visi.com/~nathan/bz2/bz2_13.html for download info.

Mirror 1: FilePlanet

The major improvements of pb4, compared to 1.3pb3 are:
- More features, including weapon linking, thumpers, and variable gravity DM maps
- Increased Windows Vista compatability, audio works in WINE
- Many more modder features, such as 60-char ODF names, inheritance, tons of new tuning values, etc
- Performance optimizations
- Fewer resyncs, units (human & AI) should warp less online
- Ability to replace CD music w/ OGG files
- More crash fixes
- Easier to host games w/ automatic UPNP, Windows Firewall support(*)

*: requires router w/ UPNP support, and Windows Firewall as your primary firewall; other firewall software/hardware will still need some manual attention

Note: pb4a now requires a CPU with Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) support, which helps give a framerate boost.

Note: There are a number of mods updated for pb4 or developed specifically for pb4. I've asked those modders to hold off on releasing them for 1 week so that people can enjoy all of the new items that pb4 has to offer. There's a ton of new options, recycler variants and new maps available out of the box.

Thanks to Ken Miller for his continued attention to BZ2, the loving support of my wife, all of the beta testers, and the BZ2 community for their continued interest in this game.

-- GSH

[Steeveeo]

Woo! Only a week until a ton of mods are released! Well...hopefully

Also, FP! ^_^

[Axeminister]

This is truly cool.

[bigbadbogie]

You didn't ask me to wait a week. (*feels left out and goes and cries in corner*)

[Steeveeo]

You didn't ask me to wait a week. (*feels left out and goes and cries in corner*)

Um...he just did...

Might have been phrased in the past tense (probably typo), but I got his meaning.

[Nielk1]

Is that another week, or is that from the original pb4 post.

[Steeveeo]

Is that another week, or is that from the original pb4 post.

Im guessing another week. It would be sensible anyway.

[bigbadbogie]

Well too bad.  QF comes out in 2 days.

[Steeveeo]

Hrrm, I dont know if this is because my end is glitched or what, but the installer refuses to install to my PB4 directory.


EDIT: Oh DUH! I forgot to close out my modding windows, so it couldnt rename the Addon folder...false alarm!

[Nielk1]

I installed it on 1.01b2 (Clean Install)

[CmptrWz]

For the record, there is a copy at BZScrap now too.

[GSH]

Thanks, CW. I've got plenty of bandwidth at visi, so feel free to download it from whereever you want.

-- GSH

[GENERAL MANSON*]

Awesome. Cant play it until i do a few things and replace a couple of things for my pc if i ever have the time.

[Warfreak]

-_-.... I came out in my sleep .... At least my build says PB4a, so all is good.

Also, for all those who ever wanted your ships to only shoot when they cant hit you, look at the changes under "PB4_a5 Released" in the changelog for a treat. 

[darkwarrior]

Found 2 things wrong the first 1 I am not quite sure.


1. I cant see all the servers anymore, like in pb4. Tried poweruser I still cant. There were like 20 in pb4 with all the dedicated servers. Now theres like 4 servers.


Just want people to be able to see my server and for me to see theres. I did join someone's server tho. Just want to know if no servers are hidden.

2. When pressing the windows key to minimize the game. To quickly check something. In about 1 minute it automaticly kicks your from a server saying player ressed alt key or something liek that.