tremulous.tjw.org

2007-12-31

This server is no longer compatible with 1.1.0 clients. You will need a client binary compiled from svn 1048 or newer. Here are step by step instructions:

1. Make a new folder called TremulousTest
2. Make a new folder called "base" in TremulousTest
3. Copy data-1.1.0.pk3 from your existing Tremulous 1.1.0 installation folder into TremulousTest/base/.
4. Download these two files and also put them into TremulousTest/base/ (vms-1.1.1.pk3 and data-1.1.1.pk3)
5. Copy map pk3 files from your existing Tremulous 1.1.0 install into TremulousTest/base/.
6. Copy the client binary for your operating system into TremulousTest/ and run it. (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)
7. If you're using Windows, you will also need to put SDL.dll in TremulousTest/

NOTE #1: Do NOT try to skip these steps by copying entire folders around. You WILL copy files you do not want.

NOTE #2: These binaries WILL NOT use files in your "Home Folder". They are built specifically for testing and will only look for data files under the folder that holds the binary.

NOTE #3: These binaries default to turning cl_allowDownload ON

2007-05-08

Here's the overview of gameplay changes currently:

• Advanced Dragoon is now at Stage 2
• Aliens only heal at (1HP/second 1/3 normal rate) when not near an Egg, Overmind, or Tyrant
• Basilisks have silent footsteps
• Tyrant's healing aura removed
• Basilisk now has 2x healing aura (heals self too)
• Advanced Basilisk now has 3x healing aura (heals self too)
• Poison only lasts 10 seconds
• Poison can be recharged at every visit to the booster
• Humans can be re-poisoned while already poisoned (restarts timer, not stacked)
• No medkit immuinity from poison (but it does cancel poison)
• All humans can be poisoned, damage per second is based on armour
  • naked - 5hp/s
  • larmour - 4hp/s
  • helmet - 4hp/s
  • helmet+larmour - 3hp/s
  • bsuit - 2hp/s
• Pounce damage now gives knockback
• Nothing can be built during Sudden Death
• Armoury health points increased from 280 to 420
• Maurader (both) bite width increased slightly
• Regular Dragoon bite range reduced slightly
• Tyrant claw range reduced
• No biting during pounce for either Dragoon
• Basi grab time increased from 300 to 500
• Adv Basi grab time increased from 450 to 750
• Adv Basi gas does no damage, but can hit any human and slows them
• Adv Maurader zap has no time limit (lasts until primary target is out of range).
• Adv Maurader zap does same damage to all targets (33HP/s)
• Adv Dragoon barbs do short range splash damage
• Tyrant tample has knockback. It can also hit the same target muliple times with no time restriction (can smash a bsuit into a wall hitting several times).
• Turrets have a spin up delay before firing. They also have a longer range and do twice as much damage.
• Trample and Pounce will not do friendly fire damage.
• Lucifer Cannon secondary fire projectile is faster (weapon delay is 1s)
• Lucifer Cannon primary fire has no minimum charge, but weapon delay is 2 seconds (between starting charges)
• Tyrants HP lowered to 350
• Poison charge only lasts 20 seconds (down from 30)
• Human jumping takes less stamina
• Human strafing is not slower than forward movement
• Light Armour no longer gives stamina increase (all humans lose stamina at the same rate)
• Defence Computer is no longer required for teslas
• Defense Computer improves reactor's self defence mechanism
• Adv Basi gas repeat time increased to 2.5s, range lowered slightly. larmour helmet, and bsuit lower the effect time in same fashion as poison protection.
• Tryant viewheight increased
• Human (and bsuit) viewheight increased
• Battle Suit bounding box now matches the height of the model.
• Painsaw range increased slightly
• Flamer speed increased
• Both Grangers are slower
• Build Timer is now tied to the build time of the buildable
• Dretch bounding box decreased from 30x30x30 to 24x24x24, modelscale increased from 1.0 to 1.2. Dretch model lines up pretty closely to bounding box now
• Barricades only cost 8 now and have 300HP
• Defense Computer repairs damaged structures (5hp/s currently)
• Dretches can no longer attack buildings. However they can attack ALL building while they are being constructed.
• Lcannon primary projectile speed increased to 700
• Lcannon secondary firing delay reduced to 1500
• Lcannon ammo reduced to 60
• Painsaw damage reduced to 11
• Chaingun damage reduced to 5
• Shotgun pellets increased to 14
• Shotgun damage reduced to 4
• Basilisk jump height increased enough to be able to jump onto bsuits
• Medistations replenish stamina

Results:

2006-08-27

I've added cURL support to the backport client. Please test it out. I'll put a new map or two into the rotation soon so it gets some testing.

2006-07-12

I put up some new maps: M.E.E.P Beta 2 (map-meep_b2.pk3), Gloom 3 Beta 2 (g3tremb2.pk3), and Pulse Beta 3 (map-pulse-beta3-1.1.0.pk3. I have not added them into the rotation yet so they can only be activated by vote currently. I plan to add them later though if they work out.

2006-07-05

I made a new full version of the Mac build: Tremulous-20060704.dmg using the same .app from 2006-07-01. People trying to download the 20060625 version will get this new one automatcially.

2006-07-01

I managed to get QVM support working in the Mac build. You can get the latest binary here. It is not a full install since it does not include the "base" directory. It's meant as an update to the 20060626 build. I will probably make a new full install soon.

2006-06-25

New Universal Binary for MacOS X: Tremulous-20060625.dmg. Note that if you tried to use an earlier build on Intel, you'll have to reset your configuration to use this new build, just remove the folder "Library/Application Support/Tremulous" from your home directory.

2006-06-19

Added meep_b1 to the rotation.

2006-06-08

I made some new win32 and linux client binaries that contain the recent quake3 security fix and should work on WinXP SP2 when NoExecute (DEP) is enabled.

2006-06-07

I've been working on a Universal Binary OS X version of Trem. If you have an intel mac or OSX version 10.2 or 10.3, please let me know if it works: Tremulous-20060607.dmg. UPDATE: it does NOT work for intel macs :(

2006-06-05

Added gloom2beta2 to the rotation. You can download in-game by turning on downloading or download it with HTTP manually.

2006-05-02

I turned on alien friendly fire again, but dretches are immune from it. Also you can now use the /m command to private message other players.

2006-04-21

You can now switch teams in the middle of a match without losing your credits/evolve points.

2006-04-13

I was able to fix all the OSX specific bugs in the Mac OSX build. This version is MUCH more playable. Please try it out and let me know how it goes. Tremulous-20060413.dmg I would like to get some feedback so I know if it's ready for an official release. Specifically, I need to know if it runs on OSX 10.3 (or older). For those intrested here are build instructions.

2006-04-09

I was able to make a Mac OSX (ppc-only) build of Tremulous. It's a bit buggy, but you can get it here if you want to try it out.

2006-04-07

I have been working on implementing a shrubbot-like administration interface in tremulous. The groundwork is done, so if you want to be admin on this server and help me out in testing, grab tremulous.exe (win32) or tremulous.x86 (linux). This new engine build is necessary in order to support cl_guid which is a pseudo-unique identifier for all players.