Soldat 1.5.0 Preview

[jameshetfield123]

- Added female gosteks with breasts and pigtails. April fools joke.
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april fools joke yeah

[miketh2005]

Well, if all this chat/female/teamspeak stuff continues then in 1.6.0 we are going to have VEHICULZ! And shield. And throwable chainsaw. And ammo packs. And different character classes. And buyable weapons. And vehiculz. And dynamic maps and TW/TTW as an offical gamemode... And all the other bollocks people have been suggesting for the last 3 years.

and did u mention vehicles?

[Hershey]

http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=16894.0

Finally something player-suggested Is going to be added!!!

[Iq Unlimited]

- Added '/mute all' can be used to mute all players. Type '/mute all' again to unmute all.

What about if someone will have name "all" o_O?

Then you would have to mute his playernumber if you wanted to just mute him, because it would still mute everyone.

[Taz]

- Added volume can be adjusted ingame by pressing Shift and +/- (increase/decrease).

I think game volume should be adjusted by Shift and +/- and music volume should be adjusted by Shift and [/].
It only makes sense to be able to adjust both while ingame.

[EnEsCe]

I'm wondering if, when this version is ready, gonna have maps that take good advantage of the new features, especially the animated gifs. There is good maps makers on the working team? Could integrate, just for that point, people who have experience on that area, specialist

As far as I know there wont be any animated maps since there is no map making program that supports it, the functionality has simply been added to the game engine.

EDIT: Oh, an old video of the Headshot thing I forgot about: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hw9KastEufM

[El_Spec]

It won't be very long until map makers have it.  PolyWorks is open-source and Chrisgbk might add this feature to his WIP map maker.

Now that I think about it, it'll make maps and Soldat more realistic and visually better than before, if used properly.  Like maps now can have water that has currents, clouds slowly move across the sky, the sun can now beam every now and then.  Possibilities are endless.  I might even use in a couple maps of mine, if I can find well-made .gif scenery.  I originally didn't like the sound of this since I thought it might lag/slowdown games, but I actually kind of doubt that.  It'll have an effect on performance, but it'll be minimal.  Like the new Unicode feature.

[BondJamesBond]

It won't be very long until map makers have it.  PolyWorks is open-source and Chrisgbk might add this feature to his WIP map maker.

Now that I think about it, it'll make maps and Soldat more realistic and visually better than before, if used properly.  Like maps now can have water that has currents, clouds slowly move across the sky, the sun can now beam every now and then.  Possibilities are endless.  I might even use in a couple maps of mine, if I can find well-made .gif scenery.  I originally didn't like the sound of this since I thought it might lag/slowdown games, but I actually kind of doubt that.  It'll have an effect on performance, but it'll be minimal.  Like the new Unicode feature.

It'll be funny when you realize you were right the first time.

[chrisgbk]

As the mapmaker is a ways off, I'll make a simple tool that can open a map and replace a scenery with another; so you can use a placeholder image then change it to a gif later.

[chutem]

How about demo's, Do old demo's work in 1.5? and more importantly, are the problems with bullet rendering fixed?

[Vincenzoo]

Will be Soldat 1.5.0 operate with OpenGL for Linux?

[EnEsCe]

How about demo's, Do old demo's work in 1.5? and more importantly, are the problems with bullet rendering fixed?

Will be Soldat 1.5.0 operate with OpenGL for Linux?

No to both.

[Vincenzoo]

Omg? You can't programate multiplatform? :/...

[Dairy]

Great news.

Now the soldat is heading into better times.
It will be more pay-worth and adding more quality to the game.

EnEsCe I owe you a pardon.

[Aquarius]

Omg? You can't programate multiplatform? :/...

Soldat code is old and complicated + it's in Delphi. To make it multiplatform they would have to rewrite it from scratch.

[Pragma]

Omg? You can't programate multiplatform? :/...

Soldat code is old and complicated + it's in Delphi. To make it multiplatform they would have to rewrite it from scratch.

Then I humbly put forth the following suggestion: Devs, please add Wine to the list of test environments for new builds.

[FliesLikeABrick]

Omg? You can't programate multiplatform? :/...

Soldat is a large application, and the only person who currently knows all of the game code well is MM.  In order to make Soldat cross-platform, the entire game would have to be rewritten.

Wine is making good progress on supporting Soldat.  It is up to the Wine devs to support Soldat better, and it is up to the Soldat community to vote for Wine and report bugs for Soldat's support in Wine.

Read this post for more information: http://tns.u13.net/?p=45

If you want Linux, BSD, or Macs to run Soldat better in Wine-based emulation (including Parallels on Mac), then do what that post says and test/report on Soldat frequently on the AppDB page for Soldat: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7794

If you don't help contribute to the input that the project managers/devs on Wine use to figure out what to work on, then you shouldn't complain about the lack of Wine support for Soldat.

[InfS]

- Added ActionSnap feature - Press F5 after Killing/Dying and you can view+save that special moment!
I think this is a very interesting feature. I can't count how many times I've wished I had record demo turned on, or that I had taken a screen capture after making a crazy shot, etc. But I'm curious to know how this would work? Does it somehow go back and record the last 10 seconds of gameplay? Or does this take a screen capture? A little puzzled.


Does anyone know more about this feature?

[Flamingo]

After you've been killed you get the option to save a screenshot from 5 seconds after your death.

[InfS]

Ah, interesting. Doesn't F5 stop music though?