SOLDAT 1.6.4b4 public beta ready for testing!

[Furai]

"When it's ready." - As always. No sooner.

[Hubiq]

"When it's ready." - As always. No sooner.

Within 3 months or later?

[deguix]

- When I use fullscreen, the game first draws the profile selection screen, then the screen gets blank. I try alt-tabbing in and out, and it still does that. Same thing happens in any other part of the game (including in-game). I use windows 8 with geforce 220 gt w/ 1280x800 resolution. I used other resolutions in soldat config, and that still happened. All other settings are at their defaults.

Then I ended up fixing that by having compatibility mode set to windows 7.

- Please remove the "insta-kill" damage applied by the game itself on direct hits with m79/law. The damage from weapon configuration is high enough.

- I didn't have any comments on the beta in specific, because nobody was available to play on it, but movements seem more fluid than what I remember.

[jrgp]

"When it's ready." - As always. No sooner.

Within 3 months or later?

Reread Furai's post.

[McWise]

- I didn't have any comments on the beta in specific, because nobody was available to play on it, but movements seem more fluid than what I remember.

There are beta gathers running in #soldat. Just come to irc and have fun testing

[Shoozza]

Although noted as done in a previous beta thread, the game mode names are still not linked to the translations in server filtering options.

"recording autodemo" line goes over other lines in the F1 menu making it look ugly and messy when you have oldscoreboard on

http://i.imgur.com/hg0dd.png

both fixed

"When it's ready." - As always. No sooner.

Within 3 months or later?

I hope within 3 months.

[14th_account]

We could theoretically release tomorrow. It all depends on FryFry fixing the poly types mentioned in the last devlog.

[JotEmI]

We could theoretically release tomorrow. It all depends on FryFry fixing the poly types mentioned in the last devlog.

Did Falcon fixed the bug with the adminlog on lazarus build that I reported? Cause you really shouldn't release before fixing it, anyone could mess with your server.

[14th_account]

Yup

[Tehbugerz0r]

We could theoretically release tomorrow. It all depends on FryFry fixing the poly types mentioned in the last devlog.

It seems like a bad idea to name names when it comes to delaying soldat's release. If he's disappeared though, let's hope he didn't get run over or something, that would be an annoying delay. =p

[14th_account]

Oh I'm sure he knows I'm just joshing him around. And lambasting young, naive kids full of hopes and dreams really makes my day.

[Furai]

Please stick to the topic. I've cleaned the thread from the useless comments.

[Vos]

Please stick to the topic. I've cleaned the thread from the useless comments.

looks like you forgot 2 posts above yours...

Anyways I've created a topic about some issues regaring the pingwarning system, maybe that's a good suggestion aswell to fix for further releases
http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=42450.msg511391#new

[SyavX]

[12-04-05 15:27] * Mr: another issue that i notices is that Soldat does blocking I/O in the main loop
[12-04-05 15:27] * Mr: whenever a grenade kit spawns, it for example loads the grenade kit image from disk
[12-04-05 15:28] * reko_t: really? lol
[12-04-05 15:28] * Mr: main thread*; one can easily check that in Process Monitor, just leave it running while playing Soldat (and add a filter of couse)
[12-04-05 15:28] * Mr: course*
[12-04-05 15:31] * Mr: when switching tabs in the main menu Soldat does a huge amount of reads/writes from and to soldat.ini, which is why switching tabs takes so long

Those issues are still there.
1. On every granade kit spawn Soldat.exe reads:
\textures\objects\grenadekit.bmp
and then reads (if game was launched with -mod parameter):
\mods\%MOD_NAME%\textures\objects\grenadekit.bmp

2. Same goes to med kits:
\textures\objects\medikit.bmp
\mods\%MOD_NAME%\textures\objects\medikit.bmp

3. While switching tabs in main menu Soldat reads/writes loads of records from:
\profiles\%CURRENT_PROFILE%.ini

4. Plus, on every kill (related to death animation?) it reads:
\objects\karabin.po

[14th_account]

1, 2 and 4 have been fixed for the next beta. Number 3 might be tricker to solve, so it'll be fixed in a subsequent version.

[Hubiq]

Are there any new news? Maybe approximate release date? I plan to buy your own server and waiting for a new version of Soldat.

[Shoozza]

Are there any new news? Maybe approximate release date? I plan to buy your own server and waiting for a new version of Soldat.

Yeah:

I'm busy lately sorry, I plan to release the RC soon aka <= 2 weeks and the next version <= 6 weeks.

[Hubiq]

Are there any new news? Maybe approximate release date? I plan to buy your own server and waiting for a new version of Soldat.

Yeah:

I'm busy lately sorry, I plan to release the RC soon aka <= 2 weeks and the next version <= 6 weeks.

Sorry, I did not notice it. Thanks for the information

[Tehbugerz0r]

It's good to know there's a release date planned. However, I can't shake the feeling that the devs are losing/have lost motivation.

[DutchFlame]

It's good to know there's a release date planned. However, I can't shake the feeling that the devs are losing/have lost motivation.

motivate them! do a harlem shake!