Did anyone else notice that you can actually see your bullets hitting walls now? Thats awesome, no decals yet, but atleast a little spark when you shoot walls is nice touch.
Performance has improved quite a bit. I went over 30 FPS on some moments and the general feeling was surprisingly smooth for such a low average FPS. I felt some rubber banding and swipes and bites were still very tricky to land, but that might be partitially due to the low FPS.
The game itself is still quite a mess with the blinding flamer, stuckspawn eggs and unoptimised UI though.
Back in Hivecast, they talked about adding mist effect for the Hive's exhaust flaps, it's exactly what it is now (except with an animation loop bug, starts and ends periodically)
Help! I can't join any servers. First reason was 'Timeout', then 'Couldn't establish connection to server', then 'Timeout' again. I did have this problem before but not <i>every</i> time I tried to join a server. It hangs on 'Authenticating...' now. And the 3 dots stay, it doesn't go . .. ... like it used to. The 5th time I tried to join a server, after I got the Timeout message the game crashed.
Can someone post screenshots of the hive mist effects so I can see :(
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mist needs to be increased to be more visually appealing. When i first read that, i was hoping to see ground floor of the hive room in all misty. imo, the mist should be 2-3 inchs away from the floor, and cover the hive room, to give it an alien type of environment. better ideas are welcomed.
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This won't be necessary. Once DI comes in, the whole place will probably be slimy and wet. But I do hope the mist effect increases slightly per level (I can't tell the difference right now, it's all the same for hive/mass/colony)
still a LOT of graphic errors like texts are not visible (blured), crashs, weird models binding to the crosshair and don't stop take the whole view. But serious, its not playable on servers, only the graphic errors are the only thing which is very annyoing and the random crashs. keep on work, its playable so, its nice, i play now a full round without crashs and stuff, was fun, to bad the gorge can't build now defence stuff or chambers but the commander did a good job...sometimes.
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great new version. Still has that wierd rubberband lag, but overall the lag is better. Obviously its totaly unbalanced at the moment, the marines do not have enough res and the aliens can spam hydras, which can't be countered because of the lack of technology ( because there is not enough res to research it).
People say that 159 is in the right direction but when would a patch be in the wrong direction? :P Downloading now... can't wait to check it out really. With the lag and slowdown it really takes away the immersion for me
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I like those improvement on both minimizing CPU/GPU load and maximizing net speed (lower pings, better aim etc. ).
Can u place eggs on the same place of player starts? So this could solve random egg places. I dont know how it puts eggs near by hive btw.
The game itself is still quite a mess with the blinding flamer, stuckspawn eggs and unoptimised UI though.
Back in Hivecast, they talked about adding mist effect for the Hive's exhaust flaps, it's exactly what it is now (except with an animation loop bug, starts and ends periodically)
Can someone post screenshots of the hive mist effects so I can see :(
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Tried to join all the servers I can usually join quickly and I always get timeouts/crashes.
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thanks :)
i got all excited cause i thought the whole hive room was going to be mist covered lol, guess imagined it wrong !
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mist needs to be increased to be more visually appealing. When i first read that, i was hoping to see ground floor of the hive room in all misty.
imo, the mist should be 2-3 inchs away from the floor, and cover the hive room, to give it an alien type of environment. better ideas are welcomed.
If I delete and re download the game is that likely to fix the problem?
looks like all that took down the UWE server. Was a great game though!
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This won't be necessary. Once DI comes in, the whole place will probably be slimy and wet. But I do hope the mist effect increases slightly per level (I can't tell the difference right now, it's all the same for hive/mass/colony)
Fantastic effort UW, keep up the good work....
159 = win
But serious, its not playable on servers, only the graphic errors are the only thing which is very annyoing and the random crashs.
keep on work, its playable so, its nice, i play now a full round without crashs and stuff, was fun, to bad the gorge can't build now defence stuff or chambers but the commander did a good job...sometimes.
so 159 is a good way in the right direction.
Still has that wierd rubberband lag, but overall the lag is better.
Obviously its totaly unbalanced at the moment, the marines do not have enough res and the aliens can spam hydras, which can't be countered because of the lack of technology ( because there is not enough res to research it).
but it looks nice :) had a few great games
just had a 40 minute game so intense. Made hard due to client/server lag but once the game is silky smooth its gonna ROCK!!
turned Catalyst AI off and all my fliskering lights went away, game looks so much better
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK UWE, game is getting exponentially better with every patch!!