PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Talad on December 14, 2010, 04:07:05 pm
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[News taken from main site]
It's Christmas, and we are very honored to send you our best gift... a new PlaneShift release!! We just released PlaneShift 0.5.5 (http://www.planeshift.it/download.html) which contains a lot of nice features. This milestone brings us very close to 0.6, our next major release.
Here is a list of the changes:
New features:
* Characters turn transparent while sneaking to simulate the fact they are hidden. We are testing this new option, and we plan to use it also for spells or other situations
* Added "pterosaur services" for travelling between cities. There is one beastmaster in each major town which rents pterosaurs for travel
* Made shields functional. They are now part of the combat calculation, and allow real blocking of hits
* Improved the way NPCs chase an opponent by using generated paths (navmeshes) for navigation. This is a major improvement to combat and allows them to walk around obstacles
* Weather has been known to be cause of crashes on certain hardware, mainly intel chips and to slow down gameplay. It's now possible to disable weather effects from pslaunch! Be sure to enable it and test if it works for you before giving up on it!
* Added improved snow effect. Snow now shows on ground! Start humming a Christmas song :)
* Added the new Klyros city Amdeneir! It's actually one quarter of the city, which is located to the "left" of hydlaa, for now reacheable only by pterosaur travel
* Added animations for attacking with bows on all characters
* Added a new progress bar for crafting
Fixes and updates:
* Changed item dropping and allowed arbitary rotations in all directions. This will allow better customization of guildhouses and events! To rotate, you have to hold the right mouse button and drag the mouse, or do the same by pressing shift
* Removed the gossip channel from the Main tab in the chat window. The Main tab is supposed to be In Character and the gossip channel was polluting too much the text. Be sure to clear your old settings, or the gossip will stay there
* Fixed rain
* The view window of an armor now shows its stats
* The view window of containers now shows the weight
* Ability to disable active magic window notification
* Removed need to specify a resource for dig/harvest/fish
* There is a new auto-refusal option for marriage proposals in options
* Failing to cast a spell may have a negative effect now
* Support for automatic execution of commands upon logging in
* Configurable tab completion. You can now speficy a set of additional words to be used in the autocompletion in the chat window
* Improved the way the server handles randomized and creative items (saving memory)
* Alliance channel may be added to main now as well
* Sort item categories by name in merchant/storage windows
* Added few new idle animations to stonebreaker female and ynnwn female
We are planning to release more content soon! Enjoy the new release! \\o//
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I want to thank the full team to making this possible:
Engine:
weltall, rlydontknow, ravna , acraig, magodra, jorrit
2d/3d: Nynn, Kinea, suimse, clint
Music: Botanic, Tuux(prospect)
Setting: drJack, Hanix, Aleena, Semutara
Rules: Stelanso, GeneG(prospect)
PR: e3k
Testing: Lanarel, CXDamian, f-rd, LigH, Myth, peeg
A very big thanks to the creators of Amdeneir: Nikodemusss , Zweitholou, Baldur and other contributors ! This is actually the first level fully completed by players, it's a wonderful accomplishment.
Thanks also to the extended team, the prospects, everyone who helps to keep the bugtracker up to date, and our supporters!
A special thanks to weltall and RlyDontKnow for the engine part, drJack and aleena for the setting part, and f-rd for the testing team who worked tirelessly on 0.5.5 ! ( and myself! )
Additionally thanks to all the contributors in various areas.
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Thank you for the nice Release. :woot:
* Added the new Klyros city Amdeneir! It's actually one quarter of the city, which is located to the "left" of hydlaa, for now reacheable only by pterosaur travel
Not working yet, the NPCs dont know "Amdeneir".
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Nice release! lol I remember you guys saying Amdineir was coming last year on 0.5 but oh well it's here now!
If pterosaur services are done in Cities, is it done in BD?
Guts I can't update :(
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Heh.. I didn't know that a part of Amdeneir was already available... Will have to check it out when I get on.
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First of all: To all who worked on this release: Thank you! and a fantastic job, you should be very proud of what you've accomplished...
As for Amdeneir: I can't seem to persuade Krestal to take me there yet :( Any feedback on this?
Thanks again, and keep up the great work!
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Yeah, he wont let me neither Caraick. Im pretty sure they just forgot or messed up somewhere along the lines of making the Pterosaur ppl recognize the location.
That or its not in yet, hell if i know.
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Have tried many times, no luck on flying there.
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amdeneir is not reachable yet.
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The sky is beautiful!
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Amdenier is reachable on the EZ server, saw a bug though, if you tell krestal travel, he tells you its 500 tria to amdenier, but when you say amdenier, you dont pay to go there.
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Amdenier is reachable on the EZ server, saw a bug though, if you tell krestal travel, he tells you its 500 tria to amdenier, but when you say amdenier, you dont pay to go there.
I'll have to get on EZPC then.. Not sure how i'm going on thuogh :.X
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Great! Amdeneir! Can't wait to check it out! I might relocate Jandar Derula from Jayose's library to there.
( and myself! )
/me wants to see Talad shake his own hand
Also, isn't there someone missing on the list?
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Great! Amdeneir! Can't wait to check it out! I might relocate Jandar Derula from Jayose's library to there.
( and myself! )
/me wants to see Talad shake his own hand
Also, isn't there someone missing on the list?
And pat his own back?
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Greetings and Thank You!
I am still very new to PS and not very technically adept unfortunately. I also have a lousy system that doesn't really meet the required specs to play the game well, but I still love it!
I had been traveling the last few days and was unable to spend anytime here on PS, so what a great surprise it was to see that something was most definitely different. I noticed some very odd visual effects happening to areas of the "ground" and the terrain all appeared to have become a bit different too I have not been into the city yet, and now I'm anxious for the server to be up so that I can venture out and investigate.... I think that some of what is happening on my screen is undoubtedly because of the underwhelming capability of my processor and graphics gadgets or do-hickeys (see the tech "NOwledge" problem! ;)
OK, I'm rambling, but just wanted to say that I am very grateful to all of you who continue to work so hard creating this fabulous world of Plane Shift. THANK YOU and Merry Christmas!
Helewisa
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Thank you Team.
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Thank you Team !!!!!
As soon as I updated went out running all over Yliakum.... I liked what you made to ojaroad2 specially the gobble village area.... the sky is great, and the new effects are wonderful.... I liked the swoning thing,
Keep up the good work you guys !!!!!!!!!
oh and Merry X-Mas \\o// \\o// \\o// :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
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Thx to all team members. \\o// :thumbup: :flowers:
Guys you make a good job.
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What a great work!!!
Thank you team!
Merci beaucoup Tuux!
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Okay...so let's do some ban-evading, doesn't really matter for a lifetime-ban I guess and this post will get deleted within minutes anyway.
But going to take the chance to take Talad by his words:
[00:23:54] <Talad> all people who worked on PS got credit
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[00:23:59] <Talad> and if I missed anyone they can just tell me
Okay...in fact I don't really care about the credits at all. And even less to be thanked from Talad. But what I don't really like is making stuff from me appear as an achievement of the PS team. I have no problem with the new release comment on the Linux Game Tome (http://www.happypenguin.org/show?PlaneShift#comments). No names there what is all fine with me. But the second post here starting with "I want to thank the full team to making this possible:" goes a bit further than this as there are even people not on the team included there. And sure..a thank you post is all fine, also to not include everyone there. But then please remove the two Fixes and update in the post above that are from me. Not mentioning them is much better than making it appear that the next post names everyone involved. (Which I am aware isn't the case....but who of the other unnamed helpers contributed something named twice in the first post?). Of course I got some help from weltall which I am grateful for. First he looked through the patches and made them comply to the PS coding styles, then he submitted them and even improved one to make it easier for me to also include the GUIs.
So...before you come up with a "nice" post saying how grateful I should be that the PS team gave me the possibility to do that coding in the first place as there wouldn't be anything without them to apply my patches too just remove the two lines in the first post and I think it's solved in a acceptable way for everyone.
Aiwendil
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fixed
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So on the topic of this new release, i go to the site, but all the links say error, or something along those lines, in other words it won't let me download the game. any ideas?
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please retry.
at this very moment I'm downloading flawlessly all the clients from Frubar mirror and PS German mirror. Clevertech mirror seems not working.
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Yeah the German ones work for me too, but i live in the US will that make a difference?
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no
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The installers should be all the same. No matter how and where you download them from.
Except for outdated versions or upload failures at a specific mirror... :-[
You can try to compare the published checksums (provided that they are up to date).
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When I try to download any of the Torrent files from http://www.planeshift.it/download.html, e.g. these:
(http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/1106/98165033.jpg)
I get this (both IE and Fozilla):
(http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5369/11117653.th.jpg) (http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5369/11117653.jpg)
Not a big problem as the Direct Download links works OK. But as you say "Please save our bandwidth and use uTorrent if you can", we should check why there is a problem with the Torrent files (it may be only temporary, who knows).
EDIT
It was temporary or someone fixed the problem. Now all Torrent file links works.
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Yes, the server where torrent files are hosted is often down.
As already documented in dozens of similar threads about all the same issue. Which noone seems to read before posting.
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As you've said before, LigH.. People don't read tutorials, they don't read guidelines, and they certainly don't follow instructions ;)