[Freelancer Mod News]Freeworlds: Tides of War Demo Patch 1.1

Sushi

This past week has been an incredible time for the Freeworlds: Tides of War development team. For those of you that haven’t been following us, we released our first public demo, which showcased our new graphical interface and all our ship models, to a large general player base. So far, the support has been overwhelming. We are so thrilled that so many of you have enjoyed our work. The team was even more delighted to have over 900 distinct IPs log onto our server in the past week! Not so bad for a 9 year old game!

Now that we have a very good sized player base to test the mod, our team has been working hard over the past week to fix the inevitable bugs that come up during a release of this magnitude. FriendlyFire has been painstakingly going through the DX9 code to look for ways to improve performance and to fix the bugs that some people have been having. To get a better idea of what FF has done, please watch this video below:
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Freeworlds: Tides of War - Development Video #16 - Mod DB
I have been working on fixing the bugs with ships and the client server as well as balance some glaring issues we had in our first release.

Now that we’ve fixed a number of these bugs, and have improved gameplay performance, we are releasing our first client side patch. If you haven’t already downloaded the main demo download, you can do so here:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/fwtow/downloads/freeworlds-tides-of-war-demo

Here are some nice player donated screenies of the first week of the demo:
And a quick video of a player’s experience on the server:
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Player captured battle scene! - Mod DB
After you finished downloading the full install, please download our first client patch which will allow you to see all the improvements we’ve made in addition to getting massive performance gains on our server. For those who run XP as their main operating system, we’re currently still working on a fix for you. You will just have to be patient with us.

For those that a curious, here is our current change log:

major rewriting of the rendering pipeline to optimize speed and rendering of planets, hopefully also improving compatibility
important improvements and changes to the deferred rendering through dynamic control of the number of lights drawn on screen
proper implementation of anisotropic filtering
fixed Alt-Tab crashing the game when in fullscreen
fixed ship handling bugs which would cause turning to be much slower under certain situations
changed volume of proton bombs, heavy rockets, adv. proton torpedo
changed damage of adv. proton torpedo and heavy rockets
changed refire rate of proton bombs, heavy rockets, adv proton torpedo, adv concussion and concussion missiles
changed strafe to 20% previous power
changed camera z distance. Increased all starfighters by 30%
changed camera swing settings - reduced
added missiles/torps to all bases in combat prototype system
fixed pricing bug with imperial bombers
removed battle atmosphere
fixed space bomb bug
added in hull plate phantom loot. Increased drop rates and price
fixed VSD loadout
reduced NPC spam
increased NPC density in all areas
y-wing ion placement bug
toscan internal equipment error fixed
removed old code
fixed dp20 crash bug
increased NPC visual distance to 10km
increased player visual distance to 30km
fixed fuse code
fixed firespray camera. Made it more inline with other assault shuttles
fixed UHH: 0 bug ~ Thanks to Cannon
fixed energy bug with planetary fighter
fixed starting TIE fighter engine bug
increased phantom spawn
placed 3 assault concussion missiles on mc30c
improved cluster bombs of mc30c
added baby deathstar
moved cockpits that were shifted to centre
added phantom physics to docks
fixed VSD model/wireframe

Please find the latest client update download here:
Download the Demo Release 1.2 (includes the 1.1 patch) Update Here:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/fwtow/downloads/freeworlds-tides-of-war-demo-patch-v12
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/singlefile.php?cid=7&lid=2674
http://programexpert.net/Secure/fwtow_update_2.exe
From the Freeworlds: Tides of War development team, we thank you for your continued support of this mod.

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Lets eat and continue

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Friendly ans Sushi and other ToW staff:

After patch M22-T “Krayt” goes offscreen when unfolding in fight at full speed.

How i fixed it before - i have choosed speed preset at my amd video driver settings. Maybe it was cheat and now it is fixed ?

JONG

Great job and great work.

FriendlyFire

HeIIoween wrote:
Friendly ans Sushi and other ToW staff:

After patch M22-T “Krayt” goes offscreen when unfolding in fight at full speed.

How i fixed it before - i have choosed speed preset at my amd video driver settings. Maybe it was cheat and now it is fixed ?

The Krayt’s a bomber isn’t it? If so that’s normal.

Bas

When installing the main setup I get not only a warning but a total block by my antivirus:

Tell me if you need a translation.

Antivirus: Avast!

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FriendlyFire wrote:

The Krayt’s a bomber isn’t it? If so that’s normal.

Ok

Sizer

Bas wrote:
When installing the main setup I get not only a warning but a total block by my antivirus:

Tell me if you need a translation.

Antivirus: Avast!

More than likely its a false positive generated by heuristic detection.

Bas

Nope, it isnt a hit by the heuristic mechanisms. It clear shows an infection (Win-32:Malware-Gen).

FriendlyFire

Bas, “Malware-Gen” === “Malware Generic”. That’s a heuristic.

Bas

ah oki, sry then. You might wnat to contact avast! about this issue, though.

I am just used to see such messages as “heuristic hits”…