alienarena-7.53-linux20111227.tar.gz
Here's the version 7.53 Linux/Unix release of
Alien Arena, COR Entertainment's open-sourced, free multiplayer FPS that combines retro and modern sci-fi themes into an immersive atmosphere.
Version 7.53 features some very signifigant performance gains for people who like to run the game on higher settings, as well as some very nice improvements/bugfixes to the bot AI. We have also added two new maps, as well as the entity definition files which now allow for custom reconfiguration of a map's entities, plus a number of other updates and bugfixes.
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Alien Arena is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern effects such as real-time per-pixel lighting and shadows, GLSL shaders, light bloom, reflective surfaces and much more, while still being able to run on even modest systems. The game includes a built in, as well as external server browser and chat client. Players can look up their stats online, chat with other players, and become part of a growing community.
Some of the new general features for this open sourced, free FPS game include:
• Extended use of VBO for big performance increases
• Signifigant improvements to bot AI
• "Dm Lights" server option
• Improvements to menu code
• Improved stats algorithms
• Entity definition files
• Optimized and improved vegetation rendering
• Variety of bug fixes and code cleansing
• Two new maps
• Optimizations to IQM and MD2 rendering
• New "Ultra" skill level
• Speed hack detection improvements
For a complete changelog see
http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.53.txt
Alien Arena also has some new 3rd party content portals where you can grab the latest and greatest 3rd party levels as well as some of the "retired" classics!
http://code.google.com/p/aa3rdparty/
http://3rdpartyalien.3r.funpic.de/index.html
Alien Arena automatically tries to detect your best settings on first run. Please use the video options in the game menu to adjust the settings to best suit your gaming system. Alien Arena employs an OpenAL sound system. If you have any problems please report them in
the Alien Arena forums.
For the full changelog see
here.
The official MacOS port has been indefinitely postponed, but work continues on it.
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