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- First some important news.
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- Subspace will be shipping in early November (NOV 14th is the projected date)
- Subspace will cost around $29.99
- Subspace will be freeplay forever.
- Subspace will come with a Subspace server so if you wish you can host your own game.
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- You can get more details at http://subspace.vie.com/
- In the NEWS section.
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- Enough of that here are the 126 changes.
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- Version 126
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- Hi guys, well its been a very buzy time but 126 is finally ready.
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- BUG FIXES
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- Proxy servers now work (Fun-O-Tron)
- Loads of Security patches (yawn).
- New anti lagger code (self induced lag will now punish the lagger).
- "Cannot allocate surface" bug fixed.
- Spectators can no longer anti-warp.
- Remember not to run debuggers when you want to run Subspace.
- You can no longer get a flag in spec mode.
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- NEW FEATURES
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- NEW PALLETE
- banners should now be reset as the new pallet may change them.
- Template.bmp, in the SS dir has the new pallete.
- Some level tiles may look funky.
- All graphics have been brighten up We reccomend turning gamma correction OFF.
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- BUYING
- The ability to "buy" items is available in some zones.
- Type ?buy for the price list (cost in points) then ?buy and then name of the item to purchase.
- EG: ?buy repel
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- This would reduce your points by the cost and give you the item.
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- NEW GRAPHICS & SOUND
- We replaced the graphics and the sounds again. (coz we cant leave well enuf alone)
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- NEW COMMANDS
- ESC A or ?arena - Lists all the spawns available in a zone.
- ALT - Brings up a new mega map of the entire arena and your position in it.
- ESC S shows your frame rate.
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- NEW GAME STYLES
- These will be introduce gradually starting off with Soccer..
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- King of the Hill - Each player has a crown and when he dies he loses his crown.
- if he kills three crowned players he gets a his crown back.
- Last person in zone with crown wins.
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- Chase the rabbit - One flag in the game, the owner gets a gun & bomb upgrade (upto lev4)
- he also gets X10 points for killing enemies.
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- Powerball - Get the powerball in the opponents net. This one is a lot of fun.
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- PERSISTANT CROSS ZONE CHAT CHANNELS
- Type ?chat XXXX (xxx=name) then log into it. You will auto log into it every time you enter.
- Great for keeping in touch with squad mates.
- ;message to chat on chanell.
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- ?chat help
- ;hello
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- would log you into the chat channel called "help" then send the message "hello" on it.
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- WORMHOLE CHANGES
- When you enter a wormhole it sends you to a fixed point, This destination changes every 10 seconds.
- Thus you can 'chase' people through wormholes.
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- PRIVATE SPAWNS WILL NOT KEEP SCORES
- So dont try to make private zones to run up your score :)
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- SAVING & LOADING OF MACROS
- ?loadmacro XXXXX
- ?savemacro XXXXX
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- where XXXX is the file name. To see the format simply save out a macro file.
- This allows squads to swap macros.
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- SAVEMAP CHANGED
- You can now only savemaps in specator mode.
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- WINDOWED MODE
- When you come back from windowed mode you get an engine shutdown. (So only do it in spec.)
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- PRIVATE ARENAS
- Simply start your spawn with a # Your spawn will then be invisible to others.
- EG: ?go #private
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- USERS CAN SET MUSIC VOLUME
- Tired of the loud music? You can change it by
- ?music XX
- XX is a number from 0-10 0 being silent 10 being loudest. 4 is bearly audible background.
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- OPTION FOR 3D sounds.
- This is turned OFF by default but if you have a powerful machine its worth checking out.
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- TRANSLUSCENT EFFECTS
- Turned off by default this can be turned on on the options menu.
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- MESSAGE TYPING
- This is now multi line enabled. So you can write your mini novella without breaks.
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- SUBSPACE /OS
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- Now completed but not available for everyone.
- We now offer the ability for users to make thier own games on our servers.
- This allows COMPLETE customizing of ships & game paremeters.
- This feature will be tested for a few days in the league & scenario zones before everyone
- else is able to check it out. Look for news about it soon.
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- You can check out initial stuff on SS/OS at
- http://subspace.warzone.com/scenarios
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- its under the zone design section...
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