New features in Outgun 1.0

This page lists the most important changes from Outgun 0.5.0-E to the 1.0 branch. The main changes are new physics and a better map format and graphics. There are also lots of minor improvements and bug fixes that are not listed here.

Gameplay

• More realistic physics and wall bouncing.
• Support for tilted and curved walls.
• Unlimited number of walls in a room, number of rooms and number of spawn points in a map.
• Support for maps with multiple flags for each team, and ‘wild’ flags that aren’t team specific.
• Ability to drop the flag without dying.
• Optional collisions between players.
• Option to enable friendly fire.
• Option to have players drop one of their powerups when dying.
• More control over power-ups, for example configurable maximum weapon level and duration of the deathbringer’s effect.
• Option to delay the flag return. (starting with Outgun 1.0.3)

Graphics

• Graphic themes with wall and ground textures and player sprites.
• Anti-aliasing.
• Support for resolutions other than 640×480.
• Changeable fonts. (starting with Outgun 1.0.3)

Other client features

• Faster startup (with master server queries in the background).
• Better handling of high pings (allows to adjust between lag and jumpiness).
• New menus, with more options and a new look and feel.
• Menu for map voting.
• Team and player statistics screens.
• Support to making translations of the game easily.
• Menu for language selection.
• Menu for selecting the keyboard layout.
• Moving the player also with numpad keys.

Server features

• Server passwords, and an easier local player password (auth.txt) system without IP address considerations.
• Automatic kick for being idle.
• New master server (for server list, not tournament) with more information shown about the servers, on the MBnet web server that should be more stable than www.mycgiserver.com.
• Some small improvements to the authorization and administration systems.
• Dedicated server build for Linux without X. (starting with Outgun 1.0.2)