Download Warlow 2.1

Version 2.1 of War§ow has been released. War§ow is a free first-person shooter for Windows, Linux and OS X. It is based on the QFusion 3D engine, which is a modification of the Quake 2 engine available under a gpl license. War§ow was created under the motto ‘by gamers, for gamers’, by a team of independent developers from all corners of the world. The game features a cartoon-like visual style and movement system, where Unreal-esque wall jumps and dodges can be combined with strafe jumps and bunny hops from the Quake franchise. The changelog for this release looks like this:

General:

• The client will probe the official Warsow mirror for all .pk3 downloads before attempting to download the file from game server.
• Third-party .pk3 downloads are stored in a separate directory to prevent them from overriding basewsw assets or shaders.
• When connected to a pure server, do not fully reload the game assets on map change.
• Changed default console font to monospace Droid Sans.
• Changed help messages for ‘callvote map’ to contain the title of the map being voted for.
• Added tab completion of console commands and variables to chat.
• Downloaded third-party add-ons will now go into separate filesystem directory. Use +set fs_usedownloadsdir 0 on the command line to disable such add-ons altogether.
• Improved support for Quake 3/Quake Live maps.

renderer:

• Offloaded the renderer to a separate thread. r_multithreading 0 reverts to traditional single-threaded mode.
• Added r_maxfps to cap the refresh framerate in multi-threaded mode, changed cg_showFPS 1 and 2 to display refresh and client framerates respectively.
• Increased the number of background loader threads to 4.
• Fixed support for palette-based PNG images with alpha channel.
• Use optimal VRAM storage format for grayscale lightmaps when deluxemapping is disabled.

Gameplay:

• Don’t render flesh hits for RG and MG pellets as they were often mispredicted.
• In bomb gametype, reset all map entities to their initial state at round start.
• Allow grenades to be shot straight down.
• Disabled the minimum walljump height if jump button is pressed.
• Fixed instagib shots stopping on the first hit player.

Server:

• The server will now re-open console log file on SIGUSR1.
• Running multiple servers in the same homedir won’t corrupt .pk3 files downloaded via autoupdates.

modding:

• Expose “random” entity property to gametype scripts.
• MeansOfDeath (MOD_RIOTGUN_S, MOD_GRENADE_SPLASH_S, etc enums) is now passed as the fourth argument to “kill” score event in gametype scripts.
• Added G_ResetLevel() to gametype scripting API. The function resets all map entities to their initial state, keeping clients intact.
• Added Client::getMMLogin() method to gametype scripting API, which returns the match-maker login for authenticated players.
• Added hasChallengersRoulette, forceTeamHumans, forceTeamBots, disableObituaries gametype properties to scripting API.

Linux:

• Changed base data, cache and runtime directory paths to conform to XDG specs.
• Fixed MOUSE4 and MOUSE5 mouse buttons support.

Mac:

• Changed base cache directory path to ~/Library/Cache/.
• Fixed MOUSE4 and MOUSE5 mouse buttons support.

Mapping:

• Added “random” key support to func_timer and target_delay, specifies delay variance. Total delay = delay +/- random seconds.
• Added “delay” key support to “target_delay” for backwards compatibility with Q3 maps.

Race:

• Sector reports are now buffered until the end of the race.
• Top command to display records in reverse order.
• More records are now stored (30).
• Added quickmenu with basic commands.
• Picking up a weapon doesn’t remove it from the map.
• Associate records with login names when possible.
• Color- and case-insensitive nickname associations for records.
• Weapon information is now saved when saving a position.
• Allow loading prerace saved positions in prerace.
• Added setting a speed for the saved position (only in practice mode).
• Limited announcer sounds to once per player.
• Simple randmap vote with a pattern to search for.
• The kill command will now make spectators join.
• Nice checkpoint feedback in the console.
• Disabled starting a race while alive after finishing.
• Fixed the respawner after finishing.
• Allow race restart while not racing.
• Linked kill to race restart.
• Fixed displaying the top scores in the hud. They are now shown when you connect.
• Save no more than one time per player to the local highscore file, so the highscores are not populated by one player.
• Print finish and sector times to the console so they can be looked at later.
• Assign saved top times to their owners when they reappear.
• Added practice mode with noclip and position save / load commands.
• Disabled warm-up.

HUD:

• Apply localization to scoreboard strings.
• Expose system mono font to the HUD via con_fontSystemMono.
• Draw crosshair even when out of ammo.
• Updated the “connection interrupted” icon.
• Added drawCleanStatString and drawCleanPlayerName commands for drawing player and team names without color codes and forcing the current color.
• Added TEAM_ALPHA_NAME and TEAM_BETA_NAME constants to draw team names with drawStatString.
• drawPlayerName now ignores the current color and defaults to white, only taking the current alpha into account.

warsow TV:

• Fixed demo playback.

ONION:

• Fixed random crash on vid_restart.
• Color correction profile can now be applied to the “worldview” widget by specifying the “color-correction” RCSS property.
• Improved demo player modal window.