Santa will be bringing lasers and death this Christmas, as version 7.33 of Alien Arena is set to be released right around Christmas. There are a number of presents to be opened since our last release as there was an extraordinary amount of work completed. Much of what we tried to accomplish was to add new features to the game client experience and to improve stability and performance. We also snuck in a brand new level...Dm-Deathray, an arena that features new ways to destroy your enemies.
Some of the new features coming in 7.33:
- In game IRC client
- In game player stats, rankings, and matchmaker
- Vastly improved anti-lag code
- Headshots
- Big performance optimizations
- Updated skins and textures
- And loads more....
A sneak peak of the exciting new map, Deathray:
Stay tuned....Santa might just be coming to abduct you...
Cool!
I tried to play this game in the latest version, but it works like complete crap (performance-wise): Low fps even on the lowest settings on this rig: HD 4870 1GB, 2048 MB of RAM, Core 2 Duo E8400 3GH.z
Hopefully the optimizations will fix that, cause it seemed like a very fun arena-styled game.
I seriously doubt that is the game and not you. I get good FPS at medium settings with an HD 3200 IGP, 6 GB RAM, and AMD Athlon 7750 2.7 Ghz. And I doubt it's my RAM enabling me to do that.
Dude, you know what engine it uses, it's the game not me, if I can play Crysis on Max graphics on high res, I think I can run this game smoothly on low settings.
Crysis uses Direct3D, this uses OpenGL. You likely have a driver or setting issue. The game should absolutely scream on your rig even at high settings. However, we did discover an issue with the last two versions that causes slowdowns on some systems, so this may fix your problem, or may not, if the problem is on your end.
Sorry double post
Well, I do play alot of OpenGL based games, including games on ID Tech 2 and ID Tech 3 (like Warsow or Tremulous).
Hopefully the update will fix my problem ;)
I'm quite looking forward to this release. The performance improvements in the past have always been pretty impressive (though it never has run quite as intended) and I'd like to see this game running flawlessly.
7.31 introduced a performance killing bug for some systems, it lingered in 7.32 because it really didn't get reported soon enough, and none of the devs experienced the problem on their systems. Luckily we tracked it down, as well as some other things that were causing problems. We also sped up some of the math routines that get called thousands of times each frame for a nice increase. Performance is better across the board, but especially on higher settings. We definitely are at a stage were we are constantly hunting down things to get more fps, even if it's a small amount.