Plasma cannons have been added so you can make your mark in the universe! In addition we've added some new options to the tab menu, sound effects and music, community created starships!Download Page - Added plasma weapon, used by activating helm block and using the Action 1 (default mouse) button Plasma weapons have been added! After mounting some plasma cannons to your ship, you can destroy anything in the game stem to stern! Effects Hardware:
Software:
Unzip the contents of the downloaded zip and run BlockadeRunner.exe. It may take a moment for the game to start up the first time as it's uncompressing the space skybox textures. Run wyupdate.exe in the Blockade Runner folder. Simply delete the Blockade Runner folder. After purchasing Blockade Runner, use the username and password you used to register to unlock the game! Please let us know if you encounter any problems with the online activation! Please visit the troubleshooting thread and make a post there if you can't find an answer to your question. Several things are at the top of our list for features in the coming weeks (in no particular order):
"Nibiru Rising" provided by Samuel "SMH" Huse. Listen to his other works here! Enjoy the update and don't forget to check back often to keep up with the new funRELEASE NOTES
Release 1 Week 19, August 26th 2011Introduction
What's New
- Added menu sounds
- Added gameplay sounds
- Added in-game music
- Added tab menu option "Balance" (perfect or real) to tab menu
- Added tab menu option "hud" (show or hide)
- Added tab menu option "scale" (atomic, metric or basic)
- Added tab menu option "ship info" (show or hide)
- Added tab menu option "sounds" (on or off)
- Added directX 9.0c check. (warns you if you do not have directX 9.0c installed)
- Added new ships provided by Meardin, Zerebo, Viken, and DarkEvilMe
- Added ships start with "Balance" set to perfect
- Fixed inertia dampeners not working properly when holding shift
- Fixed game crashing when loading very large entities
- Fixed upwards expanding on an entity could cause rapid expansion
Plasma Weapons
Music & Sound
Some basic sound effects have been added to the game, as well as Samuel "SMH" Huse's song "Nibiru Rising" for some background music.. You can listen to more of SMH's music here.8bc.org
New Tab Menu Options
Some new options have been added to the tab menu. Setting "Balance" to perfect will make your ship easier to fly (even if it's off balance), the hud can be disabled for making screenshots and video, and Ship Info will now show the current entity's dimensions and weight. You can set the scale between American Standard (basic) and Metric by changing "Scale".
New Ships
Some new starships provided by the Blockade Runner community are loaded in by default, including Zerebo's combat ship "Destroyer",DarkEvilMe's mighty "Starbreaker", Zerebo's fighter-craft "Wasp", Viken's cargo-carrier "Mull Miner", and Zerebo's asteroid-station "Outpost Alpha". Check out more of the community's creations in the showcase page!Requirements
Installing
Updating
Uninstalling
Activating
Known Issues
Troubleshooting
On the Horizon
Crew
Thank you!
Blockade Runner R1W19!
This updates includes weapons, music, and sound effects!
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