Celestial Impact 1.10 to 1.10b
Jun 06, 2008 Patch 0 commentsThis is the a optional patch from version 1.10 of Celestial Impact. This patch should solve the problems some people had with not beeing able to see or...
Celestial Impact is a team based multiplayer first person shooter (FPS) for PC taking place on various asteroids floating in space. Celestial Impact differs from other multiplayer FPS in that the whole landscape is destructible in any direction, each impact on the landscape affecting it differently depending on the weapon used. But it is not limited to destruction; the players will also have the ability to add terrain to the landscape in the middle of combat using a special tool. So as the teams are battling, the landscape receives vast changes opening up for various tactical approaches each team can use.
Each landscape (map) is a sphere-like asteroid with gravity pointing towards the center of the asteroid. This means that players can take round trips around the asteroid assaulting the enemy from any direction. Since the landscape is fully destructible, players could even approach from underneath by digging tunnels through the asteroid.
Apart from the regular weapon arsenal (a melee weapon, a minigun, a shotgun, a grenade launcher and a high-energy precision weapon) each player is equipped with the ‘Dirt Gun’. This gun has two modes. The first is the dig-mode. When using dig-mode the ‘Dirt Gun’ removes large chunks of terrain from the landscape in front of the player making it excellent for digging tunnels or breaking barriers. The second mode is the build-mode. When using build-mode the ‘Dirt Gun’ adds terrain in front of the player.
Ran in to a wall that is too high to jump over? No problem, just build a slope and walk over the wall, or maybe dig a path going under it.
Need a breather from intense combat? No sweat, dig a cave and go hide inside.
Build and dig your way around the landscape in various strategic ways as you seek out and kill your opponents.
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This patch should solve the problems some people had with not beeing able to see or connect to any server. While this patch is not needed to still be able to play Celestial Impact online, it is recommended that everyone download it since it also contains some other bug fixes. A full changelog is included with the game.
The patch also brings a few gameplay changes:
These changes will be in effect for all players on a 1.10b server, even for those still using 1.10.
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This is the a optional patch from version 1.10 of Celestial Impact. This patch should solve the problems some people had with not beeing able to see or...
This is the full version of Celestial Impact. Just download, unzip and play! Want something to deform?
This is the a patch from version 1.00 of Celestial Impact. First patch that brings us alot of bug fixes and some new content. Want something to deform?
This is the full version of Celestial Impact. Just download, unzip and play! Want something to deform?
This is the full version of Celestial Impact. Just download, unzip and play! Want something to deform?
The promotional trailer made for the Swedish Game Awards (www.gameawards.se). It shows the gameplay with the deformable world and some action shots.
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I just played it, and I rarely see such innovation in an indie game, 10/10 from me.
This looks like a modified quake 3 engine?
Great concept on terrain deformation and the spherical gravity. Very interesting game.
We get that alot, but this is not a modified Q3 engine. We may have been inspired by some parts of the Q3 engine, but everything is made from scratch.
I hope you guys win the most innovative multi player award. I can't think of any other mod/game that really changes the landscape of multiplayer gaming !
Nothing better than running with the flag and propelling yourself into the sky while creating a walkway 50 feet in the air for yourself. Then the guy chasing you sucks the ground out from underneath you and squishes you deep in the ground ;)
Moddb.com needs to do a weekend gaming session for this game so more people come online. Also it would be amazing to get this in front of Steam's eyes. If they could host it the exposure would go through the roof :)
this was awsome
live4pain my crappy computer can run it and there are no people playing!!!!!!!
Yes the community is abit small. Most of the times, noone starts playing because noone else is on. Which turns into a vicious circle where the servers are empty quite often. Invite some friends to play at the same time as you and you'll surely be joined by others not soon after.
I was very surprised that despite the games meager graphics (no offense), the actual requirements for a smooth game were staggering. My PC which is fully capable of running games such as the Orange Box, ground to a halt while trying to play this game. Where is all of that extra Cpu load coming from? I think it would be incredibly helpful if you guys posted a min requirements and a recommended requirements as well as a warning about how much of a cpu hog the game is.
Otherwise, the game looked good enough for me to try, but the videos and screenshots were very decieving about its requirements.
The requirements can be seen if you expand the info about the file. It is also available on our download page on our website. To be seen without extra clicks for you we need to put it in the summary and I don't think it fits there.
The high requirements (and bad graphics) can be explained by mainly three factors. For one the content isn't the best even though the engine supports (and we use) many modern techniques for nice results. The second is that as we have a deforming world we can't use regular solutions other engines use to optimize the performance. Last we have only one programmer coding everything so the time to optimize the engine are not as in commercial engines.
Hope you enjoy the game!
Thanks.