Warsow 0.4 released news

Let's get right at it, what will 0.4 bring? A small summary of some of the major changes (for a detailed overview, check out the changelog):

WarsowTV

• broadcast matches in-game to a large amount of viewers
• Full multipov streaming
• Added small minimaps for watchers

Engine

• New advanced renderer features (bumpmapping, specularmapping, shadowmapping)
• Optimizations! Increased performance over 0.3
• Outlines now handled by engine, ability to switch on or off
• Profiles: ability to quickly use some predefined graphic settings

Maps

• Replaced old wdm2 by TdM's/bLx' Chromo Dynamic
• Replaced old wdm11 by Grumx' Rage
• New TDM maps by Daze: wdm8 - Baxandall and wdm19 - Format
• New TDM map by jal/Daze: wdm9 - Supersym
• New duel map: wdm10 - Deflected
• Retextured most maps to take advantage of new renderer features

Models

• New Weapon model: Instagun
• New Player model: Bobot

Gametypes

• Tweaked iTDM (domination style gametype)
• New CTF rules
• Added Duel Arena (1v1 ClanArena)

Bots

• Advanced movement (bunny hopping, dashing and wall jumping)
• Ability to time items
• More natural behaviour

Tweaked movement system

• Added forward bunny hopping
• Increased gravity, compensated by higher jump strength

Tweaked weapon settings

• Gunblade: Regenerates ammo, instant fire, added splash damage (trickable!)
• Riotgun: Spiral pattern, increased damage slightly
• Rocket launcher: More splash damage, more self damage, decreased projectile speed (1000 up/s)
• Grenade launcher: Strong grenade explodes on contact, tweaked projectile trajectory

Tutorials

• Included basic movement demo-tutorials
• With subtitles, voice-over and recams to explain basic movement and bunny hopping

Windows, linux and Mac compatible

• However in beta state, Warsow 0.4 is the first release to run on OSX :D
• Windows in both .zip and installer

This is a selection out of some of the bigger changes from the changelog. There's much more to explore, so I suggest you go on and download your 0.4 flavour of choice (as usual, only a full release and no update available as there were too many media changes), right after these thanks:

Thanks to everyone who put effort into this release, thanks to all the coders, mappers, testers and team members for dedicating their free-time in making this release possible! Thanks community for all the feedback in forums and devblog throughout the development process. Thanks to everyone who supports Warsow!