Not to offer any excuses for the recent lack of news, but it's been a busy summer personally for many of us on the team, and we've had to deal with some technical and logistical difficulties that have held things up for a bit as well. But things truly are coming together now, and we are in fact in the final stages of getting this much-anticipated (and admittedly delayed) version 2.9 released to you all.
Part of what this means is all of you who ordered a 2.9 CD will soon be getting an email to confirm your mailing address. It will provide a link to an online address checker that will show you the mailing address we have on file for your order. If you’ve since moved to another address you’ll have an opportunity to update the information then. Again, this email will be going out shortly, so if you need to update your address information, the best thing to do at this point is wait for the link that will be provided.
Mac users will also be asked to let us know they need a Mac version of the CD. Due to the exceptionally large amount of content that has been produced for 2.9, we will be unable to include PC and Mac installers on one CD, so the plan is to give Mac users a second, burned CD they can use, in addition to the pressed PC version going out with all orders. There will be more information in another email to be sent out shortly, so as with the address checker, the best thing to do at this point is wait for that to let us know your status.
At this point we’d also like to outline the options and features the 2.9 installer will include:
- Full install including the core files, map pack, and bonus material.
- Core install including the core files and bonus material.
- Map pack install including all official INF maps to date we want to include.
- The TbuildT Desert Storm map pack installer will be detected by the full and core installers (if in the same folder) and the option will be given to launch it. It can also be launched on its own, independently of the 2.9 installer, though prior installation of 2.9 is necessary for the Desert Storm maps to run.
- The full and core installers will check for the UT436Patch.exe on startup, and will launch it if present in the same folder to make sure that UT itself is patched to the necessary version 436.
- The 2.9 CD includes the UT436NoDelta patch version which allows patching to UT 436 during the INF 2.9 installation, without the UT CD being present.
More news will be announced shortly, but for now suffice it to say we're at the stage where the gift wrapping is being measured and cut. So stay tuned, the end is really near!
OMG OMG!!!! I am soooo excited!!! :D
More than one year ago, short after you could preorder your INF-CD, I thought if it would not be clever to order a cd+T-shirt myself. But it is not that comfortable for europeans to order it, so I waited.
Now I ordered it, because I have "new hope" that "soon" will be really soon.
So good luck and make us happy. :)