Quake 2 based Alien Arena 7.52 coming soon...

[[BTF] Reflex]

Just in time for my birthday!  Thanks man,  d/l now.


I had played an earlier version,  found the crowd less than helpful with getting setup.
Ended up just going back to quake.   

I'll give it another go.


=p

[Irritant]

Alien Arena version 7.53 is now released!

Some of the new general features for this release include:

• Extended use of VBO for big performance increases
• Signifigant improvements to bot AI
• "Dm Lights" server option
• Improvements to menu code
• Improved stats algorithms
• Entity definition files
• Optimized and improved vegetation rendering
• Variety of bug fixes and code cleansing
• Two new maps
• Optimizations to IQM and MD2 rendering
• New "Ultra" skill level
• Speed hack detection improvements

Version 7.53 features some very signifigant performance gains for people who like to run the game on higher settings, as well as some very nice improvements/bugfixes to the bot AI. We have also added two new maps, as well as the entity definition files which now allow for custom reconfiguration of a map's entities, plus a number of other updates and bugfixes. For a complete changelog see http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.53.txt

Alien Arena 7.53 screenshots:






Alien Arena also has some new 3rd party content portals where you can grab the latest and greatest 3rd party levels as well as some of the "retired" classics!

http://code.google.com/p/aa3rdparty/
http://3rdpartyalien.3r.funpic.de/index.html

For more information about Alien Arena visit http://red.planetarena.org