Warzone2100: Release 4.0.1

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With the help of many bug reporters & contributors, we're happy to announce the release of 4.0.1, a bug-fix release.

Including fixes for:

• Water rendering performance
• Additional Collective faction textures
• Broken map zoom cycle
• Autosave / saveload issues
• Multiplayer lobby issues
• Procedurally-generated map player positioning
• Compilation / compatibility issues
• ARM64 / Apple Silicon macOS builds

View the full 4.0.1 changelog

Original 4.0.0 Highlights:

• New graphics backend support:
  • New support for:
    • Vulkan 1.0+
    • OpenGL ES 3.0 / 2.0
    • DirectX (via libANGLE, OpenGL ES -> DirectX)
    • Metal (via MoltenVK, Vulkan -> Metal)
  • In addition to the existing support for:
    • OpenGL 3.0+ Core Profile (default), OpenGL 2.1 Compatibility Profile
  • See the new "Graphics Backend" option in the Video Options menu.
• New "Factions" for multiplayer / skirmish
• Higher-res terrain textures, backdrops
• New Music Manager, + Lupus-Mechanicus's new soundtrack album
• Support for "script-generated" / "random" maps (and two new built-in maps that take advantage of this: 6p-Entropy and 10p-Waterloop)
• Scrollable room chat, and many other UI / widget improvements
• Updated / smarter AI bots (Bonecrusher, Cobra)
• New "headless" mode (for --autogame, --autohost, --skirmish)
• JS API enhancements, + a new "Script Debugger"
• Removal of Qt as a dependency, + a new embedded JS engine: QuickJS
• Quality-of-Life / smoothness improvements
• Hundreds of bug fixes
• New: Windows 64-bit builds (for both Intel 64-bit / x64, and ARM64)
• New: macOS Universal Binaries with native Apple Silicon support (in addition to Intel 64-bit support)

There have been 40 commits since 4.0.0, from many contributors including: Federico Dossena, KJeff01, Maxim Zhuchkov, past-due, Thiago Romão Barcala, Thomas Rupprecht

We'd also like to thank all of the new and returning translators who have helped to improve the translations for the game via the Crowdin project. For more information on how to help with translations, see doc/Translations.md.

Please report all bugs on GitHub.

And don't forget to check out the new official Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/ZvRVQ8g

Download at:
https://wz2100.net

Or:
Microsoft Store (for Windows): https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9MW0Z4MPCS8C
itch.io (for Windows or macOS): https://warzone-2100.itch.io/warzone2100
SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/warzon ... ses/4.0.1/
GitHub: https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2 ... /tag/4.0.1

Statistics: Posted by pastdue — 18 Apr 2021, 22:47 — Replies 3 — Views 3643

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