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Pioneer 2020-02-03

Another year, another busy Pioneer development cycle. As always, you can read the full Changelog to see all of the work that’s been done, but this time we’re listing out some of the major improvements.
Major changes and new features

Atmospheric flight…

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This Week In Veloren 53

Happy Global Game Jam to all those who participated! This week, 0.5 released. We take a look at how it went and go over new additions to this release. We also have another Contributor Spotlight, this time with @Silentium.
– AngelOnFira, TWiV Editor
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OpenRA: Release 20200202

While we work on the next full playtest (more on this below), there are a few serious issues that we wanted to address without further delay. Release 20200202 is now available, including:

Fixes for significant performance and behavio…

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This Week In Veloren 52

This week 0.5 will be releasing! It’s also the 1st anniversary of the blog, so we look back at what some contributors are most proud of. @Tub talks about the new website design and @Songtronix shows us some great progress on Airshipper. @Ender gives a …

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DCSS: Community Competitions

Hello crawlers! We occasionally get asked about opportunities for competitive crawling outside of the official release tournaments. Several community members have organized a variety of competitions, and this post aims to point them out. The Tavern Dart Board The Dart Board on our official forums is a clearinghouse for community organized competitions as well as discussion […]

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optimiZed

This version of heXon comes with several optimizations, making the game run quite a bit smoother than it did before. Have fun!…

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2019 By The Numbers

Sitting at home on this cold and wintry day, I thought it’d be good to dig out the old “by the numbers” code to see what 2019 looked like for Xonotic in XonStatDB. Let’s have a look! Also, let’s do a bit more data explorat…

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This Week In Veloren 51

This week, we take a look at some of the finishing touches to 0.5. Lots of progress has been made on quality of life changes, such as translations and visual flares. We hear from @Sharp about map migrations, and from @AngelOnFira about their talk at CU…

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Two New Frag Videos

Hi everyone! While I was idle at my computer on this blog during the holidays (and far beforehand as well), my good friends Smilecythe and Dodger were busy crafting two amazing frag videos for our viewing pleasure. Grab your popcorn and have a look!
Xe…

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Doomsday 2.2.1 released

Doomsday 2.2.1 has been released (build 3299). This is a patch that fixes the following issues: In Hexen, some of the player character colors were not loaded and thus some player colors were not available. On macOS, package information text was sometimes displayed incorrectly in the UI. On Linux, music was always at full volume … Continue reading Doomsday 2.2.1 released

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