MegaGlest 3.6.0 Release

[softcoder]

MegaGlest 3.6.0 release - come and get it while its hot (svn revision 2954)
Downloads here: http://megaglest.org/download.html or below



Changelog:

v3.6.0

- bugfixes reported in the bugs forum from beta1 and 2
- iso639-1 style language loading example: megaglest --use-language=zh and auto language detect on first launch
- new and updated translations (Greek, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Czech etc)
- Ability to toggle languages anywhere in the game using CTRL-L
- auto complete player names in chat mode using tab character
- New headless server mode allows dedicated servers to host games for network players (command line option --headless-server-mode)
- customized port # override via commandline (useful for multiple headless servers) example: megaglest --use-ports=x,y (x is internal port y is external port)
- new client 'admin' mode when the first client connects to a headless server he controls the game settings
- new commandline option to support standalone modes example: megaglest --load-mod=x (x is the path to the mod)
- new lua functions added (to be documented on the MG wiki)
- New attack boost system (currently used by Romans faction) which allows new types of in game unit effects.
- attack-boosts can be named and shared for proper re-use and singleton usage.
- Improved mod menu which always checks for updates for all mods now and more
- Modders can change intro, menus, faction AI behavior and many more things.
- lower CPU / RAM requirements in headless server mode
- improved rendering performance
- New font system and enhanced International language support (Chinese, Japanese, etc)
- New intro
- Enhanced AI plays smarter and responds more quickly
- New ability to enable in game team-switching for defecting to other teams in game
- Improved Megapack including better balanced Romans faction
- Added ability to 'pause' network games by press ESC in game to show a new popup-menu with in game options.
- Hosts can now set a title for their game for network games.
- Music fades in and out of game start/stop
- New low food warning indicators tells players when they are running out of food
- MacOSX support (thanks weltall)
- Players are no longer dropped in game lobby when toggling maps (player status may show as unassigned network node if they are ina slot that is not applicable to the selected map)
- Bugfixes for supported UPNP for auto router configuration when hosting games
- many more...


Important information

• Read the installation instructions, or you may fail to install.
• Linux users need to install 7-zip (package p7zip-full on Debian + Ubuntu) to be able to install mods and for file transfers.
• Please report any issues and bugs at http://bugs.megaglest.org for easy tracking. General reviews and non bug reports should go to the main forum.
• Please also subscribe to our low traffic announcement-only mailing list so that you will know when new releases become available.

v3.6.0:

Full installers:

Linux 64 bit:
Download Here (234.3 MB)
sha1sum 27be213b0f7511d7ab02331dbc9d08313d5cc9d1

Linux 32 bit:
Download Here (233.0 MB)
sha1sum 79d364561b3824f0365b2177fd9dbfedc0ba4775

Windows:
Download Here (210 MB)
sha1sum da4fec38df3dfc421f68cb2bcde6f93950a6d6ad

Mac OS X:
Download Here (351 MB)
sha1sum 78d39c4734d3b3a40d91a44c3c958424edf3bbbb


Advanced options:

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Manual data installations (for advanced users only):

Full Data package (for both Linux and Windows):

*NOTE 2011-12-05 Update:
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Just a note to mention that our 3.6.0 release source code and data packages were updated on sourceforge.net because the originals did not properly contain the 3.6.0 tagged code and data from svn.

Old archive names:

source
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/megaglest_3.6.0/megaglest-source-3.6.0.tar.xz/download
sha1: b014b1a282130580e921382748aa40cbd83e4488

data
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/megaglest_3.6.0/megaglest-data-3.6.0.tar.xz/download
sha1: f16e17a95626552094446f8f01b85ff9c443711f

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New Archive names:

source
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/megaglest_3.6.0/megaglest-source-3.6.0.1.tar.xz/download
sha1: 95c4930a1a942a162677365b812b07b47bd9806c

data
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/megaglest_3.6.0/megaglest-data-3.6.0.1.tar.xz/download

sha1: 24fa25a554b4060a62088da6f04cf75395b98bf5

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glest.ini and glestkeys.ini are not included. They are platform specific and distributed with the binary.
Download Here (211 MB)
sha1sum f16e17a95626552094446f8f01b85ff9c443711f

All Downloads here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/megaglest_3.6.0/

Running a standalone server in headless mode:
megaglest --headless-server-mode

More info on running dedicated servers is available on the wiki.

Please remember to report any issues and bugs in a separate thread, not here.

[Hagekura]

Congratulations!

[Ishmaru]

Where's mac osx version? TBA?

[tomreyn]

The OS X package is now listed on the above forum post by Softcoder.


The release announcement is now available, too (and all downloads are available on megaglest.org).

On a side note, if you have previously tried to download the data only package, please retry, Sourceforges' mirror distribution system seemed to be hung, but this should be fixed now.

[Mr War]

great stuff

[Mr War]

Just in case you guys (devs) are short on praise and thanks, this version of MG really rocks. It's maturing a lot and the new functionality is fantastic.

I've been using a lot of the functionality from betas for a long while, but only recently discovered attack boosts and timebound particles (eg muzzle flashes). These two functionalities are really excellent. The attack boost is really a game changer for historical mods like Ming and Japanese where it is used for standard bearers.

So thanks.

[TotalNoob]

Let me add something from me. I would also say thank you And very much! I especially like the headless servers functionality since I am one of those, who cannot host. Big thanks go of course also to those, who serve us with their servers

[Coldfusionstorm]

yes, the headless is the most cool functionatily for this game, it is SUPER awesome, Original, and no other game i know does it! EXELENT WORK!

[titi]

to continue the list of new features:

- Improved AI ( ULTRA/MEGA are finding you in every place on a map now so you cannot hide anymore)
- new font rendering system
- new camera calculation (=> a lot more FPS)
- Improved Game Mod Menu with Icons/fixed bugs and integrated version check for all installed mods.

[Omega]

I noticed the MegaGlest website's downloads page is inconsistent in its decimal unit. It's generally accepted that in multinational instances, the period -- not the comma -- is used for decimals (that is, pi equals "3.141592654", not "3,141592654"). The reason being that countries using the period as a decimal separator tend to use commas as a thousand separator (eg, "9,001"). While the MegaGlest site uses periods as the decimal in some locations on that page, others use commas. In the same line, it states "Binaries (71,9 MB) + Data (211.0 MB)".