New Conquest version released, hundreds suspected dead

[Wazat]

It's that time again, and a lot has changed. You can download the new version of Conquest .
Note: If you downloaded it on or before June 16th, get the patch , which fixes the changing level bug that some people experienced.

Please download the of Darkplaces to run Conquest in. I don't vouch for any other versions, or for any other engines for that matter.
(though I am trying to maintain compatibility)

New weapons
Strong Machinegun
High-Capacity MG
Rapid Machinegun
Heavy Machinegun
Blaster
Scattergun

New Shields
Limit Armor (unique from Limit Shields)
Blink Shield Plus
Revenge Shield



New Enemies
Security Drones
Avenger Drones
Defense Mech

Other Highlights
Health bars and damage displays
Fixed the opening & closing doors bug
Weapon Menu (hold shift to pause the game and view a list of weapons, and select one at your leisure)
Shops in town now cost less than the shops on the field
Various monster, weapon & shield tweaks
Various bug fixes
Updated the readme
Conquest should now be Linux-compatible (maybe even compatible with macs, if OSX can run DP. That would be cool.)

I'm really interested in everyone's feedback, so please let me know what you think!

[Wazat]

By the way, I recommend you start with episode 1, since the others start you off against Security Drones, which are very dangerous. :O

[SkinnedAlive]

Wonderful, the difficulties I had last time with damage feedback are fixed. It's quite a breath of fresh air playing through the single player levels in a different way like this. Reminds be of playing through Q2 with SPAQ (single player action quake) only with less crashes and less quickloading. The only issue I had was that I had to read the readme to remind me of what the sheilds did every time, perhaps there should be a descriptions function in the menu? Perhaps descriptions could even be put on weapons as well.

[Wazat]

SkinnedAlive:

You're quite right, the shop needs to tell you the function and stats of weapons and shields so you know what you're buying. I'm trying to think of a real elegant way to do this, especially since I'm going to sooner or later make the menu graphics-based instead of the classic qc text menu, and I don't want to have to make a separate targa filled with text for each description.

I need a way to print dynamic text (so I can print prices, weapon power, shield blocking ability, etc) in mid air, preferably attached to an entity. FrikaC and I discussed this recently, and it'd be really nice to have a Darkplaces feature for this.

Thanks for the feedback.

This part is to everyone:

One person running Conquest on Linux has reported a consistant problem with weapons & other stuff disappearing on map changes (except the town map). I haven't been able to reproduce this error at all, so it's really hard to debug. Whatever your operating system, please let me know if you encounter this bug!

[SkinnedAlive]

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