History

AssaultCube v1.0

2007/06/04

New features

• New maps: ac_power, ac_elevation, ac_toxic and ac_urban
• Brand new mapmodels made by Toca
• AssaultCube server wizard (Plus allowing for it to run as a windows service)
• Spectator and following modes
• OpenAL 1.1 support (Allows for 5.1 surround sound)
• You can now hear footsteps, bullet ricochets and other new sound effects
• Voice-coms, a varietey of team commands
• Visibility options for player models
• Scorch marks made by grenades
• New sniper scope by Antiklimax
• Muzzle flashes
• Markers on the HUD indicate the direction where damage was inflicted from
• Text cursor now makes a flickering effect
• New voting system
• There is no more "master" system, as the voting system has taken its place
• Crouching, hide effectively and shoot with more precision
• Smooth recoil changes
• Enhanced scoreboard asthetics and features
• More advanced/intuitive interface for changing sound and video options
• Keybinding menu, mouse invert support
• Welcome menu that asks for fundamental options to be changed
• Map and crosshair menus show ALL items from their resource directory
• Sliders, checkboxes and text-inputs now available for menus
• New netcode with various new features and changes
• Customizable ports allowed for servers
• CSL (cube server lister) support
• Whois command
• New masterserver implementation (OSS, ASP.NET)
• Server supports syslog loggin on Linux-like patforms
• Auto-getmap and map config sending
• Configurable script security contexts to run map configs in a "sandbox"

Backports and merges

• Bullethole backport from Cube 2
• Demo support backport from Cube 2
• Ambient map-sounds backport from Sauerbraten
• Two soundtracks from "ping-pong" (Cube 1)
• Ratio column in the scoreboard by grenadier_
• Dropflag command by grenadier_

Fixes

• Map cleanups/fixes
• Better bot waypoints
• Quick-switch exploit fixed
• Forceteam/autoteam/team change issues fixed
• HUD gun no longer appears to go through walls
• Fixed reloading while scoping issue
• "hideradar 0" doesn't disable the minimap anymore
• Scope is always drawn at correct aspect ratio now
• CTF flag now drops correctly on heightfields
• "Unknown" servers now show as "empty"
• etc

AssaultCube v0.93

2007/06/04

• a new name: ActionCube is now known as AssaultCube. Best feature ever..
• new map ac_snow
• mini team-radar
• map overview
• ingame documentation reference (command prompt and menus)
• water reflections
• dynamic player shadows
• bulletholes
• 3rd person demo playback, pausing and slow motion (experimental)
• team chat
• new 'admin' client role, break into locked servers
• new explosion gfx (sauer backport)
• improved weapon sway
• small physic improvements
• improved scorebard
• server MOTD (message of the day)
• master can now force a player to the enemy team
• player collisions improved
• local renaming of duplicate player names (sauer backport)
• improved app launcher for Mac (sauer backport)
• reload animation now plays correctly
• flag now drops correctly on heighfields
• akimbo pickup does cause a weapon change anymore when using the sniper
• ctf join bug fixed

ActionCube v0.92

2007/01/17

• new bot gamemode one shot, one kill
• auto team
• connecting players stay dead in arena modes
• colored messages
• public and private server mastermodes
• tweaked weapon balance
• sniper headshot kills instantly and shows some gibs
• all gib frags count as two frags (knife, nade, sniper headshot)
• ctf flag reset on teamkill
• a big note on the teamkillers screen
• quick nade throw (key G, MOUSE2)
• better spawning
• fixed skin menu
• fixed flag disappear on disconnect
• fixed shooting while editing
• fixed invincible bots
• fixed several memory bugs

ActionCube v0.91

2006/11/12

Some of the features are backports from Sauerbraten. Thanks to eihrul.

• new game mode "one shot, one kill"
• new map ac_desert2
• netcode and new version of the enet library, consumes less bandwidth
• weapon balance tweaked
• config saving
• support for md3 mapmodels
• faster geometry rendering
• faster ladder climbing
• 3rd person death
• advanced console
• screenres command and fullscreen var
• limit fps with maxfps
• -z, -b, and -a command-line options
• ctf flagpick bug fixed
• gib crash fixed
• flag count fixed
• scores now save across disconnects
• player death animation fixed
• weapon hit absorbtion fixed

ActionCube v0.9

2006/11/04 - Release of the first public beta. Some quick infos:

Artwork

• 55 new mapmodels
• 4 high quality maps
• 100% new texture set (new, not fully original ;)
• 100% new content (original, apart from sounds, playermodel)
• new guns: Knife, Pistol, Shotgun, Subgun, Assault Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Grenades
• new items: Health, Ammobox , Kevlar, Clips, Grenades, Akimbo Powerup
• new sounds
• the well known sas quake2 model by Darren Pattenden

Game/Engine

• gamemodes
  • Capture The Flag (pCube)
  • Team Deathmatch
  • Team Survivor
  • Last man Standing
  • Deathmatch
  • Pistol Frenzy
  • Last Swiss Standing
• two fixed teams with chooseable skins
• server side maprotation (pCube)
• md3 hudguns
• vweap support for all weapons
• weapon reloading
• bullet flyby fx
• weapon bob/sway
• ladders
• gib fx
• new menu/hud gfx (model drawing)
• simple kick/ban system
• bot support (adaption of the cubebots)

The day makkE came to town

Project Launch

July 2004 - Arghvark, driAn, Verbal_ and dtd started working on AssaultCube.