VO 1.8.345 includes:- Removed older, deprecated method of creating account from within the game client.- Other background changes to make possible an upcoming server migration.Not the most exciting update, but we've been really busy with a couple of tasks. One is that we're trying to address a number of recently-reported problems with the MacOS X version of the game, when using the new GL4 renderer. This is proving tricky and time-consuming to debug, as we're finding some surprising and unpredictable OS behaviour.To our non-Mac users: please have patience. The lack of content updates in the meantime is not that fun, but we really need to squash these kinds of major bugs (across all platforms and versions) prior to the 1.9 release.Additionally, as mentioned in the release notes above, we're also working our way up to a major server migration. We hope for part of that to wrap next week, which will mark a major improvement in our infrastructure. There'll be an announcement when it goes live, but it's one of those things where.. if all goes well, you won't be able to tell anything changed at all. Nonetheless, take our word for it that this is much-needed (a bit overdue, even), and we'll write more about some of the specific improvements after it goes live.Have a great weekend, everyone!
VO 1.8.345 includes:- Removed older, deprecated method of creating account from within the game client.- Other background changes to make possible an upcoming server migration.Not the most exciting update, but we've been really busy with a couple of tasks. One is that we're trying to address a number of recently-reported problems with the MacOS X version of the game, when using the new GL4 renderer. This is proving tricky and time-consuming to debug, as we're finding some surprising and unpredictable OS behaviour.To our non-Mac users: please have patience. The lack of content updates in the meantime is not that fun, but we really need to squash these kinds of major bugs (across all platforms and versions) prior to the 1.9 release.Additionally, as mentioned in the release notes above, we're also working our way up to a major server migration. We hope for part of that to wrap next week, which will mark a major improvement in our infrastructure. There'll be an announcement when it goes live, but it's one of those things where.. if all goes well, you won't be able to tell anything changed at all. Nonetheless, take our word for it that this is much-needed (a bit overdue, even), and we'll write more about some of the specific improvements after it goes live.Have a great weekend, everyone!
VO 1.8.343-344 include:- Increased support for anti-aliasing with certain Intel GPUs, and perhaps others.- Mitigated issue with Mac OS X mouse cursor when cmd-tabbing in fullscreen.- Windows version now built with a better optimizing compiler, some performance improvements should be evident.- Fixed intermittent sector crashes.- Fixed a rare potential issue with /vote mute.- Fixed issue with joystick input on the Windows version.- NPCs now require more collision damage to be applied to them before they will consider the attacker a threat.- New station designs for Sol II H-13.- Added anti-aliasing and gamma correction to the Mac OpenGL 4 driver. The Linux version already has anti-aliasing.- Added ability to manually set the screen rotation on Android. The option is in Advanced -> Controls -> Input and has Landscape, Reverse Landscape and Sensor Landscape as the three options.- NPC capships now target and attack PC capships with their primary weapons.- Optimizations to multi-threaded rendering.- Multi-threaded rendering is now default to enabled on DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4 versions. When switching to those drivers, a restart of the client is required to enable multi-threaded rendering. The setting can be turned off by editing the config.ini file and adding multithreaded=0 in the [Vendetta] section.A variety of infrastructural improvements, in the lead-up to VO 1.9. We also have quite a bit of server-side work going on in the background as well, along with some interesting new gameplay scenery and content. Next week we may start to reveal some of these enhancements, as well as prepare for some significant server migrations, to increase game capacity and performance. Have a great weekend!
VO 1.8.343-344 include:- Increased support for anti-aliasing with certain Intel GPUs, and perhaps others.- Mitigated issue with Mac OS X mouse cursor when cmd-tabbing in fullscreen.- Windows version now built with a better optimizing compiler, some performance improvements should be evident.- Fixed intermittent sector crashes.- Fixed a rare potential issue with /vote mute.- Fixed issue with joystick input on the Windows version.- NPCs now require more collision damage to be applied to them before they will consider the attacker a threat.- New station designs for Sol II H-13.- Added anti-aliasing and gamma correction to the Mac OpenGL 4 driver. The Linux version already has anti-aliasing.- Added ability to manually set the screen rotation on Android. The option is in Advanced -> Controls -> Input and has Landscape, Reverse Landscape and Sensor Landscape as the three options.- NPC capships now target and attack PC capships with their primary weapons.- Optimizations to multi-threaded rendering.- Multi-threaded rendering is now default to enabled on DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4 versions. When switching to those drivers, a restart of the client is required to enable multi-threaded rendering. The setting can be turned off by editing the config.ini file and adding multithreaded=0 in the [Vendetta] section.A variety of infrastructural improvements, in the lead-up to VO 1.9. We also have quite a bit of server-side work going on in the background as well, along with some interesting new gameplay scenery and content. Next week we may start to reveal some of these enhancements, as well as prepare for some significant server migrations, to increase game capacity and performance. Have a great weekend!
We're rapidly approaching the release of Vendetta Online 1.9! This major milestone is a cause for celebration, so we've started our first Summer Sale, with a 33% discount on 1-year Premium Subscriptions in the form of purchasable Keys (which may be applied to any account, or saved indefinitely, or given to friends, etc). Only a limited number of discounted keys will be available, so get them while you can. For more information, check out the recent newsletter:http://www.vendetta-online.com/newsletter/06.2015/newsletter.06.2015.html
We're rapidly approaching the release of Vendetta Online 1.9! This major milestone is a cause for celebration, so we've started our first Summer Sale, with a 33% discount on 1-year Premium Subscriptions in the form of purchasable Keys (which may be applied to any account, or saved indefinitely, or given to friends, etc). Only a limited number of discounted keys will be available, so get them while you can. For more information, check out the recent newsletter:http://www.vendetta-online.com/newsletter/06.2015/newsletter.06.2015.html