January 30th, 20021.731 for Linux (finally)Ok, there's finally a working version of 1.731 for Linux. I'm not sure why the one I compiled didn't work, but it didn't, so I finally nagged Sad into compiling it, and you can snag it off of the Files page if you want to run a Linux server. Paintball II v2.0?Well, I don't know how many of you knew, but we've been planning on releasing a 2.0 of Paintball II sometime in the future. Originally this was meant to include lots of new stuff (thus breaking away from the 1.x versioning system) such as vweap, some new gameplay modes, a sophisticated map/game mode voting system, a new map or two, and whatever else made its way in there. However, since the Quake2 source has been released, the sky is no longer the limit (quite literally in some cases where the sky clips off the map, heh heh).
Now we will be able to: - have 32-bit textures for maps and models (see POTD) - make Paintball II a standalone game (You won't have to have Quake2 installed to play it, and no, you won't have to pay for it). - impliment better anti-cheat code
The downside is that we will have to do a lot more work so it'll be a while before 2.0 will be released. If you're interested in helping out, here are the kind of things that need to be done: - new player sound effects (we can't use any copyrighted Quake2 material) such as jumping, walking, landing in water, etc. - new player model (one that actually looks like a paintball player) - vweap for that player model
If you're capable of doing any of these things hop on #pbdev on irc.enterthegame.com, or post some msgs on the bugs and suggestions forum. If you aren't capable and would just like to chill out and throw around some ideas, that's cool too. :) January 1st, 2002Happy New Year Again...To the people on the west coast... which is where this server is located. December 31st, 2001Happy New Year!Another year passes, and people still play Paintball2, W00T! December 29th, 2001Paintball II v1.731 for LinuxI got it to compile, but I can't get Q2 to run correctly in Linux, so I don't know if it actually works or not. Someone with a Linux server grab it off of the Files page, test it, and email me with the results. :) Again, all this is is a fix for the scoring/death messages. December 24th, 2001Merry Christmas!W00t. Paintball II v1.731 for Win32 ReleasedI still haven't gotten the Linux compile to work, so I'm just going to release the 1.731 server for Win32. This is the same as 1.73, but the death messages and player scores are fixed.