Итак, спустя 11 месяцев, ezQuake команда выпустила очередную стабильную версию ezQuake 1.9 stable.
Прошлая версия не была направлена на удобство использования и настройки, в этой версии были сделаны значительные шаги в этом направлении.

Graphics:

for long time we haven't seen any new graphical effects in the client, but this release changes this
- powerupshells is a nice effect adding a flashing thin layer on players carrying powerups;
- bloom effect: light sources in the game have a decent distorted diamond or globe surrounding them;
- VWEP support: you now can see which weapon the player is holding in hands
+ initial support for luma textures on all objects

Observing features:

- significantly improved support of QuakeTV: Chat, better buffering, and many others; this upgrade should be the main reason why to switch to 1.9 as soon as possible because most QuakeWorld matches nowadays are observed via QuakeTV
- teaminfo table for QuakeTV and MVD: one look at it tells you everything about the team you are watching
- weapon stats - old feature rewritten from scratch so that it can be used by observers on QuakeTV
- autotracking - rewritten and added universal "autotrack" command that works everywhere
- demo rewinding

Usage simplification:

- use one (currently running) client instance for playing demos, watching QuakeTV or opening qw:// links
- qw:// protocol support - client can be easily configured to open qw:// links that will connect you to given server immediately
- zip, pk3, gz, tar support - add more custom media to the game in these more friendly formats than original .pak format
- modern models have been added as accepted by the client's f_modified models check

Advanced configuration:

- cl_vsync_lag_fix - helps reducing lag of LCD/TFT displays
- teamforceskins / enemyforceskins - helpful teamplay features
- Windows Raw Input - new mouse input method

И это только малая часть всех изменений. Огромное спасибо всем кто принимал и принимает участие в создании ezQuake.

Полный список изменений:

[ http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/docs/?changelog-19 ]

Скачать:

[ http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/download/ ]

Инструкции для перехода с более старой версии клиента:

[ http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/docs/?upgrading ]

Часто задаваемые вопросы:

[ http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/docs/?faq ]


В ближайшие дни должна обновится сборка nQuake с новой версией ezQuake.