Join us every Saturday for the GrangerHub Development Games to test new features, spectate people and record demos, and also just play around.
We will have TWO sessions on Saturdays, and the games begin at 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM EDT, USA (15:00 UTC Saturdays and 23:00 UTC Saturdays) on the [color=#33CC33]Granger[/color][color=#00E6E6]Lab[/color] server. All Tremulous clients can connect.
Everyone is invited. Be there!
You can check the times of the games for your time zones at these links:
Today’s first session of GrangerHub Development Games will begin in 1 hour & 10 minutes on the test7341 server. The latest updates includes: (1) New cvars for the pre-game warmup mode. (2) The admin /allready command in dev mode, that ends warmup, has been improved. (3) Muting a player no longer prevents them from using /ready. (4) Now many kinds of non-votes (abstaining) count as “no” votes, to prevent the abuse of unnoticed votes that effect the game.
Edit: The new cvars include:
The current list of warmup-related cvars SOON™ to be available are:
g_doWarmup
set to 1 if doing warmup. or 0 if not.
g_warmup (readonly)
current state of warmup (1: warmup, 0: actual game has started)
g_warmupReadyThreshold
percentage of players ready for a team to be considered as ready (default is 50)
g_warmupTimeout1
number of seconds before warmup expires after at least X non-spec players are in the game
g_warmupTimeout1Trigger
X number of non-spec players that will trigger the above timeout
g_warmupTimeout2
number of seconds before warmup expire after Y % of players are ready in one team
g_warmupTimeout2Trigger
Y percentage of players ready in one of the teams that will trigger the above timeout
g_warmupBuildableRespawnTime
number of seconds before a buildable respawns in warmup
g_warmupDefensiveBuildableRespawnTime
number of seconds before a defensive buildable respawns in warmup
As a minor update, due to popular demand, the commands /share and /donate are now available on test7341. Share and enjoy…
wogomo,
Where is “/explode”?
In today’s development games we will be testing the latest implementations of polls, /register, and rotations on the test7341 server.
We have a lot of game play changes that we will be testing at this Saturday’s development games:
The dretches can now deal damage to turrets and teslas. They also deal slightly more damage to humans than before.
The are changes to the base values of the goon’s chomp, pounce, and barbs.
There are changes to the base values of the turrets. Turrets still have spin-up which was a gpp feature, but it is less than one third of the length of gpp spin-up. Some of values of the turrets are 1.1 values, and other are “averaged” between 1.1 and gpp. These turrets are not weak like gpp turrets can be, however if you build them very close to each other like in 1.1, they can be defeated a bit easier. New building strategies for these turrets are required.
The base value settings on the lucifer cannon have been changed so that it behaves more like the lucifer cannon from 1.1 vanilla.
There is also a new sound for the firing of the riffle.
See you at the dev games 
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Perhaps the autogenerated messages on discourse should quit
At today’s development games we will be testing:
The new features now available for testing at today’s Development games include the following:
Changes to the defense computer, which includes:
The basilisk grab of turrets has been re-implemented.
Unpowered buildings no longer experience spontaneous combustion.
Some further adjustments to the /playmap subsystem.
Boosting the current state of test turrets makes me cry.
Love the other changes, although on paper 1/hps seems a little weak. That would be better at around 2-3, at 1hps it’s going to take over 5 MINUTES to heal a node fully.
We are tweaking the ret settings so that they are not painfully op, but the idea is that the rets would work relatively better with a dc than without.
This dc heals all damaged human buildings at the same time, anywhere on the map (or at least it is suppose to have unlimited range). We might increase the rate to 2 or 3 hp per second since at most only one dc can exist at a time.
I’m not sure if this could work, but why not have like a maximum of 2 or 3 Dc to able to build, and for each dc healing rate of building increase 1 hp/s. 1 dc = 1hp/s, 2 dc = 2 hp/s. It may give different building strategies, should we build 1 more turret or 1 more dc to get 1 more healing rate. I’m just shooting arrows btw… (giving crazy ideas)
Today’s dev games is going to consist of further tests of the Vanilla Game Mode. The current change log for this game mode with detailed information and discussions can be found here: Vanilla Game Mode for Tremulous 1.3: Changelog
Today’s dev games will be focused on testing the new Player Model Customization system. More information can be found on this topic: GrangerHub Forum - Tremulous Forums .
shotty xhair please 
I kinda like it, it just makes the game more challenging 
Today we are trying out some experimental changes to the luci (more info about that at this post: Vanilla Game Mode for Tremulous 1.3: Changelog - #46 by dGr8LookinSparky ). We are further testing out the player model customization system. There have been some minor changes to warmup.
The missing crosshair for the shotty is no longer missing 
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The hovel will be available in the Vanilla Game Mode (1.1 game play) with bug fixes. In the Swirl Game Mode, the hovel will also be available but will have a new very important role (more about this will be posted later).
Some additional features we will be testing at today’s development games:
Spectators now smoothly no clip through doors instead of teleporting through them.
In Pre-Game Warmup mode, building is blocked by enemy creep/power, unless you are within range of your team’s overmind/reactor. This prevents spamming of enemy buildable into your base.
The crosshair turns red while you aim at an enemy target. Additionally the names of teammates are shown when you aim at them while they are in fog.
Swil Game Mode updates:
Initial implementation of CPMA physics which includes double jump, jet jump, and air acceleration/control.
Your velocity is added to the initial velocity of various projectiles that you might fire ( including the luci/pulse/blaster/barb/spit projectiles ). this means that your movement can speed up, slow down, and alter the initial launch directions of these projectiles. A secondary dynamic crosshair that predicts the point of impact for these projectiles has been implemented to aid with firing.
The water mechanics has been improved so that rants and goons can get out of the water easier. Also the bug where if some aliens touched the bottom of the water they would move like they are on land has been fixed.
Wall walkers can now walk on buildables and on players.