New Sauerbraten Release Is Imminent

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New Sauerbraten Release Is Imminent

It has been nearly a year since the last update to Sauerbraten, the 2008 CTF edition, but the open-source developers behind this game and its engine of the same name have been preparing for a new release. Within the next few days we should see the first 2009 release of Sauerbraten and it brings a host of new features. In this article is a rundown on some of the key features along with screenshots we captured when running their latest Subversion code.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13771

[L33F3R]

yay first reply.

Thats a nice wob of screenshots i might say. Always a fun game now and then :)

[lem79]

I love the slow motion deathmatch. It would be nice to be able to set minimum health though, as it's just a tad too slow motion at 10 health. Great for observing the graphics :D

[fackamato]

Looks like Quake 2 with bumpmaps! :)

[Irritant]

The radolls are a signifigant portion of this release, I could see this being adopted by a number of other projects.

[SheeEttin]

Michael, you forgot to mention the bots! :(
Also, "Sauerbraten" has been officially dropped as the name. It's just Cube 2 now (though it's more like Cube 2: Sauerbraten).

[leilei]

sauerbraten's been missing viewbobbing for a long time. I always hated the slide motion

[Dragonlord]

That's a little bit odd... saving on simple coding like head bobbing and then boasting about having rag-dolls? So much about "wrong priorities" :P

[d2kx]

The new release is now avaible from sauerbraten.org!

The full changelog is avaible from here: http://sauerbraten.org/docs/history.html (@Michael: it is newer than the one you read, in case you're interested)

[dobk]

I just downloaded the may 2009 sauerbraten.
It has more maps, better graphics, and it totally freaking awsome.
I love you sauerbraten
everybody should download the awsome 2009 edition or they suck.

[3rdalbum]

The one problem with having "ragdoll physics" is that only ragdolls move like ragdolls. Having said that I'll check out Sauerbraten 2009 as I really like the previous version.

[Dragonlord]

Not exactly. If you do "dumb" ragdoll physics ( as sadly nearly all AAA titles do it nowadays ) then yes, it looks shit. If you though use real ragdoll physics ( meaning using motors and constraints to simulate stiff muscle retention and alike ) then it gets better and more interesting. That said this costs speed so I'm betting on wider CUDA support to solve that one ( Bullet *hint* *hint* can work with CUDA already ;) )

[Irritant]

The ragdolls in Sauerbraten are a pretty good effort, and the first I've seen in any of the free open sourced games that I am familar with. I've always been a bit torn as to whether I like them or normal death animations. I guess ragdolls are the way to go for just a pure fun factor, so I'm glad they got this working.