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Soldat 1.4 Released
FliesLikeABrick writes "Soldat 1.4 has finally been released. After 19 months since the announcement, this version adds multi-byte language support, many new features available to registered players, a ton of bugfixes, and a new lobby server and protocol. It took a lot of time and effort, but the largest update to Soldat has finally been posted and made available. While there are surely going to be some new bugs introduced, the new version is available for free at the game's site. From the site: 'Ladies and Gentlemen, I know you have all been (im)patiently waiting for Soldat 1.4. Thanks to all that contributed to this version. This version was a collaborative effort and it wouldn`t happen without you. ... So without further delay, it is with your encouragement, criticism and support from you all that I can happily release Soldat 1.4 to you all to enjoy. Please use the torrent link provided to help distribute Soldat 1.4 for others and ease server load, and seed for as long as you can.'"
A little one liner about what Soldat is would have been helpful.
Finally a game so crappy no one cares to comment.
In high school we'd all play this game on fridays after quizzes in the computer lab
Has anyone been able to get this working on a Mac? I'm not about to install Windows on here just to run Soldat.
0.9.33 in ubuntu fails. so sad 8( panda is not amused.
And the screenshots prove it. I never played it, but haven't games of that type started to get obsolete around 1990, right after the Wolfenstein 3D wiped the floor with them? As a reference, it's 2007 today :-)
Wow, this game got a 9.8 from gamespot and a 9/10 from gamearena? (so says their main website)
Go to gamespot... no official review.
Go to gamearena... no official review.
Hmm, they really seem on the up and up, don't they.
Imagine the heated firefights of Counterstrike in a 2D sidescrolling, ragdoll kungfoo -esque package. It's nothing like that. (or is it?) But it's still fun.
I know i might be asking for too much... but does anyone knows if this gem of a game will ever have its own linux version? I LOVE Soldat, but have mixed sucess trying to run it under Wine.
:)
Anyway, it's well worth a go if you never tried it before. It's not mentioned anywhere in the story, so, for those who haven't tried it, it's fast paced online deathmatch game, a-la-UT... in 2D, sporting "realistic" weapons (most borrowed from Counterstrike). It's easy to play, has very low hardware requirements, and its' gameplay is devastatingly addictive. That, and you can't beat bots that lay Arnie movie quotes every time they frag you
Oh wow I'm excited. I used to love this game! To bad it had to come out during finals week haha. Screw graphics, I'd rather play a 2D scroller!!
It's strange how they want you to use the torrent to download this, and then seed, even though it's an online multiplayer game that surely you'll want to play the moment you've finished the download without having torrents running in the background.
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Yes, it's a 2D game. Boooooooring, I hear. Why? Because it's 2D? So all that is 2D is inherently booooooring and al that's 3D is by definition good?
Go play a bit Daikatana, will ya?
Personally I'd prefer a fresh idea with crappy graphics any day over the millionth C&C clone or the next big "run around, collect some ammo and kill the other players" game. I tend to play a fair lot if I have any spare time, and I've been there, done that and even got a few t-shirts. Yeah, call me a fanboy.
The point is that a game that doesn't rely on lenseflares and 200x anti-aliasing has to convince with content and gameplay to be any good. And those flares and graphic gadgets get old after a while. If nothing else, they immediately start to stink with the advent of the next generation in graphics. If graphics and eye candy is all a game has to offer, it will lose its "oohhhh shiny" quality very soon. What remains after a year of playing is whether the game itself is good or not.
Can you imagine playing Quake? The original one. The first. Or Unreal Turnament without those years tagged to it? How interesting would be a game of C&C? Again, the original one.
I tell you my pov: Boooooring. Sucky graphics and a boring gameplay. The gameplay stays the same with their current incarnation, but at least the graphics pull it out of mediocracy.
How about Civ2? Or Alpha Centauri? Railroad Tycoon? Industry Giant? Sim City 2000/3000? Hell, even a turn of the original Worms? Neither of those games was actually on top of the graphics line even when it came out, and still they're classics, and not in the sense that you look back fondly to those days when you played them, I can well see a lot of gamers dust off those boxes from time to time to install them again.
Because they were good, all by themselves. There was no smokescreen of graphics trying to hide the flaws.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Sadly this game is only freeware. If it were open source, I'm sure there would be enough people interested in porting it to Linux for there to be a native client. I don't understand freeware games. Why limit it to just being freeware? Why not make it really properly Free then the community can fix problems, can port code, can bring new features to the table. However that is the right of the author, to choose under what terms they can disclose their software. I just don't understand it. If you give the game away for free, why not make it Free Software and everybody wins? Nobody is going to steal your code - forks only usually happen for very good reasons (codebase stagnation and survival, different direction, etc).
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While installing Nod32 said there was the following virus. NewHeur_PE virus in \Soldat\is-KVOCO.tmp Anyone else getting the same thing?
Do you see ANYONE on Slashdot complaining about the graphics? This isn't Gamefaqs, many Slashdotters have found the Amulet of Yendor and insist that there haven't been any good games since Asteroids. If you want to complain about graphics whores try a website where people actually complain about bad graphics, as you can see the complaints here are about the lack of Linux support and the lack of opensourciness with a dash of "Why is this news?".
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
the friendly "GPL v2.0" message.
VS the hostile, nasty BSD licence?
*grumbles about GPL wankers*
couldn't find any server compatible with the new version of the client. Anyone has a server running for this new version?
The best test environment is production. - Me
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