Wasted 0.7.0 is finally here! Let's see what's new!
After many months of struggl....ehmm.. work, I am happy to showcase the new release!
Hello Everybody! Wasted 0.7.0 is finally here after 4 months of hard work! Let's see what's new!
You can watch the Live stream of the new release here.
NOTE: as I am writing this now, I forgot to add the Atoka to the official car list. This means that you can play it offline but not online unfortunately.
I will probably produce a bug fixing release at some point.
Releases
We now have a better workflow for building Windows binaries directly from Linux. We also cleaned the dependency mess a little and plan to improve the situation even more in the next releases by reducing the number of dependencies.
Thanks to Xavi, now the release process will be much more straightforward. Moreover, we now keep the depedencies in a separate repo making the whole process more centralized and easier to maintain.
Cars
A lot of work went into balancing classes and making driving much more fun. A collision bug which allowed cars to be pushed into the air was also solved.
Also, say hi to the new Atoka!
A picture of the new Atoka
GUI and style
We continued changing the old UI, adding new icons and changing the way the modals are looking. Moreover a new loading screen was introduced with the addition of a new loading splash screen too.
Thanks to Rampoina, the speedometer was completely reworked and this new fresh version makes everything look nicer.
Another notable change is the multiplayer in-game chat which now can be used without pausing the game!
Camera
A very annoying bug which made the car look not centered when rotating on its axis was fixed. The First person camera was also fixed now and it follows the roll of the car while rotating.
Sound Effects
A new Sound FX for pre-count when match starts was added as well as a new jingle for the match ending.
Radio Feature
Many small bugs were fixed and now the Radio station feature is much more reliable. Moreover we added a new song and a new jingle to wastedradio!
Powerups
The Car bounce powerup was completely reworked to not use the cake animation from stk any longer! Now the cars are bouncing for real without losing the momentum.
Misc
We finally have those 4 servers from Madiator2011 included in the online multiplayer section of the game! Now you can just start the game and play online!
We will now take a break to think about what is the best plan for the next releases and the future of Wasted. Infact, given the current speed of 4 months each release, the 1.0 will be ready more or less in 1 year. So we would like to focus and write down some good plans for all the three next main releases leading to the 1.0 release.
You can read the full release changelog here!
Hope to give you some news soon again!
Happy destruction!