Thursday, August 31, 2000

UT 4.30 patch news -- 9:29 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's news that the UT 4.30 patch is off to private beta-test. 3D Spotlight has the readme. Here's a snip (it's huge folks):

• Version 430 is completely network compatible with all previous public releases of UT (versions 400, 402, 405b, 413, 420, 425, & 428).
• faster server browser initial pinging of servers. Added a new default property to [UBrowserServerPing], MaxSimBroadbandPing, which defines the max number of servers to simultaneously ping if your netspeed > 6000.
• team scoreboard holds more players (no more names dropping off the bottom for 32 player games).
• faster server ping response for servers with mutators.
• admins lose cheats & die when they log out as admins.
• fixed bug causing player team choice to be overriden (also cause maxteamsize not to work when 2)
• fixed thrown weapons sinking into ground in net play
• fixed listen server crashing with too many serverpackages
• fixed server still sending data on disconnect A.T. Hun comments: I think this was supposed to have been fixed as far back as 405b. This is the single most annoying bug in UT, IMO.
• fixed server not allowing custom skins because of skin cheat fix
• servers are now prioritized by version on the master server
• improved map decompression time.
• slight improvement to server CPU utilization.
• prevent message spamming in net play.
• centered admin messages
• if logged in as an admin, start your message with a # to have it centered.
• voice autotaunts not printed in net games.
• faster menu loading with mods.

I also need to file a complaint of sorts here. Sites that place ALL their content in tables need to make sure said content isn't 7 billion meg to pull down. When the piddly 50k connect is loaded, it's a real bear to get IE to suck those kinds of sites down, you know??? Okay, end complaint.

News for 08/31/2000

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