Cube-TC: ActionCube Public Release (v0.9)

by makkE on 11/04/2006 22:32, 128 messages, last message: 10/17/2007 02:19, 91608 views, last view: 04/30/2024 09:53

ActionCube is released !

After 2.5 years of silent spare time development we are proud to bring the first beta release to the public.
It´s a full feature, complete game, masterserver available.

ActionCube is a team-oriented total conversion of the cube engine, themed in a realistic looking environment (as much as it can get in cube of course). That´s just the theme though.
Gameplay is fast and arcade.

Visit our website:
http://action.cubers.net
for downloads and information.

Join us in irc: #actioncube @ quakenet

We had lots of fun doing this, and we basically were noobs in our fields when we started.
We learned a lot, cursed a lot \o/´ed a lot, sweat a lot, kicked each others asses a lot; and now it´s finally done.
It was a great experience and we hope you´ll give it a try and have fun.

You might ask "Cube-mod? wtf?! Why not Cube2?"

When we started in July 2004, Sauerbraten was still labelled "for devs and adventurous mappers only".
When the first mature release of Sauerbraten was out a year later, we decided to stick with cube rather than forking off an uncomplete, early-stage Sauer-version.

A port of ActionCube to ActionBraten might be considered at some point in the future, when the Cube2-FPS has somewhat reached a final state.

Some brief info:

8 New Weapons:

Knife
Pistol
Akimbo Pistols (powerup)
Pumpgun
Submachine Gun
Assault Rifle
Sniper Rifle
Timeable HE Grenades

Gamemodes:

7 Multiplayer Gamemodes:

Team Deathmatch
Team Survivor
Capture the Flag
Deathmatch
Last Man Standing
Pistol Frenzy
Last swiss Standing

Bot Deathmatch Singleplayer

We´re looking forward to your feedback.

Mac bins are in the works.

(!) Please do not start new threads about AC on this forum, instead, use this:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=123

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#21: ..

by Drakas on 11/07/2006 08:55

Very nice modification!!
I tried to play some of the game and it is really nice, except that the speed is kind of slow for people ;) and the bots still walk in random directions, even on the best skill mode!

Overall - I'm amazed!

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by Passa on 11/07/2006 12:31

Just spend two hours or so chillin with bots (because the servers are EMPTY :)

For v1.0 get bots to use knifes, I added bots to last swiss standing and it became quite a massacre :D

Lets get some organised online meetings happening :)

drian: strange weapon switching and reloading bugs. Randomly if I was switching about and reloading, the reload time would become instantaneous. Kinda weird, muck around with emptying a clip of your primary, switch to pistol, fire some rounds off, then switch back and reload and its instantaneous (or something like that, the process might be slightly different.)

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#23: Re: ..

by drian@job001 on 11/07/2006 13:38, refers to #22

yep, thats a known one. we are working on these problems.

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#24: Wow...

by SanHolo on 11/07/2006 14:04

Just downloaded it and played for 5 minutes (am at work currently...); looks _very_ promising, I`ll check it out this evening now that the Mac-version is out. Hooray!

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#25: nice mod

by voldemar on 11/07/2006 20:10

Really nice mod :)

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#26: ..

by Passa on 11/08/2006 13:09

It'd be nice if we could specify the ports we want our server to use, so its possible to run more than one server on a box and IP.

Its something Sauerbraten has always lacked :)

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#27: Re: ..

by Qsby on 11/09/2006 17:15, refers to #26

I hear you there :)

actioncube is amasing :)
it first i couldnt belive it was the cube engine :D
I still like that engine and this only enforces that :D

@actioncube devs: you rock!

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#28: ..

by magn2000 on 11/11/2006 14:43

I am having trouble starting ActionCube after starting up Windows XP from hibernate. I get a messages box saying "Unable to load program (0xc0000005). Click OK to quit." (roughly translated). Does anyone else have this problem?

Magnus

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#29: ..

by Max of S2D [Fr] on 11/13/2006 13:03

People asked for realistic Cube...

We have it.

Two thumbs up for the dev team, that's completely fantastic ! The best mod i've ever seen :D

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#30: ..

by SanHolo on 11/13/2006 15:45

It really is a good mod with nice maps, however, seems I`m too much used to sauerbraten since AC`s gameplay is too slow for me. =)

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#31: ..

by RealNitro on 11/14/2006 12:51

This is a great mod! I've only been able to play it for 30 minutes, but here's some feedback:
* It took me a while to figure out I could configure my player (team, weapon) using the menu. How about a message mentioning these options when the player joins a game?
* The grenade physics didn't feel 'right' to me. (I'm used to RTCW/TCE nades.)
* Too bad this isn't a sauerbraten mod. :-P ;-)

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#32: ..

by >driAn<. on 11/14/2006 18:22

> It took me a while to figure out I could configure my player (team, weapon) using the menu. How about a message mentioning these options when the player joins a game?

How about reading the readme? :P

> The grenade physics didn't feel 'right' to me. (I'm used to RTCW/TCE nades.)

agreed.

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#33: Re: ..

by drwx on 11/14/2006 18:54, refers to #32

It's only for microsoft and mac?!
For linux nothing?
Thanks

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#34: Re: ..

by Max of S2D [Fr] on 11/14/2006 19:13, refers to #31

The graphics are really good for a game based on the Cube Engine.

While some minutes i was believing this was Sauerbraten.

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#35: Re: ..

by makkE on 11/14/2006 19:40, refers to #33

It´s for linux too of course. Grab the zip. There´s linux bins. Unfortunately we made a mistake and just zipped it up, look here:

http://action.cubers.net/readme/v0.9/docs/faq.html

Sorry bout that, will be proper in the next release (tar.gz for the linuxers).

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#36: Re: ..

by Passa on 11/14/2006 20:54, refers to #32

The odd grenade physics eventually grow on you. Lol I'm more dangerous with a grenade now that with a shotty or smg :)

Once 1.0 comes out hopefully everyone can advertise it everywhere and it will increase in popularity. There just aren't enough players at the moment.

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#37: Re: ..

by RealNitro on 11/14/2006 21:03, refers to #32

>> It took me a while to figure out I could configure my player (team, weapon) using the menu. How about a message mentioning these options when the player joins a game?

>How about reading the readme? :P

Most people skip the readme. :P A game should be obvious to play, no readme should be needed.

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#38: ..

by makkE on 11/14/2006 21:13

Well there´s a "help" entry in the menus as well ;)

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#39: v0.91 released

by >driAn<. on 11/15/2006 02:41

ActionCube v0.91 comes with a new map, two new gamemodes, a better netcode, better balanced weapons and other new stuff as well as bugfixes. have fun...

changelog:
http://action.cubers.net/readme/v0.91/docs/history.html

download:
http://action.cubers.net/download.html

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#40: ..

by Passa on 11/15/2006 12:22

http://www.gamershell.com/pc/action_cube/screenshots.html

Its on GamersHell. I'll fix up the details part with them later..

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