Changes

See also: Release history, Roadmap

pre-1.0

0.8.8 (02/14/2012)

• Mac is back! (Updated Windows, Linux and Mac OSX binaries) - Important note for Mac users: the Mac binaries in the "0.8.8 unified package" zip do not run out-of-the box due to wrong file attributes: you may need to "chmod" them, or to use the 0.8.8 Mac binaries that come with the "0.8.8 patch" package.
• Two new single player campaign tiers
• 13 new maps: am_galmevish2, am_lavaarena, am_lavactf, am_lavactfxl, am_mckinleyish2, am_spacecont, am_thornish, mlca1, mlctf1beta, oasago1, oa_thor, pul1duel_oa and pxlfan.
• oa_bases3plus3 (previously dummied out) has been fixed and it's working. There's also a Missionpack version called oa_bases3p3ta, including the Missionpack weapons, runes and items.
• New player model: Neko.
• Specular maps have been added to many player and weaponsmodels. These can be disabled by turning off detail textures.
• Invulnerability powerup and effects
• Grappling hook model, shader, and sounds
• Angelyss, Gargoyle have been reanimated
• Liz and SMarine animation glitches fixed
• Music
• Many of the old maps got entity tweaks, gametype unlocking and other fixes.
• Benchmark demo (see timedemo)
• Fixed TEAMMATE kill message bug.
• Prevent team changing and disconnect from changing team score in Team Deathmatch.
• Don't let vampire resurrect dead players.
• Now uses FFA spawnpoints in domination.
• Workaround for Kamikaze bug.
• g_autonextmap added ("Auto change map" in the menu). Randomly picks a new map once the current map has ended. The maps allowed for each gametype are configurable.
• You can now see how much health the obelisks have left in Overload
• Autoswitch weapon can now be set to only change to better or new weapons (see autoswitch for info).
• Chat beep can be disabled in options.
• Changed default customvotefile to customvote.cfg.
• Added the possibility for respawning in waves. The cvar g_respawntime says how often players should spawn.
• Added a CVAR g_voteBan X - bans a player for X minutes using the KK-admin system
• Added g_gravityModifier (default 1.0) that modifies g_gravity relatively to the value set by the map.
• Additional dmflags. Most notably "Fast weapon switch" and "No self damage from weapons".
• Added a CVAR g_damageModifier to modify damage of all weapons and triggers.
• Added replace_* cvars like disable_*. Can be used like "set replace_weapon_shotgun weapon_bfg" for replacing shutgun by BFG.
• Handicap is reset to 100 once returned to the main menu (it's safer you set it depending from your opponents skill in each match).
• Added "Click to respawn"-message. Tells the player how long until they are allowed to respawn. Very relevant for wave spawning.
• New specular code, r_specmode 1 to enable
• New environment map code, r_envmode 1 to enable
• Cascaded bloom, which is more 'natural', and is faster on lower end hardware than original bloom. R_bloom_cascade 1 to enable (bloom has to be enabled, too).
• Bloom is not allowed if we don't have forced 32-bit color for textures. This stops the user from playing with corrupt bloom in 16-bit color since the bloom code doesn't really support that yet.
• Support for GLSL shaders!
• Compatibility for third-party bots designed for Q3A.
• Some fog shaders more similar to how they looked like in Q3.
• Support for "!gametype" key in maps: show item in all gametypes except those specified. See Mapping#Limiting items to certain gametypes.
• Some other bugs fixed (/serverstatus crash, text color ^8 in console, rocket explosion animation, "bleeding edge" bloom bug...)

0.8.5 (02/23/2010)

• UI restyling by Udi. In case you have not noticed, OA is now blue!
• New effects: rocket smoke, shotgun sparks, flares.
• New maps include:
  • am_underworks, am_underworks2, hydronex2 from ArmageddonMan
  • blitzkrieg3 from ArmageddonMan and Boczeq
  • oa_koth2 from cosmo
  • ps9ctf, ps37ctf from PsYthe
• Map improvments include ctf_compromise, ctf_gate1, ctf_inyard and oa_minia
• Angelyss team skins are more colorful
• 3 new player skins, one for Beret, one for Assassin and one for Angelyss
• New inclusion of the Challenge system. Read here and here for details about it.
• Empty servers without humans with only humans set is now really really empty
• Voting menu and custom votes
• Different styles of weapon bars
• Various gameplay bugs fixed, like LMS survivor bug
• New server admin system as explained here.
• Bots are much improved and understand the gameplay objectives better of the latter gametypes (Harvester, Overload, etc)
• "Accurate" game physics mode added.

Note: a significantly more extensive 0.8.5 changelog is available here.

0.8.1 (10/31/2008)

• Uses protocol 71
• Single player campaign re-organized (Thanks cosmo)
• 'Deprecated' client for Windows 9X (lacks IPv6 support). KernelEX may help running the game on Win9X.
• New hitsound
• New map: ps37ctf
• New map: ctf_gate1
• New map: am_galmevish
• Space Marine should no longer crash on old client
• Chaingun works in unlagged now
• non-Free texture folders from previous release removed (this also removes the schism and q3dm6ish-v2 map)

0.8.0 (8/8/2008)

• Better mouse control (it'd better be)
• Initial release of 'missionpack'
• Missionpack weapons added back into baseoa (this means NAILGUNS, PROXIMITY MINES AND CHAINGUNS in non-missionpack mode!)
• New announcer voices from Fuzztooth
• New player model : Sorceress
• New map: oa_bases7
• New map: pul1ctf
• New map: schism
• q3dm6ish retextured by TRaK, and is back in the maps menu
• oa_bases3 recompiled with fast water (should perform 632% faster)
• Classic version of oa_bases3 snuck in :)
• oa_minia updated
• dm6ish updated (retextured, and bots aren't dumb at the door anymore)
• New plasma gun model and skin from enki
• New sound effects for shotgun, railgun, and weapon switching
• New CTF event sounds
• New Kyonshi voices, courtesy of aeri_s
• Ayumi optimized, at the cost of the Jenna skin :(
• Beret greatly improved, in skin and animation and taunt sound
• Some simple stress and flyby demo files (intended for timedemo)
• All TGAs that had broken headers are now corrected
• Other stuff like random asset polish

0.7.7 (5/28/2008)

• Fixed "Getting stuck bug"
• Fixed logging bug
• Fixed UI crash
• Fixed overflow in Multiplayer list + Some of beast's changes to server list (longer names)
• Instantgib and All rockets disabled during single player startup
• Clears nextmap after single player
• Windows only: new SDL.dll allows Caps Lock and Num Lock to be used as keys.
• Using protocol number 69, this should only now show servers running 0.7.7 (In other words, no more lotsofservers with 'invalid game folder' error)

0.7.6 (4/20/2008)

• New player model : Assassin
• New player model : Smarine
• New player skin : Angelyss/Neko
• New player skin : Grism/Indigo
• Ayumi/Neko, Angelyss/Sly have been atticed due to quality reasons.
• Current music scrapped due to license issues. (No source, and license)
• Text font (bigchars.tga) used by console and hud messages now doesn't bleed any more
• Special characters added for text font (bigchars.tga) used by some mods
• lots of maps, at least 8!
• oa_ctf2 is more balanced, slightly retextured
• Elimination and CTF elimination game types
• Double domination game type
• Last Man Standing game type
• Instant Gib option
• All Rockets option
• Unlagged tracehits option
• Alt-tab working
• Classic Grism aren't teamskins anymore
• A lot of the block textures were reworked and improved
• A lot of other stuff we forgot like minor polishings

0.7.1 (8/8/2007)

• Angelyss/dark_blue is more blue on costume
• New item icons from anyone
• Less bots for oa_dm2 in single player campaign
• Fan crash fix
• You can no longer walk in the sky on Suspended
• Beret is more polished, wears his beret properly
• Announcer is a bit louder and much cleaner
• New rocket smoke

0.7.0 (7/7/2007)

• lots of crap.
• New player model : Arachna
• New player model : Angelyss
• New player model : Ayumi
• New player model : Beret
• New player model : Liz
• New player model : Merman
• New player model : Penguin
• New player model : Skelebot
• New player model : Sergei
• New player model : Tony
• New voice and skins for Grism
• 26 new maps
• Quake's DM maps converted, from dm1 to dm7
• ce1m7's teleport bug fixed
• oa_bases3 had an overhaul, now more balanced too
• various weapon sounds are new
• new announcer voice
• dm4ish, dm6ish, and cbctf1 also had several changes
• new gibs
• new music
• uses ioquake3 revision 1107
• a lot of other stuff we forgot

0.6.0 (12/2/2006)

• Botfiles code from dmn_clown!
• Binaries updated to ioquake3 revision 982
• Engine now uses "baseoa" as a base folder as well as its own local user settings folder
• Pk3 files are now split into components again
• New splash video.
• Ogg support enabled.
• New player model : Kyonshi! She's based on the Chinese jiang-shi (hopping corpse) mythology. Created by enki and leileilol. Voice provided by pixie.
• New player model : Major! Created by JKM Makowka, animated and exported by leileilol. Voice also provided by pixie.
• Ed's conversion of Quake's E1M7 converted over (GPL v2)
• Vondur's Kaos map converted over. (GPL v2)
• Tyrann's Aggressor map converted over. (GPL v2)
• C.Brutail's cbctf1 converted over. (GPL v2 also)
• Gargoyle is reskinned by enki
• Gargoyle's wings are finally fixed and added.
• New lightning gun skin from enki
• New plasma gun skin from enki
• New railgun skin from enki
• New gauntlet skin from slyus
• New machinegun skin from slyus
• New lightning gun effects
• Health items reworked; they all have spheres with LODs and shaders
• Decals are slightly more polished.
• A lot of sounds are polished.
• New flesh footsteps
• New win32 icon
• Removed oa_bubctf1. Apparently the OGSL isn't so "Free" after all :(
• More 2D icons
• Mega health model
• Machinegun repositioned
• Machinegun flash rotated (to be a bit like q3's)
• Other little things I might have forgotten

0.5.1 (8/26/2006)

• Removed Fox_DF's sounds due to possible copyright issues
• "Mouth" weapon sounds take the old weapon sounds place
• LOD models added for: shotgun, gargoyle, grism(sarge)
• Alternate simple "sprite" muzzleflashes also included (low geometry detail mode)
• A couple new of benchmark demos added to demonstrate how well the new low detail meshes help game performance ;)
• Chaingun model added (for the 'missionpack' like project that may be done in the future)

0.5.0 (8/20/2006)

• New map! oa_bubctf1, based on ButtahB's bubctf1 (The Vast and the Furious). CPMA players might recognize it ;)
• New (and still temporary) machinegun texture
• New menu buttons, thanks to MilesTeg.
• New explosion sound and texture
• Flares! Toggle with r_flares 0 or 1.
• Detail textures! Toggle with r_detailTextures 0 or 1.
• Now based on icculus.org/quake3 source code.
• New skin for gargoyle - "tech" by Morphed.
• Gargoyle skins improved (mostly in musculature detail but the detail overlay has been changed too)
• Removed "ALPHA 4" and id software credits in menu
• Fire textures and shader!
• New liquid textures
• New grenade explosion
• Railtrail/plasmatrail shader implemented (cg_oldRail 0 / cg_oldPlasma 0)
• Rocket sparks shader implemented (cg_oldRocket 0)
• A new skybox from Nexuiz
• A new skybox (space) by MilesTeg
• dm4ish and q3dm6ish should have less zfighting and better texture alignment, thanks to div0
• some other things i forgot

up to version 0.4

Alpha 0.4.1 (6/6/2006)

• DM6ISH added, map by SavageX (adapted from Nexuiz map sources)
• New sound effects for the rocket launcher and shotgun
• New rocket launcher, with a quick skin and also a weapon hand! (So it doesn't look so big)
• New Gargoyle mapobject
• New door and menu sounds (lifted from openquartz)
• Fixed several decal shaders being overrided
• Sun flare shader fixed
• Reorganized files into seperate pk3 components
• InfoZIP is now used to pack the pk3s (slightly smaller now)
• Due to balance issues, oa_bases3 (CTF) is left out of the arenas.txt (it is still there, but play at your own risk!)
• "Tiny" build for slower and disk space deprived machines
• Windows installer now defaults its path to Program Files

Alpha 4 (5/7/2006)

• New shotgun skin and uvs from BlackThief.
• New railgun by leileilol. Crap skin unfortunately
• New gauntlet by leileilol. no skin yet
• New gargoyle player model by leileilol, however wings are broken so they are not exported.
• New flag by leileilol (very simple and small though)
• New remodeled low poly plasma gun by leileilol
• Chaingun muzzleflash by leileilol (made ahead of time for the future Team edition)
• New explosion sprites (sampled from a public domain "explosion" found on wikimedia commons)
• New CTF ditties by leileilol (corny and quickly tracked)
• New ambient sounds
• New "Sarge" sounds
• New banner5.md3 (The title logo)
• Fixed in some missing menu graphics
• Changed menu backgrounds to non*animated dark ones
• New oa_rpg3dm2 DM map by RPG, retextured for OA. (some bugs still remain, such as bright water, lack of flares, etc)
• flare shaders (not enabled in oa yet, you can use ioq3 though)
• added silly intro logo video

Alpha 3 DM Test (2/25/2006)

• internet play fixed! Thanks mewse for compiling the binaries too
• added announcer voices by Mancubus (http://mikelightner.org)
• Removed terrarena
• Removed tux as it's a small cheating model. Don't worry tux fans, he will be remodeled at proper size again surely :)
• DM4ish added, along with .MAP
• Q3DM6ish added, along with .MAP (Quick conversions of Aardappel's q1 maps of the same name)
• GRiSM player model animated, exported and available! Replaces the sarge gargoyle (there is no default "sarge" model yet) Model by Chris Holden, skins by Morphed, and rig/anims by leileilol.
• VMs seperated from content
• New machinegun, similar to the original (as it spins). UVW'd, but not skinned, so for now it is chromed.
• new temporary grenade launcher, with grenade model
• New machinegun and shotgun muzzleflashes
• crosshairs
• Some new textures from mewse
• fixed levelshot screen
• added levelshots :D
• a bunch of sounds are added from Nexuiz 1.5. props to alientrap
• vms are now recompiled from the gpl source.
• ui.qvm : alot of credits changes, cdkey screen has a notice, etc
• new plasma impact, pretty
• new railgun impact, just as pretty
• rocket and grenade explosions are tweaked to expand now. much better
• new bullet/shell impact, looks much better than the "firefly" sparks from before.
• new teleport effect
• plenty of new sounds now
• new armor
• lightning effect now works!
• basic gib