Version history for Blastup 2

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Blastup 2 Beta 1.8, 15/7 2004

• Added stereo support, or what you should call it...
• Added support for multiple weapons.
• Added new weapons:
  - Bazooka (is now default weapon)
  - Rocket launcher
  - Rubber Duck
  - Acid Covered Explosive
• Added new theme (misty).
• Added small arrows that show where things are above the screen.
• Added mouse support (mostly used in menus).
• Added ammo count config.
• Added a weapon selection menu. Press left mouse-button when you play to bring it up.
• Added a way of creating randomized computer players.
• Added the option "CPU friendly". It makes the game use less processor power at the cost of a lower framerate.
• Added a "Introduction", "Command line arguments" and "The weapons" part in the readme.
• Now demomode uses randomized players.
• Now only checks whether keys are down or not when window is selected.
• Now there are different starting menus for normal/network games, and if you only toggle one player when starting a normal game, the opponent will be a random CP.
• Now you can only use timed mode on grenades.
• Now you can turn off the menu sounds.
• Now you can toggle fullscreen using any Alt key.
• Updated the translocator (new gfx, changed friction etc).
• Expanded the dirty rectangle system quite a bit.
• Rewritten the ini-file system.
• Moved the config-inis from ini\ to ini\cfgs\ to prevent name conflicts.
• Changed the explosions a bit.
• Changed the AI slightly.
• Removed the save landscape bug.
• Removed the bug which appeared when explosions changed size.
• Removed the /get file command, and increased the security with file requests a bit.
• Removed the bug where the blastups were placed on the landscape when you quit a game.
• Removed bug which sometimes prevented images from getting loaded.
• Fixed some network bugs (but more fixes needed...)
• Fixed some WinXP windowed mode bugs.
• Fixed some windowed/fullscreen mode switch bugs.
• Fixed a bug that slowed down particles when game ran at high fps.
• "Fixed" a WinXP/FMod/DirectSound bug by adding the "Force waveOut" option.
• Lots of other stuff not really worth mentioning.

Blastup 2 Beta 1.7b, 6/8 2002

• Fixed the all-black-thingy-bug with landscapes that appeared sometimes.
  
• Fixed the not staining when supposed to bug.
  

Blastup 2 Beta 1.7, 5/8 2002

• Added a gfx options menu for increasing performance on low end rigs (and increase gfx effects on newer ones). You can now alter: Water detail, weater fx, blood level, explosion details, tails, "damage fly away", nr of particles etc.
• Added a fanfare-thingy for the end
• Added tailes to the explosion particles
• Added smoke to explosions
• Added "real" demomode. Run blastup 2.exe with -demo ("blastup 2.exe" -demo [-ini file])
• Added more themes (beachnight, rainynight, snownight, hell)
• Added "Enter name or seed" options for the landscape menu. Very handy.
• Added support for .pngs as backgrounds/earth/levels (old themes must add TextureFlags=0 under [global]).
• Added a file checker thingy, so if you do not have same files as the master, then you will download it.
• Changed "Player have 3 points" to "Player has 3 points" as it should be.
• Rewritten the particle system, so now I can add more weapons more easly.
• Made the chat/console availible in singleplayer for writing commands.
• Improved the stars a bit (some are biggers, and they twinkle (it may be hard to see))
• The computer does no longer change landscape more then once, and it does it more often.
• The theme name is now saved along with the landscape when saving (old saves still works)
• The amount of health lost does now "fly" away from the player...
• The blastup's speeds are is now affected a bit less by the explosions
• Removed annoying sounds when placing blastups

Blastup 2 Beta 1.6b, 7/5 2002

• Fixed those stupid network bugs which made it quite impossible to play the latest version

Blastup 2 Beta 1.6, 6/5 2002

• Added a ping function. Press 'P' (in net mode).
• Added a chat function. Press 'C' (in net mode).
• Added more stats
• Added awards at end of game (experimental)
• Added support for most signs
• Added a "Play again?" thing at end of game
• Added installer and uninstaller using NSIS (Nullsoft Install System)
• Increased the brightness of the night themes
• Does no longer remove particles when not needed.
• Changed some things with the friction
• Moved the damage center on blastups from the center of body to the center of the eye
• Fixed bug when the options weren't saved if you used a custom .ini
• Fixed some small bugs
• Removed bug that made the blastups affected by the fireworks
• _Really_ removed bug which made the crosshair to be activated when it was not supposed to

Blastup 2 Beta 1.5, 8/3 2002

• Added some more colors
• Added network support. Play it by selecting one player instead of two when you start the game. It is not tested very much yet, so please report any bugs you notice.
• Added support for .pngs using libpng
• Added limits for the landscape themes so that they can not crash the game (I hope).
• Added support for stars
• Added themes: greenhills, night, plasticnight
• Added new options:
  - Sfx volume
  - Staining blood (crappy)
  - Input limit (this was added before, but now you can change the limit)
• Made the wind arrow a bit nicer
• Remade the log system
• Renamed the .theme extension to .btheme to avoid confusion with window themes.
• It now works to load/save options from the landscape generation menu
• Really made the particles unaffacted by the wind
• You can now access the player options menu from the start game menu
• Options are now saved more often, so alt+f4 will not lose as much changes
• The sights are now forced onscreen
• You can now toggle between fullscreen & windowed mode using alt+enter

Blastup 2 Beta 1.4, 26/1 2002

• Added a "heal" option in the landscape selection menu
• Added support for coloured texts, and shadows on text
• Added support for saving and loading options
• Added new options:
  - Automove to play (moves to "play this landscape" automaticly)
  - Symmetric landscapes
• Corrected "explosion radius" to "explosion diameter"
• Changed the loadingscreens a bit
• Moved all inis to a sub directory
• You can now launch blastup with a specified ini-file ("blastup 2" -ini jolle), and all your options will be saved in the specified ini instead of blastup 2.ini.
• Players can now choose a color (if you want to keep your old players.ini, then you have to add Color=16777215 under each player)
• Particles are no longer affected by the wind. It didn't look good.
• Shots/Blood do no longer leave any particles if they are on the ground.
• The playertexts are now on screen more

Blastup 2 Beta 1.3, 13/1 2002

• Added support for fake bumpmapping/emboss on landscapes. All custom theme must be updated! Add these two lines under [Earth]: "BumpScale=0" & "BumpExtraSmooth=0".
• Added support for . and : in texts
• Added descriptions of the options in the readme
• Added new options:
  - Change wind between turns
  - Translocator (with two new sounds)
• The input is now limited to 60 times/sec
• You can now hold down shift to aim/change values faster
• Blastups now collide with each other
• Wind now affect particles
• Angle and power are now stated on screen
• The "Wind-o-meter" is now animated when wind change
• All shots now leave sparkles, not only the ones with high speed.
• Snow is no longer frame dependent
• Changed the sight and playertext locations a bit
• Removed bug from last version which made it impossible for two computerplayers to play

Blastup 2 Beta 1.2, 30/12 2001

• Timed particles now fade away
• Players and particles are now shown when game is paused
• Shots are shot a bit harder so watch your aim
• Computers aims is moving all the time now
• Nuke does no longer bail out when game is paused
• Force water even if it is not turned on for the theme
• Water is updated 30 times per second now instead of 25
• Waves are no longer too large and ugly if wind is set too high
• The wind bar is no longer shown when there is no wind
• Wind change between rounds even if you continue on the same landscape
• Minor changes to the landscape. (e.g. their friction)
• The appearance of the snow slightly changed
• The game now lets the player create players directly when starting a game if there isn't two yet.
• Menu system reprogrammed. Not really visible for users, but the code is a bit cleaner and the menus.ini is removed. The menus are a bit faster, and they also remember where you were
• Moved the "score to win" option from the options menu to the start game menu
• Changed the options menu
• The options menu is now accesible from the landscape selection menu
• Added new options:
  - High edges on landscapes
  - Indestructible landscapes
  - Force landscape above water
  - 1-5 shots
  - 40-150 damage per shot
  - Explosion radius of 32-128
  - Explosions that don't affect players
  - Blastup health 30-250
• Slightly changed readme
• Does not waste as much cpu power for the computer players as before

Blastup 2 Beta 1.1, 16/11 2001

• New icon (from this game instead of from the first blastup)
• Added tail for grenades launched at full speed
• Included an experimental (and very slow) version with motionblur
• Improved performance by optimising the water some more
• "Special" keys (f, s) can be used in menus
• Blastups now really always face each other
• Fireworks is no longer frame dependent
• Loading screens are now bluish
• One of the rain layers is now behind the landscape
• Removed bug which appeared if choosing "quit this game" when a blastup was dead
• Removed bug which doubled the fps in slowmotion
• Really removed bug which made the crosshair to be activated when it was not supposed to

Blastup 2 Beta 1, 16/10 2001

• Wrote this file
• Released the sourcecode. See source.zip and readme.txt in source.zip.
• Added an fps counter (toggle with 'f')
• Added water rings when it is raining
• Added sfx in menus
• Added theme rocky
• Added a new cheat (AbuseBlood)
• Improved antialising on landscapes and explosions
• Improved performance by adding a sort of dirty rectangle system (50% faster =)
• Improved performance by optimising the water a bit
• Removed bug with the text in the landscape load/save input field
• Removed bug which made the crosshair to be activated when it not was supposed to
• Removed small water bug (water "stuck" at the edges)
• Increased chance that the computers will continue on the same landscape
• The game now saves ini on quit instead of when leaving options menu
• Changed the wind to be weaker at the bottom while as strong as before at the top
• Slightly changed the way landscapes are saved. Older landscapes will not work (sorry)
• Blastups now always face each other (i hope...)

-- Please note that the history below this line is not fully correct --

Blastup 3 Alpha Release 3, 12/8 2001

• Support for menus added
• Support for saving/loading landscapes
• Support for computerplayers
• Blastups are saved along with their stats
• Annoying watersounds removed

Blastup 2 Alpha Release 2, 27/6 2001

• Added readme
• Added different cheats (toggleable in blastup 2.ini)
• Added samples.
• Added slowmotion mode (toggle with 's')
• Added soundsupport (using fmod)
• Added particle support (used by e.g. explosions and blood)
• Added information on how to write your own themes in landscape.ini
• Added fullscreen support
• Improved water effect

Blastup 2 Alpha Release 1, ?/? 2001 (not really released)

• More sprites created
• Text input supported
• Landscape selection
• Fully playable, can do shots and explosiones etc
• Scoreboard at end of rounds

Blastup 2 Preview #1, 4/5 2001:

• The first version released at my homepage
• Added theme beach and removed theme test
• Support for text added, and a font created
• Placing blastups, and doing text animation

Blastup 2 Landscape Preview 1.5, ?/? 2001 (not really released)

• Support for rain, snow and water
• Added theme rainy

Blastup 2 Landscape Preview 1, ?/? 200? (not really released)

• First version released
• Landscape generator created
• Keyboard code and some of the gfxcode done
• Themes created: default, snow and test
• Support for log and ini:s
• The sprites for the blastups drawed (not used, although included)