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Odamex 0.9.0 has officially been released! Huge credit to AlexMax, Ch0wW, Ralphis, Hobomaster, Hyper_Eye, Manc, DeathEgg,  pmjdebruijn, and Ru5tK1ng for all of their contributions that made this release possible. Read on to view a more comprehensive changelog.


Despite the strives we made for a better mouse with 0.8.3, resident coder Hobomaster still dug into reported issues and discovered more ways to reduce latency via mouse polling. After a lot of testing and feedback from veteran competitive players, the mouse feels amazing now!

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There are a lot of details with this release, but what you need to know is listed below:

New Features
   

• Introducing Avatars! These are substitutes for voodoo dolls in co-op;
  
  • An avatar is an object that attempts to take the place of a voodoo doll in multiplayer.  Instead of pretending to be any player in particular, it's just an object, but with special handling in order to make any effects that would normally target a player target all ingame players instead.
     
  
• Introducing new game modes: Survival, Last Marine Standing (and team Last Marine Standing), and Attack & Defend CTF.
  
  • All of these new game modes were added as modifiers to the existing game modes.  You can independently turn on lives, multiple rounds and sides to configure your game how you like it.
  • The scoreboard and HUD will dynamically change depending on if lives, rounds and sides are enabled.
  • There are also new "roundlimit" and "winlimit" conditions that trigger after a specified number of rounds have been played and certain number of rounds have been won respectively.
  • There is also a new floating arrow sprite above attacker's flag sockets in Attack & Defend CTF.
     
  
• A new CTF setting that prevents touch-returning the flag, g_ctf_notouchreturn.
  
  • Our playtesting has found that this greatly enhances Attack & Defend CTF.
     
  
• Introducing support for a third team, colored green.
  
  • This team can be used with any team-based game mode, and both the HUD and scoreboard will make room for it.
     
  
• A new in-client file downloader!
  
  • Utilizing the popular cURL library, this feature will download resources like WAD and DEH files from web sites.  This new system is much faster and reliable than the old odasrv-based downloader and thus the old system was removed.
  • If the files necessary to connect are not found, the new system will still check the server's sv_website setting for files to download.
  • As a fallback, the system will use an internal list to search web sites to search for the files.  You can customize this list with cl_downloadsites.
  • You can download a WAD or DEH without having to connect to a server using the new download command.
     
  
• LANGUAGEv2 support for LANGUAGE lumps.
  
  • Support for the old binary-format LANGUAGE lump has been removed.
     
  
• Numerous fixes for Boom/MBF maps.
• Server-side logging for WDL-format statistics.
• A new cvardoc command will export a complete list of client and server cvars to an HTML file on disk.
• Player join queues! This way all players have equal chances to play by queuing up for a game. Excellent for duels!
• Secrets found in Cooperative and Survival are broadcasted to all players now.
• Support for analog controller triggers has been added.
• The "Secret has been revealed" message is now accompanied by a unique sound.
• Server admins can specify a -crashout launch parameter to specify where to save crash dumps to.
• A new CVAR sv_sharekeys has been added that shares keys among all players in cooperative modes.
• Servers will now inform clients when a setting has been changed server-side.

Third-party code contributions
   

• Restored compatibility with the shareware iwad (doom1.wad). Thanks pmjdebruijn!
• Support for "no stop teleport" special 154. Thanks Ru5tK1ng!
• Support for 16-frame sprite supports. Thanks DeathEgg!

Fixes
   

• Keys were not displaying to other players when viewing them.
• A bug that caused HOMs in netdemos.

Changes
   

• Mouse movement has been modified to make it more responsive.
• SDL2 has been updated to release 2.0.12.
• There is now a build-time dependency on deutex in order to build odamex.wad.
• Increased maximum resolution to 8192x6144.
• The number is sound channels is now 32.
• Team Deathmatch now always shows the team objective scoreboard, and the team points that go with it.
• Tab-completion now lists all commands that the user might be looking for instead of completing to the next command in alphabetical order.
• Team-based strings now have added team colors in the console and message area.
• The console font has been changed to a fresh new one, courtesy of Team Eternity.
• Updated various sprites in odamex.wad, including many of the BIGFONT letters and the marine picture frame.

Many under-the-hood changes have been implemented into this release, and because of that we anticipate a few bugs and crashes that testing did not reveal to be uncovered with un-organized play. Because of this, we can expect 0.9.1 to release within a few weeks to resolve major issues found with this release. Still, this release is solid and will be a noticeable improvement over 0.8.3. Please report all found bugs on our new GitHub Bug Tracker.


Have we said enough that we love our amazing Discord community? Thanks for always being there with us for great games and development help! Join the fun to chat, organize games, and track development of the Odamex project!

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Updated to version 0.8.3 32-bit

The patch:

Index: common/p_map.cpp
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--- common/p_map.cpp (revision 3958)
+++ common/p_map.cpp (working copy)
@@ -3026,7 +3026,7 @@
  nofit = false;
  crushchange = crunch;
 
- if (co_boomsectortouch)
+ if (co_boomsectortouch || co_zdoomphys)
  {
  msecnode_t *n;

Here is a 64-bit build of the latest version in case anyone wants it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7guknefwht204h/odamex081-64-b4.zip?dl=0

Hi friends:

Attached is the release candidate for Odamex 0.8.1. It is a 32-bit Windows build of the client only. 64-bit and with the full package will be released once 0.8.1 is officially released. To install this, I strongly recommend that you create a second folder for Odamex (I call mine odamex-dev) and extract the files into that folder. Then, grab your odamex.cfg from your normal install and it should be ready to go.

Here is a list of changes with this release since 0.8.1:

* the server will now inform the user that the maplist was cleared
* fixed a crash when using maplist with no wads specified
* updated compatible versions of freedoom to include 0.10 to 0.11.2
* fixed a crash that could happen if the WEAPON_RAISE state is called during the start of the demo
* the warmup message now specifies which key needs to be pressed to "ready up"
* fixed a bug where palette and blending would not be updated during intermission
* added sv_respawnsuper, which can enable and disable super powerups like megasphere and invulnerability sphere
* removed obsolete code that would only update sectors every 3rd tic that could result in desyncs
* remove cl_updaterate since it is no longer used
* remove update_rate from userinfo since it is no longer used
* fixed active moving sectors getting stuck when switching from in-game to spectator mode
* fixed the alt key getting stuck on Windows when moving in and out of the odamex window with tab
* fixed some vanilla demo desyncs
* fixed some sectors not having the floor and ceiling textures updated in online mode
* fixed being able to drown in god mode
* fixed co_globalsound not working as intended
* in single-player mode the game will now pause if the console is on screen
* added "lobby" support to MAPINFO to allow players to create lobby maps
* added sv_latency to simulate latency on the server. This command is intended for developers only and must be #defined in the source.
* fixed a bug where the client would hear switch activating sounds when connecting to a server
* the client is now much better optimized for rendering transparency
* fixed issue where many non-widescreen resolutions were getting stretched across the screen in fullscreen mode instead of having pillarboxes
* changed some of the default binds to be more in alignment with modern shooter controls
* bobbing is now disabled in spectator mode and flying and mouselook are on by default
* added hud_scoreboard_ondeath (default 1). This now allows us to hide the scoreboard on death.
* added hud_demobar to now hide the progression bar during the playback of a demo
* added hud_heldflag_flash to enable or disable the flashing that occurs with the flag hud in CTF
* added options for filtering specific gamemode demos in the network settings
* added Nintendo Switch support
* Fixed an SDL issue that resulted in potentially having different mouse sensitivity in windowed mode vs fullscreen mode
* Added vid_pillarbox, which will allow the user to stretch the picture to the full screen instead of using pillarboxing in lower resolutions like 640x480
* Added experimental server cvar "sv_download_test" (default 0). This is a change that will stop odasrv from constantly opening and closing a wad file for a user attempting to download. We are hoping this will stop lag spikes from happening when multiple users are attempting to download a pwad, however it can only be tested with large crowds. If it works out the cvar will be removed and it will be turned on permenantly
* fixed vid_32bpp not refreshing the screen to re-enable 32bpp rendering
Please note that this RC is not compatible with 0.8.0 servers due to updates and bug fixes in the netcode. If you want a server to test with, feel free to use [NJ] Homeless Town - 0.8.1 Dev Testing - Duel 2020 - 45.76.166.154:10668. This server will not show up in Odalauncher because it uses a different release version (unless you make your own build of the launcher with updated code)

Of course if you have questions or run into issues, please ask us here or on our Discord server :)

Download Odamex Win32 0.8.1RC Client

Doomseeker is a launcher developed by Blzut3 and Zalewa and is compatible with many ports. The package I am presenting here is built exclusively for Odamex, but other engine plugs can be installed as well :)

First, tell Doomseeker where Odamex is under Options > Configurations:



Then go under "File Paths" and tell Doomseeker where you have wads (doom2.wad) installed:



You can also have Doomseeker search your PC for iwads if you do not know where they are located. It can be hard to find them on Windows 10.

Then tell Doomseeker where you want it to save your downloaded wads to:



After that you can hit "Apply" and "OK" and start fragging away easily :)



I like Doomseeker because it has a feature called WADSEEKER, which will download pwads for you at high speed and install them before Odamex is launched.

You can download Doomseeker for Odamex here

And the Doomseeker web site is located here for more info on the program itself. Doomseeker is also available for Linux and Mac and the source code is free to download as well.

If someone new were to try playing Doom deathmatch, what deathmatch wads would you recommend for Odamex?