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The maps look pretty neat, I look forward to getting a chance to play through them

An example of how this would look in game:

Client goes to console and types votemap. The following is output in their console:

[1] UDM1.WAD MAP01
[2] UDM1.WAD MAP04
[3] DWANGO5.WAD MAP02
[4] DWANGO5.WAD MAP11

These are the maps in the server's map list. Say there are four players in a server, Ralphis, Manc, Denis, and SoM.

I want to vote for dwango5 map11, so I type votemap 4 in the console. The following would be output to all players in the server:

Ralphis has voted on DWANGO5.WAD MAP11 [4] (1/3)

1 being how many people have voted on the map so far, 3 being the required votes (over 50% of players in the server rounds up to 3 players).

At the same time, Manc could do the same thing and vote on another map, say udm1 map04 by using votemap 2. The following would be output to clients:

Manc has voted on UDM1.WAD MAP04 [2] (1/3)

So there are now two votes in progress at the same time. Then denis decides that Manc has a good idea voting for udm1 map04, so he also types votemap 2. The following is output to clients:

Denis has voted on UDM1.WAD MAP04 [2] (2/3)

SoM is convinced that Manc and Denis have the right idea so he agrees and types votemap 2 in the console as well:

SoM has voted on UDM1.WAD MAP04 [2] (3/3)

So now all the required votes have been met and the server will jump to intermission and switch to udm1.wad map04.

Bug 474 cannot be reproduced anymore, marked invalid.

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The fifth, and likely, the last release in the 0.4.X series of Odamex, 0.4.4 introduces some important fixes for server administrators and players.

Odamex 0.4.4 comes with the usual code optimization and bug fixes, as well as improvements related to client/server sector desyncs and dehacked support.

The Odamex client comes with a few fixes which include weapon sorting issues, a working reimplementation of spynext in coop, server disconnects, and crashes which affected Linux users.

Important changes for server administrators are included in 0.4.4, including fixes for a variety of memory leaks which were found since the release of 0.4.3. Odamex 0.4.4 also corrects a crash which occured on win32 machines when using the "clearmaplist" command. It appears that the infamous bug which spawned random objects in capture the flag mode has potentially been resolved as well.

An additional cvar, sv_unblockplayers, allows server administrators to make it so that players may pass through eachother. This may be useful to prevent players from stopping forward progression by problematic players in cooperative mode.

The launcher received a significant number of fixes and optimizations since the last version, notably with improved Mac OSX support.

There's much more technical and smaller fixes in this release! Check out a more extensive list in the release page or the complete listing using our svn changelog.

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After an eighteen month wait, Odamex has an official Mac OS X package once again! The package works on both x86 and PPC systems and has been confirmed to work with OS X 10.4 and higher.

This has been one of the most frequently received requests from our players. Many thanks go to Hyper_Eye who took the time to prepare and package Odamex for our loyal (and patient) Mac users.

To grab the package, click the Apple at the top of our home page.