0.7 beta released! (Page 2 of 4)

I agree with Rich3yy.

0.7.0 must be in the download section and on steam as well.

I have a perception of DDNet preventing 0.7.0 success, because they need to port DDNet to 0.7.0 and their programmers are lazy or don't have time.

Just my honest opinion...

0.7 is preventing the success of 0.7, not DDNet

You don't know what u are talking about.
DDNet has the playerbase, ddnet wouldn't care less about porting to 0.7 more when it looks so crapy

Teeworlds for ddnet is like carrying a arm that is completly rotten and should be cut off, ddnet should become standalone.

rofl

Edit:
DDNet is better than Teeworlds

Disastrous

Not even compatible -- implications of this are just absolute insanity

Compatible? Different minor versions of Teeworlds have never been compatible. That's the whole point.

Since you seem to have pinpointed security issues, maybe you could submit a pull request and we'd jump fast to 0.8 with these issues fixed.

In general 0.7 has several issues and bugs, but I suppose the only way to get development going was to release it.

The idea is to get releases going faster if possible. You see only one piece of the picture. TW development has been stalled for years. There is at least a bit of motivation for fixing things now. I suggest to those who are not happy with the situation to submit pull requests and fix their pet peeves.

There are outstanding issues in 0.7.0 (mostly semi-broken server list) that have been fixed in the repository and a 0.7.1 version will be released shortly.

I agree with Magnet and think it is a good idea to put out a new version despite of some issues. You know, fixing things is certainly not the most fun task and seeing the success of finally releasing a new version can really motivate you to do that stuff. I'm happy to hear there are already things being fixed and an update might not be too far away.

It's not like with big publishers were we are paying for a game and still a buggy piece of software gets thrown on the market in many cases. It's a free game, and if the devs believe a release can push them, that's a good thing and their right to do.

I see why this might be an issue, and it still could go be regarded as a "bad release practice", but I think, in this case, getting the development going is the greater good.

And after all, as of now, there is no pre-compiled version uploaded anyway, so I don't see much of an issue of turning new people away from the game.

Loving TW since 2010

I would have fun helping newer players to learn the game.
However, that wouldn't be enough, as the game itself has a high skill ceiling and new players are often being demolished, they will never like that.

I always thought about that, but I guess it could actually help Teeworlds: An Elo system with alot of servers (by default) for CTF, DM etc. It could either be used for something like a matchmaking system (like in some MOBA games or like in CS:GO) OR there could be a shuffle system which will make EVEN teams, since that is also a big problem sometimes.
For example: Average skill from team red is 1500 and the average skill from team blue is 1450 and not something like 3000 against 800. I got that idea from the game "Natural Selection 2", and there it at least makes even teams, because without it teams are uneven af. This could be combined with a leveling system which uses ranked servers (only ranked as there are no certain mods which could manipulate the system/ like in NS2) in order to put a new player into a certain skill group (the value must fluctuate at first, after a time it would only go down/up slowly).

This might sound like a hard to achieve change, but maybe it can save the game or make it more fair somehow?

By the way, I think people are overreacting about 0.7 being bad or so. I actually believe it's actually that there hasn't been a new update since 8 years or so and now people are freaking out about CHANGES. They always do, but they will adapt and forget they ever happen as soon as the game is finally ACTUALLY public. Examples are: YouTube (the Google+ change), CS:GO (several meta changes) or whatever.

I still personally consider the naming scheme of the elimination modes to be a mistake - just call it "elimination" or EL. Then team elimination is TEL. It's a lot more consistent than the current lms/sur naming scheme - I for one have no recollection of which one of those is a team mode and which one isn't. I would really like to see this changed.

Anyway, aside from that - I have a number of issues with the menu system, as it feels clunkier than the old one. For one thing, the background makes it extremely hard to read the menu (remember those early websites with tiling GIF animations as their backgrounds, with colored text directly on top?). This part absolutely needs fixing, as it is not friendly to anyone with vision problems. Additionally, the resolution picker is not as easy to use anymore with the new 'click over and over until you get the correct aspect ratio' system.

I'll probably have more input to come in the future as I look over the new version, but I'll be better able to make comments once I can actually see the menus in the first place.

Call it Battle Royale - problem solved. Maybe steal some Fortnite players in process.