Silas Beta Demo 0.94

I've finished up the second beta demo test for Silas. I have fixed over 50 bugs and hopefully all the critical ones. As well, there are many new features as listed(thanks for the suggestions):

- Numbered Weapon Slots
- Online Stats section showing who's online ect.
- Online Leaderboards, Top40 killers and racers
- Perks, choose from over 30 different ones
- Message Board for posting
- Future Game Board where you can post when you'll be online and ready to play, this one works great if both users properly sets his timezone.

- "Shooter Mode" which is an unreal tournament onslaught style mode where you point and aim with the camera, and the kart will automatically drive itself in that direction. This allows you to have a very good view of the battlefield. Hit "Q" to activate.
- Revamped "Turret Mode" where the kart will now drive in the area your point to as well. Hit "F" to activate.
- You now know who was killed and commited suicide in the chat dialoge. As well, who joined and left.
- You can now choose if you want gliders or health powerups to appear in the match
- when chatting your cursor will always remain active until you click outside. This allows quick chatting.

- You now have the option to start a server and have it always listed on the database. This allows players to join your game while it is already in progress. And they can jump in and out as much as they want. This is not allowed for online races however.
- Network games now have their own server lobby. You can have over 20 servers started on the same network and the game will find them.
- Online Racing now works properly from start to finish. When you cross the finish line it waits for others to cross or eventually exits everyone.

- your online username and password are now saved and you don't need to enter again when restarting Silas.
- game now uses about 10x less network traffic
- camera arc values increased in air mode and more
- A couple new LoudCore songs

There is also a version checker now. This download is 752MB... however, after you download this beta, any future beta downloads will be less than 50MB because of the updater that enables in the online game. This will make future betas really easy. Do not combine this version with the old beta as it is standalone.

http://www.exaltstudios.com/forums/index.php?sid=1d021908a55ec80fb1aeeb188d162bba - post all bugs here

And if you enjoy the beta demo, you can pre-order the game here:

http://www.kartsilas.com

I hope to release it in July of 2011. If this beta holds up fairly well, that will be the final release date. I will also expand the beta to other communities for free if this beta holds up fairly well here. Please let me know all bugs.

Finally, here is the download link:

http://www.exaltstudios.com/Silas_Beta.zip

Thanks to everyone on this forum for all their help. And to those who pre-ordered, your support is needed.

I will have a server up tonight at 10 PM Mountain Time.

I will be gone next 2 days. But I hope everyone plays it and lets me know about any crashes or bugs.

We found one bad bug tonight where the camera messes up randomly after about 10 minutes of play or more in the deathmatch levels. Due to the new "shooter mode".

As well, there was a crash in Capture The Flag mode so play that one with caution.

Let me know about anything else wrong.

When I startup the game, I get an error saying:
"Silas: silas_demo.exe - Abbild fehlerhaft
Die Anwendung oder DLL H:\Download\Silas\Silad_Beta 0.94\msvcr100.dll ist keine gültige Windows-Dabeit. Überprüfen Sie dies mit der Installationsdiskette."

Rough translation: The msvcr100.dll is not a valid Windows-File. Please check this with the installation-floppy (and yes, the word used there is the word used for floppy, not CD... :P)

When I click okay it goes away and the game runs fine. I had a crash the first time I tried, but I don't remember when, so I can't give any useful feedback

What i did notice though: Does holding S make the car go backwards or does it reverse the current velocity? Because by pressing W and S a few times (and holding them together with D or A) I got weird movement, where W sometimes accelerated backwards and S forward or something... was hard to steer that way.
Graphics are still very nice. The UI at startup is very nice as well (main menu) later on it feels a little too full/unorganized. But it works, and this is just my 2 cents.

Realy nice Game.

But I have some things I want tell you.
Why isnt it possible to set the resolution to an wide screen
value like 1400x900? It looks shitty with 800x600 and on every
selection it tells me that my Computer doesnt support this resolution.

If I want to change the resolution it also make the game dark because
the dropdown menu is overlapping the brightness slider

The "weapon window" in game dont work right. Sometimes the
collected Weapons are not displayed or they are placed not right.

The mouse control is very sensitive. I dont look for an option.
Is there a option - sorry.

The levels are great designed in my opinion.

I hope I can find someone who wants to play it with me.

Good luck

The msvcr100.dll error you can just click enter through it and the game will still run. This just means it won't open your ports when you try to play as the .dll wont load. In order for it to work, you have to install the included VS 2010 package. I will make this a mandatory install in the future.

I found another crash if you use the "pipe snatch" mode. Perhaps this had to do with yours?

As for the movement, that's normal in Shooter Mode.


I've noted your bugs Bone. As for the resolution not being supported, I just check what you have on your desktop resolution. If it's anything more than that in either the x or y component, then I won't let you select it. What resolution is your desktop at?

My desktop resolution is 1440x900

Does the 1024x768 setting work for you?

yes ,it works

Hm, I was going to implement the UPNP dll as well. If you install the 2010 redist, will the 2008 redist become obsolete? Cause ANet needs 2008, and I don't want users to have to install both...

Ahh okay, I can make a 1400x900 resolution option then for a future beta.

I'm not too sure on if it makes it obsolete. I tried looking into it but couldn't find the info. I wonder if anyone else knows? I also use ANET for LAN game finding.

I have started a server. I hope I can get some people to join. Looking to do a test with 4+ players to see if I fixed a certain crash bug.

But its 1440x900

Ahh okay, lol. I'll take note.

you may want to check all the resolutions, i had errors with 800*600 and 1024*768, also for some reason, is C bound to chat ? because when i keybind C, it opens Chat it seems

What kind of errors did you have with them? Your right that C is bound for chat. I will have to put an option in settings to change it.

A new beta will be coming in the next day. However, for those who already downloaded, the update will be <60MB.

The new beta V.0.95 has been released! I hope everyone can come online and help me test. This one has also been released publicly on MODDB and other sites.

The link to it is the same as above.

www.exaltstudios.com/Silas_Beta.zip

And here is the simple patch update 0.95 which is only about 80MB:

http://www.exaltstudios.com/update

sorry for the late reply, there were issues with the radar.. the blips were no longer positioned on it, also the character was no longer in the center of the screen which made it unplayable, now i cant exactly say what caused that however

Odd, I never heard of the character error before. What mode were you in?

Got an online game going on right now.

i was just in tutorial

Thanks for the run down. I tried the resolutions you mentioned in the tutorial and I cant reproduce the bugs. I was hoping you might remember some more specifics... was the character and kart invisible? Or if they were visible, what part of the screen were they on? As well, did they work in other resolutions on your computer?

As well, what is your current desktop resolution? I am wondering this to see what resolution the game started initially in. Thanks.

i'll be sure to posts some screens soon, busy atm

Thanks.