2011.06.10 - CSiS Development Team

"do you have what it takes to battle your enemies lightyears away from earth? can you compete with real, live opponents, in your lan and the internet? are you ready to join the fierce squad of the best pilots in the whole world? CSiS is the new mulitplayer space game experience that will not only gloriously revive the space action simulation genre, but redefine it and take it to the next level. charge your cannons!"

Teaser: (youtube, 720p recommended)

Video Link

We're pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the multiplayer shooter CSiS - Combat Simulation System 0.50.
Many months have passed since the first Public Playtest in October 2010 and we can assure you, the team has not been lazy. We have looked at all the data you have shared with us during this first test phase and made CSiS stronger, more stable, more fun. But this release is so much more than just bugfixes, it is stuffed to the top with new features, which are so numerous that we cannot possibly tell you everything we have done. To wet your appetite, we have selected the 7 most outstanding features. CSiS 0.50 ships with:

• a complete new ice world filled with frozen asteroids, icy gases and spine-chilling effects.
• as requested, we added a tutorial level to make you familiar with your ship and its systems. learn how to defeat your enemies in no time!
• dedicated server support with a handy auto-rehosting option in the event of a hard application crash. CLI support for weaker machines.
• BOT support for the full 16 player CSiS experience, even if you could not convince 16 of your friends to play our game with you.
• two new team game modes - team deathmatch and capture the station. prepare to be blown away!
• a great new set of soundtrack files made by our new incredibly talented composer Francesco Di Buono. but if you prefer to listen to your own files, CSiS 0.50 ships with soundtrack support for music files on your hard drive as well.
• revisited shaders with support for the latest state-of-the-art anti aliasing, shadow mapping, lighting and transparency effects.

Download:

CSiS 0.50 is completely free to play and represents yet another major milestone in our development cycle. download a copy today and join one of the servers we have running.
http://csis-game.net/pages/cargo-bay.php
(Unpack and then double click CSiSInstall.exe to install. We used .7z to pack it because of limited space and smaller downloads. Recommended tools to unpack: Win-rar or .7zip. For those of you with limited download capacity, I'm willing to burn CDs and ship them to you if you pm me.)
The Team will try to host a minimum of 2 servers day and night for the first 5 days. But of course you are free to (and we would certainly appreciate if you would) host your own. We have servers only running in Europe at the moment, if someone in the USA could host one as well, we'd be very thankful.

Request:
Please post bugs, errors, suggestions, rants, critique and praise either at our Forum or here, or feel free to drop us a mail/pm if you need support to host a server.

See you online!



Note for people trying to host a dedicated server:
In most cases, you can simply use the CSiS.exe and click "host", then choose "dedicated server". If you want to join your own internet server from behind the same router, you might have to enter the IP address manually on the client when you see the serverlist.
Please use the rehosting feature (type 'yes') and try the bot_min command (type help bot_min in the console after startup).
Also, don't forget to forward port 5556 to the correct PC in your LAN and allow all the logger and engine files (up to three binaries) to communicate through your firewall.
(on some PCs you may need to start the game, close it down (use the shutdown command) allow all the files through your firewall, and then rehost).
For further info, see the help files or pm me.