Madmatt Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 This is a public multiplayer test release of DropTeam . The purpose of this release is to test DropTeam's network functionality with a large number of players. Anyone can play for free in order to help us test DropTeam but this build has the following important restrictions: <blockquote> 1. Single player is disabled. You can only play network games with this release. The full version of the game includes single player skirmish games and a single player campaign. 2. This release only allows you to play 2 scenarios. The full version of the game includes 21 scenarios with more available for free download after release. 3. This is a test release, which means the game isn't finished yet. It definitely still has bugs. We greatly appreciate your help in finding and fixing them all! <p align="center"> </blockquote> Apart from these restrictions, this is a fully functional release. Players can use all of the dozens of vehicles and deployable items in the game. The two included scenarios are "Ice Field" and "Raid". Ice Field takes place on the frozen wasteland of Arcanum, a once-inhabitable planet orbiting Luyten's Star that has had its climate devastated by bombardments from the Mu Arae Entente. The Raid scenario takes place on an inhabitable moon called Hopewell. Hopewell orbits a gas giant in the Wolf 9773 star system. Almost half of the moon's surface, called "The Scorch", is a radioactive Hell created by the destruction of an antimatter station that used to orbit the gas giant. The remainder of Hopewell has recovered from this disaster and is once again beginning to flourish with vegetation and a growing human population. This release includes everything needed to connect to servers and play on the Internet or on Local Area Networks on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X Tiger. It also includes everything needed for players to run their own public or private servers. This is important since there will be a limited number of public servers made available by TBG. We plan to run only 6 servers for this public test release so players might need to run their own servers if they want to play frequently. A stripped down version of the game's manual is available in PDF format. This abbreviated manual explains everything players need to know about running the game and also what administrators need to know about running their own servers. Please utilize this forum to discuss any issues you find with this Public Test. Any bugs should also be posted here. <p align="center"> <p align="center">DropTeam Public Test Minimum Requirements: <p align="left"> Geforce4/Radeon 9600 64MB VRAM class video or better 512 MB system RAM WINDOWS * Pentium III 800MHz or better * Catalyst 6.2 or higher drivers for ATI users * Forceware 81.98 or higher for nVidia users * OpenGL 1.5 or better for other video cards MAC * OS X Tiger 10.4.5 or higher * G4 1.2 GHz or higher Note: Intel CPU's not yet supported on OS X LINUX * GLIBC version 2.3.4 or higher * X Windows with working OpenGL acceleration * ALSA audio <p align="center"> <p align="center">Recommended System: <p align="left"> * P4 or G5 CPU * 1 GB RAM * nVidia 6600 or Radeon 9800 class video card Download the DropTeam Multplayer Public Test From Here [ March 16, 2006, 06:40 PM: Message edited by: Madmatt ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Hey Matt, does the manual come in the download or can we acquire it separately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 There is a special PDF manual for the Public Test with the download. You'll find it inside the game installation directory (e.g. C:/Dropteam/PublicTestManual.pdf) The game itself will come with a bigger fully printed manual. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Originally posted by Moon: There is a special PDF manual for the Public Test with the download. You'll find it inside the game installation directory (e.g. C:/Dropteam/PublicTestManual.pdf) The Linux version seems to miss that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaytoniousRex Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 You can get it here, Redwolf: Public Test Manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Is there or will there be a single player demo of DropTeam? (If there is, I sure can't find it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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