Madmatt Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 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, 06:41 PM: Message edited by: Madmatt ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Los Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Does this mean LAN games are disabled too Matt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grappler Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Yes. Right now no LAN games. Right now you have to either play on our servers or set up your own server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameroon Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Los, are you running Windows? Are you familiar with the command line? Make sure whichever person is hosting the game has port 9967 open. Even if you aren't familiar with the command line, hopefully these instructions can help you out (note: I don't know how powerful your machine would need to be to be the host and client, so...): 1. Go to Start and select Run 2. Type cmd and click Ok 3. Type cd c:\program files\battlefront\dropteam public test\bin and press Return 4. Type DropTeamP4Release.exe -enterlobby false -hostmode server -lobbyname YourGameName -numbots0 4 -numbots1 4 -dynamicbots true -gametype Objective and press Return 5. You won't see any apparent results, but it should be running now. 6. Double-click the DropTeam icon on the desktop and connect to the server. If you'd like to adjust the number of bots on each team, simply change the -numbots0 and -numbots1 parameters (and I did try it to make sure it works). In order to stop the DropTeam server, you'll have to use the Task Manager since there doesn't appear to be a way to do it otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaytoniousRex Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Were you running the PCF Test Server, Cameroon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Los Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Thanks it worked like a charm! Los Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameroon Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 PCF Test? I ran one server, CamsCantina, for probably an hour or hour and a half off an OS X box and then I tested the instructions I gave Los and that was maybe 15 minutes. Can't recall what that one was named. I don't know if that answers your question, but I'm assuming that there was a server running called PCF Test or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 Does anyone know whether it will run at all on a lampshade dual OS 800 MHz iMac? After all, CMBO wasn't supposed to work on a Gen One 233 MHZ iMac with 2 MB VRAM 32 MB RAM, but it did and pretty well, too. Regards, John Kettler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aittam Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 should may be smooth the setting but def should Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 I downloaded it fine from the first listed Mac site, but it refuses to unarchive. Comes back Error 2, no file found. aittam, Are you auditioning to replace E.E. Cummings? Regards, John Kettler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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