Project: Wargame ( Online )
Multiplayer Beta Coming Up
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Posted 6th Aug 09, by Mxthe
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Hey people ! Sorry for the silence, I have been converting wargame to online multiplayer for over a month now...
It is about to hit the beta state, but there are still a lot of glitches and bugs !
Now, Wargame has a Lobby, basically, when you connect to the server, you automatically join the Wargame Lobby, when you are in the game session browser, you just have to hit TAB key to display/hide the chat, and all the people that are currently in wargame, but not playing on a game session, will be in that lobby, when you Host, or Join a game session, you leave the lobby.
Each time a player hosts or join, a message will display indicating in Which game session he went.
This system has been created to help the player organize some coop games, for example if 3 friends join wargame lobby, they can chat, and decide who will host the game, then this person can host and the 2 others can follow.
If someone joins the server and 3 players are already playing, then he will be a spectator, and a big "Specator" letter will display in front of his name when he chats in the game session.
The game hoster can now kick the 2 other players by writting "Kick Player 2" or "Kick Player 3". Only the game leader (the one who hosted the game) can do that.
Players can view their scores by keeping pressed the Caps Lock (I wanted to do so with TAB, but it kinda kept selecting another window)
When you press Caps Lock, you can see your score, and by click on the arrows, you can go and view the other player's scores, release the caps lock, and you go back in game.
If you want to leave an online game, press Escape, and a menu will apear, and click Leave Game to account your scores and then go back to the main menu, or Click exit game to exit immediately the game, and lose all your unsaved scores.
I really wish I could tell you that the game is bug free, but right now I could really not test it as well as I would have wanted. Not enough beta testers ! 
So if anyone is free to beta test, please let me know, could use some hand here...
For now there is only one game mode, which is the same game mode from the beta I released, which is capture area/flags.
But I might make a new game mode, called Duel...
Basically, in the Wargame Lobby, click on any player's name to call him on a duel, he will receive a notice to accept, or reject your duel, but if he does, you will automatically "win" the duel by default, therefore giving you a Won Duel score, and he will gain Lost Duel score, which is not really good to have
But this is only an idea for now, I haven't started to work on that yet, if the game has enough success and gets a little more downloads than 63 (like the beta did) maybe I'll keep working on it...
So that's it, stay tuned for August 7, I'll release the multiplayer beta, but please don't hope for too much ! The game might really be bugged, remember this is a beta !
Cya then...Comments welcomed !
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