Need for Speed World is now live! The Head Start period for Starter Pack racers began slightly more than one hour ago and already World is filling up quickly. Races have been highly-competitive so far, and many an epic pursuit has been had, and we’re just an hour in.
The floodgates open up for everyone starting next Tuesday, July 27, but if you want in to the Head Start, you can still buy the Starter Pack to get in today, which includes a limited edition car, a lot of SpeedBoost and the opportunity to reserve your driver name.
——官网主要就是不遗余力地推销他们的$20USD的Starter Pack..
已经购买了Starter Pack的玩家在10:00 am PDT就可以玩了，而不买Starter Pack的玩家要等多一个星期（7月27日）才能玩哦。
It’s been a long time in the making, but it’s finally here (if a few days late). We’d like to thank everyone who’s contributed to make this the most polished, the most exciting and the most fun Hedgewars release ever.
There’s a lot to see, so either read the changelog below or simply head to the download page now and grab it!
Below is a summary of the new features, this is not a complete changelog
many bug fixes
speed optimisations
many new hats, hats visible while using rope and blowtorch
Exploding barrels
AI uses new weapons, aware of fire, can fight in artillery mode
New options in ammo editing – crate probability, delays
option of semi-opaque hog name tags to avoid fail when land is hidden by name
new British voicepack
notification sound when people join your room
translation updates
contextual help when using weapons menu
3d effect for waves
fade effect when starting/stopping game
new game modes – place hedgehog, king mode, randomise starts, allies share ammo, disable girders
shift + direction to turn without moving
view ammo menu when not your turn
new font for CJK text and better CJK detection
dud mines
hat reservation for donators (hats should be released to public in 6 months or so)
team flags
visual effects: dust on fall impact, smoke, shotgun shells, blink team name on start of turn, hogs pulling weapons out, falling flakes kicked by explosion and more
hogs react to throwing grenades / dynamite and when near them
graphic of crate contents when picking up weapon/utility
walk sound for hedgehogs
UFO changed to homing bee
splashes/droplets when things fall in the water
45 degree bounce when throwing grenades
new bounce sounds
information on game rules when starting game
knockball map (scripted map)
Birdy weapon and poisoning effect
maze generator for new random maps
new crazy map template
new Olympics, Desert themes, visual updates to many other themes
Background texture for land for a 3d effect on explosions
frontend able to delete teams
ignore/friends lists in frontend
alt weapon preview on rope, parachute
updated options in frontend: independent toggles for frontend/game sound/music, select locale
More
lua scripting
Lua scripting allows the easy creation of missions and special maps. Examples of this can be seen in the Knockball and Basketball maps, that are now scripted
We hope you enjoy this release, as always we look forwards to your feedback, we hope you have lots of fun and we’ll see you all on the server.
Expect a new tournament soon!
