This week’s patch is the final patch of 2010 and being the last patch we needed to make sure it’s a special one. We are very happy to announce that Night Time is coming to Need for Speed World in tomorrow’s patch!
The team has been working long and hard to make sure that World looks amazing at night and now it’s finally time for us to reveal it for all. Here is a little sneak peak of how the world is going to look at night.
Show no mercy and let your hedgehog army fry, smash, poison and destroy your enemies like never before!
Not only will the Flamethrower, Hammer, Sticky Mines and Old Limburger take your sadism to a new level, they will also let you forge new strategies for giving your challenger a hard time.
And if you are willing to sacrifice a hog for a good cause then you’ll truly enjoy to wreak havoc behind enemy lines using the Piano Strike!
New powerful utilities!
You are lazy AND smart? You’ll love the Portal Gun! Move yourself, hogs and things from A to B etc. and back! Be daring, be creative, be nasty! 😀
Also don’t mourn your fallen hogs too much, because now you get a chance to bring them back to life using the Resurrector! Take care not to revive hogs that you want to stay dead though!
New Maps and Themes
Nowhere to run to, no place to hide!
Fight your enemies in the jungle, at construction sites, on stage and even in the minds of artists!
Improved interface and Lobby
We don’t only want you to have fun during the game, but also on the way getting there!
The new lobby should now do a better job of helping you to find the game you’re looking for!
Improved Lua Scripting Support
New chances to have your visions become brutal reality and fun for the community!
And there is more!
Prettier fire and effects! Projectiles being fired from the weapons’ actual barrels!
More hats and new Forts!
Better stats!
Tweaked weapon and utility behaviours!
Well, that’s about it, have fun kicking some serious butt guys!
Known issues:
Especially the development of the portal gun has proven tricky, so be prepared for (hopefully) funny glitches 😛
Those will be hopefully removed in 0.9.15, which I promise* won’t be such a long wait again!
If you find an issue that’s not listed on http://code.google.com/p/hedgewars/issues/list , please submit it there!
Next week is going to be a big week because we’re launching version 5 of Need for Speed World!
On Tuesday, November 16th we’ll be bringing down the NFS World servers for several hours to deploy Version 5. Among the many changes in this new version is the new Performance Customization system. It’s finally time to get this cool new feature in your hands and we can’t wait to see how the community will tune their cars with the new system.
Keep your eye on the Need for Speed World site for more information on Performance Customization and the other changes coming in Version 5.
We are very excited to announce three new regions and 25 new race events will be added to Need for Speed World tonight! You’ll now be able to race through classic Need for Speed territory revisiting Rockport, Fortuna and Kempton. For those of you who’ve driven these streets before we can guarantee you’ll never have seen the cities looking as good as they do now. The World team have spent months going through the maps and tuning every element of the cities to bring a whole new level of detail to the game.
As well as the new regions we’ve included 25 new races spread across great new Sprint and Circuit events. New leaderboards will be available so you can show off your skills to the whole racing World.
This is just the first in a series of very cool updates we’ve got planned for World so stayed tuned and we’ll see you on the streets.
