Alpha Release - 2008/03/02

[immortius]

We've just released our first alpha. This is strictly a work in progress - we make no guarantees about the playability of the release, and we know there are a large number of bugs and missing features. Details on the release can be found on Nightblade's Testing Page.

Some of the notable features of the current alpha are:
- Gullonefox's guard model.
- Converted Darkened Enlightenment
- Experimental silent but slowed opening of doors when walking or crouching.
- Some experimental gameplay changes, including the stashing of loot by entering the exit zones.

It should be noted that the first time you play each map there will be a long load time as UT3 generates texture information and caches it.

Bugs can be reported to the Nightblade Bug Tracker

[Edy94]

Can anyone put some screens?

[Appollonius]

What? Do mine eyes deceive me?

Edit: time to pick up a copy of UT3 then.

[necros]

just out of curiosity, how long should the loading time be...

(started instant action ThieveryUT3 on Darkened_Enlightenment and killed UT3.exe after it was sat at the Loading screen for 5 minutes)

[Edy94]

Edit: time to pick up a copy of UT3 then.

Time to pick up a new graphic card

[immortius]

just out of curiosity, how long should the loading time be...

For me it takes 4 or 5 minutes for the initial load, and my computer is pretty new. We're still looking into whether there is anything that we can do to include the cached textures that won't conflict with other mods and maps.

Anyway, just sit tight and it will finish loading eventually.

[modetwo]

To report bugs and other issues in NightBlade, please use our brand new NightBlade Bug Tracker (NBT).

[DiP]

(started instant action ThieveryUT3 on Darkened_Enlightenment and killed UT3.exe after it was sat at the Loading screen for 5 minutes)

Got patch 1.2? Did the same to me on 1.1. Downloading 1.2 now.

[Edy94]

Got patch 1.2? Did the same to me on 1.1. Downloading 1.2 now.

Quote from NB Readme:

"First, ensure that you have installed the latest UT3 patch. At the time of writing the latest patch is 1.2."

[DiP]

Yes...so I was asking Necros if he had patch 1.2...that might fix the crash....

[beast]

and now we get to the heart of it; the reason I didn't take a baseball bat to my copy of UT3

[immortius]

Necros didn't crash though, he closed UT3.

But yes, make sure you have patch 1.2. I know that Nightblade won't run under 1.1, and the current version was built under the 1.2 patch. Future releases will most likely make use of features provided in patch 1.2 at any rate.

[DiP]

Is the blackjack meant to be useless...or is this a bug? It does nothing...

[beast]

on second thought... where did I put that baseball bat

[immortius]

The BJ should work... but not on alerted AIs. And the AI is somewhat buggy at the moment.

The BJ also occasionally gets stuck in the charged position.