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September 22nd, 2009, 21:17 Posted By: wraggster
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D2X-XL is an OpenGL-port of Descent II. Supported platforms are Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
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v1.14.132
* Fixed: Hires sounds were loaded if present even if hires sound was disabled via d2x.ini
* Fixed: Capturing a flag scored only one instead of five points
v1.14.131
* Fixed: A bug in the sound system causing choppy sound after extended periods of intense fighting
v1.14.130
* Changed: Moved d2x-xl specific sounds to sounds2d2x-xl
* Improved: Sound handling
* New: Added a bunch of d2x-xl addon sounds
* New: Added volume control for ambient sound to sound & music options menu
v1.14.129
* New: Sound creation for triggered events can now be suppressed
v1.14.128
* Improved: Homing missile turn speed will be constant even at less than 40 fps
v1.14.127
* Fixed: Triggered sounds that should have only been played once were replayed everytime a savegame containing such triggers was loaded
* Fixed: Trigger sounds weren´t played anymore
* Fixed: Sound from ambient sound sources was crackling and building up
v1.14.26
* Fixed: Player names in HUD weren´t always rendered on top of the player ships
* Fixed: New and rejoyning players were added to teams using auto balancing when auto balancing was off
* Fixed: When a player rejoined a multiplayer game, the time he had spent in the mine was reset, not allowing him to destroy the reactor even if he should be able to
* Fixed: Fixed: Homing missiles turned to well
* Fixed: The ship thruster sound suddenly got very loud when the ship wasn´t moving
v1.14.125
* Fixed: When a save game was restored that had been saved with the player having acquired a super laser while lasers were set as built-in weapons, the player lost the super laser
* Fixed: The program crashed in multiplayer when a player picked up a missile four pack, giving him more missiles than he could carry and the program tried to leave the excess missiles in the mine
* Fixed: Faces were flickering at highest render quality when viewed close up
* New: Added support for sound effect objects
v1.14.124
* Fixed: In the physics options menu, auto-Levelling mode ´to mine´ didn´t stick
* Fixed: Corrected the auto-levelling menu help texts
v1.14.123
* Fixed: Ogg music wasn´t always played on Windows Vista and Windows 7 (d2x.ini:-midifix 1 required)
* Fixed: Unless effects volume was explicitly changed in the sound options menu, there was no sound in movies, briefings and levels when the game was run with midifix and music was turned off
v1.14.122
* Fixed: The HUD stayed turned off after Descent 1 exit sequences
* Fixed: The self extracting D2X-XL installation archive couldn´t be launched on Windows 7
v1.14.121
* Changed: Addon textures will not be considered vital for program operation anymore
* Improved: Added graphical message boxes for Linux
v1.14.120
* Fixed: The program hung when a plr file was found in its main folder
* Fixed: The setup check will now detect the Descent 2 demo files
* Fixed: Downloading program updates didn´t work anymore
v1.14.119
* Fixed: Flash effects were sometimes taken into the menus
* Fixed: Damage icons were visible after the player´s death
* Fixed: The sound system didn´t always properly update permanent sounds
* Changed: Only the player ship will have blue thruster flames now, all other objects have orange ones
v1.14.118
* New: Added update checking for Linux (newer source packages will only be downloaded, unpacking it and building the program is up to the user)
v1.14.117
* Fixed: With basic lighting D2X-XL kept rendering coronas for lights that had been turned off via a trigger
* Fixed: The new game menu´s ´enable mod´ checkbox had not always been properly displayed or hidden
* Changed: The file descent.cfg will not be considered vital for a D2X-XL installation anymore as it will be created by D2X-XL when it is missing
v1.14.116
* New: Added a check for program updates and a function to download and install program updates (Windows only)
* New: Added a file setup check for Linux
v1.14.115
* Fixed: D2X-XL was considering descent2.p11 and descent2.p22 vital and was terminated when it couldn´t find them, but actually they aren´t
* Fixed: The new game menu offered an invalid level range when being opened after a network game had been played
* Fixed: In Descent 1 missions robots that were at some distance fired huge salvos at the player
v1.14.114
* Fixed: When the minemine cheat was active, no powerups were dropped by robots. That included keys and other important stuff, which now will be dropped regardless of the minemine cheat
* New: D2X-XL will now check whether all required files are available and create any required folders and copy those files there if necessary. Depending on what files are missing, a list of those files will be displayed and D2X-XL will terminate if vital files aren´t available. Please note that this feature currently is only available for the MS Windows version and also works with the -userdir parameter.
v1.14.113
* Fixed: Multicast networking didn´t work properly
* Fixed: Multiplayer game data formats were incompatible across hardware platforms and operating systems
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