DDNet News

The Photoshoot from a few a weeks ago is finished! Thanks to TsFreddie for creating the final image!

Mekrioz.’ has made the effort to set up a voting system for the year 2021 there you can vote for fun maps, oldschool maps and in all other categories for the maps published in 2021.

VOTE NOW! The Best Map of 2021! https://forum.ddnet.tw/viewforum.php?f=128 (DDNet Forum account required)

Happy New Year 2022! We have a special photo capture event for the global DDNet community! Everyone can join one of the New Year Photshoot servers running in most regions now to be part of the community photo! Please only take a photo in one region, duplicates will be deleted.

If you are using DDNet on Steam you can use these links to connect directly to the servers:

• EUR
• RUS
• Turkey
• Chile
• Brazil
• USA + CAN
• CHN
• Singapore + Korea + Japan
• South Africa + Iran

Thanks to TsFreddie for the modification and bit and louis for the map! You can check out the Chinese community version from 2021 to see what the result can look like.

DDNet 15.8 has been released with the following changes:

• [Client] Support GUI/Cmd key and use it as equivalent to Ctrl in default shortcuts
  
• [Client] Add cl_run_on_join to set command to execute when joining server (e.g. "showall 1")
  
• [Client] Fix Unicode path/link/argument handling [Robyt3]
  
• [Client] Remove ping filter in serverbrowser
  
• [Client] Adopt vanilla scrollbar colors and sizes [Robyt3]
  
• [Client] Center timer in HUD
  
• [Client] Add buttons to open settings file and config directory
  
• [Client] Lower worst/best case frame time calculations [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix text selection cursor position after moving window to different screen or resizing
  
• [Client] Support cl_video_show_direction 2 to show your own key presses when recording
  
• [Client] Remove gfx_asyncrender_old on macOS to crash less when resizing/moving window
  
• [Editor] No wasd moving when dialog is open
  
• [Editor] Fix enter behavior when creating new folder
  
• [Editor] Fix save typing when server settings are open
  
• [All] Skip UTF-8 BOM on all read text files [heinrich5991]
  
• [All] Support M1 CPUs natively on macOS (Website build only, Steam doesn't support native M1 yet, without Discord integration on M1)
  
• [All] Add console_enable_colors 0 to turn off colors [Kaffeine]
  
• [All] Use dbg_asserts in Release builds again [heinrich5991]
  
• [Server] Don't shut down server when SQL queries haven't finished [Zwelf]
  
• [Server] More fixes for /swap
  
• [Server] Make /rescue handle switch freeze too
  
• [Server] Consider initial chat delays as normal mutes, implement unmuteid
  
• [Server] Fix badly cut-off user names when name is too long [heinrich5991]
  
• [Server] Fix crash with switchers
  
• [Server] Don't clear client version on map change [heinrich5991]
  
• [Server] Some fixes for super
  
• [Server] Add target clientid to antibot's OnHammerHit [fokkonaut]
  

Numerous mappers in our community actively create new maps, huge thanks to them for all their efforts! See our Recent Map Releases for newly released maps!


Thanks to all our testers for testing these maps on our DDNet Discord Server, especially these, based on the Discord Testing Activity:

name      $ready  comments
Cøke          76      3653
Ravie         33      1992
jao           28      3844
174           17       498
Knuski        11      1043
Kicker        10       909
Welf           9      1019
Sorah          6       554
DarkOort       5      1034
Qywinc         5       941
texnonik       4      1388
louis          4      3626
Lady Saavik    4      1694
Soapy Sandwich 2       568
Dino           2       280

As DDNet is open source we continuously improve the game itself and the client experience. See the recent changelogs for new features and improvements. You can also contribute to DDNet yourself on GitHub, including client translations in your native language.


Come join our community on our Discord Server!