DDNet News

I’m happy to present you this year’s first Tournament, the Race (★★★✰✰) map “Knux” by Knuski:



The Tournament will be played on Sunday, January 24 at 20:00 CET on special Tournament servers in every DDNet location. No one has seen the map yet and the best time after 90 minutes will win! Since it's a Race map the map is played alone.

Thanks to louis & ReD for testing the map! The results will later be available on the tournament page.

Special Event by Patiga will be run all day on December 31 on all official DDNet servers! Note that save/load will have to be disabled for this day.

I’m happy to present you this year’s Christmas Tournament, the Brutal (★★★★✰) map “Arctic Frost” by Silex, Im ‘corneum & louis:



The Tournament will be played next week on Sunday, December 20 at 18:00 CET (not this Sunday) on special Tournament servers in every DDNet location. No one has seen the map yet and the first finish will win! Team 0 is allowed.

Thanks to Cøke, Ravie & DarkOort for testing the map! The results will later be available on the tournament page.

DDNet 15.2 has been released with the following highlights:

• [Client] New chat look [Banana090]
  
• [Client] Show friends on spectate tab [ardadem]
  
• [Client] Warn new players about name with points
• [Client] Smooth dynamic camera [TsFreddie]
  
• [Client] Optimize UI rendering [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client+Server] Fix lots of undefined behaviour, out-of-bounds accesses, memory leaks [Jupeyy, Learath2, Patiga, Zwelf, axblk, ...]
  
• [Client+Server] Remove CRC in all possible places [heinrich5991]
  
• [Client+Server] Show hours in more places
  
• [Client] Fix and change text cursor [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Improve Call Vote menu [Banana090]
  
• [Client] Use 0.7 gameskins [Zatline]
  
• [Client] Add comfort entities assets [louis]
  
• [Client] Add refresh button for skins [Jupeyy, timakro]
  
• [Client] Fix laser prediction for non-DDRace mods [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Make animations more consistent with high float values [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Improve text alignment [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Modulize skins, particles, emoticons and game assets [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Add GUI & Game sound volume sliders
  
• [Client] Make gfx_quad_as_triangle 0 default for performance Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Add hint for disabling debug mode [TsFreddie]
  
• [Client] Add dbg_gfx command [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Add more video modes, reorder them for consistency
  
• [Client] Make initial borderless work again
  
• [Client] Set libnotify icon (Linux) [yangfl]
  
• [Client] Don't make width depend on localized text
  
• [Client] Update demo browser on demo save [BannZay]
  
• [Client] Fix button rendering in "Render demo"
  
• [Client] Speed up sorting [Jupeyy, Learath2]
  
• [Client] Fix skin load [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Use pointer directly for tile layer building [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix hook chains [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix combined player/ping sorting [trml]
  
• [Client] Fix weapon muzzle texture cutoff [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix overlapping of combined binds with modifiers [Banana090]
  
• [Client] Fix IME state softlock under Linux and MacOS [TsFreddie]
  
• [Client] Sort skins without case
  
• [Client] Fix skin x_ check
  
• [Editor] Always embed map sounds [Patiga]
  
• [Editor] Improve usability of server settings
  
• [Editor] Allow zooming in further
  
• [Editor] Update ddmax_freeze [saltyElefant]
  
• [Editor] Update winter_main.rules [mind]
  
• [Editor] Fix selection of None value in auto rules
  
• [Editor] Offset env pos of sound sources when appending maps [Patiga]
  
• [Server] Show all local maps in votes (add_map_votes)
• [Server] Kick-voting someone doesn't kill locked team
  
• [Server] Support starting without wordlist.txt
  
• [Server] Disallow player name changes when muted [heinrich5991]
  
• [Server] Disallow more commands with testing mode [heinrich5991]
  
• [Server] Consider emoticon, chat, vote as not-afk
  
• [Server] Render afk emote instead of chat emote [ardadem]
  
• [Server] Use rest instead of string in some commands
  
• [Server] Increase size for name_ban messages [jao]
  
• [Server] Detect more whitespace characters in names
  
• [Server] Fix random_map and random_unfinished_map with SQlite [Zwelf]
  

It’s a good time to have fun with your friends on our servers, so get dressed up with a custom skin (or search for Halloween in Skin Database on DDNet.tw), just type its name in client. Join one of the DDNet Halloween servers in all locations with popular maps redesigned by Lady Saavik!

We are also planning to release a new Halloween themed map around Halloween, so stay tuned for more!

On October 31 a ghost might also haunt your tee!