DDNet News

It’s time for the second tournament of the year! We will play the brand-new Brutal (★★★★✰) map Simple Down by Zweitleben:



The Tournament will be played on Sunday, March 13 at 18:00 CET on special Tournament servers in every DDNet location! No one has seen the map yet and the first finish will win! The map can be finished in a team as well as in team 0.

Thanks to Pipou, Knuski, Cøke for testing the map! The results will later be available on the Tournament page.

DDNet finally gets a Tutorial map! Thanks to unique2 & Alisa for mapping this beautiful Tutorial. To celebrate this special Solo (★✰✰✰✰) map, we will have a small tournament on it, the first of the year:



The Tournament will be played on Sunday, February 27 at 15:00 CET on special Tournament servers in every DDNet location! No one has seen the map yet and the best time after 30 minutes will win! The map is played alone and should be so easy that everyone can finish it, so invite your friends that never played DDNet!

Thanks to Ravie for testing the map! The results will later be available on the Tournament page.

DDNet 15.9 has been released with the following changes:

• [Server] Live freeze tiles (cannot move or jump, but can use hook and weapons) [GiuCcc]
  
• [Server] Add teleport/tp chat command to teleport yourself to another player or spectated location (requires /practice)
  
• [Client] Add new icons and macOS installer graphics [Ravie]
  
• [Client] Add windowed fullscreen mode on Windows [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Support 128 players in server browser [fokkonaut]
  
• [Client] Adjustable prediction margin (cl_prediction_margin) [trml]
  
• [Client] Improve projectile prediction [trml]
  
• [Client] Use power button to quit (hopefully more clear)
  
• [Client] Implement "reset" command to reset specific config values to default value
  
• [Client] Add cl_port, cl_dummy_port, cl_contact_port for ISPs that throttle specific ports
  
• [Client] Remove compatible version filter [heinrich5991]
  
• [Client] Display more relevant version numbers on command line
  
• [Client] Fix bullet rendered through walls [trml]
  
• [Client] Fix ARM-specific crash in macOS when moving screen [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix console line offsets when resizing [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix changing resolution in fullscreen [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Improved double click handling [Robyt3]
  
• [Client] Reduce default ambient volume to 30
  
• [Client] Update score HUD immediately when switching dummy
  
• [Client] Allow multiple commands when adding vote in UI
  
• [Client] Allow "zoom" command to take smaller/larger values
  
• [Client] Improve super prediction
  
• [Client] Improve preformance when listing directories [Robyt3]
  
• [Client] Lower chance of losing config files [heinrich5991]
  
• [Client] Explicitly disable notch area on Macbook Pro for fullscreen
  
• [Editor] Support enter and escape keys in editor when confirming save
  
• [Editor] Don't react to server settings shortcuts when dialog is open
  
• [Server] 255 jump tile acts as no double jump [heinrich5991]
  
• [Server] Fail database queries faster [Zwelf]
  
• [Server] Improve database writes during shutdown and bad network [Zwelf]
  
• [Server] Extend and fix DDNet Server launcher on macOS
  
• [Server] Also switch rescue tees when swapping
  
• [Server] Implement sv_min_team_size to prevent too small teams counting as team finishes
  
• [Server] Default players to being AFK when joining
  
• [Server] Fix warnings to only warn every 3 seconds when touching start line
  
• [Server] Reload map when changing sv_sixup [Robyt3]
  
• [Client+Server] Handle signals (SIGINT, SIGTERM) [Robyt3]
  
• [Client+Server] Fix lots of undefined behavior [Robyt3]
  

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)