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0.5.0 was released on the 13th of January 2009. It was a major release with many new functions, many aesthetic changes and a significant overhaul of the existing situation. It quickly gained a significant amount of fame for it's long awaited improvements and critique due to it's negative impact on latency and game stability. One month after the release this has resulted in a division between players who quickly moved on to 0.5.0 and 0.5.1, and players who remained at 0.4.3.
Release notes
- Demo recording and playback.
- Support for up to 16 players.
- Network and bandwidth reduction fixes.
- Some changes to better accommodate unofficial mods. Note: Mods are still unsupported.
- Improved server browser: extended server info, better filtering, support for favorite servers.
- Server browser now has an option to filter out modded or tweaked servers, showing only "pure" servers.
- Ban support.
- Voting is now fully implemented. Server administrators decide what server settings can be voted on.
- Move from glfw+portaudio to SDL.
- New source code structure and cleanup.
- Rewriting of the data compiler and network objects.
- Unification of the tuning parameters.
- Rewritten network that reduces bandwidth use with 60%.
- Building improvements.
Game balance fixes
- The hook has changed from 2 seconds to 1-1.5 seconds when you hook another player and the force when hooking someone else has been lowered.
- The hammer has got a reload time.
- The shotgun has got an increased bullet speed.
- The grenade launcher has got an increased splash radius.
Mac OS X
- Teeworlds is now a proper Universal Binary App Bundle
- MacOS X 10.4 supported
- Basic server launcher frontend
Maps and tilesets
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