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Evolution RTS Get-Together #15!

Aww yeah it’s that time again! This week is going to be even more incredible than last week! For one thing I have a proper broadcasting setup now, so that there will no longer be any background noise on my microphone (Blue Snowball in case you’re wondering).

Big thanks to +Shadowfury333 for giving me tips on positioning and idea for how to actually do it!

Tomorrow we will be playing with the entirely redone Hover tech. Completely remodeled units. I already have all but one of the units in game. The engineer is the only one that I have left to do, but I stopped in order to create this event 😀

Tonight I will also be modeling the new hover factory as well, so I have a few hours of work left to do.

We will be meeting in the Spring Mumble server this week, in the “Torture Chamber” room at 10am PST (5pm GMT). The entire event will be broadcast live at http://www.evolutionrts.info/stream. Games where I am not playing will be cast by myself and any other caster that happens to be in the room with me at the time wink wink, nudge nudge.

This should be a pretty epic event. Throughout this week I have been working on various improvements suggested to me last Get-Together, and I believe that I have solved some issues that a few people had, so we should be in for a ton of fun! Can’t wait to see all of you there!
*Evolution RTS Get-Together #15!* Aww yeah it’s that time again! This week is going to be even more incredible than last week! For one thing I have a proper broadcasting setup now, so that there will no longer be any background noise on my microphone (Blue Snowball in case you’re wondering). Big thanks to @107560205019564039061 for giving me tips on positioning and idea for how to actually do it! Tomorrow we will be playing with the entirely redone Hover tech. Completely remodeled units. I already have all but one of the units in game. The engineer is the only one that I have left to do, but I stopped in order to create this event 😀 Tonight I will also be modeling the new hover factory as well, so I have a few hours of work left to do. We will be meeting in the Spring Mumble server this week, in the “Torture Chamber” room at 10am PST (5pm GMT). The entire event will be broadcast live at http://www.evolutionrts.info/stream. Games where I am not playing will be cast by myself and any other caster that happens to be in the room with me at the time *wink wink, nudge nudge*. This should be a pretty epic event. Throughout this week I have been working on various improvements suggested to me last Get-Together, and I believe that I have solved some issues that a few people had, so we should be in for a ton of fun! Can’t wait to see all of you there!
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New tasty visuals incoming! In addition to the new unit models that I have been adding, I have also taken the time to enhance the game a bit visually in terms of teamcolor selections and so on.

The original method is still available (but deactivated by default). I am hoping that this new method will make it even easier to play.

In addition to unit teamcolor platter things, I have redone the unit icons for attacking units. They are now based upon unit purpose instead of unit type.

That is to say that instead of having a generic shape for all hover/amphib/air/allterrain units respectively, now the are grouped according to purpose.

So, for example, there is now a specific icon for units who are raiders, tank destroyers, assaults, anti air, or support.

This has been a requested feature for a long time, but until recently I couldn’t think of a way to implement it nicely, but I think these new unit icons will be very helpful!

In other less glamorous news, the download page on the main site has been redone (again). At this point it simply encourages users to go download spring from the spring website. It may make it more difficult to tell if users are online specifically to play evo or not, but I am tired of playing wackamole with all the spring lobbies and their caveats and gotchas.

I thought that weblobby would be the silver bullet, and for a while, it was! But unfortunately, Oracle manages to be even more incompetent than MicroSoft (and that’s saying something), so now Java is being banished from web browsers (and for good reasons, to be honest). In the middle of this sits weblobby, getting screwed from both ends.

Ikinz is working on a Qt version of weblobby that will run natively in windows, linux and osx, but until then, I have decided to just point users in the direction of the default spring installer and suck up the consequences.
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Making new models for +Evolution RTS right now. Going to stream the entire time! Feel free to join the stream and watch as well as chat with me while I’m doing them! 😀

http://www.evolutionrts.info/stream
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It’s been a productive night in EvoLand!

3 new unit models done! Specifically, the Crusher, the droplet, and the newly renamed Shadowfury (Lobster, because he was the first person in all these years to actually get the pun).

Pretty picture time!
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Get-Together #14 VODs are on youtube now!

Get em while they’re hot!

Evolution RTS Get-Together #14: Game 1
Evolution RTS Get-Together #14: Game 1 — www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3616927&utm_campaign=archive_export&utm_source=evolutionrts&utm_medium=youtube
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Thanks to everyone who participated in +Evolution RTS Get-Together #14! It was awesome!!!

I have finished chopping up 8 of the games that were streamed. Unfortunately, +TwitchTV  is having some issues with their youtube exporter, so I can’t upload them to youtube yet, however, links are below (Only available in 1080p on twitch, sorry, but while my machine is quite beefy, it can’t handle sending 5 different streams in order to satisfy the various quality settings).

More news to come shortly, so stay tuned!

Here are the links to the games:

http://www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3616927

http://www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3616942

http://www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3616957

http://www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3617002

http://www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3617087

http://www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3617097

http://www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3617145

http://www.twitch.tv/evolutionrts/c/3617177

Thanks everyone for the awesome time! Special thanks go out to ShadowFury and Ikinz for joining me on Mumble throughout the event!
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