About bloody time!

It's here, after 11 months of blood sweat and tears, team hassles and engine hassles. We are finally happy to release Unreal Fortress.

It is of course a beta release so a lot of models, skins and code will change with future releases.

The release will be on Friday 10th November at midnight GMT (7pm EST).
The ftp servers for download will be posted on our web page and announced on our irc channel which you can connect to on either Gamesnet, Quakenet or EnterTheGame. (channel #unrealfortress).

It should be one hell of a party so we hope to see you there.

Bug fixes:

- Those of you experiencing an FPS hit should enjoy a sizable increase in performance due to some minor alterations we've made.
- Muzzle flashes have been completely revamped.
- Shooting Range updated.
- Bodies no longer buried in the ground when killed while kneeling or prone.
- Dying while kneeling or prone will no longer cause you to respawn in that position.
- Some minor fixes regarding the soldier's animation.
- Various bot AI enhancements.
- Auto prone or kneeling under geometry now updates the indicator on the HUD.
- Bots now properly regain stamina and run at a more consistent pace.
- Final life of a player or bot will now show a carcass rather than them simply disappearing.
- Bots firing at hidden players has been fixed.
- Grenades are thrown in a much more realistic way.
- Currently held weapon is now dropped when killed.
- Bot grenade throwing abilities enhanced.
- Bot abilities better suited for current skill level.
- Exiting the game while zoomed will not cause zoom to remain when loading Inf again. (Logo would be zoomed in on)
- Prone binding button enabled.
- Loadout items can be bought using every available cash amount.
- When toggle aim is off, going into prone no longer moves from hip to aim repeatedly.
- Grenades will now drop correctly.
- Other minor changes here and there.

New Feature:

- While aiming the bolt action Robar RC50 sniper rifle, if you press and hold the fire button, you will continue to look through your scope until you release the fire button, allowing you to view where your shot hit.

The following shots illustrate (as good as a screenshot can) Gore's armor system. The armor completely blocks damage to protected areas, such as head, chest and legs. Each armor has its own "hit points" and will make a special impact sound and throw off sparks when hit. What looks really cool is when you shoot an armored opponent in the mid section with a shotgun, some pellets hit their arms, causing them to bleed, while the remaining pellets hit the chest armor, causing sparks to come flying off it. Gore's player models do not score hits off the usual "bounding box", you actually have to shoot the players mesh, and shoot an unarmored area to do damage. On top of this, certain areas of the body are take more or less damage than others. So its in your best interest to find a helmet to avoid a "head shot", which does severe damage. The first screenshot (gore23) shows the light player taking a shotgun blast to the mid section taking a little damage to her arms and the chest armor absorbing the rest of the damage. After a few more exchanged shots, (gore24) the chest armor was destroyed, so the light player activated her secondary mode shotgun shield, which blocks damage from her unprotected mid section and the blood and sparks you see are coming from her lower legs and the thigh armor. In the last shot, (gore 29) the light player ran out of energy for her shield and took a direct hit to the chest and face, which was enough damage to kill her and destroy her helmet at the same time. If you look closely you can see shardsof the helmet falling to the ground from the shot. These features combined with many others, make Gore's deathmatch very different from anything else.