[QZAND] Alphatius 2 - A PvP-focused Arena FPS

[auratoostronk]

Hi. It seems that the servers for Alphatius are running on qzan version 1.4.14, while version 1.4.18 has already been released. Maybe that's why I can't play on the servers?

I've found out that versions past 1.4.14 have some rendering changes that create some issues with the shader mod that the servers are running, and has also been causing me some texture bugs (apparently I'm the only one that's encountered it so far, but it makes it hard to play). I've reverted the servers back to 1.4.14 and changed the Q-Zandronum link in the initial post to link to the correct version (at least until the bug is fixed).

Apparently it was a shader mod in my skins folder causing the issue, not the engine. The servers are going back to the latest version .

[camper]

Is it correct that Alphatius is actually a new game, linked to doom only by the game engine? Does it have its own iwad or ipk3?

[auratoostronk]

Version 007 released!
Announcer sounds added and bot behavior updated.
See the full changelog below:

007.txt

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[auratoostronk]

Is it correct that Alphatius is actually a new game, linked to doom only by the game engine? Does it have its own iwad or ipk3?

It does not require any commercial IWADs, just Q-Zandronum and the mod itself. The IWAD it comes with has an empty MAP01 marker and no additional data.

[camper]

It does not require any commercial IWADs, just Q-Zandronum and the mod itself. The IWAD it comes with has an empty MAP01 marker and no additional data.

This is very good. I experimented and found that Q-zan is quite tolerant of non-standard iwads. But Q-zan doesn't seem to support standalone ipk3 to make it look like one piece?

[camper]

But Q-zan doesn't seem to support standalone ipk3 to make it look like one piece?

It turns out that it is possible to run the autonomous IPK3 without fakeiwad. I did this for Qzan and Zandronum when I experimented with my game.

The need for fakeiwad is because the Doomseeker cannot start?

[camper]

I see that everything has been updated. Q-zan and Alphatius have been updated.

[camper]

Why do we need fake.iwad now if we can run ipk3 autonomously? I made it based on Nash's standalone game and it runs in zandronum and q-zan.
The example file can be found here, although I made it for k8vavoom, it also works on the above mentioned ports.
https://doomer.boards.net/post/65626

p.s. Of course, the player model file does not work, k8v uses its own determinants.

[auratoostronk]

Why do we need fake.iwad now if we can run ipk3 autonomously? I made it based on Nash's standalone game and it runs in zandronum and q-zan.
The example file can be found here, although I made it for k8vavoom, it also works on the above mentioned ports.
https://doomer.boards.net/post/65626

p.s. Of course, the player model file does not work, k8v uses its own determinants.

Zandronum and Q-Zandronum unfortunately do not support ipk3's. Hence why I use an empty IWAD.

[camper]

Zandronum and Q-Zandronum unfortunately do not support ipk3's. Hence why I use an empty IWAD.

I have this file running autonomously, without asking for iwad. Version q-zandronum 1.4.20.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/gimly98k ... .ipk3/file

[auratoostronk]

Version 010 has been released! Update contains a new main menu, updated high-resolution fonts, balance changes and more! See OP for more download!

[camper]

Excellent! There is already a new version on Euroboros.