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Aug 3, 2015 23:45 GMT  ·  By

Earlier today, August 3, the developers of the popular Unvanquished FPS (first-person shooter) game announced the release of the Alpha 42 build, a version that brings several improvements in many areas and resolves some of those nasty bugs reported by users since the previous Alpha build of the title.

According to the release notes, the Unvanquished developers managed to separate the game's engine code from the game's code by teaming up with members of the Xonotic free and fast arena shooter game, which means that any other project can now use the Daemon engine, and that you will also be able to play Xonotic maps on Unvanquished or use Unvanquished models on Xonotic.

Another interesting feature of Unvanquished Alpha 42 is the addition of a new map, called Vega, which was ported from the Tremulous open-source and free team-based first-person shooter (FPS) game to Unvanquished's engine. Of course, besides porting it, the team managed to retexture the entire map. See the attached screenshots for more details!

"This was somewhat possible before, but now it’s much easier, making it less of a pain to keep up to date with upstream engine changes. An upcoming project by another team from Europe, Unreal Arena, is also interested in using our engine. What this means for players across projects using our engine is that they’ll be able to benefit from engine development from multiple sources, as well as a unified tool set to deal with assets and maps," reads the announcement.

Several annoying bugs were squashed

As usual with any new Alpha build of Unvanquished, many of those annoying bugs reported by users were squashed. For example, the team managed to fix the duplicate GUID bug, as well as the SSAO shader bug, but there's also some work done for converting UI elements to make use of the C++ programming language. In the next versions of the game, the devs promise to add libRocket Lua support, which means that scriptable UI elements will become reality.

Download Unvanquished Alpha 42 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now via Softpedia or from the game's website. We remind you that the game is currently in development and that you shouldn't expect it to be a final product. Also, the developers informed us that they would soon migrate away from the SourceForge website and that planned on releasing future versions of the game on GitHub.

Unvanquished Alpha 42 screenshots (3 Images)

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