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[Xinvoker]

This is a very new indie game that just made its first public release. I spotted it on Indiedb.com

Players join teams, build health and ammo spawners, buy vehicles, lay roads, floors, bridges and walls, and of course shoot each other!
It says Tribes in the title. Well, in the current version 4 of the game, rocket jumping isn't in yet, but it will be in v5 of the game which is currently in private testing!

EDIT: v5 is now available. Jetpacks still not in

Read Quick-start quide for screenshots and how base building works! (will also be revamped for v5)

Download game here

Most graphics look primitive atm (especially the ground), but the crossbow looks great, and if you press Tab, you can see your character looks pretty great too, so I expect everything will look better eventually.

I am currently running a server on my not-so-great connection, but there is nobody inside. Hop in if you want!

Things to come with v5 (not in yet):

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*New player model & animations. The model is in, fully rigged, and around half the animations are done and in-game. Remaining to be done for V5 are the other animations and texturing of the model.

* The build system has been fully revamped to be easier and faster to build with. There's only one key to proceed through the build process (B key), and the remaining key buttons are hotkeyed for quick access. Best of all, you can duplicate pieces quickly with the G key and build things really quick.

* Built items can be repaired by pressing R. Repair costs money proportional to the amount of repair.

* New map - HTCentral! (Yes, it's based off the classic map for HT-Mod!). Still a lot of work to do here to get this polished up for public release, but it's in and playable now.

* Static Mesh support - mappers can define points for static mesh objects to be placed in their interiors and running a command in the mission editor they are automatically propogated. End result should be better visuals once we make good use of this tech (and have art to use with it!). 

*Multiple build types! Now you can make things not only out of cement, but also wood and titanium! Prices and durability scale appropriately.

* Lots of little sound effects added for a more polished feel (some of these are recorded by our very own Dazed!)

* Most of the stock art included with the engine has been ripped out. This is a big step towards moving to the correct visual target for SW. This is being replaced by some of Combine's art.

* Players must now stay within an area defined by the mapper - previously players could go way, way outside reasonable gameplay space and get lost.
Uses compressed resource formats for a much faster download (now only 40megs, and since there's only eight files to download, it downloads quick off Archive Games).

* Command line flags added for quick iteration for mappers

* Lots of misc. bug fixes
* Linux: It compiles and runs fine. Hope to have a version up on AG if any interested Linux testers want in
* Rocket jumps!

EDIT: On the other hand, I just noticed that this v5 post is from 2009 and v4 itself is from 2007...so not sure what to make of that. :| Maybe the indiedb entry means things are moving along again though.

[Virtz]

Uh... why call this SimWorld when it's a Tribes-like thing? It ain't a sim, so the name is misleading. And being an FPS called "SimWorld" makes it sound like the most action-deprived, RP-based FPS ever (which it probably isn't, but I haven't played it, so I dunno).

[FunctionZero]

The mechanics in the Quickstart guide look solid. And I don't mind the graphics too much.

I seem to be having a problem, after a while, the game just freezes. Anyone else has this?

[Xinvoker]

The mechanics in the Quickstart guide look solid. And I don't mind the graphics too much.

I seem to be having a problem, after a while, the game just freezes. Anyone else has this?

It worked fine for me. Except when I built a Jetty and everything started lagging, I had to destroy it.

P.S. I closed the server now, but I am in the lobby.
P.S.S. I've made a rather disappointing edit in the original post.

[Nikov]

Are there jetpacks? If no, it isn't Tribes-style.

[quinnr]

Are there jetpacks? If no, it isn't Tribes-style.

Totally true.

Also, reminds me of Tremulous, which is another FPS that implements building. I'll have to check this out this summer.

[Ozyton]

I love the concept but I don't think it's quite ready to be played yet.

I like the idea of building bases then fighting over them. Tribes 2 had a mod like that.

[kilakan]

replying for intesting concept, maybe i'll play later if we wanna get a good server.

[BigD145]

I played SimEarth back when it was new. Is this updated graphics and more complex algorithms?

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Yes, I know it's not but this was my first thought.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Heh, cool to see the Torque Game Engine still being put to use .

[Shadowlord]

So it has two weapons and is mostly abandoned? Err... Think I'll stick with Terraria if that's the case.

[Detonate]

Hmm, after running a get a "Error Allocating Memory" message. I'm quite sure I installed and ran right, through HotAir, and it's definetely not a problem with my memory as it seems to be fine, only about 15% CPU usage and my Commit Charge is 1264M/5202M. What's the problem?

[Sim9]

Wow!  Awesome to see people playing and talking about SimWorld!

I made SW between 2004~2009, but there wasn’t much in the way of community interest at the time.  So, I haven’t done any SW Dev since 2009, but a few people have rediscovered it recently, and are making new content for it (sweet!). Going forward, I’ll be merging in new community content, and if there’s demand for it, possibly polishing up V5 for a proper release.

(I haven’t been sitting idle since 2009, though!  I’ve been working on another project called 8BitMMO, which is also a building/combat game, but set in top-down 2D on a persistent server.  If you guys are interested, I’ll share)

Anyway, seeing people playing V4 again, there’s no real reason to keep V5 private.  Might as well get people using the new build system, as it makes things a lot easier.  V5 does have a lot of programmer art, but then again, so does V4.    So, I’ve toggled the settings in Archive Games so V5 can be publicly downloaded.  I’ll also probably do a quick video tutorial this week to teach people how to play, as it’s not as intuitive as I would have liked.  Also looking into potentially organizing a play session on Saturday at Noon pacific.

Detonate – can you post your console.log to a site like pastebin?  No guarantee I’ll be able to solve it, but I’ll take a look for you.  Also might be worth trying V5 to see if it’s the same problem, there was an engine upgrade between V4 and V5 that may have resolved it.

[Ozyton]

Oh that's good news =)

I just briefly played it, though I'm not sure you'll be coming back here to take any criticisms or suggestions. If you do manage to get enough interest I'm hoping this becomes kinda what Tribes 2 Combat Construction was back in the day. That kicked ass.

[PTTG??]

This might be worth playing for a while at my next lan party.