Great news again this year regarding the ModDB Mod Of the Year awards!
Mechwarrior Living Legends surpasses many other mods out there and we are now placed in the top 100 ratings as voted by our users!
Thank you for your support and interest in this mod! But it’s not over yet … after taking the top 100 we sure want to try to take the honorable mention this year so keep voting by clicking on the Vote button for our mod in the Crysis Category!
My apologies for the delay in getting these out. This week has been incredibly busy for me both in “real life” and in terms of MWLL project loose-ends efforts. To atone for my epic slacker behaviour (in PR), this week has a bumper crop of shots (24).
Enjoy!
Due to some recent posts on the forums we would like to remind all those AVG users out there that their virus scanner is causing major issues when trying to run the mod:
These are the major issues seen when tring to run MWLL on an AVG protected machine. Most users had to switch their software since disabling it did not seem to fix the issues. If you are running this software either contact your software vendor that it’s not working properly or do as other people did and get rid of it or replace it with something else.
This is not something we would be able to fix. It seems that the virus filter is triggered by something when loading or calling functions in our DLL.
Another week, another Monday, another set of MWLL Playtest Impressions!
This batch brings a few more hints and takes you on a visual tour of our Terrain Control maps; Kagoshima, Death Valley and Mirage.
Coming out of this Sundays playtest, I am also pleased to announce that our very own Seraph (better known for boxed wine and keeping our servers running) has made numerous performance optimisations in our particle effects to now allow for true LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH+VERYHIGH configurations to be supported within our custom MWLL particles. We are aware that this has been causing issues with some players’ computers that had certain… resource constraints, but this will allow these players to recover some of their lost performance.
The changes involved creating new, distinct profile for each particle effect and then reducing the particle counts and densities. The following excerpt of his testing results and is now table formatted. FPS compares is the base FPS without a particle and the FPS after activating it. The High/VeryHigh settings are the ones currently in the 0.3.2 Beta.
Particle Name Setting Base FPS Particle FPS
LRM Trail High/VeryHigh 36.1 28.9
Low 38 35.2
CERPPC Trail High/VeryHigh 32.7 21
Low 32.7 31.5
As you can see the gains are minimal in some cases, but the cummulative effect should be very noticeable for low-spec machines. Note that playing with LOW settings will result in an appreciable removal of “eye candy” and draw distance and we certainly would not want anyone judging the quality of MWLL based on such a system configuration.
Finally, we would like to remind everyone that voting has opened for MOTY 2010 at moddb.com We encourage all of our fans to visit our profile page there and give us a vote. Last year MechWarrior: Living Legends won both Players Choice and Editors MP Choice awards for MOTY which was a great honour for us.
Discuss this playtest media release in our forums.
After four months of long nights, shut-in weekends and unsafe volumes of caffeine, the MechWarrior: Living Legends team is pleased to present the release of MechWarrior: Living Legends Open Beta 0.3.0
This release brings together an array of balance updates, bug fixes, new features, gameplay modes and performance enhancements to provide a reinvigorated gameplay experience for the player.
To see the available download options, please visit mwlldownload.com
A big thank you to all of our fans for your continued support of MechWarrior: Living Legends!
I’ll see you on the field!
KingLeerUK
