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Hanso said:

wow. thank you very much.
looks really good I hope it plays as well.
time to dust of the psx cases.

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Krejlooc said:

This is right up my alley. Insta-bought

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0.4.9.2
JULY 3 - BEARDED SNAKE
This is only a small update that brings in some improvements and a new option to toggle the PS1 vertex truncation (or wobbly vertices) from the graphics menu.

To answer questions about multiplayer, I need to wait for Valve to enable lobbies for the game so I can begin working on it, after that is done multiplayer will be the main development focus for a while.

Changelog
- Improved ship respawning, you are less likely to end up falling for a while before being respawned now
- Out of bounds pushing now negates the ships y velocity, making it much more likely that you will be pushed back onto the track
- Turntable preview images for ships are now tinted black
- Added graphics option to toggle PS1 vertex truncation emulation
- Fixed a tile on Aciknovae that had the forced shadow flag enabled (before the tunnel)

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This update brings some fairly big changes to the physics, making the ships much floatier and improving handling a lot.

Changelog
- Added cockpit for MTechP1
- Input prompts now show icons instead of raw strings of the input
- Ships now have descriptions on the selection screen, standard ships give a bit of backstory behind them
- The ready screen now has a default controls illustration
- In-game voices have been updated with better post-editing
- Added voices for completing pefects laps and announcing the final lap
- Fixed alignment issues on Survival results screen
- Large tweaks to ship handling, tilting and camera
- Ships now have a lower gravity force when hovering above the ground and begin falling at a faster rate much slower
- Ships now nose dive at a greater angle much faster when falling
- Updated a whole bunch of sounds

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This is going to be the final 0.4 based update, Valve have enabled lobbies for the game so for the next few weeks development is going to be focused on multiplayer.

This update completely removes the campaign in favour for a new medal system, all you need to do to unlock ships now is race a certain amount of times until you have enough gold medals. A new pickup has also been introduced!

If you already have ships unlocked then they will stay unlocked!

Changelog
- Fixed workshop IDs not resetting on loading files that arn't .shp files
- Campaign has been removed - unlock system replaced with a medal system (barracuda and caliburn still have to be unlocked through the zen tournament)
- Medals are displayed at the bottom right of the main menu
- Fixed button overlap in ship importer in 5:4 aspect ratios
- Added energy wall pickup
- Fixed being able to fire the cannon when the game is paused
- Fixed scrape particle positions being inaccurate
- Decreased collision contact threshold to fit the scale of the game (results in more accurate collisions)
- Collisions are now simulated for a small threshold above the track walls
- Reduced slow-down from wall collisions again
- Utah Project has been moved up the track last to before Ishtar Citadel
- Added cockpit for NX2000
- Updated NX2000 textures
- Updated the NX2000's stats to make it more unique and worth flying
- Made changes to Maceno Bay - fixed some skips, pulled the start line back
- Updated the missile reticle animation

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CrAzY FiNgErS said:

This is cool, but watching videos of this game, the pop in ruins it for me. I wonder if we can run the game without the pop in? I just watched some videos of Wipeout 3 just now and even back then it wasn't as bad as what is presented in this game.

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Unicorn said:

In the setting is a draw-in slider. Crank it up and there's 0 pop in. Also they have a setting to turn off the polygon jitter emulated from the PSX games.

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Unicorn said:

In the setting is a draw-in slider. Crank it up and there's 0 pop in. Also they have a setting to turn off the polygon jitter emulated from the PSX games.

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Hey everyone!
Currently on the unstable branch is an early version of splitscreen, it's very much functional from the limited testing (hence the unstable branch update) though bugs should be expected.

If you get to try it out, let me know how it goes!

Changelog (Unstable Branch)
- Added performance display(press F1 to toggle it)
- Updated menu music
- Added more music to the menu, the song will be chosen at random
- Added splitscreen:
All secondary bindings will be disabled in the menus after going into splitscreen except for the 2nd player ship selection

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Fasty said:

Wow, how have I missed this? Love the wobbly PSX look, but extremely grateful that it can be turned off! I hope the handling is on par with 2097.

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Unicorn said:

Closest yet

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Hey everyone!

Making this announcement just to provide some information on what 0.5 is going to include and when it will roughly come out.

Release Information
So to start with, the biggest feature coming is multiplayer! This isn't going to contain absoluetely every feature that I want to include in it as that is going to take a while, but all of the basics will be there for you to jump into races with friends and randomers. A lot of testing was done a few days ago and it's working pretty well so far. With this is also splitscreen, this is already available on the unstable branch as mentioned in the previous announcement but in 0.5 it will be recieving a few little fixes to do with how the world renders for both players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6j5L8Ixl1E

Content wise 0.5 will be introducing a new track, Cassandra, and remakes of the three prototype tracks and Aciknovae. The original versions of Harpstone and Aciknovae will also still be available. All teams now all have their own unique cockpits and all of the main teams now have a drag ship. Drag ships are extremely fast ships that will be primarily exclusive to 4 drag tracks (coming post 0.5) but can also be used in normal play. In normal play they are faster then Barracuda but have a lot heavier handling. On the drag tracks they will reach up to speeds of 1100km/h!

There will also be new pickups, one of them being an all time favourite for Wipeout fans. Additionally 2280 mode has had more gameplay tweaks and some existing pickups have had changes too.

0.5 also now enables you to use .mp3 files for custom music, as opposed to before where you could only use .wav files. If you have .wav files for custom music right now then those will continue to work as normal. Also regarding music, there are 6 new music tracks built into the game!

Release Data
This update is expected to come out early october, there is also a little suprise coming September 30th!

Hopefully that answers any questions anybody might have about what the next update will contain and when it's coming, if not then myself and the team will be happy to answer any questions you have in the discussion board. Thanks!

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Unicorn said:

I feel like any time I make a thread it's poison. So many games I try to give some love to, but so many don't break 2 pages :''''''(


In other news there have been a few workshoppers that have been putting in WORK! WipEout Pulse teams are a go, more Nintendo love, Sega All-Stars love, and even some original ship designs have been added.



Can't wait for track designers to get their outlet....soooooon

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Coming with the 0.5 update next month is a track creator. As the name suggests, this tool is going to let you create your own tracks! When released it will still be in early stages and as such you will not be able to get the tracks fully setup in-game, however you can playtest your tracks with the press of a button with a variety of different environment presets. You also have options for which team and speed class you want to use in playtesting!

This track creator is now being used to create the offical tracks for the game, the editor is based on letting you place down each segment of the track individually. Tools are provided to make this no where near as tedious as it might sound, with options to automate the process of creating and rotating mass amounts of segments.

We can't wait to see what people do with this editor

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BallisticNG 0.5 is now out. Bringing new content, a multiplayer beta and a track creator, this is the biggest update yet!

ABOUT
BallisticNG 0.5 introduces a new track, Cassandra, and various updates to existing tracks. 0x001 and 0x002 and Ishtar Citadel have been completely remade. Aciknovae has had a large scenery update with some small improvements to the layout too.

All standard teams now have a drag ship varient, these are all statistically the same and will be used in a new drag tournament coming in the future. Right now these will be unlocked alongside Barracuda and really only serve as an alternative to those who like drifting, you'll be seeing the full potential of these ships later.

Pickups
This update also includes three new pickups - The wormhole, tremor and turbo.

Turbo
The turbo is a 2280 mode exclusive pickup that gives you a sudden boost in speed for a brief moment.

Wormhole
The wormhole is a pickup that teleports you to the place ahead of you. The wormhole takes a moment to charge, when you come out a autopilot will very briefly take control of the ship to stablize you but this should be used with caution as technical track sections will make this very hard to use.

Tremor
The tremor will send a ripple down the track which throws ships into the air and slows them down, the tremor covers a long distance which makes it an ideal weapon for catching up if you're behind.

Track Creator
The track creator is a new modding tool that can be found in the modding tools section on the main menu. It's still in heavy development but right now you can easily create your own tracks and instantly play test them! This tool is now being used as the offical tool to make tracks for the game, so you can expect this to get much more powerful in the future.

Goto Help - Open Documentation in the editor for information

Multiplayer
The multiplayer is not quite ready yet, but it's in a good enough state that we'd like to get it out to people to test and have a bit of a fun with. If you're on the game's unstable branch then you'll have access to it, it's still rough around the edges but you should be able to race with your friends without any major issues!

Let us know how it goes, the more feedback we get the sooner we can get it out of it's beta state and into the stable version of the game! There is a new multiplayer dicussion board where you can talk about and report issues.

2097 20th Anniversary DLC
For the past month I've been working on two DLC tracks for the game to celebrate that today (30th of September) is the 20th birthday of Wipeout 2097. These two tracks have been designed to look and feel like tracks that could have been in Wipeout 2097!

Download:
https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilt...ad/DLC/BallisticNG.DLC.-.2097.Anniversary.zip

And as always, here's the list of changes:
Changelog:
Notice: All leaderboards have been reset
Engine:
- Added performance and ship stats listing (press F1 to cycle these)
- Weapon prefabs are now loaded into memory to stop hiccups when loading them
- Updated game to Unity 5.4
- AI rotation is now much smoother

Audio:
- Added 2 new songs from ShiftDelete
- Added 4 new songs from Shem
- A bunch of existing songs have been updated
- Mp3 support for custom music has been added, .wav files will still continue to work
- Music playback is now continuous across tracks
- Updated menu music and added more music that can be chosen to the menu
- All voice lines have been rerecorded
- Survival mode now has an ambient background sound that increases in pitch the more zones you pass

Gameplay:
- Added splitscreen
- 2280 changes:
* In time trial your shield energy will now constantly regenerate
* The afterburner and pitlane is now disabled
* Dropping an item will absorb it and give you a small amount of shield energy back
* You will respawn instantly
* E-Pack pickup is disabled
- Nerfed hyperthrust
- Added Turbo Pickup (2280 mode exclusive)
- Added Wormhole pickup
- Added tremor pickup
- Added drag ships
- Added Cassandra
- Remade 0x001, 0x002 and Ishtar Citadel
- Replaced Aciknovae with new WIP version (old version can be found in the vault section)
- 2097 ship handling is now much more accurate
- The surival ship has had a number of performance tweaks, primarly removing drifting from the airbrakes to allow for precise steering in

higher zones

Visual:
- Updated Tenrai Livery
- Added categories to the track menu
- Cockpits now flicker when ships take damage
- Added notification to HUD to tell you which song is currently playing
- The HUD will now show you how far in front or behind you are in seconds when passing checkpoints
- Updated leaderboard design
- Survival mode now has a death animation

Other Additions:
- Added Track Creator

Fixes:
- Fixed not being able to pause after rebinding controls
- Fixed infinite menu loops
- Fixed transparency issues in Marina Rush
- Fixed race position being wrong when in junctions
- Prototype ship textures now work

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Unicorn said:

Coming in the 0.5 update in the next months or less.

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laserlaser said:

Looks coo. Will it always stay free? Assuming it gets finished...

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Beer Monkey said:

Wish I could use a NeGcon with it.

Very nice.

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