Waterstorm goes Open Beta

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Rarebyte Releases Waterstorm Open Beta Test

The waiting has found its ending: Rarebyte’s newest incarnation, Waterstorm, a fast paced 2D multiplayer shooter, goes beta. Players from around the world can measure up against each other in a sophisticated ranking system and team up as clans.

A massive variety of sub marines and weaponry rock the boat in Waterstorm. Subaqueous battles with jaw-dropping graphics guaranteed and free of charge! You can dive into the world of Waterstorm using Linux, Mac OS or Windows. So have no fear and register right this second at www.waterstorm-game.com.

To learn more about Rarebyte please visit www.rarebyte.com

Waterstorm is completely developed in Java and uses [url=http://www.lwjgl.org]LWJGL[/url] and [url=http://www.fenggui.org]FengGUI[/url].
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Wow, just wow :o
Soldat + water = Waterstorm

#3

how do you change where your gun is aiming?

#4

:-\ Tried the windows version, hangs for me when I try to login

Minor annoyances from what little I’ve seen:

  • Autoupdate and login windows refuse to go behind other windows - I understand that you need to update, but at least let me browse in peace while you do it
  • Long pause between update window disappearing and the login window appearing
  • No entry in the taskbar for the windows, so when it hangs I have to open the task manager and use the processes tab, instead of a right-click/Close

What a negative post :’( I promise to like it when I get it working :wink:

#5

Wow, game is loads of fun

Big thumbs up

#6

I suggest you fix the login screen before you do anything else, or you’re going to piss off a lot of people.

I eventually found by accident that you can move it by RMB dragging. But how the ****ing **** do you expect people to “register” by following the “register” link from the login window when YOU WON’T LET THEM SEE THEIR OWN WEB BROWSER?

Also, the login/server stuff is all broken. It kept showing up as players in different servers, but when I tried to join their server it dumped me somewhere else at random with no players. If you can’t play, you can’t play :frowning:

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Nice to see all the quirkiness from soldat is also present and correct :wink:

Just one thought on the gameplay, I shan’t lecture on polish: the gameplay is actually too fast to enjoy. Slow it down a lot. By about 50% maybe.

Cas :slight_smile:

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Okay,

i love submarines. Ill have to try this!

Jeff

#9

Lovely.

The screen are beautiful and the net-play seamless.

Damn, but were getting a lot of good stuff in Java these days!

#10

I’m too upset now to talk about the good stuff… so:

I have to write the username and password every time… annoying but much less annoying from other annoying things.

Autoupdater is always on top… i can’t surf or do anything useful while game is updated

Register button starts your web browser, but it’s also always on top so you have to quit the menu to register

The game doesn’t remember my resolution settings, specificly refresh rate… it always comes back to 75Hz or 60Hz (from 100, on 1024x768). I have to change it every time I start the game.

The intro screens are way too long and not skipable, turn this off as this is beta, no need to waste testers time, really annoying if you just want to see if anybody is online at the moment.

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more bugs…
sometimes when you use the biggest torpedo (homing one) and when you detonate and kill opponent, screen goes back to your suband detonation is rendered at position of your sub. You kill the opponent and everything, nothing wrong with logic, just detonation is rendered at wrong spot.

and sometimes torpedo won’t lunch at all… after several clicks to try to lunch it it works and I kill myself.

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you need to keep the trigger down AFTER the weapon has recharged. When its fired it will detonate when you release the trigger.
I’ve seen the bug with the explosion being rendered near ship too though.

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I suggest you report all these to their forums. They are very quick to fix bugs over there.

http://waterstorm.c-h-p.net/index.php