New CO1 Server Development (Lots of client mods/fixes)

[Darkkal]

Originally Posted by Nusku

I might make this public as well if others want to help/fill in things.

I'd love to contribute, new development is always fun! Besides, I'd like to have another .NET project to tinker with at home away from work, and what you have going on sounds very juicy

[boDil]

Originally Posted by Darkkal

I'd love to contribute, new development is always fun! Besides, I'd like to have another .NET project to tinker with at home away from work, and what you have going on sounds very juicy

I'm pretty sure he was talking about making the "20 page spec of all core CO1 features" public.

[Darkkal]

Originally Posted by boDil

I'm pretty sure he was talking about making the "20 page spec of all core CO1 features" public.

that will also be nice, we will see.

[Nusku]

yeah... sorry I meant just the document, not the code.

Here is the google doc with the spec... hopefully nobody will be a **** about it and mass-change it or something (luckily, there's versioning). Theres still a lot of missing detailed info, but it's mostly an overall view of the features, and some of the things to take into consideration when implementing them.


Also... got around to making a launcher as well


As you can see, I've gone with the name "ConquerGods" for the server.
One step closer to public alpha/beta!

[AgeConan_]

this looks promising, i would be interested to join as player

[Nusku]

Also... I got dynamic screen resolutions fully working now! It's no longer limited to hard-coded resolutions (as long as it's above 1024x768).. This theoretically means you can run it at full 4k resolution with dpi at 100% ( why on earth would a anyone do that??? )

Here are several of the main screens running at an 'ultra wide' resolution:

A lot of the elements mostly involved properly re-aligning them to the center, or stretching them (TQ used a LOT used a lot of magic numbers when positioning them which made it hard initially)

[Spirited]

Not sure about that server name... but the rest seems good and well planned.

[Darkkal]

Originally Posted by Nusku

Here is the google doc with the spec... hopefully nobody will be a **** about it and mass-change it or something (luckily, there's versioning).

You can set it to read only for the public and then authorize specific users to edit it. I'd highly recommend doing that before someone comes in and trolls you, even if there is versioning.

[snipetime]

So how is this project doing? (Still active? ) can't wait to play on this server

[scottdavey]

Originally Posted by KraHen

Great work, I refuse to believe that you are new to epvp, who are you?

As long as he doesn't start selling jewels as his main form of donations we'll be grand

[Nusku]

Sorry for lack of contact... busy with a few things IRL, but back at it again!
I had to re-write majority of the attack system which also took some time. Decided to actually just reverse the CO server binary and pretty much look at it 'line by line' because there were some inconsistencies in attack damage, exp calculations, etc... Soo, that took a while :|

Anyhow, that's done now, which means the attack system is finally complete and up to TQ specs. All spells (damage, exp, range, target collection, etc) are done exactly as 1.0 used to be (pre-bp).

Aside from this, I've also done a LOT of fixes yet again during play testing and I've added a ton of stats tracking via redis (player deaths, kills, damage done, received,pvp k/d ratio, fb hits/misses, etc). All this info will be publicly available on our site

So, what does this all mean...?

The server is pretty much ready for alpha/beta testing! I'm currently working on a simple .net core site with user registration. The client/launcher is ready to go, and the dev server is already up and running.
I expect in 2-3 days I'll open it for public testing.


edit: I'll also try and get a quick video to show the progress within a day or two.

[nandoobie]

Posting for registration link, great job man.

[scottdavey]

Originally Posted by Nusku

Sorry for lack of contact... busy with a few things IRL, but back at it again!
I had to re-write majority of the attack system which also took some time. Decided to actually just reverse the CO server binary and pretty much look at it 'line by line' because there were some inconsistencies in attack damage, exp calculations, etc... Soo, that took a while :|

Anyhow, that's done now, which means the attack system is finally complete and up to TQ specs. All spells (damage, exp, range, target collection, etc) are done exactly as 1.0 used to be (pre-bp).

Aside from this, I've also done a LOT of fixes yet again during play testing and I've added a ton of stats tracking via redis (player deaths, kills, damage done, received,pvp k/d ratio, fb hits/misses, etc). All this info will be publicly available on our site

So, what does this all mean...?

The server is pretty much ready for alpha/beta testing! I'm currently working on a simple .net core site with user registration. The client/launcher is ready to go, and the dev server is already up and running.
I expect in 2-3 days I'll open it for public testing.


edit: I'll also try and get a quick video to show the progress within a day or two.

Exciting stuff, I have high hopes

[ahmedali10]

what's up any new about beta testers day?

[Nusku]

Here is a powerlevel testing video (which I actually noticed 2 bugs in!):


Here's another quick video - nothing too interesting really, you can just get a feel of how the client/server run together



In this video, it's running via a remote database (so things such as item drops are slightly delayed due to latency - however this is not visible at all when running with the db locally). Also the mouse is goofy... I guess the recording software didn't record it correctly

Here is a screenshot of some of the statistics we record: