Thunderdunes Tournament – Watch It Here!
Today is the day when the lines of battle are drawn and teams of airship crews duke it out to claim the title of Champions of the Dunes!
Watch the tournament livestream and don’t miss a minute of the action on our official Twitch.tv channel, or watch in the embedded player below!
We’ll be doing on-air giveaways of retail copies of the game throughout the broadcast, and the more viewers we get, the more we’ll give away! Watch the broadcast to learn the secret code, then enter it in the widget below to enter!
Check out the brackets and follow the tournament progress here, and see a more detailed team list and crew roster here!
Additional tournament streams:
A Teddy Bear’s stream
Mako’s stream
qwerty2jam’s stream
Good luck to all the contestants, and may the best team win!
Watch live video from gunsoficarusonline on www.twitch.tv
Introducing the teams!
The brackets for the Thunderdunes tournament are live! You can see the final teams and follow the action on the tournament page!
See all the team details below the jump…
Spectator Mode & Controls
An early version of spectator mode was pushed into the client today. Controls are not hooked up for customization yet, but are as follows:
W, S: Move camera forward and backward.
A, D: Strafe camera left and right.
R, F: Move camera up and down.
Z, X: Adjust camera movement speed.
Mouse: Change angle of view.
Right Mouse Button + Mouse X movement: Z-Axis shift.
We’ve already built functionality for tracking / orbiting ships, but it didn’t quite make the build. Look for it in a build sometime next week.
Enjoy the tournament!
Patching the Patch!
Oops, we missed a spot…
A small patch is being deployed to fix two important issues:
– Restored the “return to lobby” button to the end-of-match scoreboard screen
– Prevent matchmaking from dropping crewmembers into (private, password-protected) custom games.
This will unfortunately require a server reboot, sorry for the inconvenience.
Tiny Patch
The beta v0.12 patch is out! A new client build is also available from Steam.
Update 11:37AM EST: The build is live!
This is a small patch in preparation for the tournament tomorrow.
Patch notes:
– Added spectator support (with free-fly camera controls) to custom games.
– Tuned some server settings to hopefully reduce unexpected disconnects
– Added additional logging to help track down unexpected disconnects
– Tuned water rendering parameters, looks much better now
– Disappearing helm bug should be fixed once and for all!