Odamex 10.4.0

Odamex 10.4.0 - QCon 2023 Edition

This is a minor release with a few nice features and a lot of quality of life fixes. The client has seen a lot of updates. First, the new client frontend has been improved with an options tab and some quality of life fixes. Second, the client itself now sounds and looks better! Ceski has rewritten the portmidi music driver which corrected many issues with midi playback. Ceski also added ultra widescreen support up to 32:9 - WOW! Other client changes that may be noticeable are improvements to on-screen messaging in the menus and in-game HUDs.

Many tricky bugs related to MBF21 support, as well as the various MAPINFO lumps, were also corrected.

For a full list of changes, check out the list below:

Added

• Addition of ultra widescreen support, as well as automatic aspect ratio detection. Thanks ceski!
• Include preset colors in the player setup menu. Thanks Acts19quiz!
• Added an options menu to the client launcher. Thanks @electricbrass!
• Double clicking an iwad in the client launcher now launches the game. Thanks Mia!
• Out-of-the-box improvements to Chex Quest support, including green screen tinting.
• Add more helpful messaging to Horde and Survival Coop modes.

Changed

• Improvements to IWAD selection on the client launcher. Thanks Mia!
• Player setup menu improvements. Thanks Acts19quiz!
• Rewrite of the portmidi music driver by @ceski-1. Huge improvements!
• Some server console improvements on Windows systems.
• CI improvements for multiple platforms.
• Minor changes to default horde waves packaged with Odamex.
• Improved options for frames-per-second selection in the video options menu.
• Quality of life improvements to preferred weapon order menu.
• Allow movebob and red damage screen correction on clientside by default. Can still be controlled by server.
• Only read a UMAPINFO file if both a UMAPINFO and MAPINFO file exist.
• Improvements to installer.

Fixed

• Allow bypassing no-cheat rules in all skill levels offline.
• Restore floor damage text obituaries. Thanks Mia!
• Corrected generic text obituaries displaying backwards.
• Removed ZMAPINFO support as it was breaking a lot of wads.
• Fix multitrack MIDI looping on MacOS. Thanks ceski!
• MBF21 +RIP projectiles now work as intended.
• Custom dehacked projectiles now display in a sane way on the killfeed.
• Fix MAPINFO token compat_invisibility from causing an error
• MBF21 custom tracer projectiles no longer seek spectating players.
• Fixed items desyncing between client and server on Boom/ZDoom conveyor floors.