It's an R6 Beta Wednesday!

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:30 pm

Join us WEDNESDAY 21 July 2010 to test the R6 client!

It's that time again! On Wednesday, July 21st 2010 we will be holding another regularly scheduled R6 test.

We need people to sign into the beta server and make sure that they can play.

For those of you that weren't able to sign in last week, the Development team have been EXTREMELY busy cranking out bugfixes over the last few months and in order to have R6 ready for release, it would really be helpful to have you all test out make sure that everything is at or better than normal and the bugfixes are working as expected.Please read this post and so you know what to test and report all bugs on the Trac server.

NEW FEATURES STILL NEED TESTING
(These will need approval before they can go into R6 as they are gamplay changes)
Enhance the load out screen by caching your load outs to disk - use number keys and CTRL + number (0-9) (Default Loadouts)The #bootiny (Thread here)The inability to see currently mined rocks on the minimap or sector status levels unless you have eye on the rocks being mined Related and previously known issues: fixed, and known A Friendly Fire change regarding Probes

INSTRUCTIONS FOR BETA WEDNESDAY!
If you do not already have it installed, you will need to install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable. Regular Allegiance already requires the VC2008 redist and Windows Update should already replaced VS2008 with VS2008 SP1 redist. You should also make sure you have the latest DirectX 9 Start with an up to date Allegiance install (make sure you can play on the regular servers).
In ASGS select "Allegiance -> Beta Mode".
Still in ASGS, select "Help -> Update / Repair Critical Files".
Click "Login". The updater will run again, downloading the beta client.
After the updater has finished, click "Login" again.
Enjoy the beta! Find or create a new game and test away!
When you are done, there are a couple steps to get back on the regular servers.
Turn off beta mode "Allegiance -> Beta Mode".
Revert to the regular client "Help -> Update / Repair Critical Files"
Play as normal!

Don't forget to submit your bugs! and feel free to check out the list of recently closed tickets on trac.

--Bard

( post edited with special thanks to Xynth, fuh-zz, raveen, imago, pkk, and notjarvis...because the stomach flu sucks )

fuzzylunkin1 · Post by **fuzzylunkin1** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:10 pm

For those interested, there is a list of tickets closed for R5.1 and R6 automatically generated by trac. Not all changes are in trac tickets:

Closed and Fixed R6 Tickets

TheDevil · Post by **TheDevil** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:54 pm

I tried to join a game with the TestCore and then tried to create a game with cc09 core, I got file out of sync with server error on both occasions...yes I auto updated and everything...so can someone kindly link the correct files or me so i can manually download them.

SaiSoma · Post by **SaiSoma** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:22 pm

I had to have vc2010: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Just in case anyone else gets an error about msvcp100.dll missing.

Post by **pkk** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:51 pm

Beta AU will replace newgamescreen.mdl with a version which is blocked by ASGS.

ASGS is unable to download newgamescreen.mdl and you end up that your local file needs to be updated again and again.

Workaround was moving the newgamescreen.mdl from regular artwork to beta artwork. (Otherwise there are downloads below.)

ASGS conform (also allowed on regular Allegiance):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2975104/regular/newgamescreen.mdl

Beta AU:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2975104/beta/newgamescreen.mdl

RedLion · Post by **RedLion** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:52 pm

I just tried to log on to the beta server. It auto updated fine, but now it won't open anymore telling me it can't find file d3dx9_43.dll
Isn't that the DirectX9 error message? But I have DX9, and in fact I can log on the regular server just fine.

Xynth · Post by **Xynth** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:55 pm

RedLion wrote:QUOTE (RedLion @ Jul 21 2010, 12:52 PM) I just tried to log on to the beta server. It auto updated fine, but now it won't open anymore telling me it can't find file d3dx9_43.dll
Isn't that the DirectX9 error message? But I have DX9, and in fact I can log on the regular server just fine.

Go ahead and run the DX9 installer Bard linked: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...6a-9b6652cd92a3

RedLion · Post by **RedLion** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:03 pm

Thank you, that worked.
Didn't see Bard's post about the need to reinstall DX9 and was afraid to screw up my perfectly working copy of Allegiance

raumvogel · Post by **raumvogel** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:07 pm

Web installers suck large amounts of sewage and other disgusting things!

Full download

Post by **pkk** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:08 pm

RedLion wrote:QUOTE (RedLion @ Jul 21 2010, 08:03 PM) Didn't see Bard's post about the need to reinstall DX9 and was afraid to screw up my perfectly working copy of Allegiance

It's not reinstalling, it's updating DirectX 9 to June 2010 release. To bad those DirectX updates aren't on Windows Update.