What's special about heavy testing?

#1 Heavy Testing is a serever set up to test the gameplay tweaks that were suggested by the community. The makers of the Heavy Testing server are the developers. The changes in Heavy Testing are going to be rolled into the regular release in the near future.

#2 "The changes in Heavy Testing are going to be rolled into the regular release in the near future."

Does that mean we might see UFOs in the regular release?

aka "him"

#3 I sure hope so

#4 Can you at least tell me the changes? Heavy testing crashes so many times and i'm reying to make my on scrum with ufo capabilities Can you a least tell me how you did the ufo?

#5 The UFO will be available as a choice in the battlemode servers if you have unlocked it in singleplayer.

It is too fast for Scrum on the open servers, but we may from time to time have special sessions for UFOs in Scrum.

Initial tests have shown that the UFO is way to fast in scrum games to allow it on the open servers.

#6 I have unlocked it in single player and i kep showing up in a mediun. Am I missing something or what?

#7 We made the saucer unlockable and planned to integrate it into the builds in an update. We did not anticipate anyone unlocking it so quickly. Right now, it defaults to the medium if selected. The only place you can use it right now is in "Heavy Testing". As stated before, we plan to change this in the next release so it is playable on the online battle servers.

#8 Well When is the next relesase coning out? By the way believe me Paco got proboly around the beggining and can we carry over data to the update? I want to keep my uo I was lucky to update it

#9 P.s. Can you give step by step instructions for making a ufo server? Maybe i could make a all u.f.o. Scrum game. Could give me this please?

#10 P.p.s. The ufo isn't that fast it's exactly as fast as a light tank and those are allowed it scrum! Check out the stats. They're exactly the same as the light tank!

Devestator

#11 The UFO is a hair faster and has a hair better acceleration. It's smaller profile makes it harder to hit, so it is the vehicle of choice in scrum. It is pretty weak, and is generally not something that one would want to play for anything other than the cool factor.

There are no settings you can tweak at the moment, but when the next release happens, all you will need to do is launch a server and it will be UFO enabled.

#12 Thanhow does heavy testing do it?

#13 P.s. How close is the near future?

#14 Heavy Testing is running directly off my machine, which is running a modified development build.

The release may come as early as next week. Keep checking for messages when you start the game.

#15 Note that the Heavy Testing server will be going down soon as I begin dismantling my setup as we prepare to move to our new office space.

#16 Last night while driving the UFO I was being slightly outrun by a light tank. But that's all due to the lag.

Normally, when I'm in a light tank, everybody else in their light tanks zips by me at lightning speed... :(

With the UFO I can finally keep up...

-- 56k Lag Man

#17 Thanks for all your help Joe just one more question. Can i carry saved data o the update?

#18 Oh btw where have those special ufo servers been?

#19 Debbie, yes, you can, but it will be a bit of a pain if you are on a mac. On a pc (and maybe on linux) you will simply install over the previous build. On the mac, since we don't have a true installer, you will have to copy some key files over. Those are the prefs.cs files (in game/client and game/server), the game/client/players.cs file, and the game/client/hiscores.cs files.

#20 When do you think the upgrade will be out?