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Skeletons, Scroll bars, Fixes - Test Build 11
Posted by Data in Cortex Command - December 29th, 2006

Download Test Build 11!This can safely be installed directly over the previous build (10, duh), and has the following improvements:

  • Skeletons’ first official appearance, with proper effects.
  • The new guys bring a new gun: the Blunderbuss!
  • Problems with engine sounds getting stuck have been fixed - maybe?
  • Scroll bars in lists now work 100%… just for you, crazy modders!
  • The AI for the ships that are empty now don’t try to take off at first opportunity, but land gracefully and wait for manual control. This is a temporary solution until AI mode control is implemented.
  • Slowdown bug when guys gib on impact has been fixed. Also digging to the bottom of the world shouldn’t slow down anymore either. (Guess why these two bugs were related!?)
  • Some sound samples added and improved.
  • As always, lots of small random polishes here and there.

Enjoy!

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72 Responses to “Skeletons, Scroll bars, Fixes - Test Build 11”

  1. blipflip - # December 29th, 2006 at 6:56 am

    Are you sure this is the latest version? It says test build 10..

  2. The Punisher - # December 29th, 2006 at 7:02 am

    DATA I LOVE YOU!!!!

  3. Data - # December 29th, 2006 at 7:06 am

    Hm… try downloading again? Where exactly does it say 10?

  4. Metoollhead - # December 29th, 2006 at 7:30 am

    very good :D

  5. Striker26 - # December 29th, 2006 at 7:41 am

    what the…this caught me y suprise
    Awesome like always!

  6. Hymerman - # December 29th, 2006 at 8:11 am

    I found that with the last version - try downloading to a different place. It seems Windows does some odd caching that I didn’t know about (thoroughly bizarre). Anyways, good job Data, this is coming along very nicely.

  7. Acidfire - # December 29th, 2006 at 8:12 am

    W00000t :D

  8. I am Drunkman - # December 29th, 2006 at 8:50 am

    OOOOO! We all love Data, all over this land!

  9. The Arsecast Host - # December 29th, 2006 at 8:50 am

    WOOOO! Downloadinginging! :)

  10. blipflip - # December 29th, 2006 at 9:28 am

    Damn right Windows does some odd caching, I’ve uninstalled CC, deleted the original setup, and have left nothing except for a folder of mods, and it still doesn’t work. I also tried installing to a different place, that didn’t work either. :(

    Any ideas?

  11. Data - # December 29th, 2006 at 9:49 am

    Try deleting your browser cache (temporary internet files) and then redownload.

  12. ToonyMan - # December 29th, 2006 at 10:09 am

    Awesome!

  13. Tomaster - # December 29th, 2006 at 10:34 am

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU DEAR GOD!!!!!!

  14. Hymerman - # December 29th, 2006 at 10:59 am

    As I say, I had the same problem last time - deleted the file, emptied cache + everything from browser, etc. etc. but it was always the same version that got downloaded somehow. I fixed it by downloading to a different place. I didn’t know Windows did this behind the scenes until then!

    Man, I love skeletons! And the new weapon is so *brutal*! I love it!

  15. Demetrius - # December 29th, 2006 at 12:04 pm

    To all of you: Get CrapCleaner! It’s a wonderful (free) program that, as the name says, cleans your computer of crap. http://www.filehippo.com/download/560e7b6be27ac18d33bbd0eb3f0cf0a9/download/

    Btw, Data, Keep up the Good Work.

  16. Kurrus - # December 29th, 2006 at 12:25 pm

    Orgasm is inminnent.
    …
    …
    …
    OH YEAH!!!

  17. FinDude - # December 29th, 2006 at 3:20 pm

    Hm, still dropships engines
    sounds loop
    in the main menu, sad.
    Awesome still.

  18. killer222 - # December 29th, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    DATA is the best game maker ever,best game ever too!!!!

  19. Data - # December 29th, 2006 at 5:09 pm

    Findude: what really?? Please tell me how you make that happen exactly so i can track the problem down.

  20. Juggz - # December 29th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

    Awesome, I only found two bugs were the skeletons sometimes drill themselves into the ground and when i take a screen shot its mostly black with some cyan and magenta and yellow dots giving a barely see able outline of the map.

  21. Spriggen - # December 29th, 2006 at 7:37 pm

    WHOOOOHOOO!Awesome work data!

  22. Giant.Metal.Idiot - # December 29th, 2006 at 8:34 pm

    Are mods from build ten compatible with this one? o.0

  23. Ticket - # December 29th, 2006 at 9:25 pm

    I definitely know how I will be spending my time as I wait for New Years. Thanks for the great improvements! (Although there still are some minor bugs).

  24. The Punisher - # December 30th, 2006 at 3:10 am

    Data when will you visit the forum?? Seriously, we need a new moderator SERIOUSLY.

  25. FinDude - # December 30th, 2006 at 3:40 am

    Data:
    Yes, blow up an engine and hit esc,
    starts looppin’.

    (That sound from stabilising trusthers.)
    Yes, sad I can’t spell…

  26. FinDude - # December 30th, 2006 at 4:15 am

    Oh, wait, you don’t have to blow up an engine,
    loops when engines are being rotated or something
    and esc is pressed.

  27. Grom PE - # December 30th, 2006 at 4:32 am

    Eh, Data, could you make an update package to not to download the whole thing?
    As alternative.
    For those, who pays for traffic, like me..

  28. blipflip - # December 30th, 2006 at 8:39 am

    Data , you were right :)

    I’ll try it after i’ve done my coursework :)

  29. Afroded - # December 30th, 2006 at 11:00 am

    Wow. This is great! (sorry about this, but i don’t feel an incredible change. still goood tho) i like the new gun. its like Godzilla’s shotgun.

  30. Afroded - # December 30th, 2006 at 11:02 am

    Pwnt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  31. Afroded - # December 30th, 2006 at 11:04 am

    sorry i have fun comenting!:)

  32. The Punisher - # December 30th, 2006 at 11:11 am

    We are all doomed without a new moderator… -_-

  33. assd - # December 30th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

    “Guess why these two bugs were related!?”

    uber fast gib particles teleporting throught the dirt and going off the bottom?

    teleportings a bit vauge but i dno how to describe it better

  34. makeshifter - # December 30th, 2006 at 2:25 pm

    … when this finally has a story mode i plan to make a animation in dedication to it

  35. makeshifter - # December 30th, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    *now i explode with enthusiasm* WOOT DOWNLOADING. I THOUGHT THIS NEEDED NEW GUNS WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

    that is all

  36. mikerocks - # December 30th, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    Every time I try to play some error saying abortion in file .\managers\AudioMan.cpp,line 65 because:Unable to init audio!
    The last frame has been dumped to ‘abourtscreen.bmp
    What ever will i do?

  37. makeshifter - # December 30th, 2006 at 5:36 pm

    the skeleton is awsome. and ive found two ways to get over the fact he has no jet pack.the skeleton is mega light. give him any gun with continuos fire a.k.a. one of the diggers and he’ll take off. down side i cant dig with him. but ill get over it. also i loaded hime with a concreat gun

  38. makeshifter - # December 30th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

    sorry didn’t finish

    the skeleton is awesome. and ive found two ways to get over the fact he has no jet pack.the skeleton is mega light. give him any gun with continuous fire a.k.a. one of the diggers and he’ll take off. down side i cant dig with him. but ill get over it. also i loaded him with a concrete gun AND the long cannon. AND the heavy digger he still took off like a bird. but he is really brittle

  39. Skjef - # December 30th, 2006 at 5:48 pm

    Please make customizable joystick controls a priority for the next build. I have a regular Xbox controller that I use to play Cortex Command, and it does not work with the current version.

    Thanks.

  40. iwillcontrolyou - # December 31st, 2006 at 12:45 am

    skeletons rock

    how’s that scene editor doing?

  41. Dauss - # December 31st, 2006 at 9:12 am

    Before I go and ruin the code, and have to fix it, anyone care to tell me if the price change bug has been fixed?

    Ya know, the one where setting any weapons gold cost differently caused the game to have an error at “Devices.ini line 370″?

  42. Ye - # December 31st, 2006 at 2:19 pm

    You can make everything (weapons,actors,ships) free, EXCEPT SMG… Its weird, the goldcost for it has to be 20 or 25 or there will be that error on line 370 Devices.ini

  43. BreenedandScrooned - # December 31st, 2006 at 8:12 pm

    You should add a new ship for the skeletons. It could be made of bone and stuff.

  44. Metroid48 - # January 1st, 2007 at 1:20 am

    Uh, not sure why but the rockets still take off as soon as I switch actors. The readme file says version 11, not sure how to check the exe though.

  45. Ye - # January 1st, 2007 at 3:40 am

    Weird, my rockets doesn’t… Reinstall?

  46. Tim - # January 1st, 2007 at 10:59 am

    Sadly both this version and version 10 don’t work on my computer; the game runs, but the display only updates if I grab the window and move it. My graphics card is an ATI Radeon 9600, if that helps.

    It’s as if it never gets the buffer switch command, or something like that.

    Cheers,

    Tim

  47. Tim - # January 1st, 2007 at 11:11 am

    (Posting to this thread as well)…

    Metroid48, I’m getting the same difficultyyou had with the display not working… What did you do to fix it?

    Thanks,

    Tim

  48. James - # January 1st, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    you should make a night version of the map jus make a dark blue background and put a few flood lights and add a few changes to the map ….

  49. Data - # January 1st, 2007 at 5:57 pm

    Someone already made something like that in the mod forums. Go check it out

  50. levi - # January 1st, 2007 at 8:31 pm

    i dont know if this is normal but whenever i put full screen on. the colers go all carazy can someone help me with that.

  51. levi - # January 1st, 2007 at 8:31 pm

    nad iv tried reinstalling

  52. Tacostank - # January 1st, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    sup data this game hella rocks but what r u going to do with misc. and armor damn thats gonna be awesome also put in rocket launchers and melee weapons.

  53. Data - # January 1st, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    levi, try rebooting your machine before playing too.

  54. Tacostank - # January 1st, 2007 at 9:26 pm

    levi u stole my reply

  55. Flying Pigs Are Real!!! - # January 1st, 2007 at 9:55 pm

    You canot make SMG’s worth 0 but you can make them worth a negitive number ex.-200,000. That way so when you buy an SMG you GAIN money. or atleast it works that way on the current one. One more thing if you make the Blunderbuss fully auto you guy explodes. Its kinda interesting. Just so you know! :)

    ————————
    Flying pigs Exist you nonbeliveres!!!!

  56. Flying Pigs Are Real!!! - # January 1st, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    Sorry about the dubble post but the is no comma in
    -200,000. It is typed in the devices area -200000 (negitive sign is a dash). Have fun ;)

  57. levi - # January 1st, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    i just reinstalled it and restarted my computer and the colers are still wrong

  58. Levi - # January 1st, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    i just cleard my computer of stuff and virises and the full screen worked for a second than everything went torquoise and yellow and pink and all thes other colers but u were still capable of playing the game its just the colers were all weird

  59. dan_e - # January 1st, 2007 at 10:40 pm

    holy crap! this is even better than that one time I was playing build 10! Thanks Data!

  60. Jopie - # January 2nd, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    I love this game! I like the skeleton and the sounds of it when they gib.!! This game is AWESOME!!

  61. Stink_Dude - # January 3rd, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    How u change the cost of stuff? I thought u could only do it in the older versions (when CC came in a .zip folder). Please tell me because I really want to crash FREE ships.

  62. Dais - # January 4th, 2007 at 1:11 am

    I’ll leave the indepth praise and criticism until I register an account at the forums, but for now I just want to ask - are the older versions of CC being archived anywhere?

  63. Promo - # January 4th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    I found the sounds still loop :(
    meh
    Also somethings gone wrong in brain vs. brain, the men fall throught the ground!!!!

  64. Jopie - # January 6th, 2007 at 4:59 am

    This game should realy get a online-multiplayer mode. That would be great! :D

  65. Tomaster - # January 6th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    i liked the old keyboard settings(ex.player 1 used numberpad). Can you tell me what the settings were for that.

  66. superdigg - # January 7th, 2007 at 4:32 am

    I have an idea for the next update that I think would be pretty cool. how about a kill-count so that we have some kind of measurement of how far we’ve gotten? not necessarily a high-score table or anything, but something in-game that lets you see exactly how many enemies you’ve destroyed. eh?

  67. Batesman - # January 7th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    this game is bloody brilliant i’m hooked! and superdigg, thats a very good idea! im so excited for the next update, and i check up here pretty much every 3 days or so! keep up the good work!

  68. ShaggE - # January 7th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    This game is going to be great, most fun I’ve ever had with a test build. It’s one of those games where it’s almost as much fun to die as it is to survive :P

    Controls are frustrating as ever though

  69. Batesman - # January 10th, 2007 at 10:47 am

    how are they frustrating? you just have to play the game for a while, then you get used to them. does anybody agree with superdigg? i really like his idea.

  70. levi - # January 10th, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    oh yeah having known what uv killed would be great

    and just get some money to buy a xbox 360 wired controller its way worth it

  71. Tacostank - # January 11th, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    how do u get a folder in cc test build 11 because it doesn’t come in a folder plz tell im desperate:) lol!!!

  72. levi - # January 15th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

    yeah u make a folder when u install it look in my computer precatio c: then program files find data realms

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