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Saturday, 20 May 2000 -
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Download The PRO MODE Beta.

DISCLAIMER:
We've done everything in our power to ensure that this file is bug-free, virus-free and controversy-free, but we make no guarantees and if you download it you are solely responsible for anything that may consequently happen.

LATEST VERSION:

MAY 2000 - DOWNLOAD FULL VERSION - BETA 28 (6.4 MB) .

DOWNLOAD PATCH TO UPGRADE BETA 27 TO BETA 28 (300 KB) .

DOWNLOAD DLL VERSION OF BETA 28 PATCH - NOTE: UNSUPPORTED (360 KB) .

About Lansanity.
The exclusive Lansanity version of Challenge ProMode (CPM) was created for the Lansanity LAN tournament (Portland, Oregon, USA, July 15). It is the first competition LAN tournament to use CPM anywhere in the world that we are aware of. The player list includes most of team abuse, and many other talented US players including a former QuakeCon winner, DieharD-r3v.

The Lansanity CPM contains 99% of the gameplay we expect to be in the final version of CPM. There are still a few little bugs and things we may tweak a bit but this is it. If you've played CPM before, you'll find the air movement has been improved, the armor system tweaked and some of the weapons adjusted slightly.

The official release of CPM will feature stuff that didn't make it into the Lansanity version - for example player skins, and more maps - but while you wait for us to get that all together you can use this version. Let us know what you think!

Lansanity tournament organiser (and CPM core designer), a|citizen, has written some info on the Lansanity version of CPM which is worth you checking out

About BETA 28.
The full version - Beta28 (promode_beta28.zip [6.4 MB]) - is available for users who haven't yet downloaded the Challenge Pro Mode. The small 300 KB patch will upgrade Beta27 to Beta 28 (promode_beta28_patch.zip [300 KB]). The dll version [360 KB] of the patch is for experts only. We stress, it is unsupported - so only users who know what they are doing with dlls should download this one.

What does the Beta28 upgrade patch do? Well it fixes the more critical bugs that we found emerged with Beta27. Just download the patch and drop it into your /promode directory. It will update you to Beta28. All servers please update as soon as possible.

Here's the list of changes:

Beta 28:
- Fix, Railgun bug - now you can't switch to another weapon, fire, and switch back to use the railgun before you would normally be able to fire it [HighlandeR].
- Fix, Weapon change, now if you are pressing fire and change weapon, you will fire from new weapon [HighlandeR].
- Fix, footsteps are now always off while Challenge Pro Mode is on [PhaNToM].
- Fix, Megahealth respawn is back to 35 whill Challenge Pro Mode is off [PhaNToM].
- Fix, Default model is now sarge [PhaNToM].
- Fix, Jumppad sound (if you walked on jumppad it didn't make any sound) [HighlandeR].
- Fix, Small change to sound fix, there shouldn't be "no sound" sound [HighlandeR].
- Fix, When a spectator changed name or color during teamplay games without using "_pm" compatible skins, his model was completely reloaded for all clients [Khaile].
- Fix, When spectators spectated team games with the cg_forceColors option, all players had the same color, regardless of team [Khaile].
- Fix, The serverside map item editor is now working [D!ablo].

There are still some things we want to finish before we even consider going out of Beta, but we won't have these done soon so we want to release a small patch now. The things we are still working on which are not in the patch include:

Work in Progress:
- Fix, Air control works same backwards as forwards [HighlandeR].
- Armor, still refining YA and RA values [a|revelation].
- Pro mode filtering in the server list(menu) [DlooB].
- "Team captains" [D!ablo].
- Map Item Editor (client side) [D!ablo].
- Fix, HighlandeR's client console commands tab completion [HighlandeR].
- Bug, the default_PM icons for non Promode skins do not show while map is loading.
- Fix, armor icon display on crosshair and team overlay.
- Fix, efficiency isn't correct it includes suicides.

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