BallisticNG - Wipeout Alternative

SolKutTeR · 3. August 2018

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Am 20. Dezember verlässt diese Wipeout Omega Collection Alternative den Early Access Status.
Zum Anlass bekommt Ihr am 11. August die Chance, 10 Exemplare im Giveaway zu erhaschen.

On August 11th we’re going to pick 10 people at random to receive a free copy of BallisticNG, for a chance to win a copy all you need to do is head over to the game’s Discord server and leave a message in the #giveaway channel. We’ll choose 10 people on the day and send out keys via PM.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/ballisticng
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BallisticNG von Neognosis
Für den VR-Modus dieses Produkts benötigen Sie ein Gamepad oder Tastatur und Maus.

BallisticNG is an action packed anti-gravity racer developed as a lover letter to the original Wipeout trilogy. Set in the year 2159 you glide through futuristic race courses armed to the teeth with deadly weapons to aid you in taking first place.
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Features

17 tracks set in unique locations, 12 of them reversible for a grand total of 29 playable tracks

13 teams and a lineup of super fast drag ships

14 pickups for all your combat needs

6 gamemodes (Race, Time Trial, Speed Lap, Survival, Knockout and Eliminator)

A singleplayer campaign to challenge your skill

Two player splitscreen with dual-monitor support

A thumping 90s inspired soundtrack featuring 34 tracks spanning across Techno, Jungle, Neurofunk and Drum and Bass

A modding tool suite to import your own ships, build your own tracks and program your own gamemodes, weapons and more

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Physics
BallisticNG recreates the physics of a time long gone. Playing the game is all about getting into the zone and becoming one with the ship, practicing every nook and cranny of every track until you can do it with your eyes closed. Feeling the speed isn't about what the HUD tells you, but how the environment swooshes past you and timing the right maneuvers at the right time to keep the flow going. If you're looking for a quick game, lower speed classes provide you with a more laid back experience. You can even disable weapons if you want a good clean race.
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Visuals
The game is built as if it were running on real 90s hardware. Low poly ships and environments create simple yet visually rich scenes that can run on most hardware. Retro 3D options are available to emulate hardware limitations from the 90s, modern effects are also available so you can make the game look old, new or anywhere in-between.
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VR Support
BallisticNG has beta VR support with no compromises on game functionality. All modes, tracks, ships, online and mod content are supported! Tweak the game with the VR options to get the most comfort out of your experience.
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Cockpit Mode
Each ship has a unique cockpit which reflects the design you see on the exterior. When in cockpit mode the game processes the audio to make it sound authentic, complete with the sound of rain splashing on the canopy and displays flickering as you take damage from weapons, everything you need to get cosy in your high speed future racer.
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zyn · 15. Dezember 2018

Das Spiel ist nun offiziell erschienen! Es ist schlicht und ergreifend der perfekte nostalgische Wipeout Clon inklusive VR Mode!
Bei einem Preis von nur 6,59€ ein "No-Brainer". Wer Wipeout mag greift umgehend zu.

SolKutTeR · 15. Dezember 2018

Das sieht echt nicht schlecht aus,...

BallisticNG is now released!
BallisticNG has left Early Access and 1.0 is now released! It's been a crazy few years and we're finally at the point where BallisticNG can be considered finished. With that said though, this doesn't mean the end of development and there's still plenty to come in the future so be sure to stay tuned for new content to come.

Leaderboards have been reset for the release, this is the last leaderboard reset that we will be doing.

We hope you enjoy the new release, there's a lot of new content for you to dive into and with the updated multiplayer you can now have a lot more fun with friends!

We're now going to take a short break and will be back after the holidays to setup modding tools documentation and a demo.

Notice for Linux players
A bug in Unity is currently forcing the game to run at a resolution of 0x0 when fullscreened, we have a potential full workaround but unfortunately there wasn’t enough time to get it implemented for release. For the time being Steam has been setup to run a bash script which forces the game to run in a window with your primary monitor’s resolution, we’re looking to get a hotfix out for the issue ASAP.

If you’d prefer to stay on 0.9.4 in the meantime a legacy branch has been setup. You can jump onto it by right clicking the game in your Steam library, navigating to Properties -> Betas and selecting the legacy branch from the dropdown.

Changelog
Here is the massive 1.0 changelog. Not every single change and fix has been marked below because it would be even larger than it already is!
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Gamemodes

Removed Target

The layout creator (both versions) now use its own gamemode with infinite afterburner, turbos every lap and a timer so you can get a feel for how long your track is

Survivals pause menu now ends the session instead of instantly quitting

You now begin with a start boost in Survival

Being eliminated on the last race of a tournament now displays the results as normal instead of disqualifying you

Added respawn enabled option for Race

Weapon warnings no longer play in Eliminator

Respawning in Eliminator now makes you invincible for 3 seconds

Respawning in Survival now drains 5% of your shield energy

Perfect Zone is no longer called out in Survival

All ships now have weapons in Eliminator

The ships grip no longer increases as you progress in Survival

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User Interface

Added a screen to manage C# mods

Added quick page navigation to the custom race menu

Added a weapons toggle option to the tournament options screen

Added a first startup graphics configuration screen

Added a soundpacks testing menu, you can use this to play the built in and custom soundpack sounds back to back for testing

Removed the redundant XP counters from all result screens

Fixed play tab contents not closing when first navigating the menu

Fixed medals not rendering on the survival result screens

Fixed options disappearing on the in-game options menu if you cancel out before the animation finishes playing

Ship stats are now out of 10 and have been re-balanced

Removed the v character from the version string shown on the menu

Gamemodes not playable in splitscreen no longer show up in the custom race menus gamemode list

Countdown displays now show the correct gamemode name

The ship turntable now correctly accepts player 2's inputs

The tournament results screen now shows you the next track in the tournament

The shield bar now flashes green as shield energy is replenished

Result screens in splitscreen now use their own interfaces

Result screens now use a select track option instead of next track, this allows you to select whatever track you want from the track turntable

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Audio

Added custom music playlists. Sub-directories of Custom Music define the playlists and you can then select either the specific folder you want to play music from or keep the 0.9 behaviour and have the game play music from all

Added sequential music playback (enabled by default)

Added a third mix option to the custom music setting, when enabled the game will mix the built in and custom songs

Fixed weapon warnings playing once the player has finished

All voices have been re-recoded by WipeoutZone's HellfireWZ (system voices) and BNGL maintainer Radracer (warning voices). The old voices have been moved into an updated default soundpack!

Weapon warnings now operate on 2 second cooldown

Removed old track intercom voices on a select few tracks that still had them present

Custom menu music can now be added

Custom explosion sounds now apply to mines

Player ships now use 3D audio during the new animated track overview sequences

Reduced the number of sounds that AI ships play and increased the maximum audio voice count to 64

Rain can now only be heared when close to the track floor

Hitting the floor on a magnetic track section no longer plays a collision sound

Ship-ship collisions now use their own sounds (see the new soundpack testing menu for file names)

Added variations of the wall hit sound

The drag ships now have a new engine sound

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Ships

Added stealth liveries, these are unlocked alongside the clean liveries

Added navigation lights

Fixed airbrake scrape hooking

Fixed releasing the airbrake snapping you back to full speed

Fixed an issue with how analogue inputs are managed, before this fix it was possible to quickly move the left analogue stick to stop steering instantly

A ships nose is now pushed up if it's scraping against the track floor below 54 degrees, when the nose is pushed up it also induces slowdown

Increased Scorpios turn gain from 0.98 to 1.1

M-TechP1's steering is no longer total trash

Perfecting all precision runs now unlocks the precision delta for use in custom races. To go with this it now has alternative liveries and its own cockpit

Ships now deal different amounts of damage

Ships now use box colliders to handle collisions between each other

General ship-ship bumping has been replaced with scraping and a speed transfer when you bump into the back of other ships

Plasma impacts now trigger the ships engine to catch fire

Improved handling in 2280 and re-added the invisible wall simulation that 2159 uses

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Engine

Added an intro cinematic

Added -nomods launch switch, useful for launching a multiplayer session without having to manually disable mods and restarting first

Added a legacy reverse camera option, restored from 0.7 with some tweaks to accommodate custom ships

Added an anti-skip system to prevent you from cutting more then a second of the track (disabled by default in existing custom tracks)

Added a new achievement and stats backend, this is entirely local and new achievements/stats can be added through C# mods

Added an attract mode (like older builds). Leave the game on the root of the menu for 30 seconds

Fixed the track introduction option not doing anything

Fixed ships with post-import scaling having blown up shield meshes

Removed the fake 240p option

3D track pads now apply in 2159 physics. If a track doesn't have pad tiles but has 3d pads the game will now enable the 3d pads for the missing tille types regardless of physics mode.

Projectile explosion particles now have their transform scale reset upon being attached to an object

Speed Pads now also increase the engine thrust

Added realtime player ship reflections

Removed texture filtering option

Weather is no longer interrupted by trigger colliders

Revamped the collision effects, recharge particle effects and weapon effects

Checkpoint time offset calculations can now take into account alternative routes

Engine fires are now loaded ahead of time to save on loading hitches when they are triggered

Ships no longer trigger events from track lasers when eliminated

Ai engine flares are no longer double sided

added uberplasma and horizontal typed cheats, type them on the menu to see what they do in-game

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Tracks

Added illumination lights to Nova Split to improved track visibility

Added a track overview stage before the race begins, tracks that support this feature will show you select locations

Added start grid droids, tracks that support this feature will have the rescue droids fly off from above the ships as the race starts

Added clouds to tracks with rain

Added Surge

Fixed broken UVs on Hydrome Bed

Removed the 2280 pitlane force fields

Removed old track intercom voices on those that still had them present

Remade Arrivon Peak from scratch

Zephyr Ridge; added extrusions to the entrance/exits of each tunnel, replaced the first tunnels crowd stands with a exit looking out into terrain, fixed advertisement billboards z-fighting when retro vertices is enabled

Omega Harbour; updated the aquarium to be real 3d space, the black floor and black building bottoms are now textured, added more builds on the final straight

Aciknovae; updated several upper buildings to have unique designs, fixed uvs in the reactor

Overhauled Utah Projects scenery

All drag tracks now span an additional 10 laps

Virtual environments now have neon windows, advertisement billboards replaced with music visualizers and fog

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Pickups

Fixed mines slowing down ships that are holding a shield which auto-deploys

Fixed the shield being picked up when an autopilot is engaged and vice versa

Removed the transfer beam, it has instead been replaced by the emergency pack

Pickups now use a weighting table to determine pickup balances

The emergency pack now works again and is dropped for all ships with critical shield energy, you can now only pickup one per lap

Projectiles can now handle vertical/upside track sections and scenery floors

The turbo now maxes out the ships acceleration

The energy wall bolt now follows a generated spline along the track

The plasma shot is now affected by gravity

Nerfed plasma so it's no longer a one-shot kill weapon for balancing in multiplayer. It continues to deal large amounts of damage and depending on the ship you're using can still instant kill (Diavolt hitting a Tenrai for instance)

Reduced plasma chargeup time from 1 second to half a second

Plasma now slow ships down

The hunter now uses an animation when it's attacking the ship in first place

Reduced mine slowdown

The distance that energy walls deploy and speed of tremors are now determined by the speed class

Tremors and plasma can now destroy energy walls

The hellstorm now uses reticles to provide visual feedback on what's being targeted

Projectiles are now tinted to the track tile below them

The autopilot shield is now a much fainter blue

Ships no longer take damage from their own tremors

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AI

AI now pull away from other ships with a much lower force

AI navigation has been rewritten, they are now much more capable of navigating tracks and are a lot less prone to scraping their noses

Balanced AI stats. AI in the harder difficulties will now provide a lot more challenge. Their performance always remains the same through the entire race, you'll no longer find the AI giving up on the last lap

Ai now only hold onto the cannon for 15 - 25 seconds and the tremor for 8-12 seconds

AI no longer aim for pitlanes when they're disabled

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Campaign

Added custom campaigns support through the use of XML files

Added practice mode. This puts you on an easy Cassandra race and provides a guide on the game's mechanics in the pause menu

Fixed the Ballistic64 cheat not being disabled when playing a campaign event

Fixed campaign progress being saved when in debug mode

Removed the tutorial events, they have been replaced by the new practice mode

Unlocking content now plays an animation

All campaign events have been rebalanced

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Multiplayer

Added support for custom ships. Custom ships are resolved using their file names, so make sure everybody is using the same names for their ships! (shouldn't be an issue for workshop downloads)

Added UPNP support. If the router supports and has UPNP enabled then the port you set in the host menu will be automatically forwarded for your play session

Added new settings to the lobby settings

Added a kick menu for the host, this can only be used in the lobby for people who are also currently in the lobby

Added tournament support, you can select up to 12 tracks and play them back to back without needing to go back to the lobby

Added an in-game player position list

Fixed the code mods check factoring in disabled mods

Fixed ships resetting to world origin when they have finished a race

Fixed players sat in the lobby counting towards the wait timer when a player has finished the race

Fixed an issue where a coroutine left running after the 30 second wait timer would leave the game in a state where it thought the race was over when starting the next track

Your name can now be changed before joining. If running Steam this will default to your Steam username, otherwise it defaults to Player

Errors preventing online functionality are now shown in an overlay

Server hosts can now define what ship classes can be selected before hosting the lobby

Server hosts can now define which port they want to host on

A connecting overlay is now shown while the game waits for a host to respond, this will time out after 30 seconds

When a client searches for a track sent by the server it will now check the supplied workshop ID before trying to match the scene name

The ship/track turntable screens are now in-lobby overlays

Client countdown delegates are now invoked when the server sends countdown triggers

Networked ships no longer take damage on the client-side, this information is already passed to each client each server tick

The shield activation state for ships are now sent to clients

Reduced the size of nametags by 30% and moved the name above the diamond marker, the text is now also hidden when further away

Optimized netcode so less data is sent per tick (roughly 6.4kbps for the host when running an 8 player lobby)

Ship collisions are now disabled for 5 seconds once the race has begun

Projectile are now synced more accurately

Pausing now activates a slow autopilot

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VR

Added a cockpit visibility rating when selecting ships (non mod content only for the time being)

Fixed the missile reticule not facing the player

Fixed the camera on custom tracks not using a bloom prefab being offset

A separate settings.ini file is now used for VR

UI tooltips are now correctly curved when displayed

Some options that can't be changed are now marked so in the options

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Modding Tools

Newly installed C# mods are no longer compiled and enabled by default, they must first be activated in the manage mods menu. On first launch with no mods activated a warning is now displayed

Added Layout Creator 2.0, a new spline based and much more user friendly layout creator. The old one can still be accessed from the same option!

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Unity Tools

Custom tracks are now exported to a single .trk file that contains shaders for DX9, DX11 and OGL. Please use the updated track uploader tool when uploading tracks exported with the new multi-shader files.

Added support for reflective tile maps, you can assign these in the textures tab with the other tile textures

Updated the light sponge to use proper attenuation for their darkening. The old mode is still available, if you want to maintain the older behaviour in your tracksc then you'll want to manually disable this new option in the inspector per sponge

Added a sphere handle that lets you set the radius of light sponges in the scene view

Added Reverse TRM tools:
BallisticNG -> Utilities -> Export Reversed Trm
BallisticNG -> Utilities -> Reverse Trm Transfer Tool

Added Track Atlas Exporter
BallisticNG -> Utilities -> Export Track Diffuse/Illum Atlas

Updated scene references options

Added AI Look Ahead, this controls how many sections the AI will look forward when navigating the track

Added hide checkpoint visuals, enabling this will disable the checkpoint meshes and effects so you can make your own

Skybox Material, drag a Unity Sky compatible material into this field to use Unity's sky instead of setting up your own sky mesh

Added Welcome To Intercom field, you can use an audioclip here and it will play when the track launches

Added a new event sections for countdown triggers, you can use these to build your own countdown visuals

Added disable anti-skip option, this will completely disable the anti-skip on your track

Updated the Trm Editor

Gave the editor UI a facelift

Added a menu item to access it (BallisticNG -> Utilities -> Trm Editor)

Individual clicks when defining a track segment are now undoable

Lines are now drawn between placed vertex nodes

The output track mesh wireframe is no longer drawn, instead being replaced by a quad wireframe

Added a new drag mode where you can just drag your mouse across a mesh to draw out the section (this implies you're tracing over a BNG shaped track mesh)

Removed automatic tool (functionally useless)

Removed junction tools (functionally useless)

Heavily optimized the wireframe drawing

Updated the Track Editor

Added section move mode

Updated the section dimension discovery code to the game's version. This is only visual, the game re-calculates these when the track is launched

Optimized the atlas painter, you should experience less hiccups while painting

Most edits are now undoable

You can now control magnetic track sections on a per-tile basis

Magnetic track tiles are now drawn with a purple tint

Added new assets

Replaced the old Arrivon XI based example scene, the startup wizard now also offers you to open the new example scene first

Added new tiles

Final Luna

Arrivon Peak

Omega Harbour

Atlantica

Unused Start Grids

Maglock

Virtual (layout creator)

Laser Panels

Black Illum (use for any tile not using illum textures if there are some tiles that are)

Added Reverse Light Bridge Assets (BallisticNGTools/BallisticNG Assets/Reverse Bridge)

Added Light Bridge sound (BallisticNG Assets/Audio)

Added new shaders

BallisticNG/Survival

BallisticNG/Survival (Double Sided)

BallisticNG/Survival Transparent

BallisticNG/Display

BallisticNG/Display (Double Sided)

BallisticNG/Building (Cubemap)

BallisticNG/Building

BallisticNG/Building (Reflection Probe)

BallisticNG/Survival Skybox

BallisticNG/Cloud

BallisticNG/Laser

BallisticNG/Survival Environment Detail

Added (BallisticNG Assets/Skies/Clouds/Cloud Cover) mesh and (BallisticNG Assets/Skies/Clouds/Cloud) textures folder and an example clouds material

Added (BallisticNGTools/SharedAssets/DisplayScanLines.png) and (BallisticNGTools/SharedAssets/SurvivalCube.tga)

Added (BallisticNGTools/SharedAssets/Laser Emitters) folder, full of laser emitter assets

Added (BallisticNGTools/BallisticNGAssets/Audio/IntercomVoices.flp). This is the FL Studio project file that's used for the in-game intercom voices

Updated the billboard texture atlases to the latest versions

Added new scripts

Added BallisticNG -> Pre-Race -> Rescue Droids and BallisticNG -> Pre-Race -> Intro Overview components

Added BallisticNG -> Rendering -> Survival EQ Visualizer component, to aid in the creation of these BallisticNGTools/SharedAssets/SurvivalVisHelperTexture.png has also been added

Added NasVolume, this can be used to define areas where the anti-skip should be disabled and can be attached to any type of object that has a 3D collider

Added SurvivalEnabled. Using this will make an object only appear when the virtual environment is being used

Added SurvivalEnvironmentDetail, use this with the shader of the same name to create neon survival elements like the vanilla neon windows

Added fast play, this lets you quickly launch the game to playtest your track. You can access it from BallisticNG -> Fast Play

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Hoshi82 · 29. Juli 2024

Ich kram den Thread nochmal aus, weil ich wieder über das Spiel gestolpert bin und damals auch ein Video dazu gemacht habe. Eine Serie, die ich nie fortgesetzt habe, da das Interesse eher gering war. Gibt nur 2 Teile der Forgotten VR Gems Serie

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