You can try the beta at html5.vortexwars.com. You can use the same account you use for vortexwars.com, and play with people using 2.4.
Reporting Bugs You can report bugs using the feedback form (click Feedback in the upper right corner) or in the Bug reports forum. Please mention that the bug is in 2.5 Beta.
You can discuss this update at the HTML5 Client Preview thread
I plan to release the game to vortexwars.com in the middle of December. It might be a few days later for Kongregate and Armor Games.
New from 2.4:
- Client rewritten in HTML5
- New website design
- When playing on the vortex wars website, the map will use all available space. Full screen support will come later so players using Kongregate and Armor Games can benefit from this too.
- The zoom levels are dynamically generated. Completely zoomed out, it will show the whole map without wasting space.
- Fixed "lag" that sometimes prevented selecting regions
- The leader board now shows the top 20 players instead of 10
- The player info popup (the popup you get when you click a player in chat) now has a label for Moderators and Premium users.
- You can click on yourself to get the same popup with the stats
- Add filter tags. If you are filtering games, the filter settings are shown above the game list.
Known Bugs:
- When game chat is expanded, new messages are shown at the wrong position
- Calculating the region you clicked is a little off on large maps
Features missing:
- The map editor is temporarily removed. It will come back in version 2.6 or 3.0
- Can not select text in lobby chat. Depending on time, this might also have to wait until a later release.
Enjoy!