Vortex Wars

Vortex Wars 2.5 is almost finished! It now is relatively stable, and I would appreciate help with testing to locate any remaining bugs. Since the client has almost all new code, there will be many.

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!

Beta 2

Added:

• New xp shown in lobby after leaving game
• Level Up window

Bug fixes:

• Fixed lobby game list sometimes starting at wrong position
• Fix new game chat messages in wrong position when history is shown
• Fix signing out
• A few other small bugs were also fixed

Beta 3

Drawing the map and game is 68 % faster. On my computer, drawing the very large map I used for testing went from 8 seconds to 2.5 seconds. Showing the tutorial now takes less than half a second.

The default zoom has been changed back to 100%.

Beta 4

Added:
- What's New screen
- Text is less blurry on High DPI screens
- When logging in, the spinner message will update to show some progress.
- Added temporary map editor screen

Fixed:
- Calculating what region you clicked is much more accurate. Though it might still might be off when clicking a region's border.
- The game fits better on small screens
- Various visual bugs were fixed

I will be releasing 2.5 before Wednesday.