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You forget this game was released in around 2005 from memory.  The capabilities of computers back then can't even be compared to today's machines as far as performance.  Most people were even playing on dial-up.

There is no real need to reduce file size, modify maps or the like for this reason.  The only thing I would like to see is better packet flow control so I can play oversea's servers.

This is my computer before running AA2.5
CPU 2%
RAM 20%

After:
CPU 4%
RAM 28%

It's not about new computers being more capable (more on that later) it's about reducing filesize for new users or people that need to reinstall their AA. There's just a lot of useless stuff, especially since we don't use the GUI anymore.

To touch on computers being faster now, that's true to an extent. AA only works on 1 CPU core so playing on a single-core or 6-core CPU, as long as they're clocked the same speed, you'll notice no difference in FPS. In this sense, it's imperative that we be mindful of FPS in maps and try to reduce/optimize. This game itself is severely bottlenecked by the CPU.

Same time of day, same brightness and everything, just 12 more fog particles and about 1200 rain particles. You can't hear footsteps around you but you can hear gunfire. Kind of like a rainy dock

This is for Jonny mostly but I'd like other people's thoughts on it as well. What would you guys think about a public beta? MP6 Pipeline is utter crap and some of the maps have serious bugs like Ice and whatnot. I'm thinking of a few public beta's so people can post bugs and whatnot instead of working hard and releasing a "final" version in a month or two. I'd rather get small amounts of fixes out there and get feedback so we can keep tweaking until people are happy. Maybe 5 or so beta releases? Up to Jonny how much he wants to change things

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It would also give us a chance to loosely test the new Karma mod. We could even have Karma and non-Karma versions of the same map. I have lots of ideas for PBall

Go try it out from Dropbox and let me know if there's anything that should be fixed.

In the first few seconds you can see the weapon bobbing back and fourth.

Ok cool. You wouldn't want all the hard work of figuring out nice values for an object to go the waste at the end of a round

I think I'm just going to have the objects reset to their original location & rotation. I imagine that Karma values would stay the same. That's something else to test though.

I didn't have any issues on it playing singleplayer. People will test it before mAAp v7 and if there's problems, I can try to fix them. There are a lot of meshes but most have a culling distance. I can add AntiPortals (basically nothing on the other side of the volume gets rendered) to various spots if you guys think it's necessary.