14 DAY TRIAL // The Unvanquished development team, through Corentin Wallez, has had the pleasure of announcing today, May 10, the immediate availability for download of a new Alpha build of their first-person shooter game for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems.
According to the release notes, Unvanquished Alpha 39 is one of those "Spring cleanup" releases where numerous bugs that were reported by users of Alpha 38 and previous versions of the game are being squashed in order to improve the user experience of Unvanquished.
Additionally, Unvanquished Alpha 39, which is now in feature-freeze, cleans numerous warnings, saves a lot of CPU (Central Processing Unit) time by letting the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) take care of the computation of vertex deforms, and removes qbooleans.
"This release we focused on our spring cleaning effort, fixing showstoppers and improving the user experience of the game," says Corentin Wallez in the official release announcement. "With the extensive changes we have been making to the game since the beginning of the year, a number of issues have arisen, some of which completely prevented players to run the game on some platforms."
Major GPU driver bugs have been squashed
During the bug hunting sessions for Unvanquished Alpha 39, the development team had a hard time squashing some of the nastiest renderer bugs that are mostly specific to a single driver/hardware combination. These include a crash with the Gallium r300 driver, and huge FPS drops with the Mac OS X operating system.
You can download Unvanquished Alpha 39 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from Softpedia. Don't forget that this is still a pre-release version of the game, which means that unresolved issues are present. We recommend reading the complete changelog if you want to know what exactly has been changed in this release.