An Exclusive Preview Of Unigine's OilRush Game

[deanjo]

Torrent is good, but they'll use more of their bandwidth (so depends how much they pay for it) and it's more suited for stuff you want to make available for a long period of time. DDL is more straightforward (simple upload, nothing to setup or check) and cheaper for stuff you only need to make available for a short amount of time to a lot of people (basically the few days following the relative Phoronix news article).

They won't necessarily use more of their bandwidth. To establish a good swarm you can realistically get one going quite efficiently with usage of superseeding. Many of those DDL sites restrict the size of the data that can be downloaded as well.

[miles]

Just torrent the HD footage. They are already running their own tracker for the unigine benchmarks.

Torrent is good, but they'll use more of their bandwidth (so depends how much they pay for it) and it's more suited for stuff you want to make available for a long period of time. DDL is more straightforward (simple upload, nothing to setup or check) and cheaper for stuff you only need to make available for a short amount of time to a lot of people (basically the few days following the relative Phoronix news article).

[deanjo]

AFAIU, some ISP offer this service for free with your account. Else, www.megaupload.com (allows to use wget and should allow up to 400MB download for everybody). Vimeo allows downloading of the uploaded file for the first week after original upload from a free account, and their quality is better than Youtube but their player is so FUBAR in Linux I wouldn't recommend it ;-)

Just torrent the HD footage. They are already running their own tracker for the unigine benchmarks.

[miles]

Can you suggest one?

AFAIU, some ISP offer this service for free with your account. Else, www.megaupload.com (allows to use wget and should allow up to 400MB download for everybody). Vimeo allows downloading of the uploaded file for the first week after original upload from a free account, and their quality is better than Youtube but their player is so FUBAR in Linux I wouldn't recommend it ;-)

Windowed mode doesn't grab your mouse, you can still use other applications. Alt+Tab works in Windows, but we still haven't implemented it in Linux because there is way too much different DEs with different key bindings.

Great for not grabbing the mouse, this would allow maximizing the windows and still being able to switch between desktops.

I'm not sure about DE, don't they all use ALT-TAB? Some Linux games also use ALT-ENTER for switching between fullscreen and windowed mode, Video players also use those shortcuts.

As for other shortcuts, Svartalf or icculus should know more about that. i never understood how, but some games manage to only grab the keypresses they need (those you affect to an action in the game), leaving the rest usable by the DE. Others, like X3, grab everything and you've got to exit the game and restart each time you need to adjust the global sound volume.

[devius]

I don't know what was the problem with Michael's test system, but I have 25-30 FPS on my old GeForce 9600 GT / Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz in real battles with hundreds of units fighting. Linux, proprietary NVIDIA driver.

Please just make sure the game scales well with 4 or more cores. That would be a great bonus for those of us with lesser gpus, but still interested in this game.

[tball]

Can you suggest one?



Windowed mode doesn't grab your mouse, you can still use other applications. Alt+Tab works in Windows, but we still haven't implemented it in Linux because there is way too much different DEs with different key bindings.

I must say that your game looks awesome. I will definitely buy this title.

[binstream]

Would it be possible to upload an unedited HD video on a free sharing site (Youtube HD = worse than DVD quality...), even a very short one?

Can you suggest one?

Also, could you tell us if it's possible to switch back and forth to the desktop when OilRush is in fullscreen mode (either with ALT-TAB or better by sending keys like F1-F4 to the DE, which I set to each of my virtual desktops)? When in windowed mode, do you capture the mouse like Aquaria with no possibility to access other windows, or is it like World of Goo when you can still check your emails & IRC without having to exit the game?

Windowed mode doesn't grab your mouse, you can still use other applications. Alt+Tab works in Windows, but we still haven't implemented it in Linux because there is way too much different DEs with different key bindings.

[PsynoKhi0]

This is looking increasingly interesting, hoping for a multiplayer demo!

[mat69]

Personally I don't care about graphics, I care about games.
And with games I mean gameplay, heck I love to play Railroad Tycoon 2, Stronghold 1, Doom II etc. occasionally.

So what is important to me: Does it make fun?

[miles]

We NEVER edit screenshots, it's strictly forbidden in our studio. However videos give more without a doubt. I hope we'll record some gameplay videos next week and upload them on youtube.

Would it be possible to upload an unedited HD video on a free sharing site (Youtube HD = worse than DVD quality...), even a very short one?

Also, could you tell us if it's possible to switch back and forth to the desktop when OilRush is in fullscreen mode (either with ALT-TAB or better by sending keys like F1-F4 to the DE, which I set to each of my virtual desktops)? When in windowed mode, do you capture the mouse like Aquaria with no possibility to access other windows, or is it like World of Goo when you can still check your emails & IRC without having to exit the game?

@d2kx : same here, the game looks like it's in such great shape already, and with beta access... Plus it's the kind of game I'm sure I'm going to play too much ;-)