Battle Tanks / News: Recent posts

0.4.2902 is out with brand new map inside.

This released introduced couple of new features:
first major feature is completely isolated worlds with its own checkpoints, hints and spawn points.
(new 'Aqua World' map contains underwater and rooftops levels with dozen of teleports)

Multiplayer is more smoother now because of interpolation feature.

Also a lot of various bugs fixed improving general stability and several hot keys to menu were added.

Posted by Vladimir Menshakov 2007-03-23

First major release 0.4.2623 is out.

Finally we've got brand new user interface -- rewritten from scratch.
Nice, clean and simple menus, vehicle and player pickers with or without AI. (yeah, we included beta AI players in this release!). In-game statistics are now available by hitting the TAB key.

Also, most maps now have animated water! :)

For Linux folks we started releasing source tar balls among the win32 binary releases.

Posted by Vladimir Menshakov 2007-03-09

proudly present to you: release 2234 is out

key features of this release:
extra large 'Baykonur' map with old-school big-boss. Dozens of troopers around: in watchtowers, cannons, tents and barracks. (even a patrol boat!)
cooperative mode for multiplayer with checkpoints support for saving map progress.
improved AI logic for troopers.

massive engine optimizations for the best performance. look Changelog file in distribution for details.

(almost forgot!) Game engine was developed under Linux and could be easily compiled on the most distributions.

Posted by Vladimir Menshakov 2007-02-06

btanks are 8th of sf.net arcades! btw, release 1775 is out.

Look http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=288 for details.

We are focused on performance and bug fixes in this release. But there are still few known bugs around (and infinite of unknown ;)

check out for a few nice features too ;)

Posted by Vladimir Menshakov 2007-01-18

Happy X-mas ! :)

The latest X-mas release.

At last! We've added some pickers to the main menu, and you no longer have to edit configs and restart the game each time you decided to get another vehicle or change the map. As always, lots of bugfixes, also we have added some minor features and a brand new map called 'Wastes'.

We plan to concentrate on AI now, so you have some time for playing the latest version - no news are coming for a couple of weeks or even more.

Posted by Vladimir Menshakov 2006-12-26

check out release 0.3.1593!

the key features of this release are:

cool old-school blinking invulnerability effect.
destructible map. among the objects, now it is possible to damage and/or destroy buildings.
city traffic.
and if your vehicle was destroyed, you are still able to act personally as machine gunner. for a few seconds.. :)))

please do not forget to download the latest data file from btanks-data package.

Posted by Vladimir Menshakov 2006-12-18

btanks-0.3.1435 released

Battle tanks arcade 0.3.1435 was released. Battle tanks is free fast and fun arcade multiplayer game. This release includes bugfixes and improvements reported since the first release was out.

Posted by Vladimir Menshakov 2006-11-27

btanks-0.3.1298 released

The first public demo of BattleTanks is now available. This release includes multiplayer, split screen mode, three multiplayer maps, three different vehicles.

More at http://sourceforge.net/projects/btanks

Posted by Vladimir Menshakov 2006-11-08