Well, amazingly, my mac is actually trying to connect. However, the unity bar loads, and then it just stays on the unity logo, without Mars coming up on the screen.

This is so awesome!  Good job!

i haven't played just yet but im glad to see laser 'bend' and Boot messages and im curious as to what this GYride is. I will let you know later, once i play, about anyone remaining bugs.

 

Edit: When lasers are at slowest, regardless of laser grav, they seem lagish and late to fire, even while traveling to target.

 

Edit2: I think most bugs are gone, it will take some longer evaluation by more people but so far so good. Laser bend is fun but needs a bit of work..how, i cant say but it just seems off. For instance, i was on volcano trying to shoot in center but it either hit the side closest to me or the far side, no center. Id still like to see some meters for Laser time active and laser width but for now its good. Just imagine a slow moving wall of laser heading towards you :P Just for fun of course. It may encourage sloth in some noobs but...well, i like it. Thank you.

 

Edit3: boot message doesnt appear in server, it would be nice if it did.

wut?!?! no!!!!!

great, but...

 

 

howcome i have probs with laser tag view again? it either appears to be the view of somebody else's buggy, or the view is styationary. 

 

 

plz fix this.

Uh oh! I will look into this...

Well, I exited a server, and joined again about 10 seconds later (lol), and I was told an instantiation error had occurred, and asked to file a bug report - welp here it is! lol - also, The gam crashed about five seconds later.

You would like a notification to apper in the server's client (possibly messaging console) when they evict a player - other than the current "player X has disconnected"?

my own server booted me and im currently looking at "(Uninspired)'s Game" on the server list.

 

theres no one in it...

LOL!

Another bug: I was in babaG's game, and disconnected due to a connectivity problem - I kept trying to rejoin (no success) and only realized the server was not on the list when I refreshed the page.

Here's another one for you.

 

 for some reason when we were playing around in foxholes having bubbles coming out behind us me, Aek and Wintergreen all had bubbles behind us

Here is my bug: HERE

Well, not only do the name, and minimap arrow things happen, I also had complete controll of every bot instantiated!

Yes. Still not a top priority for me but it would be nice to know when someone is booted and the host/person booted lies

Aubrey, You may have turned me into a laser man due to your new laser curves and GyRide. It's a challenge i may take you up on :) Only one person in the past really dramatically changed how i played the game and that was Iggy who made me want to ram and not shoot but now that has been changed by you and now more than ever i want to shoot more than ram. Congrats and thank you :)

Same here! And i like it! kinda! When i enter laser cam, i go to the view of one of my bots but since i can control it's movements its it was awesome! When i went to normal views, i went to my own buggy. The bot i was inside was named something like (babaG)'s bot's bot's bot's bot. 

 

Edit: Also, when i closes that server, my name was (babaG)'s bot's bot's bot's bot so i went to change my name but it showed babaG on the insert name screen so i changed nothing, clicked authenticate and it was back to normal. i believe this is part cause of the people entering and being named Aek's bot for instance and having the bot cam view, except when it isnt your server, you cant control bots so its back to the old host cam bug! Interesting!

i'm having Probs with connecting, and i also have probs loading maps like freestyle into my own server.

 

i cannot connect to anybody else's servers, 

 

I wanna play your awesome game!

 

 

O_o    huh?

it would help if you let us download as a MAC application. please

either nobody is on or I have no server list

I have no server list at all....great...

try starting a game and then quit once you see the sky monster, then see if you can see  the server list then...

I suppose it's not the time for requests but since you asked, some of us would really appreciate the return of "is now The Quarry!" in the messaging console to prompt newbees to ask "wut iz qwerry?" Otherwise, we have to start our quarry lectures from scratch which is so much tougher.

 

I think a super-colossal sign on the server list page AND home site pointing to a tutorial map with a "talking bot" (recorded message) on game play would help the non quarry shooting thing immensely. "Hello and welcome to Mars Explorer. My name is Stinky and I'm a robot version of a vehicle you will see in the game after a few moments. Lemme show you what Quarry means...ZAP! (Stinky lasers the newbee) See how my name tured green?"...etc... Stinky could be like Tom on my space but far less square. :) Stinky could always "be there" for a player like always be visible in every page corner, maybe even in-game with answers to oh, I don't know..... frequently asked questions? Click Stinky's icon to view a list of FAQs? Stinky MUST BE A REALLY FUN HANG or he/she/Tank/Buggy/Hover (cadette's choice) will be ignored. 

 

Also, if the messaging console displayed "was evicted!" then hosts will not constantly be asked if he evicted this or that player.

Thanks, kruncher

Anyone on? If so, PM me and lts see if the server list is working.

O M G still 1.9.7

still 1.9

jes

is this some joke on me and sayin the next is 1.9.8 proves what I'm saying about u guys staying on 1.9.

 

can't wait for 1.9.369364836593

I take it back this version is so blimmin bug filled it diserves 1.9.7.7.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 this is boring.

well, do you even know how to make a game richardb?

 

I doubt it.

 

so.

 

NOONE CARES ABOUT YOUR COMMENTS!!!

 

ALL IT DOES IS BUG US ALL!!!

 

 

LEAVE AUBERY ALONE ALREADY FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

AND DON'T GIVE ME ANY OF YOUR **** ABOUT YOU TRYING TO FIX THE GAME!

 

 

in short, GO AWAY RICHARDB!

 

 

(harsh but it had to be said.)

dos mas bugs!

 

1. i dont know if it has to do with the relationship of nat types, but i was in a server with a couple people, and was told there was another server with more people. I left the game to check it out, and only the game i had previously been in was there.

 

 

2. I have already stated my last bug, because i thought it was a one time occurence. Every time i make a server and quit out of it, the server will stay on the list on my screen for a couple minutes (i cant rejoin my own server, it says my connection isnt compatible or something). The only way for the server to leave the server list is for me to either join a game, or make a new server (which will just repeat the process of there being a server with no one in it).

 

i can take a picture of #2 if i encounter it again

I think the master server list was bogged down - I recently rebooted it, and it seems to be working great again.

 

Please let me know if you experience this any more

Actually, you control the bot either way lol

I kinda liked the bot bug...but whatever. I guess a bug is a bug right? It doesn't matter if it's a butterfly? Like the volcano 'glitch' for instance? Just saying :) Some bugs are fun.

 

Oh noes!

 

you again, "connection failiure"?????

I have the connection to master server fail coming up over and over again

personely i think the new laser scope is kind of annoying... like, wen ever i press 1 (to go into laser  mode) it appears in a random place around the buggy... i find that really annoying. but i do like the scope moving a little, its more realistic. but could you plz make it appear at the front like normal=(

 

-petey

Aubrey, I've literally reached the end of my patience, you keep saying the server list is fixed, then when it comes to prime time, it's always busted, again, please fix. my server list keeps flashing on and off and on and off again and again

On Safari I have seen about three games since this version came out.

 

On Firefox I have seen about three games as well.

 

Occasionally someone joins my game but I had a game up on Safari that I couldn't see from Firefox.

 

I'm in no panic. Just reporting. Both browsers are last version and are set for popup blocking,otherwise they are stock, reset and caches cleared. I'm on wireless "n" Airport with computer firewall but no network firewall.

Screenshot is simultaneous windows, (both manually refreshed) Safari on left and Firefox on right.

Fun game Aubrey, babaG, Seb......Mr_Mars!

That's because of GyRide, correct? You can set your settings to not sue GyRide, only using the old view...

Hmmm I am also getting a server error message from Electric Sheep.

 

I will plug an Ethernet cable directly from modem into my kMac tomorrow.

 

Update - After removing my wi fi and using Eithernet cable directly into my computer I see one game in Firefox and one DIFFERENT game in Safari. I wonder what's going on? The rest of the internet is fully accessable.

Heh! Nice pics :)

 

The second was the perfect sequel to the first...

Is my problem with my ISP then? When I CAN see/join a game, the player's names flicker "(Delayed)".

 

Happens to me too but im not worried about it.

Thanks for not getting one of many shots of me hitting the ground :)

OMG! I thought I was going insane! This forum format DOES CHANGE! No wonder comments are paired then they aren't.. I DID DEE IT! The verticle dotted lines that connect the comments together are intermittent for me.

Oh I HAVE shots of you hitting the ground alright baba!

 

Want to buy them? :)

 

Naw, I don't have any like that. Heh.

Aubrey, Thanks soooo much for fixing wing deployment nosedive and adding "Player evicted!" !

Driving and transitioning from flight to ground/wall-crawling is fun again and hosts have a two fold upgrade.

1. Host won't get constantly asked if they booted player X.

 

2. Other misbehaving players will see the eviction as a warning.

 

Please consider returning the announcement: "Player X is now The Quarry!" as a prompt for new players to ask what quarry is. The announcement is often the conversation starter for us to explain.

Thanks, kruncher

So's i was posting on Matthews post about tanks being big bullies and i came up with a great solution, Make tanks have weak spots! Tanks can't feel pain from any other vehicles for the most part, and so, just keep on firing away. But lets say, perhaps, I were to shoot the big guys soft under belly and he'd go  home cryin'? Or maybe kick his fat legs, unbalancing him and sending him home cryin'? (Note: Going home cryin' doesn't mean being sent to spawn pad) I think this is a GREAT solution, plus a little fun too :) Thank you.

Hm...I've had it before where the comments were stretching from side to side, but i could still see dotted lines. If for some reason i cannot explain, The thread turns from threaded to flat, you wouldn't see the dotted lines, but it should always be on threaded as default...Weird.

Maybe even cause him to spazz for about 20 seconds LOL

 

Re: Threads - The comments actually change location at different occasions that I visit this post.

 

Re: Tank Solution - I like your idea babaG and also, as an alternative, I still feel all vehicles should have equal weaponry adjustable in server settings. Imagine straffing a tank in your flying buggy with auto-fire red lasers! Actually, every server with this feature would be a laser mess but maybe fun?

 

Re: Bug - I tagged (uninspired) FOUR TIMES (and re-materialized him to spawn) before gaining quarry.

 

 

Aubrey, is there any way you could give a rough time estimate of when the Mac application will be up? I understand that there are many bugs that need to be sorted out, but I also notice that many people who own Macs (myself included) are having trouble accessing the in-browser version of the beta.

Hey Zoe. I'll bet you won't get a time frame from Uber-rey. 

However, the browser connectivity seems to be improving somewhat.

For the first time ever, Firefox is working better for playing Mars Ex than Safari for me.

Try clearing cache> closing your browser > reopen and go directly to the server list EACH TIME YOU VEIW THE LIST.

 

I keep a grass skirt handy with some rattles, drums,  several very expensive root potions and a  Sri Baba blessed Goat for my daily combination rain dance/server list prayer sessions.  :)

 

The goat also eats blackberry bushes. What a PLUS!

Mine eats rhubarb too :)

i remember this =]

i know this is slightly unrelated to this discussion, and its really trivial, but here goes:

 

i truly believe that the sea monster's name should be changed to something more appropriate for lava, not water. technically, its a sea of lava, but the word "sea" refers to water as we all know it.

 

i know, uninmportant. sorry =]

 

btw, babaG i LUV your idea with the tanks!

I think the names fine. A lava sea, get it? 

 

Why shank you! i love my idea too!

This sounds like it could be very helpful. It also sounds like it could be as annoying as the paperclip in Microsoft Word for PC.

A suggestion for GyRide: Would it be possible to make the buggy's body appear transparent in GyRide? This would help a bit with shooting/aiming and seeing where you're going. Thank you.

especially while in the xorb....*shudder*

aagghhhhh Aubrey, im havin some trouble with Unity, something just went freaky on 1.9.77!!!!!

 

I couldnt take a picture, it happened a bit fast:

 

i loaded up 1.977, because no one as on .78, and i made a game on foxholes. i quit out of the game, and tried to join someones game, and firefox crashed. i clicked the firefox shortcut, and clicked restore previous session,  so it would go back to the game. the game loaded for the most part, but as it got to about 90%, a sign in the middle of the screen said 'Unity data error' and firefox crashed. AGAIN.

 

help would be very much appreciated at the moment. for the time being, im using explorer.

Uninspired, sometimes when Mars crashes your browser, your shortcut or bookmark can become corrupted.

Try > close Firefox > open Firefox > Firefox preferences > reset Firefox > clear cache > go to Mars without shortcut > make new shortcut > delete old shortcut > load game.

 

I have had in-game chats become a bookmark and/or show up in my URL window!

 

You may consider Safari for windows available at Apple

thanks kruncher =]

Uni, did it work?

I just made a game with some tank bots, and their treads were one or two buggy-lengths below their bodies. They were just... floating.

I just removed the Mars Explorer application from my computer and I refuse to play 1.977 again as I have lost quarry in 95% of the games that I have played in that version due to a bug or my Internet provider or my connection speed or rewritten vehicle interpolation  or whatever poltergeist that has been haunting me.

 

Enough already with losing quarry unfairly already.

yes kruncher, it worked fine =]

 

and yeah, i just dont understand why no one plays .78, its not like the server list is messed up.. theres just no one ever on it.

The server list IS messed up if someone can't connect to it and/or can't see a game when it's known by way of PM that it's there.

i always see a blank server list, ill switch to .77, and everyone is there. not that theres a bug, .78 is just a ghost town.

It's a beta. When betas are active, most players play in the current official version. In other words, they dont move until they are made too.

well well, betas need to be tested by somebody, right?

They are, the people who play the betas are good players, for the most part. The noobs stay back in the official versions.

awww, no 1.9.78 for me XD

I stillt think my typos beat his:

 

 

I men still

I mean men

I meana men

I mena mena maen

I meane mene mana mane

imeanmen mean meanmean

I meaner i mean mean mean mean mean

I mean Ii

I mena i

I mena mena i!

I mean mean I!

 

 

 

PHEW!

 

:P

 

(I actually do this from time to time LOL)

Lmao I remember telling you to stop and you said okay..

 

5 minutes later:

 

Hye

I mean hye

I meann hey

I maan mene

I mena I mean mean

I mean I mean mena mean

 

GAHHH xD it's so cute!

I am connecting to 1.9.78 server list reliably now and games stay listed after I exit them!

 

EDIT - I did say the LIST right?...and not: "connect reliably to games"? Oh I did, good. I just got booted about 12 times from games I would not be booted from. Players were disappearing all over.

 

I have no Game Settings, Mini Map, Messaging Console, Players list or Server settings view.

Whether hosting or joining and in all maps, I get this. It was triggered a couple of days ago by using the hide button in lower right corner plus hide Mini Map in Game Settings . Yes, I HAVE clicked everything and doing so simply alters the look a bit as shown below. The RC button worked to get me out of default camera. Sorry to my friends whom I could not speak to in-game.

Oh boy! Also, in the game i was in with you, you were extremely glitchy. Man i wish i could help...

Wow Kruncher - That's bizarre!

 

I just examined my code, and found a special case where what you are experiencing could be possible.

Please let me know if the new version I just uploaded fixed the problem.

 

All the best!

Thanks baba, I'm fine.

 

On  1.977, I get all my control panels and Mini Map  after re-installing Unity and the preferences have reset but can't see any games. It's Friday night so I know they're up.

 

On Beta, I have server list and can join games but get booted a lot and control panels are blank .

The two buttons that do work are RC cam and Exit Multiplayer

but what about the jagged rocks under it? lol

Man you are evil! lol glad that you are back buddy!

Jay

I was like HEY KRUNCHER!!!!! the other day and then Dude told me he couldn't talk so I was like AWWWWW HI THOUGH! then Dude told me he couldn't see it either........ so

 

 

                                !!!!!

Lol I had a lot of spelling mistakes in that

I'm not surprised :P

I even have like speech errors like. One time I wanted to go play dodgeball outside so I was askign my teacher but he kept saying no so then I said,'BUT DODGEBALL OUT FUN IS SIDE!" I like flip my wrods its actually pretty funny. thats just me ya know I am cool like that yo.

.....

I do it too!

 

Sometimes  I even say: 

"melp he out of this evil monster!" instead of "help me out of this evil monster!"

So MacDane and I just spent some time PMing each other trying to make a game in 1.91. Neither of us could see the other guy's game. I used Safari then Firefox.  We tried the Alternate Server List with the same result. I gave 1.977     a shot and still get this...(Safari below) If I get a game in Firefox everyone flickers "(Delayed)"

hmmmmm I got nothing

Below is a transfer of Aek's off-thread bug report:

 

If anyone else has a connection problem, start a server and click the Players button to see if you have a number next to your name, then post the result on this thread.

really that is a quality piece of information cheez...

=( i can barely see any games, my game fails to connect, i get a super high ping time, and then when i find a game, it loses it's connection and kicks me out. the host did not quit. and whenever the game quits, the players in the game say not responding for a few seconds, then disconnects. =( ME SAD

Thats not good! How sad...

Same for me Aek, same for....sniffle....me   :(  ...except for the ping time.

 

What exactly is your super high ping time?

65000..........only happened once though....

wow thats alot! thats like... a 65000 ping time!

and fai that was the time that i was in your game and i couldnt hear anyone

so im guessing that the two are related?

just a few bugs.......

*cries like a babling baby*

COOL I WAS THE 100 COMMENTOR SWEET MAN!

Hmmm lets see when the computer logs you out and it stays on the 1.9.78 website all night when you get back on in the morning it says

 

"Master Server List Connection Faliure,Master Server List Connection Faliure,Master Server List Connection Faliure,Master Server List Connection Faliure,Master Server List Connection Faliure,Master Server List Connection Faliure,Master Server List Connection Faliure,Master Server List Connection Faliure,Master Server List Connection Faliure"

 

Would have done a screen shot but I found it a tad unimportant at the time.

YEA WHAT ROLF DID IT LOOKED LIKE THAT LOL!!!!!!

What's the problem?

vehicle collisions should be improved. buggies just go under the tank even if you ram from the side. when i was in a tank going 70 mph and i rammed a motionless tank, it only shook a bit and didnt budge. this makes it impossible to play cano king anymore! =(

.... Ok I can reconfigure a whole wireless internet at my friends house... but I can't understand a word Aubrey can type... sometimes Baba.... and Kruncher... I can never understand FlyCLub

Aubrey is saying that vehicles don't react to hitting each other right now but they will later.

Remember when someone would ram you and your buggy went "BOING!" ?

LOL!

Bots do not materialize when hit. The cloud appears but except for a slight jolt from the laser, the bot remains driving around as before.

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Yes I know that Bots are set to not drive. I just couldn't get a picture while it was zooming around. :-) It still happens when they can drive.

 

EDIT 2: The spawn point also acts like someone it being rematerialized, but nothing happens there either.

 

 

 

Good observation! I'll fix that...

Ok...

 

Aside from the list server issues, does anyone know of any reproducable bugs in 1.9.78?

I was inside the sky monster, and another player was on the wing.

I was trying to find a way to get out onto the wing, when I noticed that I was being shot by the one on the wing. 

It may have been dumb luck, or a one time thing, but a bug is a bug.

mmmm does crashing count?  Though crashing can be caused by the amount of usage your computer has...

Hmm yes - the Sky Monster isn't quite done yet...

Doesn't count :)

If you can trigger a crash by taking a specific action, I have a vastly higher chance of being able to isolate, and ultimately, fix it.

Oh! When I use the App on the activity monitor it says that it is responding. I can't figure out what causing the freezing.

Mk! lol

One trivial bug in 1.9.78 - When hosting, IPs are all still duplicates. This is an old bug.

 

The workaround is to keep clicking the numbers until they misalign in their box. Then, you may have the correct IP address.

Wow, thanks for putting the scroll sniper in! I was last to post about it but definitly not the first.

 

Super CHeese

Now that there is customizable laser firepower -including off- do we need an enable lasers button?

Oh yeah.

Those were the days. :O)

 

I still remember recording ram sessions with Olim.

 

Maaaan that was fun.

Aubrey, I do appreciate your effort to equalize laser power for all vehicles but I feel that the hight Firepower setting takes Mars Explorer in a direction away from the concept of "a strategic extension of one's vehicle" and toward the concept of the other, more violent shooter games. 

I suppose that means I'm not "most players".

I always play the latest available version, so that I might help squash some bugs.

 

We don't need it, but I think it is still convient for setting up an ORB game and disabling lasers with one click.

I actually added the firepower settings to allow players to decrease the firepower of the tank (and all other vehicles) if they desired, but it made sense to me to allow all vehicles to utilize the firepower of the tank - since the mechanism to specify it was already in place.

 

Poll: Should the tank be the only vehicle capable of level 3 armament, and other vehicles max out @ level 2?

Must say, it looks like bugs are on the run! Final release today or tomorrow?

TODAY PLEASE!!!! please!

It would be nice for today......but take time with making final preperations.

 

 I'm sure we cal all wait

 

^^ Ren

ya...i think in can wait..*twitch*..no really i can......*TWITCH*

Today P.L.E.A.S.E.!

 

 

 

(Stands on hind legs and begs)

 

 

 

(whimpers)

So I guess this version won't have my upgraded maze. *sighs*  I hope the bugs are fixed though completely!

1.9.8 might have it!

well, there is still a bug that i get frequently. everyone goes none responsive in either my game or their game, everyone gets booted from the game then the box says there was a connection problem, then i cant see them or join their games for like the rest of the day. this, for instance, happened just a few minutes ago when me, rolf, and dray were about to enjoy a game of cano king. oh and also, if you reset a high speeds in ride mode, your buggy breaks;)  please fix!

SCREEN-SHOTS OF THE SKY CARRIER!!

 

what do you think?

 

(it was fun!)

How do you break the buggy?

well, if you do what i said, the wheels will go forward and most likely come off the buggy, and the cockpit like moves backwards...ya know, ill get a pic

Oh! I see.

It is only misaligned while you are paused in preparation for the reset, and not once you are back in the game though. Not a big deal ;)

 

1.9.8 is identical to the most recent 1.9.78 - with the addition of laser gravity defaulting to on, and the tank's armament defaulting to level 2.

As opposed to one click and a slide?

Jusssssst sayin' :)

With all do respect, this version is a bit of a winless battle. Bugs will never DIE completely. We've had bugs since the game was made, some have left and others have been born, some more vicious than their parents. You've gotten rid of all the GOOD bugs (such as Volcano jump, river launch, etc.) And you gotten rid of MOST bad bugs that had previously existed but it seems that each version, a new bug is born in it's place. This is just how i see it, sorry if im wrong. Thank you.

I must say... I agree with kruncher on the fact that the game is about how to use each individual vehicles abilities to your advantage. However, i think we also need another solution. As i suggested previously, the tank needs a weak spot. Whether it be under it's body, it's treads, whatever it is, it needs one to equal out the power distribution. In fact, i think with this weakness added to the tank, the tank would be able to fairly keep the sniper lasers. Also, the tank's lasers should be equal in speed to the buggies normal green lasers, or at least closer than they are. As for the hover, i think that if you were to shoot it's engine, it should spin out or at least wobble quite a lot for a second. But, the hover needs some work to be fair as well, like better handling and not spinning out end over end while in mid air. Thank you!