June 19, 2011
Hello folks!
Finally the wait is over: DXX-Rebirth v0.57 is now released. This time I can safely say it really was worth all the 9 months of development since it’s probably the most feature-rich release we’ve pulled out so far.
Here is a small overview of the most important changes and additions:

• OpenGL ES Support by Florian Feucht and Oliver Haag
  
• Anisotropic texture filtering
  
• Improved transparency effects
  
• Colored Lighting effects
  
• A wide collection of Reticles is selectable including settings for Reticle size, color and transparency
  
• Expanded Sensitivity and Deadzone settings for Mouse and Joystick
  
• New optional control type for Mouse – FlightSim. Provides Mouse movement with an absolute center similar to Joystick-like control
  
• Improved weapon cycling/selection options (for Mouse mostly)
  
• Many improvements for the ingame menus such as scrolling via Mouse wheel, closing menus via right Mouse button, key repeats, Numlock support and more
  
• Support for keyboard layout-specific keys for game controls
  
• Find and join online games via Tracker server created and hosted by Matt “1360″ Vandermeulen
  
• D1X-Rebirth now supports Descent 2 Multiplayer features such as fixed Play Time, Kill goal, Bright Players and Invulnerability when respawning
  
• Option to disable Friendly Fire in Multiplayer Team games
  
• Bounty game mode for Multiplayer by Matt “1360″ Vandermeulen. Goal is it to kill the targeted player to score and become the new target
  
• Possibility to save and restore Cooperative games
  
• The game will automatically remember previously set Multiplayer rules
  
• M3U Playlist support for the Jukebox
  
• Random playback mode for the Jukebox
  
• Slightly improved wall collision handling
  
• Expanded possibilities for level authors: Support for custom descent2.ham inside missions (D2X-Rebirth). Support for Levels with up to 9000 segments (cubes).
  
• Support for Textures bigger than 64×64 pixels
  
• To prevent type-kills the game HUD will show “TYPING” below a player when a chat message is composed
  
• Free flight controls for the Automap
  
• Many Bugfixes and further improvements. Check CHANGELOG.txt for a full list of changes

I hope you’ll have much fun with our newest release. Get it while it’s hot!