Cortex Command – Test Build 18

By: Derek Yu

On: August 30th, 2007

Good ol’ Data brings us another free update to Cortex Command. The game looks better, feels better, and runs better.

When’s this man going to put out a “full” version so I can throw some money at him?

Here’s what you’re getting:

32-bit rendering effects! Shiny gold, glowing fireballs and tracers, etc.

Much-improved player interface with adaptable pie menus. All relevant commands just two buttonpresses away!

32-bit video mode – no more palette corruption problems

Enemy spawns are now data driven… modders: fight against your own creations, just look in Activities.ini

Memory leaks massively reduced, can play long games without RAM being eaten, and overall memory footprint reduced

Several crash bugs gone and other glitchfixes

(Thanks, Nikica!)

Posted in Platformers, Windows | Tags: DataRealms

Nikica

Yay, anyway, the game is still too fast to me on the new PC and I don’t know what to do ?!
Xander

I still think there needs to be a tutorial mode at somepoint just because it can be rediculously daunting to figure out what the heck you’re supposed to be doing. Technically it is simple, you dig for gold which you then spend on weapons and organic meatbags… or robots. Which are much cooler. Obviously.

Problem is that you don’t really get a space to play with that because when you’re trying to get used to what you have to do and -how- to do it, you have a clone/droid army at your gates, killing your younglings. Whatchagunnadoboutit?!

Great game though, definitely worth the effort of understanding it.
HandCraftedRadio

This game is awesome but really hard. I’m getting destroyed even in easy mode.
Koach

Word, Xander… but the way this gem shines already, our pleads will surely be heard, once this is going to be finished..
http://josephkingworks.blogspot.com Joseph

Eh I think I played build 10 or something but the controls were retarded and it was stupidly frustrating. But it looked shiny.
Mastatsan

Joseph: Surely the game hasn’t improved at ALL since build 10… you should definately not play build 18, since that’s only given them 8 builds to work out any problems you had with the game, and 8 builds isn’t nearly enough.
http://www.g4g.it FireSword

The final will be p2p?
Too bad :(
Nikica

FireSword: I think you mean shareware and not P2P, becuase illegal downloading indie games is not cool!!!
pkt-zer0

Older versions were already fun in multiplayer, even with the screwy movement. It’s only gotten better since.
http://josephkingworks.blogspot.com Joseph

So is the movement still screwy? I won’t touch it until the movement is unscrewy, until that time I will play Knytt Stories…
Lorne T Whiting

Joseph: What do you mean, screwy movement?
People don’t sink and put their feet into the concrete anymore, if that’s what you mean.
Radnom

Nikica: I think FireSword meant Pay to Play, rather than Peer to Peer.

And how is illegally downloading indy games any less cool than illegally downloading commercial games?
http://www.g4g.it FireSword

Yes i meant pay to play… lol we busted you Nikica (joking).

So the final will be shareware… i thought it had been free..
Lorne T Whiting

Radnom: I think it’s not cool because all the profits go to the developer, instead of the middleman, so you’re majorly harming the developer who’s reliant on people buying their games instead of mainly publishing companies.
Joseph

Lorne T: by screwy I mean walking and tripping and then flipping on my head and slowly killing myself with my own weight.
Neon

wait i’m going to have to pay for this? YARGHH my cortex boner is gone.
Best game evar

I played this with my friend from 2:00 AM to 7:00 AM

fun fun