Rejoice, for we are now in feature freeze for the 12.0 release series!
One last flurry of features, including properly displaying when a vehicle is lost, and some new buttons for macOS TouchBar, if you have one. A fair few fixes for the new networking setup, and a few other things besides.
Testing is more important than ever, so please keep it up (multiplayer especially), and report any issues as normal!
Thanks to your awesome testing, we found one critical bug in 12.0-beta1. To quickly address this, we release our second beta of the 12.X release series.
There are only a few fixes in this release, mostly related to network servers. Most notably:
See the changelog for the full list.
To sweeten the deal, we also sneaked in a feature for cargodist that will make it take travel time more into account when routing passengers, mail and other express cargoes.
As the first issue is critical, and if you are using 12.0-beta1, we urge you to upgrade to 12.0-beta2 as soon as possible.
Please keep up the testing, and report any issues as normal!
Are you dreaming? No, you are not!
Today I have the pleasure to announce to you that we just released the first beta of our 12.X release series!
With our release on Steam not even six months ago we got some excellent feedback from the community on what to improve next. One of the things that stood out: playing together is not easy for many players.
So, in 12.0 we address this problem. Playing together is as easy as one of you starting a server, marking it either “Public” or “Invite-Only”, and sharing the newly introduced invite-code with your friends. They can join your server, just like that. No setup needed on your side, no port-forwarding, nothing.
Sadly, to set expectations, no integration with Steam itself has been added. Integrating with Steam as GPL-licensed software has challenges, which we haven’t resolved yet. But we hope you agree that this new multiplayer experience is the next best thing.
Next to this excellent new feature, a few other new things we introduced are:
(As ever, see the changelog for further details).
And, the much more invisible change, mostly Rubidium has been very busy reworking our codebase to be a bit more modern C++. This hopefully makes a lot of things easier in the future, and make the code more inviting to new developers!
The usual titlegame competition will be announced on the forum shortly. The theme for this version will be “winter”, something to prepare for.
What’s up with the 12.0 you ask? We got tired having the discussion: 2.0 when? So here we are .. 1.11.1 is followed up by 12.0 :) And no, this is not an April Fool’s joke.
While we are slowly working towards 1.12, we have an in-between-versions surprise for you guys:
OpenTTD is now also available on GOG.com!
A big thanks to the amazing people at GOG.com for helping us getting there; especially their QA team which not only identified problems, but also found a fix for it .. that is just awesome!
So, go give them a big hug, and check it out: https://www.gog.com/game/openttd.
Today we released our second bugfix release of the 1.11 release series!
This release mainly addresses several crashes on startup, mostly caused by our shiny new OpenGL driver. More people should now be able to enjoy OpenTTD out-of-the-box!
And as always, we also fixed tons of other small bugs and problems that were reported and found. See the changelog for more detail.