Alien Arena 2008 v7.21

Alien Arena 2008 is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux!

The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern effects such as real-time lighting and shadows, shaders, light bloom, reflective surfaces and much more, while still being able to run on even modest systems.

The game includes a built in, as well as external server browser and chat client. Players can look up their stats online, chat with other players, and become part of a growing community.

The Alien Arena experience is now a finely tuned, highly polished body of work.

What’s New in version 7.21:

Fixed water fragment shaders.
Fixed bug with water caustics.
Added normalmaps for many textures.
Added alphamask support to non-shadered meshes.
Fixed bug with draw order of alpha surfaces and shadered surfaces.
Rebuilt maps – dm-dynamo2k8, dm-omega2k8, dm-crucible2k8.
New Cattle Prod map – cp-ribeye.
All level shots now colored.
Fixed bug with antilag.
Allowed standard vs full compensation with antilag.
Skybox cloud shader support added.
Added color options to steam effects(spawnflag controlled).
Removed unused legacy code in particle system, improved explosions blending.
Added vertical scrollbars to menu GUI, used with in-game server browser.
Added colored names support in server browser, and allowed servers to output them to query.
Greatly improved splash and spark effects.
Fixed bug with dynamic particle lighting and GLSL.
Added options for clients to change color of disruptor beams.
Added vegetation shader system.
Bots now get autoassigned teams, helps when rejoining team games when players leave to balance.
Added ejecting brass for chaingun.
Added sloshing water effect.
Added clock option.
Menu options for fov, showing fps, and showing clock.
Error checking in particle loading, to prevent crashes in cases of missing or damaged particle images.
Help section added to Galaxy menu, with useful links.
Mouse wheel support in in-game server browser.
Improved per-pixel lighting on meshes.
Added GLSL water shaders.
Stripped out old true reflective water code, impractical for a deathmatch game.