A New Zero

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Jan 18, 2009 1:24 AM #339772
So, ran into this on reddit today.

http://www.crypticsea.com/anewzero/index.html

If you're too lazy to open up the page, here's the gist:

It's a game less than a megabyte in size.
It's still in beta.
The graphics are simple as hell.
There are two game modes, Battle and Gladiator.
In Battle mode, two teams try to destroy each others capitals with the help of planes and two kinds of boats.
The vehicles have a "weak point," which, if hit, kills you instantly.
Planes are fast, but they have limited fuel and can only carry one bomb or missile (missiles fly longer, that's the only difference), and have to return to the base to reload and fuel. They can also ram other planes in an attempt to destroy them, but it's not easy because the planes are hard to control.
So there are two kinds of boats, the Missile Boat and the Gun Boat. The Missile Boat has two weapons, a cannon that shoots explosives, and 4 missiles (once again, reloadable at the base). Missiles are hard to hit with from far away. Cannon is slow at shooting. Seem to be very popular in online play. The Gun Boat has a rapid-fire cannon that shoots non-explosive shots, so you can either hit at the enemy's weak spot, or try to knock off the wings of planes. You also have a explosives-cannon, identical to the one on the Missile Boat. Gun Boat is also faster than Missile Boat. No bots seem to use Gun Boats, ever.
There's only one map, which consists of two bases, consisting of 5 buildings (Carrier, office building thing, two factories and the capital) on each side of the map. There are two "walls" in the middle of the map, with some holes, forming choke-points for the boats (did I mention the whole ground is nothing but water?) The walls can also be destroyed with explosives. It's fun.
The capital and factories give the team money to build more planes and boats. So if the enemy destroys both your factories, you'll have to wait a long time to get back to playing after dying.

In Gladiator, a number of planes are locked inside a little box, and your purpose is to ram the others, hoping to hit their weak point. I disliked this.
Hurray, 800th post!
The game has online play. If it doesn't lag for you as it did for me, I imagine it's more fun than playing against bots, as they have very simple AIs. And they are seriously good at aiming.

No, it's not a virus or anything, people. It's a game. I'm playing it right now. It's small because it's simple. Kkrieger is something like 64k in size, and it's not a virus either. So try it out. Even you poor Australians with your petty connections shouldn't have to wait too long for it to load.
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Jan 18, 2009 3:34 AM #339837
Looks awesome, Ill try it out.
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Jan 21, 2009 7:58 PM #342505
I tried it, but in the youtube videos and images, it looks a lot different, the water texture, the trails.
Why?

Its not my operating system because I already tried it both on Vista and XP.
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Jan 26, 2009 1:34 AM #345765
For anyone playing I'm the Swedish Flag Coat of ArmsImage