OpenLieroX
Current beta version (for testing purposes)
Download OpenLieroX 0.59 beta10 for
Includes the game, basic skins, levels and weapon modifications.
Enhancements & Packs
Quality Level PackContains top-quality levels for the best gaming experience. Just unpack the downloaded file to your <home directory>/OpenLieroX\levels folder.
Quality Skins PackContains top-quality skins for your game character. Just unpack the downloaded file to your <home directory>/OpenLieroX\skins folder.
Ultimate Level PackContains 99 % of all levels ever created for Liero, LieroX and OpenLieroX. Unpack the downloaded file to your <home directory>/OpenLieroX\levels folder.
Ultimate Mod PackContains vast majority of weapon modifications ever created for LieroX and OpenLieroX. Unpack the downloaded file to your <home directory>/OpenLieroX folder.
Ultimate Skin PackContains vast majority of character skins ever made. Just unpack the downloaded file to your <home directory>/OpenLieroX\skins folder.
Find more in the FileBaseThe FileBase contains many OpenLieroX related downloads, such as scripting tools, user modifications, levels, front-ends and more.
All OpenLieroX Versions
OpenLieroX 0.58 rc5
released 2018-30-07
Changelog:
- IPv6 support
- Show death count in games with infinite lives
- Navigate all menus with arrow keys, for better gamepad support
- Fixed rope warping and explosions not drawn on infinite map
- Fixed desynced shots in network games. This will not eliminate network lag entirely, but it should improve the situation when your shots hit the other player without doing any damage.
- Fixed invisible laser in network games
- New game options: mirror the map, indestructible bonuses
- Added all player skins from Quality Skins Pack
- Show weapon name when picking up a bonus, for GunGame gamemode
OpenLieroX 0.59 beta10
released 2012-04-17
Changelog:
- Added support for programmable levels and mods (using LUA, based on Gusanos)
- Special light and graphics effects for levels and mods
- Support for 3D sounds
- Added sounds for game events (X frags left, timeout etc.)
- Single player mode
OpenLieroX 0.58 rc1
released 2010-21-01
Changelog:
- Uploadlimit check fixed + automatic measuring of speed
- More stable network (CChannel3)
- Improved HTML viewer
- IRC support
- Dedicated server becomes useable
- Improved connect-during-game
- Background music by Corentin Larsen
- Damage reporting (shows how much you injured a worm)
- New game options dialog
- Ingame console can be used everywhere, also in menu
- Ingame console much more advanced, many new commands, better autocompletion
- New debug logging system
- Hide & Seek gamemode
- Capture The Flag gamemode
- Race / Team Race gamemodes
- Air jumping as an optional feature
- Extended physics engine / gamescript (still in development)
- High-resolution level support
- Possibility to make maps infinite
- Possibility to disable minimap
- Support for Commander Keen 1-3 levels
- Game size factor (you can make everything bigger or smaller)
- Hit/damage yourself/teammembers can be enabled/disabled (aka friendly fire on/off)
- Immediate start
- Worm speed/damage/shield/friction factor
- Projectile friction factor
- Physics should be exactly like LX56 now
- Select weapons ingame (chat command /weapons)
OpenLieroX 0.57 rc1
released 2008-05-10
Changelog:
- Fixed most crashes that were reported
- Fixed big lags when hosting a server because of wrong bandwidth handling
OpenLieroX 0.57 beta8
released 2008-10-09
Changelog:
- Chatbox has HTML and copy&paste support
- Connect during game support
- Fixed max upload bandwidth limit
- Menu_MessageBox can handle long messages correctly
- Better synchronisation for shooting, that should also fix the self-shooting problem
- Reconnects from a client are handled better
- General fixes of new features (since Beta6)
- Removed Media Player
OpenLieroX 0.57 beta7
Changelog:
- Game-speed multiplicator
- Options editable from everywhere in the game
- Force random weapon selection (with the extensions to have the same weapon for all players)
- Automatic weapon selection if only one weapon is available
- Notify application window on events when application is in background
- Auto-completion for chat commands
- Command button for host in game
- Show player online/chatting/away status
- Client info dialog for host
OpenLieroX 0.57 beta6
Changelog:
- fixed crashing in DBZ mod
- improved connecting to servers behind firewall/NAT
- reduced the loading time of IP to Country database a bit
- added support for G15 keyboards
- improved downloading, added mod downloading
- fixed a security bug in the authorise command
- added video post processors that change the final appearance of the screen
- updated joystick control
- recovered compatibility with Windows 98/ME
- faster projectile simulation
- fixed spawning in rock in random maps
- fixed duplicate joining
- fixed weird game behavior when kicking bot
- fixed crashes in the viewport manager dialog
- added map anti-aliasing
- fixed crashes in the News tab
- improved crash reporting tool
- fixed bots not shooting with beam weapons
- fixes in physics (wallshooting, self-shooting, flying at the top of the level)
- server displays only one message on multiple suicides
- optionally attach a console window using -console under Windows
OpenLieroX 0.57 beta5
released 2008-03-15
Changelog:
- fast and easy theme switching (and LieroX 0.56 theme included)
- disallow strafing on server if wanted
- optimised/fixed joystick support
- optimised network
- fixed aiming bug of Beta4
- spectate option for host
- bugfixes
OpenLieroX 0.57 beta4
released 2008-02-23
Changelog:
- very basic dedicated server
- joystick support (for playing)
- mouse support (for playing)
- copy&paste support for Linux and MacOSX
- config file got parsed completly and unknown options are kept, therefore forward-compatible
- better forward-compatibility for net-protocol
- FPS independent physics
- more correct projectile simulation
- experimental file transfer support
- delete-key works now under MacOSX
- more keys got recognised (super and meta keys, that includes also the Apple-key on a Mac)
- support for multiple masterservers
- more intelligent event-handling (in some parts); all pressed keys got recognised in chat/console and you can also play on very low FPS
- DNS support for serverlist
- Worm AI improvements
- usage of ALSA on Linux by default
- network improved
- cache for map and gamescript
- Developer documentation
- strafing
- optimised sorting in combobox
- FPS limit is also valid for menu
- menu takes less resources
- help for weapon selection
- fixed changing of graphic settings
- and a lot of other fixes / cleanups
OpenLieroX 0.57 beta3
released 2007-08-10
Changelog:
- 16/24/32 bit graphic support and OpenGL support
- runs on MacOSX
- new design & icon (thanks go to Raziel)
- probably fixed any saving-problem (problem was: sometimes SDL_Quit gives a segfault and saving was done after this; now it's done before)
- full Unicode/UTF8 support
- font antialasing support
- working Dev-C++ project (therefore MingW support)
- MaxFPS in option-dialog
- Worm AI improvements
- ninjarope physic simulation is FPS independent
- profile-saving is correct now
OpenLieroX 0.57 beta2
released 2007-04-09
Changelog:
- BPP independent
- ingame mediaplayer
- 64bit version works now
- more fixes, general improvements, etc.
- code cleanups (replacements with C++/STL technics)
- whole project uses std::string now (realy huge change)
- collision-checks are improved (more like the original LX, that means, it goes at least through walls with ~3px width)
- chatbox improvements
- unlimited number of bots in net play
- ~/ at the beginning of a searchpath is handled correctly and there is a more correct method to get the homedir
- MaxFPS option under [Advanced] in ~/.OpenLieroX/cfg/options.cfg
- fixed compile-issues on 64bit systems
- no-clipping-issues with weapon-generated dirt are fixed
OpenLieroX 0.57 beta1
released 2007-01-27
Changelog:
- POSIX-compatible (well-tested under Linux).
- endian-independent (runs without any problems on my big endian PPC)
- a huge amount of bug-fixes
- the old BASS soundsystem was replaced by SDL_mixer
- new file handling routines (1. based on searchpaths; 2. case-insensitive handling)
- new bot AI with a very nice pathfinding-algo
- some other additions/extensions/...
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