You were waiting for it and here it comes: in the coming weeks, we'll host the third official Hedgewars tournament to celebrate the latest 0.9.12 release!

We got some special features in store for you this time, among them livestreams and commentary and special rounds.

It'll be 2v2 again, two players will form 1 team and play against other teams. If you can't find a partner, sign up anyways. You can team up in the comments or I'll assign someone to you.

When
The tournament will begin on Monday, the 16th of November and the first round will run through the next week until Sunday, the 22nd of November. The following rounds will be in subsequent weeks.

Signup
Simply make a user account on this site (if you're a forum member you should already have one) and leave a comment to this post. It should include your player name and the name of your team as well as your partner's player and team name. Signup will be open until Sunday, the 15th of November at 23:00 CET. Please respect that deadline this time (;

Rules
Will be similar to the ones of the second tournament, but better (: More on them will follow next week.

Prize
Oh, you mean besides fame and glory beyond your wildest imagination? Well, there will be visual indication on your site profile and, when EXP is implemented, you'll profit from your win, too.

This one's gonna be a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to see great matches. I hope to have all of you signing up!

I've had a few people tell me through email, through the forums and through IRC that the rope in Hedgewars is "useless" , "weak", "pointless" and so on.

I was going to record a video for these people, to show them that not only is the Rope useful, but it's the most powerful weapon in the game.

Thankfully however, ♫ DJ. LisT ♫ has done this for me





Congrats on your skillz guys, I might have to take you on some day.
Expect more challenging shoppa maps soon :)

0.9.12 Released

well folks, 0.9.12 is finally here.
Grab it on our downloads page here
This release doesn't include everything we had planned, and some noteable things are missing. But we decided to push forwards the release due to Hedgewars being included on a coverdisk on a  big computer magazine.

That said, there is an awful lot new in 0.9.12,  I won't list everything, (you can always review SVN activity for a complete changelog) but the main features are as follows.

<sup>+ Control pad support
+ New weapons: flying saucer, molotov cocktail
+ More sounds
+ New visual effects
+ Updated graphics
+ Team chat
+ Remember net password
+ More training modes, including a fun RC plane game
+ Implement room control delegation when host's connection fails
+ Colorize chat events in engine
+ Frontend improvements
+ New maps
+ New theme
+ and more :)</sup>

^{+Zoom - This is one of the biggest features in the new release, you can now dynamically zoom in and out of the battlefield using (by default) the mousewheel.
If you have any teams from previous versions of the game you may need to update their controls to apply zoom settings.
Middle mouse resets your zoom by default.} 

<sup>* Fix crash in replay caused by speechbubbles
* Fix some desync causes
* Fix rope bugs
* Fix bugs in weapon selection code</sup>

We want to thank everyone who helped out with 0.9.12, the community (as usual) has been great. We hope you enjoy the release, send it to your friends, your family, your wife, your bit on the side, everyone!   And we look forwards to seeing you on the server.

Let us know what you think of the release on our forums
And just to let you know we now have a twitter and facebook page,
so sign up and let the word spread! :)

Yoooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuu, your sex is on fireeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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