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Game/Engine Differences Between Diaspora and BtRL

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Thaeris:
As with the other masses of new forum members filtering in from Game-Warden, recently discovering the break-up of BtRL has prompted me to either search for answers or ask questions.

By all means, I respect the team's desire for privacy and the integrity not to comment on what was discredible enough to cause BtRL to split. What I do feel is appropriate to ask is, due to this split, what has happened to the sim and what has happened to the gameplay in the sim gameplay in the sim?

(A.) What are the model differences? What is new/rebuilt, and how is it different?

(B.) Have the physics been altered?

(C.) How will the respective differences between Diaspora and BtRL cause the two programs to stack up (at least right now)?

I ask these questions from the experience of following BtRL up to this point (and imaginably beyond) as well as enjoying the excellent demo currently available.

Many thanks,
-Thaeris

karajorma:
A) Anything you've seen made for BtRL that is 100% the work of members of the new team is now part of Diaspora. Some of that stuff may still appear in BtRL as well.

B) We're rebuilding the tables at the moment. BtRL was pretty close to perfection in my opinion thanks to UT's solid work on the flight physics (and the team's solid nagging whenever he got it wrong :p). We might tweak things a little but we're unlikely to make any huge changes.

C) There will be no difference in terms of the abilities of the engine since we both use the same one. However since R1 is based on 3.6.10 while the BtRL demo was based on 3.6.9 you can expect significant differences from that. Improved net code is one of the more obvious ones.
 As for other differences, it's hard to comment on what BtRL will be like as my information on that project is now 4-5 months old. We've made a few changes but I can't say that BtRL hasn't or won't make those changes sooner or later themselves. Obviously our plot line is different. Can't say how similar missions based on Hand of God or Resurrection Ship, etc will be since we've obviously got to make the same plot, in the same engine. :)

FraktuRe:
I've been reading up on the new project and I gotta say you guys are doing the right thing.

I know multi will be a big issue so,
What's the situation like on a dedicated server?

Shade:
Dedicated servers (called standalone servers in this case) are working now, thanks to Karajorma sinking a lot of programmer-hours into fixing them. Which, of course, means that the problem of 'host advantage' is a thing of the past whenever you use them.

The improved net code mentioned before also reduces host advantage even when standalone servers are not used, as lag in general is reduced a fair bit - though of course no amount of improved net code can completely overcome the effects of distance and network congestion, so lag *is* still a factor... just not as much as it was.

FraktuRe:
That's awesome news. Being in Australia I was never really able to play btrl multi. But with stand-alone servers there'll be a central place to play. Awesome!

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