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Alrighty pardners, we're back in action with another fun update.
  • We're through the woods on the animation revamp. This means that the whole game is about 10 megs smaller, should take up a bit less memory and hopefully the issues with long load times getting into the games are now a distant memory. Definitely let us know if you have problems with long load times or things not working that used to work.
  • More idle animations for the units. There are some cosmetic issues with some of the animations but we wanted to get the new system out the door and start testing it as we're only a couple of weeks from open beta. Sorry about the Cavalry Horse's leg, it freaks me out when I see it too.
  • Back Parlors are here! You can now hang out and chat with yer pardners, and create games with a bit more control over the options. Soon we'll add support to the Back Parlors for playing games on boards that you made yourself using the board editor. Note: games played in the Back Parlors are not rated and don't count toward yer stats. By making ratings and stats only count when you're playing against a randomly assigned opponent, we can dramatically reduce the possibility of people collaborating to game the ratings/stats and make them more meaningful and exciting.
  • User interface sound effects are in place. This aught to liven things up a bit as yer clickin' buttons and chatting and whatnot.
  • Top 10 lists! Now you can see how ya stack up against the other cowpokes. (Note: these are currently a little booched, but I'm going to fix that ASAP.)
  • Finished up the Cattle Rustling and Gold Rush tutorials which will be useful as we bring in new players.
Various other tweaks and bug fixes have been made and no doubt various new bugs have been introduced.

Between now and May 24th when we will officially start "open beta" we're mainly going to be working on polishing things up and fixing the major bugs. However, you can all be excited about the fact that we're also hard at work on the next town: Indian Trading Post, which will be rolling out just as soon as we can. In the meanwhile, look forward to an influx of new fellow testers and some new boards and other bits here and there.
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great update! i'm gonna check in a minute to see if my loading times are fixed.

edit: wow the loads are completely fixed. great job!!!
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every time a new feature is added and it needs to update on my computer, when i click on that feature to try it, it kicks me off the game and i have to start over....
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WOW!!!! my load times have basically disappeared THANK YOU!!!
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I have downloaded Bang! Howdy, but it says not open to public. How do I get on this game?
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I have downloaded Bang! Howdy, but it says not open to public. How do I get on this game?
I have no idea Sherif Mike how does I get it?
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It should just work. You get to the logon screen and then when you try to log in it says "The game is not currently opent to the public."?
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Just wanted to say WOW! on this game. Thanks for opening up the alpha some more. I just started playing today and am loving it! :)

Can't wait till it comes out.

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Cookies for opening Beta.

I'm impressed with the load times, they are surprisingly fast for graphics this cool.
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I need help downloading the game.. it says i need a valid linken format or somethin like that how do i get that ? ! ?
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Pixel format? Check Technical Support. There's a pinned topic regarding that issue, and you can post questions there if the answer you are looking for cannot be found. (Unfortunately, people don't seem to try to find... I cry inside every time I see another topic about the same issue.)
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