Xfire, that lovable in-game chat utility and friend locater, recently had its big 1.60 release! Some of the highlights include a new LAN browser feature, G15 support, and a number of new game additions. The update will be applied automatically the next time you start Xfire.
- Added a LAN Game Server browser on the servers tab. This will show you all game servers on your LAN for games you have installed.
- Added support for the Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard. The first bit of every message you receive will be displayed in the LCD in the keyboard.
- Improved the Tools | Options | Games configuration process for Sony Station games.
- Updated the flow of the user registration process.
- Added group chat lobby support for Heroes III, Flight Sim 2004, Risk II, and several MechWarrior games.
- Improved log parsing for game statistics for Quake 3 and Jedi Academy Multiplayer.
- The servers tab is now updated when you manually configure a game in Tools | Options | Games.
- Fixed detection of Half-Life 2 Lost Coast and Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45 (Steam).
- New games supported: Land of the Dead, Sword of the Stars Demo, Civilization IV - Warlords, CivCity Rome, OutRun2006 Coast 2 Coast, Glory of the Roman Empire, Sacrifice, MechWarrior 3, Dawn of War Dark Crusade, MechWarrior 4 Black Knight, Dungeon Siege II Broken World, and Flatout 2.
Technical Notes for Release 1.60
- The protocol changed for a few messages to make the encoding more compact.
- Added two entries in xfire_games.ini for the LAN server browser--ServerBroadcastPort and ServerGameName. ServerGameName is actually a regular expression to differentiate between multiple games that have the same server info type and port (such as the various Source games).
- Added /server command line parameter to set the host name for the Xfire client to connect to. This is useful for proxies.
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