Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Version 6.5 of JJ2+ is now available!

Today’s focus is Overtime. It could often come as a surprise whether overtime was enabled in online multiplayer, so now if you press F9 twice, there’s a new blue “OT” line among all the other advanced HUD info. If that line says “On,” you’ll know that the game will enter overtime if the time runs out and there’s a tie among winning players/teams.

Besides that, the rules have changed in Battle, Team Battle, Pestilence, and Team Battle: if there’s a tie for first place when the time runs out, and overtime is enabled, then the max score during overtime will be two points more than the highest current score. For example, if the max score is 10 but the two leading players only have 5 points when the time runs out, then the max score will be reduced to 7 (5+2) for the overtime period, and this reduced max score will be previewed in blue in the HUD.

(Overtime max score rules have not changed for other gamemodes, but we’re open to ideas.)

These visual changes only apply when both clients and servers are running the current version of JJ2+, 6.5, instead of older versions. We’ve also patched several bugs resulting from up-to-date clients joining older servers, but there are still more out there.

You can download 6.5 in-game or in-browser.

- Violet CLM

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Jeh must die.