Red Eclipse 1.5.5, Elysium Edition has been released today.

Note that if you launch a previous version, the automatic updater may take a while for the upgrade, and on some systems you may need to run it once “as admin”. Or you can get the current package from http://redeclipse.net/ to re-install the game.

In previous news articles, I have addressed many of the new features for this release, so I will just give a few keywords here:

• Full support for detailed game statistics

• A new spawn weapon, the claws

• New dethmatch mutators, gladiator and old school

• Lots of new vanity items, mapmodels, textures and maps

• Revamped menus for map editing, game favorites, options and more

• Many engine tweaks, including better support of multiplayer editing

This release comes with many experimental features. If you have any technical problems or observe some bugs, you can discuss them on the forums