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Yeah, don't give them your money. They forked the project into a closed-source version, stealing the name and leaving the original team in the dust, and are now trying to make money off of it. Which is pretty scummy, in my opinion, as Illfonic basically shafted most of the original Nexiuz developers.
Play Xonotic instead.
If anybody is wondering what happened to the free and open-source FPS called Nexuiz, the project's founder sold off the trademark to a commercial studio to "remake" it as a propriatery game on the Cry Engine. The game that was called Nexuiz is retroactively renamed "Nexuiz Classic"
However, the rest of the community continues to improve the original DarkPlaces-based game as Xonotic.
What about Cube 2: Sauerbraten?
I like the mechanics+lightweightedness of it... but am not a fan of multiplayer anything so I unfortunately cannot judge how 'alive' the community is.
There's also Xonotic. Which is not as light-weight when installed/starting up, but I think it's more popular so you might have better luck with multiplayer.
Sorry if 'old-school arena FPS' isn't the style you're looking for.
EDIT: Unless you're on a more fresh system (like something rolling) these probably won't be in your repos. Although C2:S is in the Debian repos (so I think that means you might be able to use Synaptic package manager to install it? Assuming you have/can get it, like how it used to be installed in old versions of Ubuntu).
The retail Nexuiz is anything but a gem. Play Xonotic. It's mostly by the same people who made the original Nexuiz.
Also, try Warsow. Another good free game for all your Q3/UT arena shooter needs.
EDIT: And in case you guys think I'm just salty, look at Nexuiz's user chart thingy. Barely broke double digits since it was released 4 years ago.
At least Nexuiz spawned Xonotic.
However, you are right, it was just extremely disappointing but I still say it is low quality. The development of the game had a very rough history.
You should try Xonotic! It's the game that the original, open-source Nexuiz turned into before whatever drama happened leading to the split. A hell of a lot more fun than Warsow.
Plenty of FOSS ones. My favourite at the moment is a remake of an old Amiga game, Knights
For something a bit more graphically-intensive, Xonotic
For something different/commercial, Trackmania Nations Forever is old but works well in Wine
While the numbers aren't as high as in your examples, Xonotic definitely also has an active community.
In any timezone it is usually possible to join a public server with enough people on for some fun, minstagib or not. Loads of PUGs organised through irc and loads of tournaments organised through forums. You do tend to run into the same people again and again though :)
I got into Xonotic recently, ever since Nexuiz went closed source the community branched off to Xonotic. The community is really friendly! While it lacks the vehicular combat you enjoyed in Unreal Tournament 2k4, the pure gun gameplay is spot on!
Nexuiz was a community made open source game. The gamemodes, the weapons, the design, and concept were all contributed by several different members of the community.
Illfonic took the Nexuiz name and the existing source code and closed it all off as a proprietary project at that point. They turned it into a commercial project (in their defense, they did end up swapping to another engine, but keeping the weapons and game design the same) and selling it for a profit.
The open source community didn't want to appear like they were ripping off a commecial project (when it was the exact opposite) so they pretty much had to re-invent their game from scratch, which became http://www.xonotic.org/
I vote for Xonotic which is a free FPS similar to Quake 3: Arena but has some added features. The website includes a few screenshots and a video demonstrating the gameplay. I've been playing this game a lot lately and I can honestly say it's a lot of fun.
Can be modded through its .cfg and console commands for FPS. Game is like a modern Quake or DOOM, super fast-paced, there are bots you can play with, too. Also, visit the unofficial subreddit at /r/xonotic!
-Xonotic
>Pentium II 266 MHz
>4 MB video card or AMD K6-2 350 MHz with 8 MB video card
>64 MB of RAM
-Linux, Windows, Mac
-No Steam
-Free
-Super fun and comes with a lowend package for even worse computers!
This console game is actually a remake of an open-source game for PC, also called Nexuiz. IllFonic, the company behind the console game just bought the rights to the game. The community didn't like this move at all, not only because they were told the pc version would be called "Nexuiz Classic" from now on, but also because it was just the founder of the project who sold the game rights. There was even talk of some of the code being licensed to IllFonic. None of the major contributors were informed, so the community mostly took it as a stab to the back.
As is usually the case with FLOSS projects, the pc game was forked, and now continues its existence as Xonotic. PC Nexuiz, albeit still a very playable game, is slowly withering and dying as the last remnants of the community moves to where the grass is greener.
The console version of the game will probably never see a PC release. It is a very different game when compared to the PC version, and that is mainly because the console version is an attempt at transforming a fast-paced quake-style game to consoles. There would be no sense in making a PC version out of that, especially since we already have Nexuiz Classic and Xonotic.
From their FAQ..
> What prompted the split from Nexuiz?
> Lee Vermeulen, the Nexuiz project founder, decided to license the Nexuiz code (with LordHavoc licensing the Darkplaces engine) to a new game development company named Illfonic so that they could develop a closed-source version for the PS3. As part of this deal, IllFonic acquired the rights to use the name Nexuiz along with the domain nexuiz.com, and are under no obligation to contribute code back to the open-source Nexuiz project (and have stated that they have no intention of doing so).
They have Nexiuz (which xonotic is a fork of). Also the ubuntu package for Nexiuz mentions Xonotic as the upstream https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nexuiz . Not sure what is going on.
http://www.xonotic.org/faq/#is-there-a-debian-package-available:7f013166342b67894be6647c57c00169
Check out the open source game 'Xonotic' and on steam there is a game called 'Reflex' that's pretty Quake 3ish. Also there is another arena shooter coming out called STRAFE that's super nostalagic looking.
There is also another game in the same vein but it's name escapes me atm.
http://www.xonotic.org/ <- This has existed for years, it's free and open source, looks good, is based on the Q1/Q2 engines, play it and tell everyone else about it. Seriously, Xonotic basically just needs more players and that's pretty much it.
We need more Arena Shooters. That is the problem. Fortunately we are getting some. Toxikk, Reflex, and Xonotic are recent. Toxikk and Reflex are in early access on steam (with very positive reviews), and Xonotic is a free open-source game and has been live for at least three years since September 8, 2011. It's life began as Nexuiz.
Why not Xonotic? It's a fork of Nexuiz most of the community moved to after the original developer sold the game to another game company.
And if you do play, play instagib with hooks. It's the best :).
Any of the Cube engine games should be pretty much 100% compatible cross platform there are a hand-full of games based on it, have a look here: http://cubeengine.com/. Xonotic is another classic. Check it out here: http://www.xonotic.org/. Hedgewars is a great choice if you liked the Worms games at all, http://www.hedgewars.org/. Another that can be a total hit-or-miss kinda game is BZFlag, some people find it incredibly boring, so YMMV.
Nexuiz actually went commercial with their code with some open-source trickery a while ago. Was a big deal, many people were angry.
Its successor is Xonotic which sticks to the original license and has been updated more recently.
I had quite some fun with Xonotic, which is more or less the continued developent of Quake3.
Since it is open Source and has no really big media traction it isn't well known. But there is a number of players online.
also don't forget to use free software. just by using free software you are supporting it.
one example:
- xonotic --- play my current favorite FPS, since we need more players! there is enough to always jump into a good game, but not enough to jump into a good game at a nearby server. so.... we need you to play videogames and smash capitalism at the same time! ;)
oh, and also linux, of course! try ubuntu or mint.
Having downloaded and played Xonotic recently (i.e. yesterday) I would like to mention is as an FPS. It has beautiful graphics and fast gameplay. I would note two criticisms about it though: 1) low fps, which is more due to my crappy hardware, and 2) the animations for the player models is not very good - though you'd never notice that in gameplay.
Check out Xonotic. A bunch of the old Nexuiz devs revamped Nexuiz with modern graphics and made it freely available. (This is not that poorly rated cryengine nexuiz that came out a few years ago).
Note that this is not the real nexuiz, but an unofficial remake for consoles (Pretty much without consent of the nexuiz developers). The real nexuiz game is continued as xonotic
nexuiz has and its successor xonotic can use the nexuiz map, too.. It's a community made map so you might have to head over to maps.nexuizninjas.com or something..
EDIT:
Try Xonotic. I also grew up playing Quake 3 arena, and I say that this fits the theme and style and fast paced frenetic action as well. It's not the vulnerable two-shot-and dead modern shooter. It's not cartoony supersoldier like Halo, it's bouncing around the levels on jump pads, searching for powerups, a good variety of weapons, and if you die, you're back in in moments. Very fun.
>To oversimplify just for your sake, you can think of CPMA as being the more "cleaned up" code that intentionally simulate the same effect as what was inadvertently done in QW.
And like I said, just like you can simplify implementation for CPMA. You can simplify whole thing to the point where it's adjustable with just two cvars.
There is no magic algorithm that makes the movement behave differently from one another. The difference in behavior can be explained by the different values inputed into maxairspeed or airacceleration alone.
Seeing is believing, so here's a video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgWqaDqkBD0
Experiencing it yourself is more believing, so you can download Xonotic and experiment with these physics presets yourself:
> exec physicsQ.cfg
- sv_maxairspeed 30
- sv_airacceleration 106.66666666666666666666
> exec physicsQ3.cfg
- sv_maxairspeed 320
- sv_airacceleration 1
You can toggle between the two air control sets by playing with just these two cvars. Keep in mind though, these physics presents only focus on air/ground movement. Things like double jumps, wallskimming, overbounces and such don't work.
Also, air movement and ground movement are separate. If you want to experiment with circle jumps and stuff, then you have to play with these cvars:
- sv_friction
- sv_acceleration
I played some of the new UT. I've come to the conclusion that UT might just not be for me. Xonotic's more Quake-like gameplay on the other hand I liked a lot.
Xonotic is also free, by the way. And it doesn't come with the concept of weird microtransactions, so there's that.
I'll be interested to see how Warsow does now that it has been Greenlit. I vaguely recall in the past that the people behind Xonotic said they had no interest in getting the game put on Steam, but if Warsow explodes in popularity, it might just change their minds.
EDIT: Ah, I was incorrect... from this post:
>Q.: Why don’t you want to bring Xonotic to Steam?
>A.: This is not true. We’d very much like to bring Xonotic to Steam. However, there are some problems that we might need to solve before that. First of all, the game is not ready for that, as we’re still in beta stage, and the game has tons of bugs and half working features that we first would like to fix, and fully implement before introducing it to larger audiences.
If anyone is interested in Arena Shooters (Quake clones essentially) check out warsow and xonotic.
Both extremly fun games. I'm not really good at them, so it would be nice to play against some other new players.
There are plenty of free arena-based shooters like Xonotic and Warsow, and their playerbases are tiny compared to others. Nexuiz came out on Steam and never really got a fanbase to speak of. Quake Live is free to play but also has a tiny community and has a free map rotation to entice you to pay for a subscription. Shootmania also never really got off the ground either.
I just don't think people want to play arena shooters anymore. I know I grew up playing them and miss them myself, but if I try going back to any of the classics I get bored within 15 minutes.
Warsow for life. Seriously, arena shooters never went away. They just became free, open source, or both.
Edit: Also Xonotic and Alien Arena
0AD is a free RTS you might want to try. It's not finished yet, but it should have pretty good functionality, and run on your computer, I'd hope.
Wesnoth is a free turn based strategy game you can play with your friend, that will absolutely run on your computer.
Xonotic is a free Unreal-esque competitive online FPS.
As for non-MOBA non-MMO multiplayer things, that's pretty much all I've got, hopefully you'll like the sound of one of these!
The cryengine version of Nexuiz is pretty bad as a game though, given that they inherited the terrible weapons balance of classic nexuiz. Nexuiz's succesor, Xonotic has better balance, it's in open beta and is perfectly playable. Warsow's weapons are literally a copy of quake, but its unique movement system makes the game special.
also, neither of the games you mentioned run on idtech 3, Warsow is based on qfusion, a modified quake II engine. Xonotic is based on Darkplaces, which is a very heavily modified q1 engine(Despite that, its graphics capabilities are nothing to scoff at.).
Might I interest you gentlemen in a game called Xonotic? It's a modern game very much in the style of the classics. Free and open sourced. I'm pretty terrible at it, but I see skilled people playing it.
I think the Linux game "industry" needs to put some more work into promoting their games. Even when you actively look for games for Linux, it's really not that easy to find the best ones. Only the "classics" really appear (Tux Racer, Neverball etc), and they really don't give a proper representation of what's available.
I would particularly recommend Assault Cube, an extremely lightweight (runs like a dream on my Celeron M with integrated graphics), simple, but super fun shooter - it plays something like a cross between CS 1.6 and Quake Arena (well I think so anyway), and Xonotic, which is very similar to Unreal Tournament, and has astonishingly good graphics for a free game.
edit: (clearly this post is concerned only with free-as-in-beer games, I think most commerical Linux games do a very good job of promotion)
Remember Quake 1? Remember what it looked like? Xonotic is based off of the Quake 1 source code. You can say it looks slightly different. ;)
Because the source code was released under a nice, free license, people have been able to create nice games in their spare time, or improve these old games so that they look better and play better on modern hardware.
Now imagine what can be done with id Tech 4.
You could buy the entire quake 1-3 collection on Steam for about 30 bucks (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/434/), or you could start with something like Xonotic (http://www.xonotic.org/) which is free and based on a vastly updated Q1 (or maybe Q2) engine - but you will initially be playing against bots and with pretty unrealistic physics.
Ohh, I'm glad!
It's still just in the preview stage tough but it works very well. The community is very actively working on improving the game and adding more maps.
Thinking of playing a game called Xonotic tonight on the discord. Here is the game link http://www.xonotic.org/
It's kinda like Quake. F2P, open source etc etc. I think it'll be good fun, if you wanna play, join the discord
~~try a non-hittrace gun like the railgun. 100% accurate 100% of the time. Actually, most of the weapons are accurate. Except for maybe the shotgun.~~
Sorry, for some reason I thought we were talking about Xonotic, not Toxxik
Xonotic. It's an arena FPS that runs on Darkplaces, a modified version of the original Quake engine. Unfortunately, as is the case with many arena FPS games, the playerbase is pretty much non-existent.
Duelyst - A surprisingly awesome hybrid game, a mix of card games like Hearthstone and turn based tactic games.
Xonotic - My favourite FPS around. It uses a fork of the quake engine and has amazing multi-player. Unfortunately the ZA server seems to have been taken down some time back. It never really attracted a crowd. :(
Sure thing. The movement speed is a preference thing for me anyways, the game can still be good without fast movement speed. If it's not good enough the way it is they'll probably end up tweaking it.
Also, Xonotic is free (although many players play on modded servers, but they added a way to easily only show vanilla ones). It really does the ''easy to play but hard to master'' thing well. http://www.xonotic.org/ It can get a bit repetetive, but it's a great game. Kind of a bridge between Quake and UT.
On steam:'
- TF2
- Quake Live
Not on steam:
- Xonotic - http://www.xonotic.org
- Cave Story - http://www.cavestory.org/
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (personal fave) - http://crawl.develz.org
Yeah, it's just plain asking to much, the feeling of not having a full experience really dentures me from playing it as well.
PS: I didn't say this, but, I hear there is a really good twitch shooter that is free called Xonotic http://www.xonotic.org/ (I'm on blue alien so I'm not sure if formatting would work)
I was disappointed when the question about "open sourcing games already on steams" was answered. They did mention that you would have to rip out steamworks support, but unfortunately didn't connect the dots: Currently, it is impossible to have GPL games on steam that also make use of SteamWorks integration. For me personally this was an issue when To the Moon was ported because the game has one achievement and needed the steamworks integration, which in turn meant I had to contact all previous contributors to my engine and ask them for permission to provide a proprietary license to the main game developer to release my engine binary as closed source (all because of one achievement!). And this will happen again and again for every other game that runs on this engine.
But I am not the only one who is affected by this; Xonotic discovered the very same issue a long time ago. It's pretty sad to imagine a 3rd person FPS on Steam not being able to take advantage of Valve's automatic server management / achievement stuff.
Considering that libsteam_api.so is really nothing more than a thin IPC layer, I would hope that they could provide an open source friendly version in the future.
Xonotic comes to mind. It's fast, every gun has two functions like in UT2004, it's got pretty good graphics, and best of all - it's 100% free.
I've had trouble finding online matches though, it seems like it's not really popular so there aren't many servers. Even playing against bots can be fun though.
It might not fully satisfy your nostalgia, but it's probably worth looking at since it's free.
Xonotic and Red Eclipse. They are both fast paced games with a variety of game modes. I'm personally a fan of Red Eclipse. Also, they are both free!
> Is it possible to turn off the "Airshot" and "Amazing" sounds?
Sure. But unless you are really amazing you don't hear those that often, hahah.
> Is it possible to have whitewalls or just no textures on walls? Is it possible to remove the eyecandy explosions?
Yes, you can use picmip to turn off eye candy for a simplified / pro mode.
> Also, rockets look like they follow where you aim, is that right?
Rockets follow where you aim only if you hold down the RMB, which lets you curve shots. If you release the button they fire straight.
It's a free indie game so you should just download it and check it out ;)
The old game's still there, with a decidedly less silly name! No harm done, thankfully.
Apparently the new Nexuiz is pretty and mediocre. Also, it seems to have a cap of 8 players per match- which is ridiculous in a game of its sort.
I'm staying away.
Play the original free version http://sourceforge.net/projects/nexuiz/ or the new fork that was created after the Nexuiz name was sold called xonotic yes this is also free.
I posted a summary of what went on here http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/wtp74/steam_summer_sale_day_08_20120719/c5gifzm for those interested.
Xonotic. It's an open-source arena shooter, like classic Unreal Tournament or Quake. Graphics are about 2008-era, but it's very smooth. My ass-broke laptop GPU can do about 100 fps at 720p (medium settings).
The new Nexuiz and the original Nexuiz are worlds apart, despite the new one being a remake. If you're interested in the old one, you can also check out Xonotic, which is a direct descendent of the original Nexuiz project, and you can read about the cause of the split from Nexuiz and some of the issues the creation of the commercial project brought up here. I'm probably suggesting Xonotic as a playdate game next week, too, so don't steal it!
Xonotic: Free Open Source
OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
This is an open source game, in the style of older FPS games, Much relates to The Unreal Tournament Series, Currently in Alpha, this game has a great engine, and great features, runs well, and is very fun!
I downloaded the zip file from http://www.xonotic.org/download/ and there are .exe files. I just rum them.
By native did you mean downloading .deb file from playdeb.net?
Did you happen to see something about "denial service attack" in the single player mode?
Xonotic would be cool, it's a cross platform (Linux, Windows and OS x) fork of Nexuiz after the owner (not sure on the specifics of this) sold out and turned it into an Xbox live game. The developers felt betrayed and moved on to produce Xonotic. Played it when it was Nexuiz and it looks great. Downloading it right now to see how it's doing.
0 A.D. Would also be good. Haven't tried it myself yet but it looks like it has a lot of potential and still under heavy development.
What...? You must have misread my question. Urban Terror does indeed work great on Macs, in fact I was the one who suggested it. I was asking about Xonotic. :)
Xonotic's homepage states that the game is available for Mac (although I have yet to download it and verify).
As for the voting thingy, I can go in and edit/delete individual entries (and I assume others can as well). I hope there's a setting that disables that or this voting system could get seriously rigged.
DarkPlaces is a pretty nice engine based on Quake; has pretty good map tools, uses proven design and data formats, very mature, etc etc. Xonotic is an example of what sort of graphics and other features you can get out of it. It's GPL, but the game data you create for it (levels, textures, etc) doesn't have to be.
You should check out Nexuiz and Xonotic. Nexuiz was an open-source arena FPS based on a heavily (heavily; it looks better than Quake III) modified Quake I engine. The developers sold the name & concept to a commercial developer who are working on a version based on the latest CryEngine (so you know it'll be pretty). Meanwhile, the community forked the last open-source version and called it Xonotic.
No Open Arena?
Considering that Nexuiz is dead so you should all switch to its fork and successor Xonotic and Tremulous is taking years to release a new version honestly I can't agree.
Concerning Sauerbraten the latest version is last year's Justice Edition.
Obviously taste is a very personal thing but at least write something updated!
Nexuiz split into two. The free version is now http://www.xonotic.org/ (completely forgot until you mentioned)
Also I honestly have no idea about openarena, as I haven't played the game in years. If I had to guess, I would say that people still play it as it was updated in July
I have a ASUS VG248qe 1080p 144Hz. Will never go back to a 60Hz display. While my GTX 770 4GB has a hard time keeping 60fps in newer games everything else looks so much better at 144Hz even Windows and moving my mouse pointer.. Unfortunately I haven't tried GSync yet. I'm using the Dual Link DVI cable that came with the monitor but my GPU only supports GSync over Displayport and too lazy/cheap to order a cable. Check out the free Quake based game http://www.xonotic.org/ It's perfect for comparing 60fps vs 144fps.
I'm so uses to even the 1ms GTG that I can't play on my laptop anymore without becoming extremely nauseous. It's got a 860M 2GB so it can keep up in older games but the display is total crap, 25ms GTG. Move the mouse/view in a game and the frames just smear together.
If you want to sharpen up your skills with bots, QC doesn't have them, but Quake 3 Arena has them (I'm assuming that Quake Live does too). If you choose Quake 3, make sure you get it running using ioquake3, which provides better widescreen support and less bugs (this does not apply to QL). If you don't have money, or you don't want to put down money on a game just yet, there are a few good ones out there for free. My recommendation in that case would be Xonotic.
Tremulous (http://tremulous.net/): Probably one of the best LAN/Online party games I have played. Team based, base building, fps game. One of the few games that gets better the more people you have.
Xonotic (http://www.xonotic.org/): Similar to Quake but with stranger weapons. Great for a large group.
Soldat (https://www.soldat.pl/en/): Might have to be run in compatibility mode. Tons of fun with a large group and is really easy to pick up.
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2: Basically Street Fighter on steroids. http://store.steampowered.com/app/520440/GUILTY_GEAR_Xrd_REVELATOR/
Dragon Nest: Download depends on what server you where you are in the world but I put a PvP video for you. https://youtu.be/AiH-bDFzMO8?t=9
Xonotic: If you're looking for a shooter this is usually my goto. http://www.xonotic.org/
No problem, if you want to try defrag there is a game in beta that pretty much uses the quake physics engine and is oriented toward movement only it's called Project Rik the tutorial explain the basics pretty well but most map are insanely hard because they are made by people who played defrag for years.
Otherwise you there is also Xonotic which have a race mod and a couple of servers and Warsow which have some extra features movement wise and have quite a big community when it comes to defrag
I think arena shooters are just "dead" as long as people say they're dead and don't play them because they think they're dead. Also most people just don't find them because they're not popular enough. Case in point: Xonotic, which is free (open source), looks good and is based on the Q1/Q2 engines.
Fighting? You mean something like Street Fighter?
MUGEN is free, but I believe it is 2D.
Do you mean a FPS?
- Team Fortress Classic 2 - on Steam
- Quake Live - http://www.quakelive.com/
- Xonotic - http://www.xonotic.org/download/
- Urban Terror - http://www.urbanterror.info/downloads/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/obviouslyyourmother
I haven't played too many small indie titles but the only one that comes to mind is Xonotic. Its pretty much Quake, you run around, bunnyhop, shoot people, that kind of stuff. Oh and its free. What's not to love??
Maybe people are afraid of it dying to soon? There was game called "Nexuiz" which was similar to UT, Quake fast play style. I played it and it was pretty fun and good. And it still died :) No players in multiplayer.
IMHO better download free Unreal Tournament alpha and play it.
Edit: It seems Nexuiz was renamde to Xonotic and it's free :) Give it a try, maybe on free version multiplayer is alive
I'm not sure which version of nexuiz you mean.
The GPL version is effectively dead and has been forked by the community to form the xonotic project.
The founder of nexuiz has sold the name and. Licensed the code to a development studio which brought out a closed source console and pc version.
more in the faq
Xonotic (http://www.xonotic.org/) is a free clone of Quake 3/Unreal Tournament thats been updated quite a bit, and is a lot of fun at lan parties if you're into twitch shooters.
It should run pretty well on most machines, although if your group has machines that have a problem running anything on the source engine, you may have issues.
There's nexuiz classic and the successor xonotic, both have native ports and run very well. But both don't have very many players online, xonotic is a tiny bit more active.
Yeah ... I just don't like the idea of paying a monthly (or annual) fee.
PS:You didn't hear it from me, but if you want your twitch shooter fix; there is always xonotic. It's good fun, open source and best of all; Free!
You could try out Xonotic. It's an free open source arena shooter that uses a modified quake 2 engine. It's very fun, but can sometimes be difficult to find an active server as the community is still quite small.
> Especially in game programming where you can't look up answers on google since people want to keep their secrets secret.
Well, they are falling a bit behind graphically in the last few years but there are quite some open source games. For example xonotic is getting a bit dated now, but still looks okay-ish. sauerbraten/tesseract recently got an overhaul. Even supertuxkart got some much needed improvements. Sure, they are not up to AAA game standards, but still they are ressources available online completely free.
Or if you're a customer of Epic and pay for the unreal engine, you recently got a lot of examples I would guess.
I'm not really sold here. It's not like there's a shortage of [awesome](www.quakelive.com) arena shooters right now. People are still playing Unreal Tournament 3 and Unreal Tournament 2003/2004. Plus Unreal Tournament 4 is right around the corner.
This game looks pretty, I'll give it that. But I don't see myself walking away from Quake Live and Warsow anytime soon.
Edit: I have no idea why the first link is doing that. I've tried correcting it and it's not cooperating with me.
Xonotic is a fork of the original "Nexuiz Classic" (not to be confused with the floptastic CryEngine 3 remake by IllFonic/Ubisoft) that's somehow still in development, though it's essentially a stillbirth by now.
Not sure if anyone has posted Xonotic yet, totally free no micro transactions, xonotic is based on a heavily modded quake, and is entirely user driven. It has a small but passionate community, come check it out the servers need more people in them! but be ready to get your shit pushed in by the regulars. This game is faster than tribes if your in a minsta gib server utilising grappling hooks and rocket jumping you can traverse the entire map in a matter of seconds!. This what I play while I wait for UT4
>This is why we still need developers to be less lazy about compression
I just wanted to fix that. Wolfenstein: The New Order requires 50 fucking gigabytes when a game like <em>Xonotic</em> doesn't even reach 1 gig. And when my CenturyLink download speeds reach 170 kb/s tops, this shit matters.
so true,
i used to own this game when i only had a shitty laptop and seeing it again made me want to play, but now im back on a full power rig i have no idea what my username/account is...its ok though i have this little beauty
While not on Steam, Xonotic is a really fun open source multiplayer shooter that was directly forked from the original Nexuiz.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive is great as well.
I noticed you hadn't included Xonotic in this list, it's a great f2p arena shooter influenced by unreal and quake games and is still in development as far as I know. Here's a link if you'd like to check them out: http://www.xonotic.org/
Totalbiscuit just did a video about a fan remake of the multiplayer from Command & Conquer Renegade called Renegade X. It's free but I don't know if it's Open Source. Still you might be able to ask the folks working on it questions/etc.
There's Xonotic which is Open Source, but uses a modified Quake 1 engine.
If the lag is really bad, then it's probably better not to play. However if you're looking for quake alternatives then I can suggest Warsow, Xonotic, and Shootmania. All quick arena style games. You can youtube gameplays of each. Warsow and Xonotic would probably most similar to QL. Good luck buddy
there are 2 nexuizs. The old open source one and the new commercial one. The former one was forked and became xonotic, I don't see much of a future for the new one.
Nexuiz Classic or Xonotic can be really pretty for a free game, but they'll run nicely with lowered settings. Xonotic is actually a fork off from Nexuiz so they're pretty similar.
I was testing out mesa 9.0.1 with my 4-year-old Intel 4500MHD gfx I was really surprised that I was averaging 50+ fps in Xonotic and Nexuiz running at my laptops native 1280x800 resolution, this was using the low gfx preset settings with good texture quality and lightmaps selected but still not bad for such a weak card.
But having texture compression on made them not render properly turned it off and it was fine.
- Red eclipse
- Xonotic
- the Spring Engine, an RTS Engine full of good mods/games
In case you don't know, all theses games are multi-platform and will run on linux
Red Eclipse is an Arcadey futurisic FPS that seems simple at first, but will grow on you, it also has some sweet parkour and a friendly community.
Xonotic is a good-looking arena shooter, probably the most taxing game here.
Spring is a great RTS engine full of mods such as Balanced Annihilation, aclone of the Total Annihilation, or Imperial winter, a great Star Wars RTS.
I am following the original Nexuiz since release. It used to be open source, but then THQ bought it and turned it into the game you can now buy. Needless to say that the community of the Open-Source Nexuiz ignored it.
Another interesting story is, that some developers of the Open-Source Nexuiz were pissed and decided to start a new project, which is similar to the Open-Source Nexuiz called "Xonotic".
tl;dr: check out Xonotic - http://www.xonotic.org/ or the open-source version of Nexuiz - http://www.alientrap.org/games/nexuiz .
Yea it's from some of those guys. I wouldn't count on it being a full commercial release, but it might be fun for someone who enjoys the Tribes movement and wants a deeper (potentially) experience.
It could easily end up with a http://www.xonotic.org/ kind of community. They found a game they liked and they keep refining it. I doubt FreeFall will gain mass appeal. It just seemed like something PoS might want to try in a year or so.
Related to modified Quake 1 engines , i love the Xonotic game that was just released it shows that q1 still got something to show http://www.xonotic.org/2011/09/xonotic-0-5-release/ And with big textures and new effects it looks great and the quake1 feeling is somehow better than q3 one (maybe is about the dark places and how rendering is done)