Xonotic

Tek7

Tek7

CGA President, Tribe of Judah Founder & President
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Xonotic is a free (GPL), fast-paced first-person shooter that works on Windows, OS X and Linux. The project is geared towards providing addictive arena shooter gameplay which is all spawned and driven by the community itself.
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Anyone else want to give Xonotic a shot? I wasn't able to raise interest in Quake Live and this seemed like an obvious choice for a solid "impromptu 15 minutes of deathmatch at random times" alternative.
 
Fantastic.

I'm going to let my right index finger heal up a bit first, but I'd like for more ToJ members to download, install, and try the game so we'll have several members ready to play when I'm ready to go.

EDIT: I already have the game downloaded, by the bye.
 
I tried it out....it is promising!

Feels like a fast-paced old school Unreal Tournament.
 
Played the first single-player deathmatch map. I like it. Since Quake Live uses PunkBuster and shows ads before the first round the user players and since UT4 is a long, long ways off, I'd say this is a satisfactory substitute for a new arena shooter.

I'll still be playing UT3 and Quake Live, but if interest in Xonotic picks up among ToJ members, I'll definitely be playing it, too.

All I ask is that you don't play Xonotic Monday nights if you also own UT3. Monday nights are our UT chapter's game nights. :)
 
Joshinator said:
Only trouble with xonotic seems to be the lack of players in servers QQ
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Indeed. It looks as though most of the servers are based outside the US.

I'm going to create a separate thread about choosing the "best" (for ToJ members) free arena FPS game. Watch for that.
 
I'll check it out tonight. Sounds like it has similar movement to Quake. I never really took to any of the Quake games. Out of all the FPS i've ever played I like the movement in UT2004 the best. Probably because it is what I am most accustomed too.
 
Captain_Tea said:
I'll check it out tonight. Sounds like it has similar movement to Quake. I never really took to any of the Quake games. Out of all the FPS i've ever played I like the movement in UT2004 the best. Probably because it is what I am most accustomed too.
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Captain_Tea said:
I don't like it.
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:(

If you prefer UT-style movement to Quake-style movement, then I'd recommend checking out Warsow. Its movement is closer to UT99 or UT2004 and, like Xonotic, free and open source.

If I were to pick a second free and open source arena FPS to play, Warsow would be it (but Xonotic is most definitely still my first pick).
 
I'm reviving this thread because I just installed the latest version of Xonotic on my desktop PC.

Anyone else want to play Xonotic some time? I added a shortcut through Steam so it'll show on Steam Friends when I play it.

The game is still free and it's still awesome! :)
 
Tek7 said:
I'm reviving this thread because I just installed the latest version of Xonotic on my desktop PC.

Anyone else want to play Xonotic some time? I added a shortcut through Steam so it'll show on Steam Friends when I play it.

The game is still free and it's still awesome! :)
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I cant get the video to work properly on my media center comp :(. Id be willing to give it another chance if it was playable...

**Edit** It runs good on my wife's laptop :) Let's play!
 
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I just youtubed the game. I don't understand how some of you are saying this looks similar to ut. It looks nothing like ut to me and looks like a quake 3 based game. I played a game against Tek7 in quake 3 and I'm much more of a UT kind of guy when it comes to arena shooters, but let me know if this game picks up popularity with ToJ, and I'll consider trying it!
 
I plan on playing Xonotic more often after I move my desktop PC from the living room to my bedroom (if and when I get a desk where I can set it up). I'll go ahead and update it up on my laptop (which is still set up at a desk in my office at home) to play it some time.
 
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