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If you like Quake-likes, let me recommend Xonotic. It's a free and open source game based on a heavily modified Darkplaces engine. It's a friendly community, w

by sigg3 5y ago

If you like Quake-likes, let me recommend Xonotic. It's a free and open source game based on a heavily modified Darkplaces engine. It's a friendly community, with a wide age distribution (lots of old quakers like myself). If you don't like death match, clan arena or CTF, login to a CTS defrag game (time races for movement training). https://xonotic.org https://xonotic.org

je42 5y ago
it is fun idd. however, i wish there were more players online.
franky47 5y ago
Also worth mentioning (and playing) is Nexuiz, which also used the modified DarkPlaces engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexuiz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexuiz
- bmn__ 5y ago
  It's not worth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115448
Archer6621 5y ago
Xonotic is great, been playing it almost since it started. Also contributed some music to it! I've always been amazed in particular by how polished it is for an open source game. Don't think I've ever heard anyone that tried it say they didn't enjoy it either, though generally folks don't stick around, save for a couple. Most of the current playerbase is situated in Europe though I think, so you gotta play at times that make sense for those time-zones if you wanna see players (evenings usually pretty active).
- raffraffraff 5y ago
  And lots of Russians! Super game. I've only been playing it for about a year, and didn't really do much gaming for about 20 years prior to that. It reminded me of the best of Q3 and UT2004 in one game. I've probably killed you / been killed by you a bunch of times.
  - Archer6621 5y ago
    Slightly rarer for me to play lately, haha! But you may have seen some of my clanmates, such as psyx|Pendulla, he plays quite often. You're right about the Russian presence, it has gotten to the point where using "))" to indicate smileys has become a community thing, Russian or not :D
nolok 5y ago
Warsow is also quite good and very close to late 90's shooter's idea of multiplayer https://warsow.net/ https://warsow.net/
Nimitz14 5y ago
Or Diabotical. Free on epic games store.
ManlyBread 5y ago
The problem with Quake clones is that most of them have really small playerbase and it's hard to find someone to play with, especially when location is considered (I live in Eastern Europe). The potential playerbase is also fragmented between various clones. I gave Xonotic a go a few minutes ago. The game is nice but right now I can see 6 only servers populated. That's not a lot to be honest.
- raffraffraff 5y ago
  Agreed. If you're in Europe look for the two Eris servers. Sometimes it's hard to find a deathmatch game, so you end up joining clan arena, getting killed and then spending the remainder of each match spectating and not actually improving your skill. Freeze tag is huge fun but it's rarely voted for. The one good thing about the small player base is that you will always bump into those superhuman players who destroy everyone. That gives you something to aspire to. Once you start leveling up to them, you know you're getting good.

by sigg3 5y ago

je42 5y ago

it is fun idd. however, i wish there were more players online.

franky47 5y ago

Also worth mentioning (and playing) is Nexuiz, which also used the modified DarkPlaces engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexuiz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexuiz

bmn__ 5y ago
It's not worth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115448

Archer6621 5y ago

Xonotic is great, been playing it almost since it started. Also contributed some music to it! I've always been amazed in particular by how polished it is for an open source game. Don't think I've ever heard anyone that tried it say they didn't enjoy it either, though generally folks don't stick around, save for a couple. Most of the current playerbase is situated in Europe though I think, so you gotta play at times that make sense for those time-zones if you wanna see players (evenings usually pretty active).

raffraffraff 5y ago
And lots of Russians! Super game. I've only been playing it for about a year, and didn't really do much gaming for about 20 years prior to that. It reminded me of the best of Q3 and UT2004 in one game. I've probably killed you / been killed by you a bunch of times.
- Archer6621 5y ago
  Slightly rarer for me to play lately, haha! But you may have seen some of my clanmates, such as psyx|Pendulla, he plays quite often. You're right about the Russian presence, it has gotten to the point where using "))" to indicate smileys has become a community thing, Russian or not :D

nolok 5y ago

Warsow is also quite good and very close to late 90's shooter's idea of multiplayer https://warsow.net/ https://warsow.net/

Nimitz14 5y ago

Or Diabotical. Free on epic games store.

ManlyBread 5y ago

The problem with Quake clones is that most of them have really small playerbase and it's hard to find someone to play with, especially when location is considered (I live in Eastern Europe). The potential playerbase is also fragmented between various clones. I gave Xonotic a go a few minutes ago. The game is nice but right now I can see 6 only servers populated. That's not a lot to be honest.

raffraffraff 5y ago
Agreed. If you're in Europe look for the two Eris servers. Sometimes it's hard to find a deathmatch game, so you end up joining clan arena, getting killed and then spending the remainder of each match spectating and not actually improving your skill. Freeze tag is huge fun but it's rarely voted for. The one good thing about the small player base is that you will always bump into those superhuman players who destroy everyone. That gives you something to aspire to. Once you start leveling up to them, you know you're getting good.