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singleplayer fps, there's no arena fps with a particularly vibrant community, and if i'm wrong about that please please tell me which game i should be playing

hot_gril 4y ago
Assaultcube
Shared404 4y ago
Xonotic's got a decent number of servers online and active at any given moment.
waboremo 4y ago
You are right that multiplayer arena FPS with a vibrant community is a rarity now. I think the most popular one is Splitgate (sitting at ~600 players ingame on steam right now)[1]. Xonotic seems to be semi popular too but not on Steam if that matters to you. Part of the problem is many of the modern FPS games have adapted arena FPS features (even Halo now is much faster than it used to be) making it difficult for people to go back to them unless they were deep fans of arena FPS games in the first place. Ultrakill is a great one for singleplayer though! [1] https://steamdb.info/graph/?tagid=5547 https://steamdb.info/graph/?tagid=5547
lgl 4y ago
QuakeWorld (the "Internet" version of quake 1) is still very active. The source code was open-sourced by Carmack many years ago and the community has been evolving the clients ever since. Today the most popular one - ezquake [0] - features many improvements in performance, networking and teamplay features. Anybody can download a version of this client along with a mostly playable version of quake [1] (that includes only the first chapter of the original maps like the shareware version but many or most popular multiplayer maps. And if you have the original you just need to place the pak1.pak inside the id1 directory and have access to everything) There are many ongoing tournaments and QHLAN is about to be held in Sweden on November 17-20. You can find all about these in the quakeworld wiki [2] To find the servers and games you can use one of two websites [3][4] or the in-game browser. The quakeworld EU and US communities are found on Discord. [5][6] There is also an automated Twitch channel built by a community member that streams quakeworld 24/7 [7] [0] https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source [1] https://www.nquake.com/ https://www.nquake.com/ [2] https://www.quakeworld.nu/wiki/Overview https://www.quakeworld.nu/wiki/Overview [3] https://badplace.eu/ https://badplace.eu/ [4] https://hub.quakeworld.nu/ https://hub.quakeworld.nu/ [5] http://discord.quake.world http://discord.quake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld EU Discord) [6] http://discord.usquake.world http://discord.usquake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld US Discord) [7] https://www.twitch.tv/QuakeWorld https://www.twitch.tv/QuakeWorld

hot_gril 4y ago

Assaultcube

Shared404 4y ago

Xonotic's got a decent number of servers online and active at any given moment.

waboremo 4y ago

You are right that multiplayer arena FPS with a vibrant community is a rarity now. I think the most popular one is Splitgate (sitting at ~600 players ingame on steam right now)[1]. Xonotic seems to be semi popular too but not on Steam if that matters to you. Part of the problem is many of the modern FPS games have adapted arena FPS features (even Halo now is much faster than it used to be) making it difficult for people to go back to them unless they were deep fans of arena FPS games in the first place. Ultrakill is a great one for singleplayer though! [1] https://steamdb.info/graph/?tagid=5547 https://steamdb.info/graph/?tagid=5547

lgl 4y ago

QuakeWorld (the "Internet" version of quake 1) is still very active. The source code was open-sourced by Carmack many years ago and the community has been evolving the clients ever since. Today the most popular one - ezquake [0] - features many improvements in performance, networking and teamplay features. Anybody can download a version of this client along with a mostly playable version of quake [1] (that includes only the first chapter of the original maps like the shareware version but many or most popular multiplayer maps. And if you have the original you just need to place the pak1.pak inside the id1 directory and have access to everything) There are many ongoing tournaments and QHLAN is about to be held in Sweden on November 17-20. You can find all about these in the quakeworld wiki [2] To find the servers and games you can use one of two websites [3][4] or the in-game browser. The quakeworld EU and US communities are found on Discord. [5][6] There is also an automated Twitch channel built by a community member that streams quakeworld 24/7 [7] [0] https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source [1] https://www.nquake.com/ https://www.nquake.com/ [2] https://www.quakeworld.nu/wiki/Overview https://www.quakeworld.nu/wiki/Overview [3] https://badplace.eu/ https://badplace.eu/ [4] https://hub.quakeworld.nu/ https://hub.quakeworld.nu/ [5] http://discord.quake.world http://discord.quake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld EU Discord) [6] http://discord.usquake.world http://discord.usquake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld US Discord) [7] https://www.twitch.tv/QuakeWorld https://www.twitch.tv/QuakeWorld