Unfortunately I think the fork didn't go very well. If they'd immediately just released a nearly-the-same version and iterated from there the entire Nexuiz com

Unfortunately I think the fork didn't go very well. If they'd immediately just released a nearly-the-same version and iterated from there the entire Nexuiz community would have brought along to the new project. Instead, the developers treated Xonotic as their chance to change everything, so you ended up with drastically different gameplay and no map-file compatibility. This inevitably led to a split where some people like the changes overall, and others still cling to the 4-year-old Nexuiz 2.5.2 release. Worse, neither group is large enough to really have a healthy ecosystem of active players. Nexuiz was already in decline before the fork, but splitting the community in two hastened it considerably. It's a shame, I really liked Nexuiz a lot... fast pace and interesting movement system. I used to follow Xonotic development fairly closely, but never got the same enjoyment out of the gameplay.