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I agree, Xonotic is a great game and a lot of fun. Also it is highly competitive. It is also a blast at most lan parties where it's been played. Only thing Xo

by replax 13y ago

I agree, Xonotic is a great game and a lot of fun. Also it is highly competitive. It is also a blast at most lan parties where it's been played. Only thing Xonotic really lacks are active players - typical chicken and egg problem. Although it already got better. And servers are online en masse. Maybe Xonotic's lack of active players is a result of somewhat overcomplicated accessibility for less computer savy gamers, as the set-up (ingame) and the heaps of options are a little bit too much and confusing. Actually, I think it would be nice if the game starts into a "beginner" mode, which promts for basic things intuitively. The game does it already for Playername and such but important settings such as Field of View are hard to find. Well, it's open source so maybe I should be looking into that :)

tekmate 13y ago
the problem with xonotic and other arena fps is that they lack the killerfeature that would not only lure in a new generation of players, but also shake on the throne of quake3/quakelive, which is arguably the perfect arena fps to date (and yet humps along at under 300k players itself) what i see is that new players will get crushed for months before they reach their first milestones and become somewhat formidable players in these games. compare that to the new and popular fps games where you can just jump in, spray some bullets and get some nice looking plates pop up on the screen. i don't know if there's still room for the unforgiving nature of arena fps aside from hypercompetitive people
- beaumartinez 13y ago
  "Modern" FPSs (COD, Battlefield, etc) have one killer feature, at least on consoles, RE skill-balancing—intelligent matchmaking. With a large enough volume of players, players get matched by skill—meaning fewere "noobs" getting owned and an overall more balanced match. I noticed Xonotic has player stats on the homepage—I wonder if those could be used for this.

by replax 13y ago

tekmate 13y ago

the problem with xonotic and other arena fps is that they lack the killerfeature that would not only lure in a new generation of players, but also shake on the throne of quake3/quakelive, which is arguably the perfect arena fps to date (and yet humps along at under 300k players itself) what i see is that new players will get crushed for months before they reach their first milestones and become somewhat formidable players in these games. compare that to the new and popular fps games where you can just jump in, spray some bullets and get some nice looking plates pop up on the screen. i don't know if there's still room for the unforgiving nature of arena fps aside from hypercompetitive people

beaumartinez 13y ago
"Modern" FPSs (COD, Battlefield, etc) have one killer feature, at least on consoles, RE skill-balancing—intelligent matchmaking. With a large enough volume of players, players get matched by skill—meaning fewere "noobs" getting owned and an overall more balanced match. I noticed Xonotic has player stats on the homepage—I wonder if those could be used for this.