After an agonizingly long wait, I am happy to report that a
new official release of the premier FOSS arena FPS Xonotic is available to the masses.
Here is a nice (but slightly older) game-play video for those not having played Xonotic yet:
Changes are quite extensive compared to the last official release... most notably an
extensive update the the CTF mode, some neat additional features for competitive gaming and an assortment of great new maps.
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On the technical side of things, the engine
DarkPlaces got quite a few performance improvements (mainly due to the fact that the creator now works at Valve software and thus has direct access to Nvidia's and AMD's graphics hardware divisions) and that an
all new script compiler is now in use. That it runs on SDL 2.0 might also increase it's usability a lot for some.
There are also finally an animation bending feature for the player-models and creation of new characters has never been easier now that the
iqm format is used.
You can comment on this release over at the
Xonotic forum release announcement thread (or of course here in our comment section).
Also check out these two still under heavy development mods for xonotic:
- Overkill is a mod that attempts to combine the best of minsta gameplay and TDM/CTF. It also has some nice vector shaded new weapons and player models.
- DotC is an DOTA like but in 1st person view type of mod.
Last but not least, the awesome all new level editor for quake based games,
Trenchbroom is making great advances and should soon allow easy mapping for Xonotic out of the box.
P.S.: If you have a really fast Android device, you can also try to run Xonotic on it via this
newly fixed DarkPlaces port. Just don't expect to be able to compete online with touchscreen input :p
