The 9 comments have opened my eyes, I honestly didn't think there was this many open, multi platform FPS games available.
Downloading and I'll give it a go this afternoon.
Warsow 1.0 Released
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Re: Warsow 1.0 Released
#12Very fun game. If anyone is familiar with Quake 3 or UT2004 style, you'll pick it up instantly.
Re: Warsow 1.0 Released
#13Fantastic game, very happy for the team. I'm a CPMA fan personally and I always preferred Warsow over Quake Live as a replacement for CTF although QL duel is arguably better.
Anyone who hasn't played Warsow CTF 3v3 - 5v5 in a lan setting is missing out!
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#14Great news! Personally I'm a bit more a fan of OpenArena[1], the community is a bit more fun-play focused than most other games (and you'll often get an answer when asking something ingame), but this game is great fun too. Good to hear there is progress, and also cool to see this on the HN homepage :) [1] http://openarena.ws
What's the user base like in these games? I feel like every FOSS FPS I've ever played, besides UrbanTerror, has few to no players.
You can find people to play with on public server all the time, however I think most of those are hosted it europe so YMMV. The main problem I have with Warsow is that the greater part of the regular userbase is very experienced and when you try to get into it at first it can be a very... punishing experience.
It's very fast paced and requires quite a lot of skill and muscle memory to become good at it. There are a couple of "noob" servers that are quite enjoyable however. Overall a very good game.
Re: Warsow 1.0 Released
#15Great news! Personally I'm a bit more a fan of OpenArena[1], the community is a bit more fun-play focused than most other games (and you'll often get an answer when asking something ingame), but this game is great fun too. Good to hear there is progress, and also cool to see this on the HN homepage :) [1] http://openarena.ws
What's the user base like in these games? I feel like every FOSS FPS I've ever played, besides UrbanTerror, has few to no players.
Relatively small but there's been around 4000-6000 unique players per day since the launch of 1.0.
Re: Warsow 1.0 Released
#16Great news! Personally I'm a bit more a fan of OpenArena[1], the community is a bit more fun-play focused than most other games (and you'll often get an answer when asking something ingame), but this game is great fun too. Good to hear there is progress, and also cool to see this on the HN homepage :) [1] http://openarena.ws
What's the user base like in these games? I feel like every FOSS FPS I've ever played, besides UrbanTerror, has few to no players.
UrbanTerror doesnt have that big of a userbase either.
But somehow UT feels very much like a community. More so, than the other ones. (i like world-of-padman though)
Re: Warsow 1.0 Released
#17The 9 comments have opened my eyes, I honestly didn't think there was this many open, multi platform FPS games available. Downloading and I'll give it a go this afternoon.
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Re: Warsow 1.0 Released
#18To anyone else lured in by the "Ubuntu 12.04 (.deb)" install option - you need to add the playdeb repository to your sources list for the big "install this now" button to actually work.
Either install this package: http://archive.getdeb.net/install_deb/playdeb_0.3-1~getdeb1_...
Or otherwise add the repository to your apt sources:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playdeb.list
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb games
I'm a little surprised they didn't mention that on the page.
Re: Warsow 1.0 Released
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the user base like in these games? I feel like every FOSS FPS I've ever played, besides UrbanTerror, has few to no players.
Relatively small but there's been around 4000-6000 unique players per day since the launch of 1.0.
I don't think that's small - OpenArena has enough players for me, that's probably less than 4000-6000 a week. It's actually kind of nice to know some people on every server you go. And being anonymous is easy, just rename to unnamedplayer or some random name (the default name).
Re: Warsow 1.0 Released
#20We play a lot of openarena at lunch (private server in the office). We're just trying this out now. First impressions are that the install and configuration steps are really smooth - something often omitted in these kind of projects. It's also fun. Might be that we switch our gaming from openarena to warsow...
Or play both whenever you feel like it :)