Sauerbraten rated worst Open Source FPS?

by SanHolo on 12/30/2007 22:54, 132 messages, last message: 11/25/2017 23:24, 93819 views, last view: 12/09/2021 06:26, closed on 11/25/2017 23:38

There's an article over at Slashdot that links a report of linux-gamers.net which compared 7 open source shooters. Since the site is slashdotted ATM, all I can get from /. is the ranking: (best to worst) Warsow, Tremulous, World of Padman, Nexuiz, Alien Arena, OpenArena, and Sauerbraten.

I hope the site will be back online soon to see their arguments... :P

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#127: wsw #1

by xlr8or on 03/04/2008 23:19

warsow has the most entertaining movement possibilities, you'll need to learn them to know why its #1.

Its the funniest and most rewarding game of the set.

Make a Sauerbraten mod featuring the www.promode.org's CPM gameplay and you'll definately be #1 for all the people at www.esreality.com

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#128: ..

by Hirato Kirata on 03/04/2008 23:51

my ratings will place sauerbraten first, mostly due to eihrul's excellent enet library which alows you to play fair with anyone regardless of ping. And let's not be so blunt and forget the so easy to use map editor.

My experience with all the other games weren't great at all, due to the fact that absolutely all the servers with any players on them had 300+ pings, which meant I was practically a sitting duck as no one ever bothered to program in an adequate form of 'anti-lag'. yes I know nexuiz has an antilag svar, but it pretty much does nothing from past experience with it. Open arena has a few mods with it, (though I've only seen one). About the rest I don't know, as the lag made it quite unappealing to actually bother finding out.

I'm pretty sure my opinion speaks for more than just myself.

~Hirato Kirata

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#129: Re: ..

by MovingTarget on 03/05/2008 01:29, refers to #128

Ummm... you must have tried to find servers on a BAD day, 'cuz I just looked, and on Warsow, 23 servers with people in them under 300 ping (and 8 of them were under 100), and in Nexuiz, 20.

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#130: Re: ..

by Passa on 03/05/2008 12:04, refers to #128

I feel the same was as Hirato, Sauerbraten's netcode makes it instant win, no more raging about lag when you get killed :) (Sauerbraten just lacks the presentation and polish of some of those other 'free' FPS games)

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#131: Re: ents

by Q009 on 03/05/2008 12:49, refers to #125

Thats a good idea! It's the way to CTF...

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#132: That List is Shit asf

by FiRESKiLL903 on 11/25/2017 23:24

That list is really good cause all of these games (or atleast OpenArena) have a certain similiarity to Sauer. Im looking forward to check the remaining ones out..

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