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submitted 11 months ago by uis@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

Based on quake engine, now it has all the bells and whistles of modern graphics.

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[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a great game, if you like fast-paced arena shooters.

The performance is great and it's really fun to master the movement and get real fast and jump high.

I've played quite a bit on LAN with one to 5 people. Especially instagib with grappling hook is great fun.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

About performance: I got it running 20 fps on old SBC Rock64 in OpenGL mode and was GPU-bound. Well, Mali-400 is not a gaming GPU and ARM blob drivers don't even support OGL, only GLES.

On i5-2xxx it runs on about 110-120 fps with 30% of one CPU core load(GPU-bound again) in X11 and ~90 in kwin_wayland.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I didn't like how you had to pick up weapons from the map in the normal modes when I played on a LAN but instagib mode was hella fun. Fragging three people while bunny-hopping into the flag room and fragging two more on the way out is something you just have to experience.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's hella fun.

Xonotic has quite a bit of config options, e.g. it's possible to spawn with all weapons. But mastering those is a learning curve, compared to the more approachable instagib.

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It’s kind of weird how picking up weapons on the map is a thing that kind of died out with arena shooters. I guess you probably didn’t grow up with those kinds of games?

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Nope, way too young for that. The most boomery shooter I ever played before that is probably Tribes Ascend.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Don't you have all the weapoms on Clan Arena from the start?

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

The mode we played didn't. I'm sure there are ways to configure this.

[-] RTRedreovic@feddit.ch 5 points 11 months ago

Ah, this game. I love to pull it out whenever I am feeling bored and dried out by my other games. It's an amazing and low resource intensive game. So to say, I like to zip across the map at subsonic speeds more than actually playing it haha. But I still get the sniper rifle whilst doing that and practice some sick ferrari headshots.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 11 months ago

Game feels great. I just wish the people I knew who also played weren't across the pond so I could actually get a kill once in a while (being the odd man out, if we play together my ping is 300-500ms).

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 11 months ago

USA. But now I see how the Aussies feel when there are a lack of servers in their area.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You have ~~SPLYAT~~ I mean SPLAT to play with. But he usually plays on other side of the pond server(Feris) with 120ms ping. Also he is usually in Relax discord server with Xord and Allotropy.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Played it will my old Unreal2k4k team, was great to relive the old days of gameplay discovery.

[-] pearsche@lemdro.id 4 points 11 months ago

It's pretty good, and looks even better. Easy to pick up, and hard to master, but very fun.

this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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