A compare-and-contrast with Xonotic would be nice, if anyone has played both. I've played Xonotic, but not Alien Arena. Xonotic gave me nausea, so I had to stop. It also has a description similar to the OP.
You can visit http://red.planetarena.org and http://xonotic.org and get a good idea of the differences/similarities. They are pretty similar overall, Alien Arena is prettier IMO.
I know I get motion-sick when gaming on a widescreen with 90 FOV (which is usually the default for these types of games.) If you have a widescreen, try setting the FOV to 120 or 130.
At least the windows version comes with an installer and not source code which doesn't compile on major linux distros. I'll be sticking with quake live, thanks.
Doesn't this tool come packed with a spyware toolbar?
I heard someone say that, I downloaded my copy from download.com and while I had a choice to install something else, I unchecked them and it didn't install anything but the game.
I'm pretty sure the people that got "spyware" probably user errored it on their system.
The game? meh.
Quake type games were fun back in the 90's, but I'm older now and need something more sophisticated.
Wait - I have to build it myself? Seriously? No wonder I've never met anyone who has played this. I tried building it, and it required me to install libjpeg, libcurl, ogg, vorbis, vorbisfile, freetype 2, etc. Sorry, I wanted to waste time playing a game, not building it. It's like doing work, but less fun.
I went on the site, even the ModDB page, through the forums they've got, too! What are the system requirements for this game? I understand it's based on id Tech 2/3, but that doesn't matter, being that they've added a bunch of new, modern, fun stuff!
Anyone?
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Quake Ancestry? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Compare to Xonotic? (Score:1)
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You can visit http://red.planetarena.org and http://xonotic.org and get a good idea of the differences/similarities. They are pretty similar overall, Alien Arena is prettier IMO.
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I know I get motion-sick when gaming on a widescreen with 90 FOV (which is usually the default for these types of games.) If you have a widescreen, try setting the FOV to 120 or 130.
Spyware abounds (Score:3)
Doesn't this tool come packed with a spyware toolbar?
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The Windows installer offered to install a toolbar. I declined.
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At least the windows version comes with an installer and not source code which doesn't compile on major linux distros. I'll be sticking with quake live, thanks.
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Doesn't this tool come packed with a spyware toolbar?
I heard someone say that, I downloaded my copy from download.com and while I had a choice to install something else, I unchecked them and it didn't install anything but the game.
I'm pretty sure the people that got "spyware" probably user errored it on their system.
The game? meh.
Quake type games were fun back in the 90's, but I'm older now and need something more sophisticated.
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Wait - I have to build it myself? Seriously? No wonder I've never met anyone who has played this. I tried building it, and it required me to install libjpeg, libcurl, ogg, vorbis, vorbisfile, freetype 2, etc. Sorry, I wanted to waste time playing a game, not building it. It's like doing work, but less fun.
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It's open source. Any decent operating system will have a package in its repository.
Cow herding mode? (Score:2)
So uh, what's the requirements? (Score:1)
I went on the site, even the ModDB page, through the forums they've got, too! What are the system requirements for this game? I understand it's based on id Tech 2/3, but that doesn't matter, being that they've added a bunch of new, modern, fun stuff!
Anyone?