I think this is a cool idea. I may be able to host. Perhaps a voice chat server of some kind as well?

Nice of you to consider hosting. I take it you mean a dedicated server vs an ad-hoc one that one of us sets our own playing machine up as?

clueless1 wrote:

Nice of you to consider hosting. I take it you mean a dedicated server vs an ad-hoc one that one of us sets our own playing machine up as?

I work for a Cloud and Managed Hosting company. I have a demo account for limited personal use so I can spin up a virtual machine to run it. This is obviously assume we get enough interest.

FWIW it doesn't work on Windows 95 due to a D3D9.DLL dependency (for an OpenGL game).

also i quit playing it when it was nexuiz in 2008 because some of the clan members on the team were jerks and their changes still apply to xonotic

How and why does it have a D3D9 dependency?

leileilol wrote:

FWIW it doesn't work on Windows 95 due to a D3D9.DLL dependency (for an OpenGL game).

also i quit playing it when it was nexuiz in 2008 because some of the clan members on the team were jerks and their changes still apply to xonotic

I would hope those changes would have no effect on a handful of Vogons members playing privately with one another. FWIW, I'd be playing on my XP machine.

Bringing up possible theft of SoundIdeas material allegedly hospitalized one of them (from the stress) causing me to get banned, since clan influence trumps contributor concerns about freedom. 🙄

DracoNihil wrote:

How and why does it have a D3D9 dependency?

A D3D9 renderer backend is present but isn't default. I'm sure a little LoadLibrary magic could fix this. It fixed my formerly-XP-requiring game to work on Windows 95 after all 😀

leileilol wrote:

Bringing up possible theft of SoundIdeas material allegedly hospitalized one of them (from the stress) causing me to get banned, since clan influence trumps contributor concerns about freedom. 🙄

I could see why you'd have mixed feelings about playing. Well, if it ends up working out, your gameplay experience would be pretty valuable. 😀 I'm an utter amateur on this game, but it would be fun to get my butt kicked by the good folks on here.

leileilol wrote:

A D3D9 renderer backend is present but isn't default.

Oh okay. D3D on a Quake Engine 1 deal sounds wrong to me, though doesn't Xonotic uses DarkPlaces? I didn't think DarkPlaces had a D3D backend I thought it was OpenGL and SoftRast only.

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Count me in. 😉

It looks like a few people have interest. That hardly seems enough for you to spin up a dedicated server, Rhuwyn. If interest doesn't grow, I might try next Saturday to just spin one up within my game, then post in this thread that "it's up" along with its name and see if anyone shows up. If not, we could at least say we tried. 😀

I tried it (for the first time in 8 years), they really haven't changed much from Nexuiz 2.6.2 and the "lesbian porn" player sounds/voice makes me sad, and some new soundideas infractions are taking place now which makes me sadder. And there seems to be a mandatory stats system that's default on (have to go into multiplayer->profile to opt-out) so that's totally not suspicious at all

i'm out of this one. 🙁

leileilol, do you have any other suggestions that would be free/open source, easy to get up and going, and flexible enough to run on low end and high end systems? It doesn't even have to be a FPS (though that seems to be an obvious genre for ease of participating).

That's hard to say since it would cross the line of self-promotion (which is not a line I intend to cross) and there's not really a lot of open source games out there that are even system flexible due to the interest of having the latest of libraries supported for the latest of Debians and the cleanest of codes

I mean, Sauerbraten isn't that much better (still suffers the hollow Cube-ish look and feel despite technology). Warsow just died (And only has niche competitive appeal). Alien Arena bundles sponsored adware (intentionally - not a Sourceforgeism). OpenArena is slow and weird looking. Freedoom(+odamex) is too SSG reliant. Transfusion hasn't updated in a decade

PeterLI wrote:

Looks weird. No offense. 😀

I installed it, logged on, and was killed by a pony. A pink pony. I think I'll give this one a miss.

Errius wrote:

PeterLI wrote:

Looks weird. No offense. 😀

I installed it, logged on, and was killed by a pony. A pink pony. I think I'll give this one a miss.

Huh? I've never seen a pink pony. 😳 Are we talking about the same game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkqk6OB1pKc

Yes, a pony. It was armed. I think it was angry. It was definitely pink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEu1YnEAdk

WARNING: The above link is a MLP video. This is a warning so you don't get your YT suggestions/recommendations cluttered with unneccessary forced meme videos