[Wolves] Online multiplayer Game

Kris Douglas krisdouglas at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 01:28:58 UTC 2013


Cube w/Sauerbraten is a good UT clone, as is Alien Arena.

There's also an open source counter strike clone, I think its called Urban
Terror. That's really pretty good.

For something different Armagetron is always a laugh.

Kris Douglas MBCS
On 9 Sep 2013 23:39, "Adam Sweet" <adam at adamsweet.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> 2 LUG meetings ago I mentioned organising an online multi-player first
> person shooter game. A few people were interested, enough to make it
> worth taking further and if we play on the net a few times, perhaps we
> could organise a LAN gaming day sometime.
>
> The first decision is what to play, it's probably 5 years since I paid
> any attention to (Open Source) 3D multiplayer game s so my list is
> probably a bit off the pace. In any case, as best as my memory serves,
> options include:
>
> Open Source:
>
> * Open Arena
> * Alien Arena
> * Tremulous
> * Others?
>
> Closed source but free:
>
> * Wolf ET (very good, used to require simple audio hack on Linux, no
> idea if it works with Pulse audio... Lots of good third party maps
> available)
>
> Proprietary:
>
> * Quake III Arena (works on Linux but requires CD)
> * Unreal Tournament (my all-time favourite LAN game, requires CD)
> * Return to Castle Wolfenstein (as with Wolf ET and Quake3/UT but
> awesome game)
> * Quake Live (online hosted browser version of Quake III Arena - works
> in Firefox on Linux)
>
> Proprietary through Steam:
>
> * Team Fortress 2 (never played)
> * Counter Strike (honestly never played)
> * Left 4 Dead 2
> * Various Half Life games (no idea if any of them are online multiplayer)
> * Various others
>
> For the purposes of playing a great game, I don't really care whether
> it's open source or not but I suppose it's better that more people can
> play. The chances are that the old proprietary Quake 3/Unreal Tournament
> engine games will be harder to get working due to audio stack changes
> and the fact that most of us run 64 bit these days.
>
> Amo, having a fat internet pipe, is prepared to host the server unless
> somebody else is able to offer a colo server.
>
> If you want to join in, feel free to vote for a game above or suggest
> another. I guess it's obvious that a decent Nvidia or ATI graphics card
> with 3D drivers will be required. Newer Intel graphics might be also
> playable.
>
> As for a night, I was thinking perhaps the non-LUG wednesday, as most
> people will have something arranged for the same nigh each week, with
> the non-LUG Weds being the odd night out.
>
> Thoughts? Games?
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam Sweet
>
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>
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