Are there any good old-school first person shooter games still active? Halo Infinite is fun but Microsoft’s crap is frustrating. I miss Wolfenstein Enemy Territory from back in the day. Halo Custom Edition was awesome, too.
Edit: thank you for the recommendations, everyone. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Damn, your definition of old-school is very different from mine.
My go-to free old-school shooter is Freedoom. Completely free assets for the open source Doom engine form a completely free and open source game. They are currently working on giving Quake the same treatment.
Slightly newer are the Unreal games which can be downloaded for free from https://oldunreal.com/ with the blessings of Epic. I think technically you would also be allowed to get UT3 but nobody wants that.
I have been and will always be a fan of Splitgate. Even if you don’t like the portal gameplay, the movement and gunplay is absolutely solid.
There’s quite a few old-school shooters that are open-source, for example:
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https://xonotic.org/ is a Quake-like arena shooter.
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https://unvanquished.net/ is an asymmetric arena shooter (humans vs. aliens) with RTS elements.
Hell yeah
Holy shit is Unvanquished a remake of the old Tremulous game? I used to love it. It has now been kept updated on github
Xonotic is an utterly blissful experience, just playing it, but the skillcap is so high everyone deletes me! How do I get into it?!
Ah yeah, that’s tricky. I’m not actually deep into it myself. Maybe you can find a group to play with, like friends, colleagues etc.?
The friends I know who want to play games are actually quite experienced with these “boomer shooters” apparently, so they delete me but also get deleted. Maybe the parkour maps can help. Or we can put one up on here?
Is Urban Terror still up and running? I haven’t heard that mentioned for awhile.
Not sure, I’ve heard of it before myself, but if this is the webpage, then some dev log was posted 18 days ago, so I imagine, there’s also still players. 🙃
I used to play it often on Linux but that was probably 8 years ago or more. It was kind of like counter strike. I was asking because it was proprietary and I didnt know if people recommended playing it anymore. It is free to play.
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What you want is Selaco.
Edit: Whoops, I missed the word “free.” I was focusing on “old-school.”
No one lives forever
@burgermeister … is team fortress 2 modern? probably not…is it free? is it super fun? ye.
I downloaded the new TF2 Classified, it’s alright
Enemy Territory is still around in the form of ET: Legacy. Not sure how active it is but maybe you could find some willing players on here.
