This maps is large enough to be played with up to four players, but plays really nicely as a duel map.

Final Rage This is the old Nexuiz 2 version of a map which remains a popular Xonotic duel map. Open source, and it has been included with Nexuiz since version 1. I have already been running lots of benchmarks of Xonotic 0.8.5 and you can begin seeing Xonotic 0.8.5 GPU benchmarks via the test profile page. Not widely played in Xonotic, but an excellent Nexuiz map. There doesn't appear to be any major renderer work (nor Vulkan mentions.) with this release but still Xonotic continues looking among the best open-source games.ĭownloads and to learn more about Xonotic 0.8.5 as one of the best open-source, cross-platform FPS games via. The DarkPlaces engine has seen significant performance improvements, a Quake Live style mouse acceleration mode is introduced, and various fixes. All this work brings new/updated maps, gameplay enhancements, new sound effects, better bots, a new HUD, more translations, and a range of other enhancements.Īmong the in-game enhancements has been better balancing, a new 'duel' game type, much better bots, new weapon models, and more. Over the past five years there have been thousands of commits between the Xonotic game itself and the DarkPlaces engine work. Oilrig : A revived map from the older origins of our project, providing great visuals and deathmatch gameplay that will really shine through with the. This does not include Nexuiz maps since there is already a pk3 of those, but I might add a curated set of them in the future. SilentSiege : A medium size duel map made by Justin with stormkeep-like gameplay. xonotic, quake I thought Id lazily throw together a pk3 of most of the previous Xonotic Duel Cup maps (the ones that have waypoints) and discontinued official maps. Xonotic 0.8.5 is the successor to Xonotic 0.8.2, released all the way back in 2017. Fuse: A stunning new duel map by cityy which captures the aspects of Xonotic movement and game design perfectly. Xonotic as a reminder is built atop the DarkPlaces engine, which is derived from the original Quake engine but has seen significant modifications over the past 20+ years. Xonotic 0.8.5 is the new version released and it continues to further enhance this open-source game. Thankfully a new version of Xonotic was published this week and while it's just a point release, it does come with many improvements. It's sadly been years since having anything major to report on for Xonotic, the open-source first person shooter game that started out many years ago as Nexuiz.