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A long time coming for sure, the free and open source racer SuperTuxKart has a big 1.0 release with LAN and online play enabled.

The game has a few different modes available including a normal race, time trial, soccer mode, battle mode and the newer Capture-The-Flag mode all of which can be played online.

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They're not done yet though of course, they said it themselves that isn't not perfect and there are "improvements to be done, features to be added, and gameplay to be improved" but it's a massive step forward.

You can see their official release post here and find the downloads here.

Personally, I'm impressed it has come as far as it has recently and it's probably the best free Mario Kart clone to be found. It's actually pretty fun too, a good game to chill out with. Now this huge addition with networking is out of the way, it will be very interesting to see what they move onto doing next.

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Avehicle7887 Apr 22, 2019
Yesterday got hooked to this game, its crazy fun in multiplayer, soccer mode is my fav gametype so far. :-)
AsciiWolf Apr 22, 2019
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dpanter Apr 22, 2019
Quoting: PatolaSoccer mode? Is that something like a poor man's Rocket League?
Hoo boy that video is 3 years old, really shows how much this game has improved!
Purple Library Guy Apr 22, 2019
Quoting: PatolaSoccer mode? Is that something like a poor man's Rocket League?
Quite literally I suppose, since in addition to being Free, it's gratis.
Arthur Apr 22, 2019
Work on the soccer mode was started in 2012, before Rocket League.

Now if you want the Rocket League experience, play Rocket League, I do so as well. Same with Mario Kart, if you want Mario Kart, get Mario Kart.
Segata Sanshiro Apr 22, 2019
Are they still putting this on Steam? I remember that was the intention.
orochi_kyo Apr 22, 2019
Wow, downloading. Funny thing how Soccer mode were done much before than Rocket League were released.


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sudo pacman -S supertuxkart
Packages (1) supertuxkart-0.9.3-1


Aww, it's not in the Arch repo yet. I'll install it soon.
Sundragon Apr 23, 2019
Quoting: 14sudo pacman -S supertuxkart
Packages (1) supertuxkart-0.9.3-1


Aww, it's not in the Arch repo yet. I'll install it soon.
You can install it with Lutris, I recommend that. :)
Beamboom Apr 23, 2019
How odd that they didn't include ingame sound effects during the gameplay footage? It just looks so much more dull without audio effects...
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