Xonotic 0.8.6 is an essential upgrade for anyone playing this classic free and open source arena shooter, due to a security issue but there's also plenty of new features and additions.
If you've never played it Xonotic is an arena-style first person shooter, with fast-paced movement and gameplay plus a wide array of weapons. It's completely free and has full Native Linux support. Developed as a fork of a previous game called Nexuiz.
The new release brings in two new official maps, a few tweaks to existing maps, performance optimizations, lots of bug fixes (and security fixes), a new "superbots" AI that are really tough to fight against, new moderation systems, upgrades to various visual effects and some new game modes that sound like a lot of fun.
New game modes include:
- Mayhem - Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch where players spawn with all weapons and full health / armour. Score is given 75% based on damage and 25% based on frags.
- Survival - A few randomly selected players must frag all survivors, without being identified.
- Team Keepaway - A team variant of the free for all, where points are awarded to the team in possession of a ball for each kill.
Full release notes here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
ssj17vegeta Jun 22, 2023
Every time you killed someone in Nexiuz deathmatch, the game would say something like "one frag", "two frags", etc. My daughters, who were toddlers at the time, didn't understand the word "frag", so they would run to their mother yelling "Moooommmm! Baba is shooting Franks again!" To this day, my wife calls my gaming time "shooting Franks"!
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