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Modern free FPS recommendations? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by burgermeister@sh.itjust.works to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There's quite a few old-school shooters that are open-source, for example:

https://xonotic.org/ is a Quake-like arena shooter.
https://unvanquished.net/ is an asymmetric arena shooter (humans vs. aliens) with RTS elements.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy shit is Unvanquished a remake of the old Tremulous game? I used to love it. It has now been kept updated on github

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Wikipedia calls it a "spiritual successor" to Tremulous. 😅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unvanquished_(video_game)

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is Urban Terror still up and running? I haven't heard that mentioned for awhile.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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. 🙃

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] burgermeister@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah

[–] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xonotic is an utterly blissful experience, just playing it, but the skillcap is so high everyone deletes me! How do I get into it?!

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.?

[–] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

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?