techknow Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Just a suggestion that for the next LAN party, could we play an open source game instead of something like CSS which is windows only? Its just that not all of us run a windows gaming machine which we can use for the LAN parties and there are plenty of good open source games to chose from such as True Combat Elite, Cube, Tremulous. I'd love to join the gaming fun and I'm sure others are in the same position as I am. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison_UK Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Unreal Torn runs in nix, so will Quake 3, Tribes also or you could just run Wine like everyone else or Cedega ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenzer Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I would also suggest Warsow as a game which could be played - open source too: http://www.warsow.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I recommend UrbanTerror, a first-class first-person-shooter on the Quake3 engine, kind of open source counter strike with Bomb Mode, CTF, FFA, Teams, free weapon choice. There're plenty of servers with great people on it. Edit: UrbanTerror is for Linux, Macs and Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techknow Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 all great suggestions, it would be nice if this idea became reality. I've tried wine but its just a bit messy for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I love Warsow, I played it a bit last year and its solid. I'll see what we can do about making the next game FOSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snubs Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 LiteBikes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory ftw. The precursor to the Quake themed enemy territory (set in WW2). Just as epic. It's main problem: It's open source Because of it's popularity and it's open source, many servers run modded versions of the game (that your client will happily download and run) that are basically trojans, some even go as far as turning the game in to advertising tool. Open source is cool, a wild west "run any C code you want on your clients" is epic fail. The best (and only) mod that should be used is the ETpro mod, makes the game far more playable. It's, essentially, worse than IE. The only defence against these servers is to install the mods you want manually (ETpro) and turn off automatic download of mods in your client. The result been you can't play on many servers because they have have mods installed that aren't malicious but your client can't tell the difference, the few spoil it for the many. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uda Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 If you don't trust the game, or the content it might pull, don't run with Administrator or root privileges, and run the game in a sandbox if you're that worried. As for some good FOSS games, I'd vote Nexuiz or OpenArena, but I'm not a PC gamer, so I'm unlikely to be taking part in any case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanz Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I suggest Teeworlds, it's a ton of fun and it runs on just about anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenzer Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I love Warsow, I played it a bit last year and its solid. I'll see what we can do about making the next game FOSS Let me know if you are going to need some European servers for Warsow, I can help you out in that matter ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitzy Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Unreal Torn runs in nix, so will Quake 3, Tribes also or you could just run Wine like everyone else or Cedega ;) Matt said he might put up a Q3 Team Arena server... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esqulax Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 nothing stopping you setting up an unofficial online get-together ;) HakPack Online :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walom Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 OpenAreana. Basically a clone of Quake III: Arena. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techknow Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 if there's enough interest then we might as well try to get some unofficial LAN party's going throughout the months and then have the official one every now and then. I'd be up for a bit of gaming with the hak5 community. anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanny14 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 I'd be down with anything Mac compatible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lestock Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 As you guys are posting recommendations, please post links to where we can find the dedicated server files, or find more info on the game. Thanks Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techknow Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 true combat elite can be found here http://www.truecombat.us/ as I understand it you just need to do a normal install and then run the server app instead of the client. urban terror - http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php warsow - http://www.warsow.net/?page=home nexuiz - http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/ Cube 2 - http://sauerbraten.org/ hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nxt471 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Maybe a bit noobish but I say BZFlag!!! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chA1nBull3t Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Soldat was some chaotic game I got into a while back. Think of CS2D + Worms/Liero + The fast pace action of UT. Pics don't do justice. You'll have to play it to enjoy it. Great for those with low end rigs too: http://www.soldat.pl/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
middy Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Soldat was some chaotic game I got into a while back. Think of CS2D + Worms/Liero + The fast pace action of UT. Pics don't do justice. You'll have to play it to enjoy it. Great for those with low end rigs too: http://www.soldat.pl/ Very fun game, I get the itch to play that every once in a while. Just a note; it's free but it's not FOSS. However, it will work under WINE in Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Loach Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Some open source gaming suggestions for a LAN: Teeworlds: Open source, cross-platform, Soldat-like game OpenArena Warsow Nexuiz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakb0ne Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Cube. http://cubeengine.com/ The game is basically quake I/II. Might as well be anyway. Nexuiz. http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/ Currently what I am playing now. It's an online FPS, again, a lot like quake. Fast servers, not very much lag, graphics aren't Crysis, but they do. OpenArena. http://www.openarena.ws/ Basically the same as Nexuiz, less graphically stunning however. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. (ET) http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1041/news.php More for the graphically inclined. Urban Terror. http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php Think of it as an expansion to Enemy Territory, or not. Americas Army. http://www.americasarmy.com/ Nice Army sim. Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/ This is pretty addicting, MMORPG, great gameplay. Tremulous http://tremulous.net/ From what I see It looks pretty sick. I read some on the wiki, and apparently it is a fairly large, growing FPS. I haven't played this yet, but it looks interesting. True Combat: Elite http://www.tcelite.net/ Soldiers of Fortune clone...ish. Assault Cube http://assault.cubers.net/ Pretty Run N Gun. Sauerbraten http://sauerbraten.org/ This is my personal favorite. Good graphics, fast server, good weapons, it just all around makes a nice FOSS game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 SAUERBRATEN SAUERBRATEN!!! OHH OHH PLZ lets do sauerbraten!!! I pwn @ [instagib/ctf] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eviltechie Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Urban terror or Enemy Territory. Preferably Urban Terror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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