the gfx are so-so, I mean I dont like Tron-like gfx (i know they dont make the game, still) and its too complicated.

I like it. Alot actually. Don't play it because of lack of community.

The physics are awesome. The dash gives you tons of creative possibilites. I liked how the styles really contrasted there - some people flying around, others took the movement more straight forward, aggressive, defensive or sneaky - main point is that all seemed to work if done properly. Every weapon had it's best distance and if out of it the weapon got totally destroyed. The fast weaponswitch sucked tho but that is minor.

It is actually really fun to jump around because of autohop and it basically is really easy to get a complete noob getting decent speeds after 5 minutes. Autohop + bunnyhop + dash. You don't need to explain strafe and circlejump angles and stuff.

I liked how i could paint the map the color I wanted and make the cross and enemymodel contrast it.

Yeah, I like it but the most skilled players are in QL.

What he said... first week or two upon 1.0 release was fun, decent duel activity and a fair few skilled Quakers to play, David, Purri and a few others including yourself rehepapp aka Stanley.

Then it died out again, back to how it used to be.

Dunno why it died so quickly. :|

Quake is miles better, has 1000x the players, lans and online tournaments every day, and quake dueling actually involves thinking. Also in quake people actually play mods with items instead of instagib and ca, like I posted the other day (0 warsow players on duel/ffa/tdm/ctf/etc. at peak hours globally).

Average warsow player: 16 years old russian, high school teacher.
Average quake player: phd.

If you're 16 and an educated and competant high school teacher ... that's more than equivalent to a PhD

(0 warsow players on duel/ffa/tdm/ctf/etc. at peak hours globally)

Actually, the only game mode I have played in the past few days is FFA, besides one CA match. Alas, no CTF or Duel. :(

Then again I suppose in NA it is a different story (I'll see how it is when I go back to the States in mid-December).

Also, why do you say Warsow doesn't require nearly as much thought as Quake? I don't have as much experience as most people on these boards, which is why I ask.

Could write an essay and all but non existing positioning and randomness are a very compelling argument, both caused by the game being way too amateur made and not thought and coherent decisions (after lets say 8 years they can't still decide what to do with weapons, respawns, timing and walljumping. That's absurd).

Also both are solid reasons why their "top duel players" are worthless in quake, and as we know "quakers" dominate every single fast paced fps game ever released (including warsow, voo) until the next thing comes and they roflstomp there once again.
edit: Just checked the warsow forum for the lulz and there's a thread about this. The OP says he simply can't play QL because all players even the worst ones are way too good for him so he left to warsow and xonotic rofl.

As for activity, I considered global stats because I know the NA/etc scenes that aren't Europe are completely dead.

Wanna start a new shit-storm and get humiliated again boy?

aren't you the 1200elo guy that talked shit? Long time no see, esr was getting boring.

Oh, now I'm 1200 ELO already, sweet to know. Only want to point out that your arguments are still shitty as hell, especially the one where you start comparing ELO.

ˇ"Could write an essay and all but non existing positioning and randomness are a very compelling argument"

Not really. This goes more with CPM than Warsow because of how the weapons work. They are harder to hit but on hit make high dmg which means you need good positioning to do dmg. +they kept the player movement acceleration the same as opposed to cpm where they made it harder to hit via speed and kept the weapons hit easy.

The weapon balance may feel funky, but I had more fun with the game than any Quake game before after I figuredd out how situation specific the weapons actually are.

I can't say how WsW could evolve with some proper competition, but I kinda feel that with right sized maps and motivated players it could evolve further than Quake.

And yes, the pros suck there because of no competition and you should play some duels past the 1.0 version.

my main concern is nonsensical +forward walljumping RL madness.

While the game has some potential, if somehow 4m people started playing it out of nowhere and could go back in time 10 years from now, It took the devs like 8 years to finally remove strong ammo and more or less balance weapons. There won't be 8 years more to remove walljumping as I heard crizis is retiring from the team (him or some other big name out of the hundreds of devs).

The walljump isn't that bad because it has a cooldown (should be even longer maybe) and while being hit you can't use it. I really like the concept that you can plan an attack with using the dash at a certain key moment - whole another element. And that rl madness can be countered if you're patient enough to learn the game. I always like to bring the fly analog where you are centre map and he is flying around and you just pick him up everywhere.

Anyways, I think they screwed up the marketing with the 1.0 release. If anything it should have been on steam at least and with proper match making at the very moment.

But ah whatever - could have would have. Lets wait for reborn.

I hear they are going to put it up on Steam Greenlight, dunno when though.

They reached their full potential anyway, as the 5 remaining players have been advertising warsow for years (reddit like 90 times, gog, several forums, universities, lans, cds, etc.) and 1.0 was promoted all over the interwebz.

This isn't a "could have would have" situation (like QL is): GoG and 1.0 confirm newcomers simply don't like warsow (reviews and players leaving immediately) and as we know we "quakers" don't like it enough as well, so no matter how much it is advertised as being better than free french fries it'll remain dead like it is regardless of steam and other efforts.

And the SM way of attracting players (hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes) shouldn't happen too because the man in charge does not believe in prize money.

edit: just to be on the safe side I checked both the server list and the master server, and like every single time there's absolutely no one in the world playing a mod with items rofl: the usual ca, instagib, race and bomb brave warsowians (in that order of players).

What reviews?

GOG.com has a 4/5 rating out of 50-something, I believe, and a recent reddit thread saw some fairly positive feedback.

EDIT: Still in shock people only seem to play bomb, iCA, and CA. What gives?

>4/5 rating out of 50-something

wat

Sorry, meant it has an overall rating of 4/5 stars, and there are about 50 reviews for it.

Quote the complete source. The only positive written reviews were made by existing players (as you can read from what they wrote), not people that just discovered the game, while the rest are awful.
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/warsow#reviews=1

Same goes for reddit and others. It's the same 5 players promoting, spamming and overhyping the game all over the place, and it's not me going all raythenoob on this because it's posted on the warsow forums that they are mental about this and have been doing the same at other times.
A funny one I remember is they were trying to put wsw in one famous french gaming site so they started spamming votes for months by changing IPs rofl. Actually if you take a look at who's creating warsow threads and posts here constantly it's no more than 5 users.

edit: checked the master server again for the lulz (not in-game this time). dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=warsow.
8 players in "race" (not a basewsw mod), 8 in wca1, 6/5/4 in different bipbeta2 ca servers and that's it (the others don't have more than 1 player in it). Can't they at least play bomb?

Found 3 negative reviews on GOG.com, two from obvious CoD/BF fanboys that would trash Quake the same way they did with W§W, the other one could have been you.

some of the non-biased reviews:

1. Nice try, but colored blobs doesn't work for me as much as putrid masses of gore.
And the game isnt that good either. BF3 or COD may be purchased titles, but slams this one into the curb and sits on it

2. I read this "this game is a bunny hoppers' paradise" and knew there was no way I would EVER play this game. lol

i feel the problem is more with the genre and lack of players.. otherwise QL (objectively a better game) would soar with casuals since it's basically free as well

wait so they removed the ammo system and added cooldown to wall jumps? what is this cpmsow? might as well play cpm????

(shouldn't post complaints because the warsow retards think bad publicity is better than no publicity, like anyone would try something being trashed).
But now that I did, most probably cpm has an infinite amount of players more than warsow and we know it is 10x better.

edit: omfg there's one duel going on. First time I see a match with items being played though it is 25 to -2 so far.
edit2: omfg it says "iduel". Does such a retarded thing exist?

Out of curiosity -- does CPM have a NA community at all?

no idea, lets ask the master server.

Thursday afternoon: no one lol. Plenty of russians though.

it does. altho its a little stale. however you can find ctf games almost every night at #uscpmpickup on qnet. sometimes we even get tdm games (if we are lucky).

theres also usually someone wanting to duel most evenings.

Would it be okay to give it a try even though I have never played CPMA?

it's never too late!

CPMA/cpm is awesome.

I think I recognize your name -- didn't you used to play Warsow quite a bit? What don't you like about it currently?

Yeah, i did play it, more than a bit :D

It's a good game actually, but well, i'm enjoying ql more these days. Can't really say why.

Opposite for me (probably because I'm just a bad gamer in general though).

Just finished downloading CPMA files, I'll give it a go when I have time!

cos ur a shaft whore?

And awesome, downloading the necessary CPMA files now. Even though I'm going to completely suck. HORRIBLY.

if uve played wsw cpm should be relatively easy to learn. just keep in mind that the cpm community is fairly polarized in terms of experience and skill level. theres relatively old school players who are all fairly good and then newer players who are just learning. so if u play duels u are likely to get raped in a few games.

I have no problems with getting raped.

PEDOBEAR RISES

It isn't rape if you are willing to do it.

People are generally cool to newbies these days. There's like 12 people left in NA that still play so they have to take what they can get. You might get a rager or two but whatever.

I hop on for a night every 6 months or so and get shit all over and nobody gets too annoyed with it.

basically, it's just slightly better version of it

that would be a no.

Have you even played warsow past 10 games?

yes i have. whats ur next point?

well, you know my point already. gamedesign and play wise warsow is an advancement over cpm.

adding more features doesnt necessarily make gameplay better.

not necessarily, but in this case it did. the pointless agro factor is much lower in wsw than it is in cpm. and it managed to keep the fights much more tactical and versatile.

pointless aggro? have u actually played cpm against good players? here i thought only vq3 players who've never played cpm (or wsw for that matter) used terms like that.

haha, i will probably beat you in all of the forementioned games. yes i have, fair amount to say that cpm is the least tactical of these 3.

..fight fight fight fight

im sorry i hadnt realized u were rat and rapha combined into one person.

do you often flatter yourself?

no i just recognize idiotic megalomaniacs when i see them.

because i think it takes rat to beat you in cpm? haha

tbh, i think i could beat you in all of these games even on american servers.

always up for a friendly challenge. altho u have to use "pointless aggro" to beat me in cpm or all ur points are invalid.

is ql tactical when you play noobs?

Yes, it is, strategical and tactical, if you want the highest kills per minute ratio. When you watch k1llsen play ztn or aero against noobs you will see a very clear presentation of it. It wont have much depth but it's there.

if it doesn't have much depth it becomes mechanical

There is a difference if you're just running around and raping or following a system/structure. As i told, it depends if you're going for max frags (for example) or not.

The depth comes in how your tactics are challenged. Against noobs you do not need to change anything and can milk the same concept. If you get really used to playing a certain way it doesn't mean that there aren't any tactics anymore, they are just onedimensional.

that sounds incredibly fun to me

how is this even relevant? you forgot your original question? for some it is, for other it's not. for me it isn't. who cares?

for me is the whole point of playing any of these games

kinda felt like it

i know cpm sucks from ql player's pov, it's obvious, but i 'grew' up my game in this mod so it's like I can't be fucked to play another one, there's no real reason why i would change, for example I don't stand a chance to be in the top, so fuck it cos I won't get to enjoy the going to lans and no traveling with good excuse.
If there was a bigger game inside this genre, at the scale of LoL and sc2, I'd be playing it for sure even if that one was the worst for me.

it's like quakish games provided so many different disciplines where anyone can chose among them but at the same time game-population spreads to whatever people prefer to play. Hippie world. We need a dictatorship to enforce all these hippies to do the same thing, making them blind of reality through capitalism and fame, while the older games die of hungriness & emigration.
Fuck I'm high.

That's called prize money (salaries, flights and others too), for top tier players.

I think that's where warsow failed massively quality wise. Every single aspect is way too amateur made therefore they don't know what they want in the game in first place (weapon balance and strong ammo are a prime example), then what's good and what's wrong.

Throwing every idea in is as retarded as removing them all: in warsow's case "more" actually makes it a lot simpler. Then there's the millions of little and major annoyances, the moments you facepalm and so on. In the end it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, like why I'm playing this instead of QL or cpm, which is one of the reasons warsow literally died the moment QL was released (the other one is it has 0 players). All quake clones are worse than what they try to copy.


And since I don't want to keep "upping" this silly game's threads the same 5 people keep creating, I'll reply to someone on the other thread here who said he had faith on warsow getting more players in the future.

It simply won't because the 5 brave ones have done every single thing possible to promote wsw in 8 years and counting yet it still has 0 players: gog, 1.0 promotion, spammed it all over the place, reddit, forums, posters at unis, cds, etc. etc. It's not like QL that always had and still has potential but it hasn't fulfilled because of not advertising but actually the opposite: people try warsow once and don't like it, particularly players of its same genre it rips off.

ah? it had it's idea, it didn't work, they changed it and as a result they got a better, more tacticall version of cpm.

just as you say that people didn't like it i can say most of the new people i met on warsow during the 1.0 wave said it's nice. from quakers to any other gamer. it's not that people don't like it, it's just people gave a no before they got to the differences between the games it derives from.

+ it's the community that it lacks - the same reason quakes are dying. how many active new players does cpm gain? the critical mass is not there and the game doesn't feel relevant enough. i bet, if you take a complete noob and introduce him to cpm and warsow, warsow will be looked as a better game, but he wont play either of them.

their marketing lacks focus. they needed a huge surge of new players and incentives for people to play it (kinda like QL had at first), but just like QL it was free for public already in a halfassed state, otherwise known as beta, and people dvindled away from it for various reasons. just as QL it wont have the same initial freshness factor ever again. my point is that neither of these games have potential anymore. reborn on the other hand.

Reborn will be good/awesome because there's knowledgeable people in charge, both as devs and as players. In warsow on the other hand...

I don't like comparing cpm with wsw because both share the same problems lol, but cpm stood the test of time better ("better" as in 50 players against 0, 50 more playing defrag with cpm physics and every quake player loving cpm frag/defrag movies yet not playing anyway).
QL is the better comparison because that's the direct cause of warsow's demise. There are threads on their forums about that.

I don't think QL's problem is the community or even the core game itself but its developer. 0 advertisement (which isn't the case with warsow as that's all over the place and failed anyway), destroyed their 2 opportunities to shine (network issues that didn't let people play because the absurd queues before joining quakelive.com. On the other hand in wsw the devs itself upload the servers), not enough use of q3 community-made content and 0 usage of the in-browser advantages to this day, decent matchmaking and other features every current game has, the little yet big things like the server browser showing half the servers with the default settings, etc.

Even when being severely limited by id software, the community has done so much anyway but all that is invisible to regular players because it's not on the website. Lots of great tutorials (2gd's are the best for beginners), scripts and utilities (greasemonkey, spawns, huds, configs), lans and online tournaments, streams, qlranks, etc. etc. and esr itself.
If id software just let the community get in charge for 2 seconds they would have twice the active players and the game would be 5x better...like all their prior games (vanilla q1, q2, q3, q4 multiplayer were all mediocre at their release); but then again that's nothing against QL's wasted potential (QL was bigger than LoL at some point and I think with the correct decisions it could be right now the most active fps game, but they fucked up massively) so this genre now relies on 2gd working on the game instead of drinking vodka (ohshit), which in the end is the same as the community stepping up once again.

edit: and on reborn, why isn't there an indiegogo fundraiser yet. If it has decent rewards (like the purepwnage movie) I'd give them $500 if not more.

cpm is a mediocre game, but if people still play it, that's because of physics, they allow players to do sick stuff...

i kinda agree with u that the genre relies on 2gd and his reborn stuff, but i dont wanna make myself false hopes cos there are a lot of formulas out there and all of them are dead... hope he's right about the model on esports and all that shit, gameplay is gonna be something not really far from quake i assume

There is no scene at all for this game in NA last time I checked. The only active servers I could find at the time were race servers. Every once in a while maybe a CA game would pop up. I think I idled an empty duel server for about 30 minutes and never got an opponent.

I'm old and casual these days, if I have to get on IRC and find somebody to play with I'm just going to go play something else instead.

cartoon pig in a tron movie, no community

I love warsow and play it with my gf from time to time. Small communities makes me happy ("everyone knows everyone") but warsow's is a bit too small :/

When I want to play warsow I have to play the gamemode that the only active server is playing. Some hours only CA is active and then I can't play FFA. Duel in warsow takes too long before, or even if, you find a player who you enjoy playing with.

In the long run, warsow is casual (short term fun) and I enjoy FFA the most. Compared to Quake, there is no competition (long term fun) in warsow at all.

"I love warsow and play it with my gf from time to time."

That is why...

Well he has one, what do you have? Your sheep?

m0zart here... accidentally logged into my alt account to post this thread. Da fuck.

I, too, love small communities where everyone knows everyone.

One thing I really hate is:

Duel in warsow takes too long before, or even if, you find a player who you enjoy playing with.

Which goes back to the problems with the game's low population.

Just a question though, why do you say that Warsow is only short-term fun whereas Quake is endless/longterm?

I'm not a super great Quake player (started with QL), so I'm curious as to why you think this.

There is competition in Quake. You feel good when you notice how you improve. Warsow, to me, lacks that feeling. That could be due to the small community. You basically have nobody to compete against.

To me, Quake is more like a lifestyle, a hobby, than a game. Warsow is "just a (really fun and great) game" that you can play when you want to kill some time.

why should i play warsow? no community, especially no tdm and ca turned into something i really don't want to play.

Did someone say bomb?

bomb...shell?

yea, i like me some tdm or ctf and would maybe move to ca when forced to :) if a game can't give me that, it's not for me. i can't live on duels alone and other team based gametypes never held my interest for long.

bomb and insta are the only(populated) team-based gametypes - unless something changed in the past few months.

I wonder how TDM in warsow would turn out :l

CTF is pretty active, if you are willing to play pickups. CA never was dead really but the gametype is broken because of maps. TDM, hmm there is some 2vs2 here and there but not much more than that.

I get about 20 fps in Warsow compared to the average 90-100 of QL.

Tried some of the optimized configs out there?

I went through the graphic options in the UI and set everything to the lowest possible (apart from the resolution). Anyway, even if there was some magical config, what could I hope for? 40 fps at best? No, thanks. I'll keep playing QL.

Out of curiosity, what are your specs?

I get constant 125FPS on 8600M GT Nvidia graphics, 4GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo T3400 @ 2.16GHz
RAM : 4 GB DDR2
GPU : Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (integrated chipset; not a dedicated card)

(It's a Toshiba satellite l300-07p)

rofl, i got [email protected] ghz, 1 gb shit ram, nvidia 5200fx, 120 fps any map with 120hz crt. oldschool ownage, ya multi core naps

His problem is not the CPU but the GFX-Card.

oh ye my 5200fx totally kicks ass *raising left eyebrow*

My comment was directed towards your: "ya multi core naps", not your setup in particular. I actually didn't really read trough your setup.

Compared with onboard intel video, yes.

dual core+intel integrated>p4+5200fx

GPU : Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (integrated chipset; not a dedicated card)

ROFL

I've managed 125FPS on AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1,5 GB DDR1 RAM and GeForce 7300GS so you should be able to get some decent fps-rate too, but if it's really that bad you probably will have to continue playing QL.

Try my FPS config -> http://www.warsow.net/forum/thread/15154/1

I grew up with Quake. I'll always stay with Quake.

This is what I was expecting.

Maybe there're good reasons behind plain loyalty.

I like too. I have played it when it was still in beta... I know lot of changed.. If we didn't have quake, for sure I would play it. Or we had weekend cups and 2-4 lan events in a year.

Love the art style, it's my favourite of any game. The new account registration stuff is great, it's deathmatch gaming, wall-jumps are cool too.

Hate the quick switch weapons, and how fast paced the game is personally. The sounds don't feel like they have any 'umpf' for me, small community, no competition (I originally started playing Assault Cube and Sauerbraten, somehow Warsow is smaller).

Wish the game was more popular.

I currently play Sauerbraten (coming from Quake, I'm already in the top 10% of the community after playing only 1/5 of the time of most other people), I still can't believe Warsow's community is smaller, it's a much better game.

Because it's a CPM-ripoff and has annoying GFX.

I don't play warsow anymore only because there is quakelive.

Warsow is actually a very good game but some things are annoying me.

And quakelive with the many updates it had is now a very balanced game, with almost everything you need for competition.

i think people play quake because overall its a better game.

i've played warsow alot over a big time period and this is the conclusion that i came to.

warsow's big innovation was the dash+wj which as you can deduce from the comments around here, is a really gratifying addition, its the reason most people still play i think - its also quite clear from the popular gametypes (instaCA, CA and Race) that this is what keeps people coming back.

the rest is basically quake3 though, and whilst the movement is brilliant fun, fitting it into the more classic quake gametypes and map design philosophy is a bit like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole - the simple fact is that in these respects the movement creates some gameplay issues that most dont feel have a place in a 'competitive' game - the response to this has almost invariably been to tone down or remove movement abilities in certain scenarios (such as when having taken damage you can no longer really walljump for x amount of time).

personally i think warsow's awesome movement on its own warrants further development and then it could have carved out a niche of its own rather than having to share a niche with about 5 different very similar games. but if that had been the case you guys probably wouldnt be talking about then it would no longer be a pure quake derivative.

Do you think Warsow is in a "comfortable" place right now? Or do you think the devs will flesh it out a little more and help it carve its own niche in the arena FPS genre, which is for all intents and purposes dominated by QL?

I know one of the main reasons I play Warsow is because it runs quite well on Mac OS X, unlike QL, which allows a lot of my friends with Macs to play it with me.

The Warsow developers are very open about being tired of working on the game and dealing with the community, so don't expect much fleshing out unless it comes from the community itself.

The Warsow developers are very open about being tired of working on the game and dealing with the community

Dang, that's a shame. I guess we're nearing the end of the development road, then?

AsWar sow' I think it won't go any further.

Tbh, the work the work needednd for don't own space is considerable. First the game play needs work - I'm not talking about tweaks but rather a significant redesign, the movement, weapons and maps need to mesh together better. I also think the quakeness needs to be less obvious - wh- a rethink of how the weapon set is organised would be a good start imo.

2nd you need to make new player induction easier. As it stands there is nothing, new players get dropped in at the deep end without even any indication of how the movement works, let alone giving players a setting in which they can practice (defrag maps dontI count).

Tbh tho I doubt the skills and motivation are there to do that..

Tbh, the work the work needednd for don't own space is considerable.

Strong. :D

i chuckled...

either he's on ketamine, or wrote it from a phone.

haha, ye, like someone below said: phone :s

what i meant to say was that the work needed for warsow to lose to quakeclone tag would be considerable....

Couldn't explain it better really. The movement is really fun, but the competitive gametypes are not. That's why most people on Warsow play race, I guess...

All the guys I used to play with and which were in the scene back in the 0.3 - 0.5 days stopped playing and the community was the loveliest part of the game for me... that's why I stopped. Also I don't enjoy playing duels in Warsow anymore. :S

I do like this game and I do play about 5 years.

hello, I play warsow almost daily since the 0.42 version (duel,tdm,ctf,ca,bomb,...)

I very enjoy the pace of the game and the almost infinite skill potential of the game and try to improve everyday.

1.0 has not seen players stay due to UI having major issues
1.02 fix the most critical ones but server browser is still funky

when quakelive appeared some ego player who were no competition anymore to new generation of players just left for more slow paced games such battlefield3,LoL,quakelive,...

if u are old & pro u can very well be satisfacted with current warsow activity :

- use a web browser such http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=warsow

- idle #warsow #warsow.pickup and your national warsow federation channel minimum

- find/form a team

- play all cups

the future of lan events in warsow is in private events made by players themself (average age of players is 25yo)

warsow prevents alzheimer & parkinson

hf in warsow

Wish I could plus you some more Puff :).

ahah hello puffdar :P

how is L!N going ? :>

wsw is cool, but QL killed it, otherwise im sure it would have lotsa more players.

I see this game as a CPM knockoff with annoying graphics and sound, also it doesnt adds anything to the DM genre that would make it interesting for me, the walljump/dash is just another unnecessary gimmick. As long as theres anything else to play i'll stay away from it.

i dont play cos air control sucks

I think that Necrophag1st described it best when he said that gun fights in warsow is the #1 reason why people are disenfranchised with the game. It's gotten progressively worse with the update, since now that we have an over-buffed plasma gun and rocket launcher that kind of dominate the weapon arsenal, in exchange for the riot gun being brought in line.

On top of that there's not much of a scene going on right now. Nothing lasts forever, and the activity of warsow falls in line perfectly with that sentiment.

I can't say I didn't get anything out of playing in it, it was/is a fun game that even now is proof of how much an indie development group can acheive with the right initiative. It's also one of the games that showed me how fun a well balanced and compelling FPS game can be, as opposed to games that have hard counter design, cheese mechanics, or reward a passive style of play (Think of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to get the point.)

CaptainAhab, maybe you've heard of Natural Selection 2? It seems to me like the game that you'd be looking for in terms of appeal.

Yes, I am looking into NS2 and Unvanquished, they look fantastic. My friends are getting excited too.

I think that Warsow is a wonderful game, and is one of the best games in the arena FPS genre. Opinions of me from Quake diehards be damned, I really enjoy playing this game. The graphics are, in my opinion, fairly unique, and I love the movement physics. It honestly saddens me when I tell people about this game and they throw shit in my face and say it's bad that I like this -- that makes me uncomfortable and insecure. Then again, if I really love this game, why should I care what others think? I should play what I have fun with. And I have fun with Warsow.

dat edit

Mmhmm

That Natural Selection stuff reminds me of Tremulous...

what? bc2? awesome fun that game! and still is and you can still get a game. servers are busy every day.
its not ql or ut but the game did introduce something different and its the destructible environment that makes it stand out from the lot. battlefield atmosphere is impressive thanks to great gfx and awesome audio. no wonder its popular.

why don't you create this same thread in lol communities? You might save few souls.

I don't think any ql/cpm player would switch their game for wsw.

Not switch, but maybe play Warsow aswell as QL/CPM, like LuGia did for example.

People always see it as either or, I play both Warsow and Quakelive, also started a bit with Quakeworld as well. No need to be limited to only one game.

So true! Unless you are a pro player or want to become one you can play as many games as you want. If one of the two mentioned above is true you should stick to the game you want to be good at, because playing other games at the same time could fuck up your main game. But 90% of ESR aren't even close to top 64 of QL so why bother with sticking to QL only?

i'm in the 10% then

Talking about gametypes that actually bring in money, so sadly no 1vs1 CA. You are pretty decent there tough.

pretty decent ? You mean fucking good!

:D

I dislike the sounds, they're irritating to listen for long periods at a time. And it feels a lot like there's some kind of delay left over from the q2 engine, in how shots fired are handled. I haven't played it in a long time, so they may have changed that, but that's what I think about when I'm considering playing warsow again.

why not Painkiller HD? better graphics with same easy movement (press jump to gain speed) + a cool singleplayer

PK is cool aswell, but suffers from massive netcode problems plus strange physics imo (you can do some absolutely retarded shit in it).

PK physics are great tbh

Still some stuff is just absolutely over the top there.

I think that Warsow is a wonderful game, and is one of the best games in the arena FPS genre. Opinions of me from Quake diehards be damned, I really enjoy playing this game. The graphics are, in my opinion, fairly unique, and I love the movement physics. It honestly saddens me when I tell people about this game and they throw shit in my face and say it's bad that I like this -- that makes me uncomfortable and insecure. Then again, if I really love this game, why should I care what others think? I should play what I have fun with. And I have fun with Warsow.

There are my final thoughts, despite what I have written previously.

ninja edits everywhere by earthsea (aka CaptainAhab).

To keep you updated, warsow devs said the game is never going to be on steam, steam greenlight and similar. Since it's been everywhere else, promoted by its brave 5 players, now we can say it is not only dead but also it'll never be alive.
http://www.warsow.net/forum/thread/t/212909#post-212909

rofl I laugh irl every time I read solomonk posting videogames are about respect and sportsmanship.

I laugh every time I see you post something of your incoherent and useless crap here, so good job keeping me healthy and providing for my amusement.

didn't your high school teacher mentor (solomonk) told you to stop coming to esr?

you've come to the wrong neighborhood

I've been here long enough to embrace this site with it's trolls (Jamerio, fudge, etc.) and it's retards (especially you). So thanks for entertaining me and keep the good work of posting useless crap up!

Thinking of it it is quite a coincidence that the 2 guys that keep coming to this site (you and adem) and following what the high school teacher thinks (solomonk) are both near 18-19-20 years old. You should realize by now that school teachers are full of crap and that there's a reason why they are at the very bottom of the food chain.

Fact is warsow failed both quality and player base wise, and it will never improve in any of those no matter how much you post here.

Thanks for yet another amusement-post you deluded pitiful human being!

we know you dont like warsow, but is your glee at its relative unpopularity got anything to do with the dismal failure of quakelive?

you quakers got everything you ever dreamt of: a high profile (there was plenty of promotion and hype in the gaming media - id is the granddaddy of FPS gaming and q3 was seen as their MP masterpiece) F2P rerelease of quake 3 with modern features. yet somehow it never managed to break even let alone get close to the 'millions of players' as imagined by carmack.

warsow is by no means perfect and decidedly amateurish, but they have got some stuff right obviously - the movement systems keep players playing, the engine is very smooth, functional and decently good looking enough (thanks to jal and vic's work on the prediction and rendering), the website profiles and ingame profiles are now connected (with lots of neat little additions such as linked server demos to game records etc) and a quite brilliant plug and play gameplay and gametype modification system. all this from a bunch of amateurs with no experience of professional game development. thats a pretty credible achievement to me, despite its other failings.

So you prefer to play the allegedly worse quake clone instead of the proper thing based on romantic reasons? BTW it is not going to improve with developers (finally) leaving.

And that's assuming there's someone to play with, because you know no one does and that you all did everything that could have been done. QL easily has 1000x more players and activity even in its demise.

the thing that made me start and keeps me playing warsow is the movement.

i can have my fill of duels whenever i want and can participate in teamgames if the fancy takes me most of the time.