![]() Naming confusion and the IllFonic remake See the Xonotic article for the full story. Xonotic is regarded as the spiritual successor to the (libre) Nexuiz. The latest version is 2.5.2, after which no more updates came.įollowing a 2010 controversy, the game has been forked under a new name Xonotic, which is now actively developed. Version 2.5 was released in October 2009. The “real” game happens in online multiplayer. The game features a simple singleplayer campaign which is mostly meant for practice. Your health could theoretically go very hight, but it will be hard to maintain for long. The health/armor system in this game is a bit different than in other games: Your health will tend towards 100 with a higher rate of change the further away your health is from 100. Special pick ups are Strength (which increase the damage dealt), Shield (you take less damage) and Speed (increases walking speed). In the arenas, you find collectible weapons, ammo, health and armor. The weapons have a primary and secondary fire mode and include the shotgun, machinegun, various unique energy weapons, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, and more. The game can be customized further by so-called mutators, little rule changes like low gravity or a grappling hook. It's a classic arena shooter with a science-fiction theme and many game modes known from other FPSes like classic deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, domination, but it also features the unique key hunt mode in which your team must collect all keys to score. 2.1 Naming confusion and the IllFonic remake.The price sounds appealing, too – the developers are shooting for $10 and an early 2012 release date for the game on PC, Xbox Live, and the PlayStation Network, giving hardcore FPS fans something to look forward to during Q1. Nexuiz most certainly isn’t going to be for everyone, but for competitive FPS players looking for old-school flavor, it’s right on target. For competitive teams, it means a player could specialize in one type of mutators, increasing the chances that he would, for instance, get as many support mutators as possible, instead of finding random super weapons and enemy debuffs. ![]() While you won’t be able to influence it that much, you might be able to put enough points into the Invulnerability mutator so that you’ll see it once a game, instead of once every few games. ![]() We were told that outside of the game, points accumulated for successful play can be spent to customize mutator loadouts, letting players tweak their chances towards getting better (or different) mutators on pickup. ![]() If that doesn’t sound all that unique, that’s because it isn’t – where Nexuiz shines is in its mutators, which completely change the game. Nexuiz is a throw-back to the old days, with two teams of four battling in six team deathmatch maps and three capture the flag maps, all the while picking up interesting weapons to blow up their enemies with. Though Nexuiz looks like a modern game, it plays a lot like older arena-based first-person shooters, with mutators, rocket jumping, and other classic mechanics taking center stage over cover and iron-sights. ![]() as long as you’re willing to forget the past five years of FPS gaming. What does matter is that Nexuiz looks like an absolute blast. The general consensus seems to be “Nex-us,” but that doesn’t really matter. The story we heard from the developer Illfonic is that the creators of the original PC version wrote down a bunch of different names and chose Nexuiz specifically because they didn’t know how to pronounce it. No, we don’t know how to say the name of the game either. ![]()
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