Information about FPS
Greetings ladies and gentlemen.
One of my favorites shooters is Urban terror, and I realize that the project has non-free code parts on it:
http://www.urbanterror.info/support/196-misc/#1.1
I can no longer play a game that puts non-free code over a GPL licensed engine so I resort to you in order to hear recommendations about free (as in freedom) first person shooters that share similarities with Urban terror. I know some good shooters like sauerbraten, xonotic, chaos esque, redeclipse; but I would like games just a little more "realistic".
Thank you.
I don't know anything about Urban Terror. In what way do you want the game to be "realistic"?
Maybe AssaultCube Reloaded would work. It's entirely free/libre software, though since it's based on AssaultCube, I'm pretty sure it's not free/libre culture (AssaultCube uses a noncommercial license for a lot of data files).
Other than that, you might try this page:
Thank you onpon4, very interesting projects to try, but after seeing them, I couldn't find a shooter with characteristics of a more "realistic" fps.
On the other Hand, BZFlag got my attention, I will try it for sure.
Still, I would like to read some more recommendations. Perhaps mYself knows something.
What do you understand by the term "realistic"? I cannot imagine people shooting each other for fun, except paintball or different exceptions like World War simulators. However, a very few (if any) of the existing free software games can be included in this category (e.g. Paintball 2).
If you mean realistic-looking graphics, the current generation of proprietary games (let alone free software) are still far from the possibility of identifying itself as such, albeit hardware performance and engine implementations are slowly gaining progress. However, current video games are leaning more towards colorful visuals rather than realism (see the GTA V PS3/Xbox360 version VS PS4 version graphics comparison for example). This is the very same situation as withing the audio industry where most people want unrealistic and distorted, bass-heavy sound, and accurate reproduction is marked as "sterile", "lifeless", "flat sounding", and "boring".
I play games only on occasion. My genre is survival horror, adventure, and logical/puzzle. Most of the time I enjoy games through YouTube Let's Play's (the last one I've seen was for the Wolfenstein: The New Order) since there's only a small amount of free/libre games one can choose from and I doesn't like using proprietary software in general. I don't know much about first-person shooters so I may not be of much help, however, I have dealt with the topic of free software gaming for a while. The games that you haven't listed in you initial comment and I think you should try are Doom 3/BFG Edition, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and The Dark Mod, but bear in mind that you will probably stumble upon a problem of running some of them. This is because the id Tech 4 engine requires at least OpenGL 3.3 driver support which will be available starting with Trisquel 7 out of the box.
It's also worth noting that FPS also means frame-per-second, so I initially thought this thread will discuss gaming performance rather than games in general.
Sorry for putting "fps" instead of "first person shooter" and thank you for the info.
And I by "little more realistic" I refered to elements like bullet dispersión, slower movement... perhaps little closer to counter-strike.
I play OpenArena and Nexuiz, very good games.
Nexuiz is what Xonotic is forked from.
I am a member!
I've read some time ago that AssaultCube had non-free code, but I don't know if its new version still have it... There were the v1.1.0.4 release at November 15th, 2010, and, three years later, v1.2.0.0 at Oct 9, 2013 -- do anyone know if they fixed that? I see assaultcube is blacklisted in Parabola -- https://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt ... and I forgot what wiki has another big list with rationales of non-free stuff to block in 100% FaiF distros; do anyone know what is it?
Only data files are proprietary. The code is all under the same license as Cube, which is a license based on the zlib license with an additional clause:
> 4. Source versions may not be "relicensed" under a different license
> without my explicitly written permission.
So, a basic copyleft restriction. I don't know for sure why the author of Cube added their own copyleft clause to a lax permissive license rather than just using an existing copyleft license, but either way, it seems to be fine (other than being GPL-incompatible).
>I forgot what wiki has another big list with rationales of non-free stuff to block in 100% FaiF distros; do anyone know what is it?
Do you mean this? http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System
_Distribution_Guidelines