Alien Arena is a standalone game based off of id Tech 2 source that combines a sci-fi atmosphere with the tournament style deathmatch of Q3A and UT2k4. With major graphical enhancements such as GLSL per-pixel lighting, hi-res textures, light blooms, real time lights and shadows, textured particles, shaders, and reflective water, Alien Arena brings the Quake II engine into modern gaming. The game also includes mutators, adjustable effects, bot skill settings, and fully configurable deathmatch, team deathmatch, CTF, All Out Assault, Team Core Assault, Cattle Prod, and Deathball games. The game features original artwork, with a dark, sinister atmosphere combined with an off-the-wall campiness, and trippy, techno type music. There are currently over 60 maps, loaded with weapons(each having an alternate firing mode) and powerups. Alien Arena has fast, smooth gameplay, and players can play online against one another or against the bots.

Report article Alien Arena 7.31 released!

Version 7.31 of Alien Arena has been released, featuring many optimizations, bugfixes, as well as new features and content.

Posted by Irritant_new on Oct 8th, 2009 digg this super bookmark


Version 7.31 of Alien Arena has been released today for windows and linux users! In addition to some exciting new content, there are also a number of engine improvements, optimizations, and gameplay enhancements.

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Some of the new features in this release:

  • Improved shadow volumes with self shadowing.
  • Vertex buffer object management.
  • Sound improvements/bugfixes.
  • Security fixes.
  • Anisitropic image filtering.
  • New weather effects.
  • Callvoting.
  • Duplicate player renaming.
  • Two new levels.
  • Auto detection of settings on first run.
  • Run time optimizations.
For a complete changelog look Icculus.org

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kinesis916
kinesis916 Oct 9 2009, 8:58am says:

Nice. Time for me to catch up and see what all the fuss is about with this game.

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NearScope
NearScope Oct 9 2009, 5:02pm says:

Me too. I was REALLY skeptical about this game. But now,I'm kinda in the mood to try new things.

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Fiasco
Fiasco Oct 10 2009, 5:48pm says:

Yeah, I'm in. Gotta try it with my Nvidia 3D and see how that works on the old engine :)

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booman
booman Oct 15 2009, 7:51pm says:

I searched the alien arena forums about the Linux openal audio drivers and found that I will need to update my Fedora 8 to play.
Does anyone know if there is an openal, openal-soft that will run in Fedora 8? the only ones I found were for Fedora 9, 10 & 11.
Otherwise, it runs great in Windows XP

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