Alien Arena: Mercury Edition for Linux/Unix(7.65)
Feb 8, 2013 Full Version 0 commentsAlien Arena is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern...
Alien Arena
By Irritant_new | Released Aug 21, 2004
Alien Arena is a standalone that combines a sci-fi atmosphere with the tournament style deathmatch of Q3A and UT2k4. With major graphical features such as GLSL per-pixel lighting, ragdoll physics, light blooms, real time lights and soft shadows, Alien Arena brings a level of beauty and immersion not generally seen in deathmatch. 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 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, which feature multiple skill levels, and will rocket jump, strafe jump, and taunt you mercilessly.
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Latest News: Alien Arena: Mercury Edition released!
5 comments by Irritant_new on Feb 8th, 2013
Alien Arena: Mercury Edition has been released!
After months upon months of work, the newest version of Alien Arena has been unleashed with a number of new features, graphical enhancements, and a much faster rendering game engine. This is a major enhancement, and players should see on average around a 300% increase in rendering speeds.
Some of the new features for this release include:
- Major improvements in map rendering speed
- HD lightmaps
- IQM mesh animation now handled in GPU for major performance gains
- Particle rendering optimizations
- Fixed issues with ATI and shaders
- Soft shadowmapping for vegetation and players
- Cubemapping on mesh and map surfaces
- New glass and water effects
- Weapon switching has been made significantly faster
- TCA now best two out of three
- Various player models received poly increases for smoothness
- New armor models
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wow this game is just awesome :)
its my favourite game, i play it since months and it dont becomes boring.
I would recommend this game everyone
Oct 29 2011, 10:23am by freaky512
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Thanks for the comments and feedback, always greatly appreciated.
I definitely need to get a manual written.
I also should have re-written the controls menu to add the flashlight. Alot of people don't know about that feature, unfortunately.
In the meantime, I'll probably post a sticky thead in the COR forums about how to set up a server and configure the game, etc.
Just played it a bit online and off - nice mod. Good, solid replacement for Quake 2. The weaponmodels are gorgeous. The whole "Mars Attacks" theme is adorable, but I can see it being a turn-off for a lot of players. Still, its a solid, goregeous replacement for Quake II.
Still, I found some irksome problems. First, many of the maps are way, way too dark in places - sometimes I'm lost as to how to leave a room. The other problem is that most multiplayer servers are stuck on one map - its hard to see how to set up a map cycle and stuff. Some help guides right up front would be nice.
Ohh.... wait.... ooooh, I just read the documentation and found that "F" is for flashlight. Unfortunately, that's not in the keybinding screen (damn Quake 2 standard keys). Plus, for those of us who're fond of the Q2-style inventory for weaponswitching, the Q2 inventory doesn't seem to work.
Wow - that's a sweet mod. So this is a standalone - that's what I love about Q2. You should try and get it publicized in the Linux community - any opensource free download game will go really, really far there. Like get it on to Happy Penguin, for example.
Neat.
Very nice mod! :)