The Concept of Warsow

Warsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows and Linux. It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2 GPL engine), and aimed on the competitive scene, or the e-sports community.

Warsow is developped under the motto "by gamers for gamers" by a team coming from all kinds of gaming backgrounds. To attain the "by gamers for gamers" spirit, the community are our betatesters, both through internal testing sessions (with community members) and in the feedback on the public releases. We make decisions in close cooperation with the community. However, we do have our own general development direction, and therefor will carefully judge all suggestions and critique made by the community. This way we try to reach a balance between the general consensus on gameplay aspects in the community, and what we feel is best for Warsow's gameplay and concept in the development process.

The base gameplay is focussed around the art of movement, meaning moving, speed and tricks play a big part in the gameplay. Besides this, mapcontrol, aim, teamplay and fragging skills play their role too. For the movement we've basicly looked at four games: Quakeworld (legendary for it's speed), Quake3 CPMA, Jet Set Radio and Speedball.

Another twist in gameplay is Warsow's weapon system. Warsow has two firing modes for each weapon; by picking up a weapon, you will be equipped with the standard (weak) ammo for the weapon, but when you pick up an ammo pack, you will equip your weapon with special (strong) ammo. Weapons may have different damage or slightly different behaviour depending on what ammo you use: for instance: the weak electrobolt (Warsow’s rail) is a high speed projectile, whereas the electrobolt with strong ammo is instant hit. This way, not only control of health and armor plays a role, but getting strong ammo is a valid way to create a comeback.

Visually, we try to cater to the fast gameplay Warsow provides. To keep the focus on competitive gaming, visibility is an important aspect in Warsow. Using a celshaded, cartoon-like style on the maps, textures, and models we try to combine good visibility, suitable for competitive gameplay, with having a unique, attractive and personal style. We try to keep the graphic effects minimalistic, clear and visible.

We try to use Warsow as a platform to make e-sports, or competitive FPS gaming, available to a broad audience. With Warsow’s low system requirements, relatively small filesize and easy installation procedure, we try to make Warsow as accessible as possible for anyone to try out. In future versions we will focuss on this aspect more, and try to provide more support for players new to the FPS scene, by for example providing movement tutorials in the form of demos, and tutorial maps.

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The release comes in the form of a complete installer (for Windows and Mac) and a full or update package (for Windows and Linux). If you previously used the installer for 0.4 or 0.41, the 0.42 version will automatically recognise your configuration and take care of the update. If you are using the update package, please ensure that you have 0.41 installed first. To install the update, just extract the package over your Warsow 0.41 installation.

Thanks to everyone in the community for the massive amount of support you have demonstrated, and welcome to anybody who is trying Warsow for the first time (you won't look back :P)!

Please report bugs to this forum and most importantly, enjoy the release!

Full Changelog

New Features

  • Added game operator functionality
    • Game operators are players with elevated status who have increased power over the server, but do not have rcon access.
    • Servers admins set an operator password with
      1. code:
      1. g_operator_password

      .

    • Players authenticate themselves as an operator using
      1. code:
      1. operator <password>

      or

      1. code:
      1. op <password>

      .

    • Added opcall command, which allows game operators to call votes which instantly pass.
  • Added two new chat filtering commands -
    1. code:
    1. cg_chatFilter

    and

    1. code:
    1. cg_chatFilterTV

    - for filtering chat messages in normal games and when spectating tv matches respectively. These two commands accept the following bitmask values:

      1. code:
      1. 0

      enables all messages

      1. code:
      1. 1

      filters global chat

      1. code:
      1. 2

      filters team chat

      1. code:
      1. 4

      filters TV spectator chat

  • Added seek and pause functionality to demo menu.
  • Added demo playback capability to wswtv.

Changes

  • Changed network protocol to improve serverside culling of projectiles and playback of single-pov demos in wswtv. These changes are backwards-compatible.
  • Changed wswtv chat color to white.
  • Modified ip filters, they now stick around between maps.

Fixes

  • Fixed unreasonably large challengers queue delays.
  • Fixed servers not providing version info due to long hostnames.
  • Fixed clan arena coaches being dropped into spectator mode.
  • Fixed several issues with ip filtering.
  • Fixed several crash bugs and memory leaks in wswtv.
  • Fixed graphical glitches when demojumping backwards.
  • Fixed minor gfx menu bug.
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Warsow 0.42 Installer (Windows only)

Warsow 0.42 Installer (Windows only)

Feb 28, 2008 Full Version 7 comments

Warsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2...

Warsow 0.42 for Windows and Linux

Warsow 0.42 for Windows and Linux

Feb 28, 2008 Full Version 0 comments

Warsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2...

Warsow 0.42 for Mac

Warsow 0.42 for Mac

Feb 28, 2008 Full Version 2 comments

Warsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2...

Warsow 0.42 SDK

Warsow 0.42 SDK

Feb 28, 2008 SDK 0 comments

Warsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2...

Warsow 0.42 for Windows and Linux Update

Warsow 0.42 for Windows and Linux Update

Feb 28, 2008 Patch 0 comments

Updates an existing install of Warsow 0.41 (not installed with the setup.exe) on Windows and Linux to version 0.42.

Warsow 0.41 Installer (Windows only)

Warsow 0.41 Installer (Windows only)

Feb 10, 2008 Full Version 0 comments

Warsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2...

Comments  (0 - 10 of 64)
shaun10656
shaun10656 Mar 28 2009, 12:13pm says:

this is for the wii how does it work a asectly like u put it on the wii or the pc? never done this before

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reFly
reFly Apr 2 2009, 7:28am replied:

Warsow is only for Windows, Linux and Mac.
There is no Wii version.

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Sanyika
Sanyika Feb 26 2009, 9:28am says:

Oh right, just watched the videos, sorry :D
Can't wait for 0.5!

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dmh
dmh Mar 25 2009, 1:05pm replied:

You can get a sneak peek by trying the test builds on the forums

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Sanyika
Sanyika Feb 26 2009, 7:56am says:

Just tried this, wow it's amazing! Is it still in development?

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dec1234
dec1234 Feb 24 2009, 5:37pm says:

This is fantastic, spent like half of my lessons in college first year playing this on a LAN server with all my mates.

Such good memories, one of the greatest FPS games EVER! Nice going :)

You creators should be so proud :)

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DOLBYdigital
DOLBYdigital Feb 24 2009, 12:22pm says:

*Wish I voted for this as one of the best free FPS of all time*
Such an amazingly fun FPS that really holds its grounds against the classics. I am sad that I found out about this game so late in its life, I hope it stays alive for a long time!

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xm
xm Feb 20 2009, 5:10pm says:

Feelz like playing quake when ur high. =)

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Nickelpat
Nickelpat Jan 11 2009, 10:42am says: Online

Voted for one of the best free FPS games ever.

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ThecoolGMan
ThecoolGMan Jan 5 2009, 2:14am says:

voted

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