Warsow 0.42 Installer (Windows only)
Feb 28, 2008 Full Version 7 commentsWarsow 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 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 most notable changes are: the missing texture bug on wca1, the rocket projectile speed (weak and strong are both 1000up/s like they were supposed to be), some fixes in the movement area (cg_oldmovement 1 should really feel like old movement now), and some additional maps (the two ctf maps which got playtested in the Warsow pickup channel for a while), and adding some missing settings in graphics and options menus.
Also the mac release has been greatly improved, and includes all needed frameworks and gamedata! For support and troubleshooting, head to this thread.
The release comes in both an installer for windows, as update packages for windows and linux. To install, extract the package over your old Warsow 0.4 folder, keeping intact the folder structure.
Enjoy this release, spread the word, report bugs in the appropriate forums, and have fun!
, which will temporarily ban a specified player from a server.
will chase the highest fragger unless there's a flag or powerup carrier, in that order.
will give the user pov control unless there's a flag or powerup carrier, in that order.
will give the user pov control unless there's a flag carrier.
will give the user pov control unless there's a powerup carrier.
will chase the highest fragger.
disables packet compression.
compresses packets bigger than the average client packet size (default).
compresses all packets.
passes crashing in 2D.
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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 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 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 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...
Updates an existing install of Warsow 0.41 (not installed with the setup.exe) on Windows and Linux to version 0.42.
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...
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wow quake 3 in a new jacket very nice work i love it.
The true successor to Q3
It doesnt play and look like stock q3
Stop comparing it to q3
It is a different game and better for tournaments
Full marks on the game guys, I love how it is flexible enough to run on the family toaster. Ok, I'm kidding, but I'm very impressed at how you guys have produced such a great looking game that can still run on pretty much any standard hardware.
Oh yeah, it plays really good too.
quake engine isn't id tech 2
So true, and actually Warsow is not even built on id Tech 2, but on Qfusion. Updated the profile in that aspect a bit. :)
10/10 the best free game i have ever played loved it so much. Hope you make more games like this.
easy enough to play and i have to say it is adictive, i give it a 9/10
Nope not yet... Can´t say when, but I´ll be sure to update this page when it´s done. So check back/check warsow.net for updates : ).
Alright. Make a news post when you do. I'll be sure to see it that way. Thanks. :)