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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Let's get right at it, what will 0.4 bring? A small summary of some of the major changes (for a detailed overview, check out the changelog):

WarsowTV

  • broadcast matches in-game to a large amount of viewers
  • Full multipov streaming
  • Added small minimaps for watchers

Engine

  • New advanced renderer features (bumpmapping, specularmapping, shadowmapping)
  • Optimizations! Increased performance over 0.3
  • Outlines now handled by engine, ability to switch on or off
  • Profiles: ability to quickly use some predefined graphic settings

Maps

  • Replaced old wdm2 by TdM's/bLx' Chromo Dynamic
  • Replaced old wdm11 by Grumx' Rage
  • New TDM maps by Daze: wdm8 - Baxandall and wdm19 - Format
  • New TDM map by jal/Daze: wdm9 - Supersym
  • New duel map: wdm10 - Deflected
  • Retextured most maps to take advantage of new renderer features

Models

  • New Weapon model: Instagun
  • New Player model: Bobot

Gametypes

  • Tweaked iTDM (domination style gametype)
  • New CTF rules
  • Added Duel Arena (1v1 ClanArena)

Bots

  • Advanced movement (bunny hopping, dashing and wall jumping)
  • Ability to time items
  • More natural behaviour

Tweaked movement system

  • Added forward bunny hopping
  • Increased gravity, compensated by higher jump strength

Tweaked weapon settings

  • Gunblade: Regenerates ammo, instant fire, added splash damage (trickable!)
  • Riotgun: Spiral pattern, increased damage slightly
  • Rocket launcher: More splash damage, more self damage, decreased projectile speed (1000 up/s)
  • Grenade launcher: Strong grenade explodes on contact, tweaked projectile trajectory

Tutorials

  • Included basic movement demo-tutorials
  • With subtitles, voice-over and recams to explain basic movement and bunny hopping

Windows, linux and Mac compatible

  • However in beta state, Warsow 0.4 is the first release to run on OSX :D
  • Windows in both .zip and installer

This is a selection out of some of the bigger changes from the changelog. There's much more to explore, so I suggest you go on and download your 0.4 flavour of choice (as usual, only a full release and no update available as there were too many media changes), right after these thanks:

Thanks to everyone who put effort into this release, thanks to all the coders, mappers, testers and team members for dedicating their free-time in making this release possible! Thanks community for all the feedback in forums and devblog throughout the development process. Thanks to everyone who supports Warsow!

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Warsow 0.42 Installer (Windows only)

Warsow 0.42 Installer (Windows only)

Feb 28, 2008 Full Version 6 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 1 comment

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...

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ETR
ETR Jan 21 2008, 6:54am says:

Concerning mac, it is very beta, expect proper support @ 0.41.
Check this url -> Warsow.net for help.

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PrplPplEater
PrplPplEater Jan 22 2008, 11:58pm replied:

Thanks for the link. I talked to your Mac support guy, and I'm told there will be an installer released soon?

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f0rqu3
f0rqu3 Jan 21 2008, 6:09am says:

awesome

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PrplPplEater
PrplPplEater Jan 21 2008, 1:30am says:

So who "compiled" the Mac version?

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pvt.Johnson
pvt.Johnson Jan 20 2008, 8:44pm says:

dont know how to start this on my mac =/
any ideas?

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2goodwwe
2goodwwe Jan 20 2008, 8:06am says:

Warsow 0.4 ftw!!!

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Lamü
Lamü Jan 1 2008, 12:23pm says: Online

100/100

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Minko
Minko Dec 28 2007, 1:33am says:

This game just amazed me after the first multiplayer clan arena gametype mode play. There is a huge potential demanding hi fps skills here! And this movements.. it's fantastic! I think it's a future of eSport! This game is really rocks and by the way there is nothing new in fast-paced FPS genre for the last years (after q3 and UT). Great work developers team, wish you good luck!

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AlexMax
AlexMax Dec 23 2007, 8:58am says: Online

This is hands down the best free FPS out there. While the other free FPS's seem fit to just cram a bunch of random levels, weapons and gametypes and hope people will play it, Warsow has a very unique and distinct graphic style which is constantly evolving. The gameplay is also given the same kind of care, and the dev team is also not afraid to try new things and break new ground.

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Wildkater
Wildkater Dec 23 2007, 10:20am replied:

Very nice free ego-shooter.
Warsow ftw !!!

Greetz from www.warsow-arena.de

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