Duel Mapping Contest Results On behalf of the Xonotic community I’d like to congratulate cityy on winning our first ever duel mapping competition! His map Fuse took home the top honors for its impressive combination of gameplay, originality, and presentation. Cityy takes home the … Continue Reading →
XonStat Records Its 100,000th Game! It has been just over a year since XonStat recorded its first game. We’ve come a long way since those humble beginnings, so I’m very happy to announce that we recorded our 100,000th game this week! This wouldn’t have been possible without the help of s… Continue Reading →
Halogene’s Newbie Corner – Part 4: The Core Weapons Edit: Visit the complete and updated tutorial here Now that I’ve bored everyone to death with nifty movement tricks, let’s have a look at what everyone is keen on getting its hands on when it comes to first person shooters: In this blog pos… Continue Reading →
Halogene’s Newbie Corner – Part 3: Ramp Jumping Edit: Visit the complete and updated tutorial here Yay it’s time again for a new episode of my newbie tutorials! Today I’ll show you a very useful movement trick: Ramps are sloped surfaces that can be used for extra upwards boost when doing… Continue Reading →
ZeroQL has released his fragmovie! We are happy to inform you that today, Djordje “ZeRoQL” Simonovic, has released his new fragmovie KILLING X ZONE! The fragmovie is 17:47 long, and features some of the best community frags gathered in the past half year since the release of… Continue Reading →
Halogene’s Newbie Corner – Part 2: Laser Jumping and Wall Lasering Edit: Visit the complete and updated tutorial here Hello and welcome back to another short introduction into Xonotic gameplay! Today I’ll show you two important aspects of a very useful movement tool in Xonotic, THE LASER! While dealing somewhat… Continue Reading →
A Big Thanks to Gronkh On behalf of Team Xonotic and the entire Xonotic community I’d like to give a big thank you to Gronkh! Today he helped show thousands of live-stream viewers just how fun (and silly) Xonotic can be. We appreciate it, and we look forward to seeing … Continue Reading →
Halogene’s Newbie Corner – Part 1: Bunny Hopping Edit: Visit the complete and updated tutorial here This is a guest post from our good friend Halogene, an experienced Xonotic player and all-around good guy. Hello everyone that’s new to Xonotic and maybe even new to fast-paced first person shoot… Continue Reading →
Much Ado About Elo: Part Deux It has been about two weeks since I talked initially about our Elo ranking system. How time flies! As that time has passed, I’ve collected lots of valuable feedback both from players as well as my fellow developers, and I’m very excited to … Continue Reading →
Heads up for OSX Mountain Lion users A couple of days ago Apple has presented their latest version of Mac OS X: Mountain Lion (10.8). This latest release adds quite a few security measures, which can affect the use of Xonotic. In this post I’d like to address these issue and how the… Continue Reading →