Author Topic: Cube 2/Sauerbraten - That game that's been mentioned millions of times.  (Read 3952 times)




YES. This game. I did a quick search on this, and I've only found mentions of it. Not a full blown topic. I've been playing Cube for awhile, and it's been awhile since I played it. I decided to use my dedicated server for Sauerbraten (as well as Blockland) for a 24/7 TDM server. But I shall explain the game.


What is the Cube engine?

Quote from: Wikipedia article
Cube 2: Sauerbraten (German for "sour roast", also known as Sauer) is a cross-platform, Quake-like first-person shooter that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X using OpenGL and SDL. The game features single-player and multiplayer gameplay and contains an in-game level editor, its main feature. The game engine is free and open source software, under the zlib License,[2] with commercial support available from the developer's own business counterpart, Dot3 Labs.[3] The game media is released under various non-free licenses. The aim of the project is not to produce the most features and highest-quality graphics possible, but rather to allow map-editing to be done in real-time within the game, while keeping the engine source code small and elegant.

The game started as a redesign of the original Cube game engine[4][5], and its first, developer-only, release was made on February 27, 2004[6]. The latest release, dubbed the "Justice Edition", debuted on July 19, 2010[7], adding two new player models, thirty new user-created maps, several new game modes, including Efficiency CTF, Efficiency Hold, Efficiency Protect, Hold, and InstaHold; a mini-map, clock, and crosshairs, among various other things.

In my words: This is like a free, fast paced, Quake clone. It has amazing graphics, and it can run on the crappiest hardware and still look good.

I owned a Dell which ran a Pentium 3 @650 mhz, and it had a Geforce FX 5200. It ran perfectly on high graphics.


Cool, is it free?


>open-source
>has to be free (OTHER THAN REDHAT.)

Yeah, it is. It's also really tiny. Well. 450MBs if it's tiny to you.

Downloads


http://cubeengine.com/files.php4

Pick your OS there.


Screenshots





Tom's server

It's listed at "TomTheGeek's 24/7 TDM" but if you can't find it:

Go to a random server, and press "~". Then do "connect tomthegeek.no-ip.org"


Discuss.

because a quake clone looks soooooo good

because a quake clone looks soooooo good

it plays nicely too. other than warsow or openarena.

Oh, this game. Should start playing it again, let me see if I still have it installed of course not. also instagib TDM ftw
« Last Edit: June 04, 2011, 06:01:25 PM by alien 01 »

Assaultcube is in a similar league
but its at 40 something megabytes instead of 450.

>Spend time downloading and installing.
>Get ready to run.
>Cannot find core textures.
>Get ready to uninstall.
>Turns out it doesn't work as a nonsteam game or it was just a temporary glitch.
> >:(

it sucks.

graphics are terrible up-close. adding specular lighting to everything isn't "spectacular," it looks like stuff.

menu is awkward.

I know it's an engine base but there's not point in using it considering that the engines of the first three quake games are open source.

Assaultcube is in a similar league
but its at 40 something megabytes instead of 450.

AC sucks, lol

AC sucks, lol
It requires similar or even less power from the computer

the graphics are complete stuff though

I have heard that ChexGuy hates this game...

Ninja:
it sucks.

Whoever told me that was right.

funny thing is that I was waiting to see how long it took for ChexGuy to find this thread

it sucks.

graphics are terrible up-close. adding specular lighting to everything isn't "spectacular," it looks like stuff.

menu is awkward.

I know it's an engine base but there's not point in using it considering that the engines of the first three quake games are open source.

I'm sorry, but do you have to find a fault with EVERY game you see?

Nah, just the ones with really bad faults in them. Every single game has faults, no game is completely perfect and you know it.

Nah, just the ones with really bad faults in them. Every single game has faults, no game is completely perfect and you know it.

This is pretty true. inb4bigrigsontheroadracing.

Edit: 400001th post on games :D.
« Last Edit: June 04, 2011, 08:35:24 PM by ChuckTheArcher »