Are there any good old-school first person shooter games still active? Halo Infinite is fun but Microsoft’s crap is frustrating. I miss Wolfenstein Enemy Territory from back in the day. Halo Custom Edition was awesome, too.
Edit: thank you for the recommendations, everyone. This is exactly what I was looking for.
There’s quite a few old-school shooters that are open-source, for example:
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https://xonotic.org/ is a Quake-like arena shooter.
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https://unvanquished.net/ is an asymmetric arena shooter (humans vs. aliens) with RTS elements.
Xonotic is an utterly blissful experience, just playing it, but the skillcap is so high everyone deletes me! How do I get into it?!
Ah yeah, that’s tricky. I’m not actually deep into it myself. Maybe you can find a group to play with, like friends, colleagues etc.?
The friends I know who want to play games are actually quite experienced with these “boomer shooters” apparently, so they delete me but also get deleted. Maybe the parkour maps can help. Or we can put one up on here?
Hell yeah
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Kinda depends on how old-school you are looking for, but Splitgate is a fun free modern take on the arena shooter genre
No one lives forever
Maybe Diffusion, a free standalone conversion of Half Life https://www.moddb.com/mods/diffusion
There is also a nice First Person Stealth game, OpenSource (my favorite) https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/
Quake Champions is free, its close enough to the OG arena shooters to scratch the itch. Or there’s Quake Live, it’s not free, but it’s cheap and I’m always able to find games online.
If you’re open to playing against small groups, Straftat is an absolute riot. It started out as just a 1v1 game, but now you can play with 4 people. It’s free, there’s a ton of weird guns and maps, and the soundtrack slaps. They do sell a DLC that has hats, and additional maps, but the base game is free. I bought the DLC to support further development of the game.
I played https://www.urbanterror.info/ (kinda like Counter-Strike with more movement tech) and http://sauerbraten.org/ (closer to Quake) a lot back in the day. Both still seem to have some players kicking around. Both free.
What you want is Selaco.
Edit: Whoops, I missed the word “free.” I was focusing on “old-school.”
Looks cool
