Freeware LAN games : What would play well at LANfest

gunny


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Staff

Not everyone can play Crysis. Sad but true, and some of you have no money for a huge collection of $99 premium games, right?

Well their is another way to go, freeware games that cost nothing and you can download before a LAN and get good at them.

Post you suggestions here of what you think are good freeware games, and we will have a server with them running and a download server for those on dial up or just lazy.

Some competitions might be exclusively freeware so everyone can play them.
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Just off the top of my

gizmoguy


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Admin, Staff

I agree with ya Gunny, I think promoting more freeware games at lanfest would level the playing field out a bit and at the same time would be a whole lot of fun. It would also help with those "preparation" issues we've had in the past :D

Some freeware games just off the top of my head:

• Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (One of the best freeware games IMO)
  
  
  
  • ETF
    
  • True Combat Elite
    
  
  
  
• UrbanTerror
  
  
• Sauerbraten
  
  
• Warsow
  

Trackmania! ^_^

evasion


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Trackmania! ^_^
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had this at last 2 lans, but does not play competitively

gunny


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Staff

Its really a time trial not a real race (ghosts not cars) and um is not to my taste, what does everyone else think?

Thx for the suggestion lets hear moar

WHO WANTS A SERVER FOR TRACKMANIA FOREVER?


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Freeware Games

gunny


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Staff

I have found that WolfET has few players these days, great game but totally 'old school' now. And it has a learning curve that is not newbie friendly. Like if you dont know the maps you are stuffed. Only having one decent ping NZ server kills a game. Its not just my call but we have tried and failed with Wolf ET before remember, it caused a mass exodus at Lan #1.

Getting ET is proves who old and out of it it is... no simple link!

Warsow can be put on the list for sure. Get the latest version installed / patched its VERSION 0.42 not what we played last lan.

http://www.warsow.net/?page=home

Alien Arena 2008 (VERSION 7.10) is also a freeware and a Linux compatible one, but I think Warsow is better, what do you think.

http://icculus.org/alienarena/rpa/aquire.html

Or should we just play Quake 3 Arena, which is what they are all copied/similar/based on anyway.


HALF LIFE 2 DEATHMATCH - (HL2DM)

If you own a ATI/AMD or a nVidia card (EVERY ONE SHOULD!) you would have received a "free steam" offer in your drivers, which includes HL2DM, lost coast and Portal (demo) well I suggest you get the HL2DM part at least as we will play that im sure and it is "FREEWARE" if you have a video card. Integrated Intel can play ... um ... something else.

While your their grab TRACKMANIA FOREVER free on steam! It will probably be played (maybe not a competition ... freeplay)


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That's what I like about ET

gizmoguy


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Admin, Staff

>>I have found that WolfET has few players these days, great game but totally 'old school' now. And it has a >>learning curve that is not newbie friendly. Like if you dont know the maps you are stuffed. Only having one >>decent ping NZ server kills a game. Its not just my call but we have tried and failed with Wolf ET before >>remember, it caused a mass exodus at Lan #1.

That's what I like about ET, its very skill based and you can't just go in there first time playing it and kill everyone, so it gets very competitive, if everyone learnt the basic maps I think we could get a very good competition going.

Lots of people still play ET, its ranked 8th top played game on Xfire and has ~14,738 Xfire users playing per day.

The NZ contingent still playing ET is smaller then it was sure, but lots of Aussies still play it and if you combine Aussie and NZ servers there are still quite a few around.

BTW is it only me that still plays ET out of all the other LANfest members? Surely others must have tried it in the past/still play it, would be interested to set up a time that I can book a server so we can play one night.

>>HALF LIFE 2 DEATHMATCH - (HL2DM)

I don't know why but this game bores me, I've played it a few times and just haven't opened it since cause I don't find it that fun.
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I have a dedicated server

gunny


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Staff

Oh aren't I 1337

No seriously

I have a ded server which we can use for freeplay games of stuff now I has also got ...

Alien Arena 7.10
Warsow 0.42
Soldat 1.42

Plus the usual TF2, CSS mods, UT24k etc.

Roll on freeware Freeplay at LANfest.

I will have installers for the freeware on a share as well.
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