Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game made entirely over the internet. The purpose of the game is to bring deathmatch back to the basics, with perfect weapon balancing and fast paced action, keeping itself away from the current trend of realistic shooters.

It uses HFX textures by Evil Lair, and currently has 27 maps to frag in. With an advanced UI, the user can select between 15 different player models to use, with an average of two skins for each, and can connect to our master server to play people from all over the world.

Nexuiz's content and source are GPL. Meaning, it is entirely free and any of it can be used in other free projects, even if modified. This is a first for any large game project of its type. We hope this will support the free game community, and encourage more GPL projects.

Nexuiz is based on the Darkplaces engine, built on OpenGL technology. The darkplaces engine is an advanced Quake1 engine developed mainly by Forest "LordHavoc" Hale, who has been working with the Quake1 engine for many years. A few of Darkplaces main features are Quake3bsp support, realtime lighting and shadowing, new particle effects, advanced menu system, and Md3/Md2 model support.

Because Nexuiz is based on the Quake1 engine, its source code along with its content is entirely GPL. Nexuiz will also use the Quake1 game code language, called QuakeC, which makes modding the gameplay of the game extremely easy. This gamecode will be included with the release, and will allow anyone to mod it, and because it is entirely serverside you can use it on your servers even if the clients do not have your mod.

Nexuiz is a game that will NOT require a high end system. Video cards such as a Geforce2 will be able to run Nexuiz, while high-end video cards will be able to take advantage of some features such as bumpmapping and realtime lighting.

NOTE: This game is released free over the internet, but the development team still requires donations to keep development going. See the link at the bottom of the author's page to donate. Your donation will support further development on the project and other game projects.

Requirements:

· 400 MB of hard drive space

High Quality (Realtime lights and shadows on, bloom on, high detailed maps, 1024x768 or higher res)
· A 1.5 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500+ or better
· 9600 ATI or 5700 FX or better
· 512 MB of ram or better

Low Quality (no realtime lights, no bloom)
· 1 Ghz Pentium III or AMD Athlon
· Geforce2 Video card
· 512 MB of ram

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

The major changes are:
· New gamemode: CTS (get from A to B). With map "CyberParcour01" by sev, and a nexrun map "Piece o' cake" by FruitieX
· Aggressor and stormkeep retextured by FruitieX
· Tutorial map by FruitieX
· TraK4-mit and TraK5 texturepacks by TraK
· New HUD by FruitieX and -z-
· New Scoreboard style by terencehill
· Weapon accuracy statistics by Dib (ALT key by default)
· Rocket guidance by holding down the primary fire button (seeker removed)
· Level Of Detail on all playermodels
· Video settings only show the allowed resolutions reported by your OS (not availible in AGL)
· Motion blur and damage blur by Samual
· Species gibs
· New ctf and ons bot AI

· And much more!