Tremulous

[Kimbo]

A lovly game I play often, I suggest you try it.

It's 90-100mb download. BUT, free,standalone and many servers to choose from.

DOWNLOAD HERE (choose standalone)
http://tremulous.net/files/

The game is known to be abit dark so I HIGHLY suggest you change your brightness level ingame.

If you do decide to play or already play, post your name here. mine is:

Werewulf (or soon to be known as -(KP)-Werewulf possibly)

Description:

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more...

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the "Armoury". The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.

The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

SCREENSHOTS:

And before you say its an NS rip without even playing either then read:

Isn't Tremulous just a copy of Natural Selection?

No. Development on Tremulous began long before NS was in the public domain. If Tremulous is inspired by anything, it is inspired by Gloom for Quake 2. NS has a similar ancestry (please see Game Developer Magazine February 2001 issue); this is probably where the confusion arises.

Tremulous's development was started in early 2000 as a modification of the ioquake3 version of the Quake III Arena code base inspired by the popular Quake II modification Gloom. Version 1.0.0 was released on August 11th 2005. Due to its long development period, it received a widely positive reception.

Natural Selection v1 was first publicly released on Halloween 2002, and is presently at version 3.2.

 

[Preskooldude]

First time you play, please be human. Alien is really, really, confusing at first.

 

[Dr00d]

Be aware the aliens are total zerg rip off's but still SOOOOOOOO fun to play. Also, it can be run on a piece of shit PC like mine, and can be played nicly over dial-up.

My name is it is xXDr00dXx.

 

[Preskooldude]

Preskooldude FTW!

EDIT: THats my name, in case someone marks this as spam.

 

[Kimbo]

Be aware the aiens are total zerg rip off's but still SOOOOOOOO fun to play. Also, it can be run on a piece of shit PC like mine, and can be played nicly over dial-up.

My name is it is xXDr00dXx.

Once again, they are not friggen zerg rip offs, starcraft didnt invent any of the names tremulous uses.

 

[Dr00d]

Once again, they are not friggen zerg rip offs, starcraft didnt invent any of the names tremulous uses.

Hmmm...

If thats not and ultralsik...

And I never said names.

But there is creep when your aliens. And when the overmind gets shot, the aliens hear "The overmind is under attack!". And it sounds just like the dude that says "The hive cluster is under attack!" in Starcraft.

Thus, I call them zerg rip offs.

Also people should skim over the manual before thier first game.

 

[Kimbo]

Hmmm...

http://err-overflow.deviantart.com/art/Big-Mofo-Granger-2907285
" Submitted: Sep 3, 2003"

 

[Dr00d]

Whats your point? They were inspired if not copied from zerg.

 

[Kimbo]

THAT concept of the ultralisk (which doesnt look likes its sc1 friend) was only release around last year. Tremulous was inspired from gloom if you didnt read. =_=

Now no more of this.

 

[Jacek]

what system requirements does it have? I might give it a try

 

[Kimbo]

here you go:

System requirements
700 MHz x86 CPU
256 MB RAM
Intel GMA or 32 MB nVIDIA GeForce2 or ATi Radeon 7000
Stereo sound card
125 MB free hard drive space
56 kbit/s Internet connection

 

[Ljusdahl]

I was totally hooked on Gloom back in the days. Was known as Evil One for the more part, mainly playing on eDome.

I might try this some day, thanks for the info.

 

[DarkDenizen]

My name is .:KaoZ:.

 

[Daminon]

It uses the q3 engine or smething like that I think. The view-move feel is different from most games so you have to get used to it, just like in q3.

I have tested it once and I don't think I will play it much but anyway my name is Combot, just like in ut2004.

A little thing that bothers me with it is that it doesn't support AA. :{ I had problems with the FPS amount too.

 

[Jacek]

yes, it uses q3 engine, just read it

4 minutes of download left...

are there female characters? or am I forced to play a dude?

 

[Kimbo]

No females, all males. You can buy a battle suit... i guess you could "pretend" to be a girl in it.. lol?

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Meh, just played it. Graphics are nice and all, but the humans are so overpowered. They have weapons and can attack from range. Everyone moves too fast anyway, which makes the job of going up to a human and actualyl damaging it hard for aliens.

That and aliens can't know if they actually manage to damage something. The "walk on walls" thing is interesting, but its also comlpicated in FPS's...

And there is no exploding at all, plus the fact you always get to be the nub aliens, since the human teams are always full.

 

[Sansui]

LOL, the aliens are overpowered actually.
play a little more and you will find that out.

 

[Jacek]

I'm going to play aliens because I prefer badass monsters than some poor marine dudes

 

[Dr00d]

Aliens start out as weak lil piss-ant. Then, after a good number of kills, and some time, you get an ultralisk... sorry... *Tyrant* and you take on 5 guys at once.

Also:

No females, all males. You can buy a battle suit... i guess you could "pretend" to be a girl in it.. lol?

Who is to say that aliens are not girls? You don't know what makes thier gender. In alot of species the females are larger and do most of the hunting.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Ultralisk? Did they even dare to use that name?

 

[Dr00d]

Nah, but they are pretty close to one right? They are really called Tyrants. But if I say how the aliens are like zerg anymore Wulf will kill mah. X_X

 

[Jacek]

man, if I make a creature on four legs you don't have to say it's ripped from starcraft. Blizzard ripped most of Zerg ideas from Tyranids in WH(40K?), what do you say about it? x_x

 

[Dr00d]

Like I said I'm no allowed to talk about it. =P

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

Like I said I'm no allowed to talk about it. =P

[BADJOKE]Are you a demon hunter? 'Cause that looked a lot like evasion[/BADJOKE]

 

[Dr00d]

[BADJOKE]Are you a demon hunter? 'Cause that looked a lot like evasion[/BADJOKE]

XD lol

But she did say...

THAT concept of the ultralisk (which doesnt look likes its sc1 friend) was only release around last year. Tremulous was inspired from gloom if you didnt read. =_=

NOW NO MORE OF THIS.

 

[Kimbo]

The aliens are actually the strongest, with humans you just need accuracy.

A tyrants swipe can kill a human in 1 swipe. (2 with armour and helm and about 5 in battle suit)
A goons bite can kill a human instantly (with no helm)
A dretches bite can kill a human in only 2 bites. The first headbite doing 96/100 damage to a humans life. The last bite will kill them. With poison and you do headbite the target will die. This is if your human is naked (no armour or helm)

It takes 8 shots of a shotgun to kill a tyrant or at least 10 or more seconds worth of rifling.


Headbites are the fatal ones, and if your aliens. You DONT sit there for them to shoot you obviously.

 

[Sansui]

Yea, it can be a bitch on the laggy servers as well.
main reason I dont play anymore.

 

[Technomancer]

Drizzt

I'll usually be playing on one of the New Zealand servers, although I might change depending on where other people here play.

 

[Dr00d]

DarkDenizen and I play on a server called [Void] alot, also one called Arena (but is has been offline for a few days).

 

[Jacek]

crap I get pwned as aliens very much because I can't deal any damage, but I'm doing fine as marine

my nickname is Java

 

[Technomancer]

Hint for playing as dretch:
Jump at the heads of unarmored marines..

 

[Kimbo]

You dont have to jump, just aim at there heads.

 

[Dr00d]

Indeed. Werewulf wrote a very nice little guide on how to pwn as dretch. Here it is.

 

[SuPa-]

my name on Tremulous is SuPa- I usually like being an alien builder :3

 

[Jacek]

ffs when I play marine, tyranids pwn us so much it ain't funny

when I play aliens... I am stuck on dretch and they have imbacifer cannons

 

[Dr00d]

Leanr2play? Some people are just flat out better then others, so just prepare to lose alot.

 

[Preskooldude]

Lol... certain levels is easier to draw the unarmored-marines away from the lucifer-cannoneers... Can't remember the name right now but look for any way to get around the main attacking front (I.E. any back door).

 

[Jacek]

camping behind machineguns and pushing with them isn't really skill

 

[Dr00d]

If ppl do nothing but camp then you're automaticly better then them and you shouldn't worry.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Still, the game needs some balancing... and even then, the lack of shooting needed from the aliens is annoying.

 

[Dr00d]

Aliens can shoot, just need stage 2 or 3. Advanced basalisks can shoot posin gas, advanced maraders can shoot a bolt of lighting, advanced grager (or h/o you spell it -.-) can shoot a lil' ball of slime, and advanced dragoon can shoot spicked balls.

 

[Cavman]

Cavman

Thats my name.

 

[Kimbo]

Still, the game needs some balancing... and even then, the lack of shooting needed from the aliens is annoying.

Its actually very well balanced, but more balancing is coming in 1.2..which i dont know when is coming out.

 

[The Last Istari]

So, can humans and aliens talk with each other?

 

[Kimbo]

Press "T" and type, I thing it's "T"...if so, then "Y" for teamchat

 

[Jacek]

yes, "T" and "Y"

 

[Dr00d]

I mapped global chat to enter and T for team. I just remember that better. =/