So i was looking around some stuff and discovered AssaultCube, i do remember hearing it’s open source so i thought that topic might fit here (feel free to correct me if i am wrong)

I have been wanting to try that for sometime now but was worried if the game was dead or not (i won’t mind if the playerbase is small or big, all i care about is if there’s servers still running and if there’s still people in it) and this might be a dumb question to ask since idk if there’s any AssaultCube players or if there is even anyone here that knows it’s existence but is the game alive at all? if not, are there alternatives that are more active? (AssaultCube-like or not, just any open source shooter game will do fine and i’ve already tried xonotic, good game and will play that again sometime lol)

  • Norah - She/TheyEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Gosh that’s a throwback. If it’s not alive maybe we should make it be again!!

  • TikoBrown@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Apparently we have all fragged each other at some time in the past because 14+ years ago I used to live on the AssaultCube servers, I was in competing clans and an admin on dozens of servers. Good times, I miss them.

    But AssaultCube was just the frag scene at that time, before that it was DoD and before that it was the granddaddy of them all Team Fortress, not the modern TF2, the original that was included on the Half-Life 1 CD, that community was huge and very family like, does anybody here remember the website/community TheVille?

    To answer OP’s question, your only luck for real live human players (not bots) and non-cheaters is to find a small community of die-hards as mentioned above. If they don’t let you in after proving to them your not a Llama then they are A-holes anyway and not worth your effort.

  • Cyv_
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    9 hours ago

    Holy fuck I used to play this on school computers during lunch. When I played it was pretty easy to end up in active games, but I’m not sure how that’s changed over time. I really should reinstall it for nostalgia’s sake.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Dang, I played the crap out of this over a decade ago, nostalgic lol.

    Unless there is a small dedicated community that you can find of players, your best bet is probably to get some friends/family to play it with you.