This creates a difficulty curve that can be difficult to overcome when you are just starting to get into the game. The current community is very small and it seems to consist mainly of more experienced players. There aren't that many people playing Xonotic.
The second thing partially ties in with the first one. On CTF maps the bots tend to hang back and won't really go on offense, making the games very one-sided. The bots can very easily get confused on some levels and they will simply find a corner or a hole and stand there doing nothing. Yeah, I get that the multiplayer is the main point of the game but sometimes you just can't or don't want to play multiplayer and you are left with the bots. Xonotic has two big issues that it's facing at the moment. And the alt-fire only fires the gun until it overheats, dealing some extra damage. You just point it at an enemy and hold the fire button down until the enemy is dead. With the shotgun you can use your alt-fire to bash your opponents with it, dealing some nice damage, Electro can fire small energy balls that will stay on the ground for a while and if you shoot at them they will explode and with rocket launcher, now named Devastator, you can guide the rocket if you hold the fire button down. Nearly all of the weapons in Xonotic have their own alternate fire modes or special functionality. It doesn't really do anything interesting. It's not objectively bad and you can use it quite effectively, especially when combined with the strength power-up, but in my opinion it's very boring. The new gun, Arc, was a bit of a disappointment though. All in all they bring a very neat addition to CTF games and I also found implosion to be a nice TDM map as well. Like I expected, implosion is all about extremely high jumps, while Catharsis and Vorix are more closed. The new version of Xonotic brought three new maps, Catharsis, implosion and Vorix and I'm happy to say that all of these new maps are very interesting and each one plays differently. It's very fast paced and combining bunny hopping and blaster/rocket jumps allows you to pull off some really neat tricks. It has very nice graphics, some of the best I've seen in open source games, and gameplay to match. Xonotic was my personal open source game of the year in our little awards and for a good reason. Recently the 0.8 version of Xonotic was released with new maps and a new weapon. Xonotic is an open source multiplayer first-person shooter that was forked from Nexuiz after the Nexuiz name was licensed to IllFonic to create a similar proprietary game. I think you all are familiar with Xonotic or at least its predecessor Nexuiz, so I'll keep the introduction short. We would like to interrupt our stream of news about AAA games and bring you some critique on the new Xonotic 0.8 version.
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