/arena/ - Arena FPS General
"A place to discuss all of your favorite oldschool and modern arena shooters such as Quake Live, Quake Champions, Unreal Tournament, Reflex, etc."
Serious Sam also included.
Look up /arena/ to find us in any catalog/archive of /vg/, obviously.
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Quake
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Quake 1, 2, and 3 can be found anywhere online.
Use sourceports for 1, such as Darkplaces or Quakespasm, so you don't have to deal with DOS.
Quakespasm: http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/download.htm
Darkplaces: https://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/download.html
2 can be found both at: http://q2s.tastyspleen.net/
and: https://mega.nz/#!EAxAlSwa!9v0PQ7QgN60mXDptMqWXvdAC2srSCnb7pGPqZojG2QI (Quake 2 Starter with Quake 2 and its expansions)
An Archive of Quake 2 related stuff and things: https://dondeq2.wordpress.com/
"Gloom is an atmospheric team play modification for Quake II that puts humans against a team of alien spiders."
Find the site here: http://www.planetgloom.com/ (Dead since UT2004.)
Download for it here: http://www.moddb.com/mods/gloom/downloads/gloom-13
3 can be found anywhere, but here is a 7-zip self-extracting archive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4SjDG5rBJWHQ3ZVUWFkejlsa2M (This is prepackaged with the sourceport ioquake3.)
If you don't trust it, go find a demo version and overwrite pak0.pk3 with the full game version.
QuakeJS is a browser version of ioquake3 that can be hosted by anyone and played with anyone. Have fun with that lag. http://www.quakejs.com/
CPMA (not CPM) is a collection of rulesets and mod of Quake 3 which does not require the base game but is fucking huge in terms of changes, additions, and modifications, making it better than Quake 3. Improves netcode and allows for the OSP mod, a competitive mod used long ago with Vanilla Q3A. You can find the CPMA DEZ Installer here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0wfFzzjvCheTVVzSmdnQ1BLUms (remember to save configs as my.cfg and not autoexec.cfg)
"QuakeWorld is an update to id Software's seminal multiplayer deathmatch game, Quake, that enhances the game's multiplayer features to allow people with dial-up modems to achieve greatly improved responsiveness when playing on Internet game servers." Download this shit: http://nquake.com/
Quake Champions is a reboot under the vicious claws of Zenimax. You can sign up for the closed beta here: https://quake.bethesda.net/en/signup
Do not buy these games considering how fucking easy it is to get all of them free, even without torrenting, as none of the original id team care if you pirate nor do they earn money from it.
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Unreal
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"Unreal is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by Epic Games."
UT 1999, 2003 (2k3), 2004 (2k4), and 3 are the currently popular ones and can all be found on GOG and Steam. If you need a download, look around on your favorite tracker or buy them. Unreal Gold and 2 are also available, but most prefer the Unreal Tournament series to these.
UT99: https://mega.nz/#!ovZTQDAZ!rLu5ANxxBi22uLEuNFeD2oMCgGnymk0RoxHWBp76Bk4 (thanks to /vr/'s UT general)
UT2k4: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B758q4XIFd2RZkZaVV82MEJuTlk?usp=sharing
4 is the current iteration and is free, but it is in pre-alpha.
Play Unreal Tournament 4 for free: https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/
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Reflex
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"Reflex is a competitive Arena FPS that combines modern tech with the speed, precision and freedom of a 90s shooter. If you sunk countless hours into the Quake or Unreal series, Reflex will feel like a welcome return of the old school shooter feel."
http://store.steampowered.com/app/328070/Reflex_Arena/
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Warsow
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"Set in a futuristic cartoonish world, Warsow is a completely free fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X"
https://www.warsow.net/
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Xonotic
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"Xonotic is an addictive, arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons. It combines intuitive mechanics with in-your-face action to elevate your heart rate. Xonotic is and will always be free-to-play. It is available under the copyleft-style GPLv2 license."
http://www.xonotic.org/
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Cube 2: Sauerbraten
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"Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube FPS."
http://sauerbraten.org/
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Serious Sam
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"Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic arcade-style single player action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through the beautiful world of ancient Egypt and several diverse planets, confronting countless Mental's minions on his way to the Mental's base."
It's pretty much an arena shooter.
The First Encounter: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4SjDG5rBJWHMlhlZmJkRFVfR3c
The Second Encounter: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4SjDG5rBJWHVEVpaEt4TjFOYTA
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Sven Co-op
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"Sven Co-op is a co-operative game originally based around Valve Software's Half-Life. In this game players must work together against computer controlled enemies and solve puzzles as a team."
It has a deathmatch mode. Considering that GldSrc is a build open the Quake engine and it has a lot of the same movement techs, plus how most PvP maps are designed, and how stuff like the Gauss Rifle work, this can be considered an arena shooter. But only when doing deathmatch.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/225840/Sven_Coop/
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Deathmatch Classic
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"Enjoy fast-paced multiplayer gaming with Deathmatch Classic (a.k.a. DMC). Valve's tribute to the work of id software, DMC invites players to grab their rocket launchers and put their reflexes to the test in a collection of futuristic settings."
http://store.steampowered.com/app/40/Deathmatch_Classic/
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Painkiller
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From GOG:
"Trapped in a dark and unwelcoming world, awaiting purification for your earthly sins, you must fight through an endless number of enemy warriors, as you attempt to stop the imminent Unholy War and overthrow Lucifer.
But even if you win this insane battle, you must still take out hordes of howling devils, eager to avenge their master. You are the angels' only prayer.
Best the legions of hell and kick some serious devil butt in this classic action-focused FPS that pays homage to the times when shooting demons with tons of bullets was the synonym of fun!
Multiplayer notice: online multiplayer mode is available after registering your unique CD-key for the game. For details see: Support.
+Black Edition includes Painkiller and expansion pack Battle out of Hell
+Adrenaline-packed combat with 14 incredible weapons, including the famous gun that “shoots shurikens with lightning”
+Addictive gameplay, a furious soundtrack and impressive physics"
http://store.steampowered.com/app/39530/Painkiller_Black_Edition/
https://www.gog.com/game/painkiller
[GOG Installer coming soon]
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Tribes 1
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"Starsiege: Tribes is a first-person shooter video game. It is the first of the Tribes video game series and follows the story from Metaltech: Earthsiege and Starsiege. It was developed by Dynamix and published by the company now known as Sierra Entertainment in 1998. An expansion pack, Tribes Extreme, was cancelled; it was supposed to add single-player missions, multiplayer maps, and bot AI."
http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=688572
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Tribes 2
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"Tribes 2 is a first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra Studios in 2001 as a sequel to Starsiege: Tribes."
http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=688267
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Misc.
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/vr/'s UT general pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/KkN7t25R
/vr/'s Doom general pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/hzDnLpct
Anything in quotes is from one of the following: Wikipedia, the general at the time of this thing's creation (07/12/2017 OP no. 182280691), the website's front page, or Steam.



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https://sourceforge.net/projects/voretournament/