

History Development Įach cube-shaped node in the octree represents a renderable volume, or a type of Marching cube, which are referred to as a cube, where each edge of this cube can be lengthened or shortened to deform the cube into a variety of other shapes.

There are also single-player modes featuring both episodic gameplay and deathmatches on multiplayer maps with AI bots instead of human opponents.

Instagib (rifles only, 99 pieces of ammo, one shot kill, no pick-ups), regenerative weapons, and Teamplay versions of some of the game modes are available, as well as online cooperative map editing-one of Cube 2's most interesting and popular features. Offered gameplay modes are Free-For-All (deathmatch), Capture (where teams fight for control of points on the map, all weapons allowed), Capture the Flag (two teams fight to capture the other's flag and return it to their base), Teamplay (defeat the other team's players to score points for your team), Tactics (FFA, but players spawn with random equipment), Efficiency (FFA, but players spawn with all equipment) InstaHold, where two teams have to possess a single flag for a minimum of 20 seconds to score points Collect (kill enemy players and collect their skulls, which then have to be returned to the home base), and Protect (teams try to touch each other's flag). The Online play gets its server listings from a master server. Multiplayer functionality is possible with LAN, local, and online play.
#CUBE 2 SAUERBRATEN PROTECT MAC OS X#
The latest Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X versions of Sauerbraten can be downloaded at game has singleplayer and multiplayer modes. The complete list of changes for Sauerbraten can be found on the history page. When it comes to the graphics capabilities of Sauerbraten 2010, new changes in this area include support for alpha-blended textures, color scaling for diffuse textures in all shaders, support for fogging and coloring sky-boxes, multi-threading of the calclight command for lighting threads, a GLSL render path, support for uniform buffer objects to GLSL skeletal animation path, improved skeletal animation blending quality in the fixed-function mode, and improved adaptive sampling for calclight. The new game modes include efficiency CTF, efficiency protect, hold, insta-hold, and efficiency-hold. Sauerbraten introduces new player models along with many new multi-player maps, multiple new game modes, a mini-map has been added to the radar system, an optional Quake-like mouse acceleration mode, rotational friction for rag-dolls, a motion blur effect, and many other in-game changes and fixes. The graphics engine is supposed to be much-improved with Sauerbraten release due out in 2011, we are told, but the 2010 "Justice Edition" release does carry some interesting changes and does offer some graphical enhancements. Sauerbraten, which is also commonly referred to as "Cube 2", began as a redesign of the original Cube game and since 2004 they have been making quite a bit of progress in improving the game-play as well as the graphics. Sauerbraten "Justice Edition" has been released with plenty of changes.
#CUBE 2 SAUERBRATEN PROTECT UPDATE#
If you are looking to do some Linux / open-source gaming this weekend but are looking for something new besides the recent release of VDrift, the Sauerbraten developers are out with their first update in 14 months.
