Sauerbraten Features

Game Features

  • Old-school fast & intense gameplay (read: similar to Doom 2 / Quake 1).
  • 23 multiplayer gameplay modes, mostly available in teamplay variants as well: ffa (free for all, deathmatch alike), instagib, efficiency, tactics, capture (domination/battlefield style), CTF (capture the flag), protect (one teammate have to carry the flag), hold (hold a randomly spawning flag for a specific time to score), collect (kill enemies and collect their skulls) and coop edit (create maps together!).
  • 7 weapons: double barrelled shotgun, rocket launcher, machine gun, rifle, grenade launcher, pistol and chainsaw.

Engine Features

  • 6 directional heightfield in octree world structure allowing for instant easy in-game geometry editing (even in multiplayer, coop edit).
  • Rendering engine optimized for high geometry throughput, supporting hardware occlusion culling and software precomputed conservative PVS with occluder fusion.
  • Lightmap based lighting with accurate shadows from everything including mapmodels, smooth lighting for faceted geometry, and fast compiles. Soft shadowmap based shadows for dynamic entities.
  • Pixel and vertex shader support, each model and world texture can have its own shader assigned. Supports normal and parallax mapping, specular and dynamic lighting with bloom and glow, environment-mapped and planar reflections/refractions, and post-process effects.
  • Loading of md2/md3/md5/obj/smd/iqm models for skeletal and vertex animated characters, weapons, items, and world objects. Supports animation blending, procedural pitch animation, and ragdoll physics for skeletally-animated characters.
  • Simple stereo positional sound system.
  • Particle engine, supporting text particles, volumetric explosions, soft particles, and decals.
  • 3d menu/gui system, for in-world representation of choices. (removed from Inexor due to refactoring of the entire UI system)