community feelings

While a general idea is taken from Nexuiz, the majority of ppl behind Xonotic want to make it attractive to new player, reduce learning curve in many of gameplay aspects and reduce unbalance between veteran players and average players.

Is this something Xonotic should really be aiming for? After all Xonotic is not an AAA gaming title and really serves a niche community of gamers. I wholly disagree with the statement "Xonotic is not Nexuiz 3.0" because it has the same code, same community, same image and very similar gameplay. So far the only place Xonotic differs from Nexuiz in is name.

If you look closely at all the projects around Xonotic, you'll see that it involves like 10x more ppl than Nexuiz ever did. Comparing to other opensource free project without sponsorship, Xonotic can be called AAA production (not that I ever agreed with AAA term invented by marketing gurus to suggest a game is better than others and production cost where giant...)

There is soo many differences between Nexuiz and Xonotic, that I won't even try to list them. So if you don't see them, it's either you didn't play it or you just like to complain for no reasons.