If you already have Xonotic, upgrade to the release with these steps:
- Navigate to your Xonotic installation folder.
- Navigate to the misc/tools/rsync-updater folder.
- Execute the update-to-release.sh (for Linux or Mac) or update-to-release.bat (for Windows) and wait for it to complete.
- Profit. You're done!
Read full info about new features at the blog post!
We hope you all enjoy it. See you out on the servers soon. As always - happy fragging!
SPLAT and I will be hosting a live playing session tomorrow night! Join us on the Kansas public git server (96.44.146.149:26000) at 8 PM EDT (2 AM // 02:00 CEST) for a frag-filled Q&A session. We'll be available on my Mumble server (address: antzucaro.com, port: 64738) to answer your questions or to just plain chat. All skills welcome - We'll see you there!
Players and developers out there, we need your help! We'd like to iron out all of the SDLv2 issues in the game in order to cut a new release, but we're lacking on the details of what needs to be fixed. To find that out, we first need to know the specifics of what is going wrong!
This is where you can help. By testing the game using the SDL binaries and providing us feedback, the development team can get a better picture of where we should spend our time. How to test SDL, you say? If you're on git, you can run "./all run sdl". If you're on an autobuild or the 0.8.0 release, you can run the script with "sdl" in the name. If you find something, please file and issue with us on our GitLab tracker. If it warrants a discussion first, please don't hesitate to drop by the development IRC channel (#xonotic on freenode). Please remember that IRC responses may take a while.
Anyway, here's to bug squashing. See you all on the servers, and happy fragging!
EDIT: One of our developers informed me that we need to compile git builds with a specific option for SDLv2 to enable it. You can do this with "SDL_CONFIG=sdl2-config ./all compile". After this is done the "./all run sdl" will use version 2 instead of version 1. Thank you for the tip, packer!
Over the years I have received several requests for raw statistics data. Today I'm happy to release a snapshot of that data for interested parties to use! You can obtain this here. This is a PostgreSQL database dump of XonStat on 2015-05-27 that was created using pg_dump. It contains every game, server, map, and player present in the database up to that time! You can load it by following the commands within the drop and load script in the xonstatdb git repository.
Once you are up and running, I'd recommend examining the table structures with the '\dt' command from within psql to get yourself familiar with the data model. You can filter out tables ending in q1, q2, q3, or q4 - these are child tables used to break up the volume. For example, the games_2015q1 table contains games from the first quarter of this year, but you can obtain the same information by querying the games table with a WHERE clause on the create_dt column. If you have any questions, you can always ask here.
Licensing
The database structure (DDL, for those familiar with database parlance) is under the GPLv3 license, with the full source available on GitLab. The data is licensed under the CC-BY license, with attribution to "Team Xonotic" and http://www.xonotic.org.
I look forward to seeing what you all do with this!
I’m really excited to unveil the new design of Xonotic.org today! While our previous site served us well for years, it was becoming a chore to keep it up to date and responsive. The version you are currently browsing is statically generated, greatly simplifying a number of things about its management. I have attempted to make it visually beautiful while keeping it functional and open at the same time. You can check the full source right now on GitHub. I’ll be sharing more information about how to collaborate on the new site soon. I hope you all enjoy!
If you already have Xonotic, upgrade to the release with these steps:
- Navigate to your Xonotic installation folder.
- Navigate to the misc/tools/rsync-updater folder.
- Execute the update-to-release.sh (for Linux or Mac) or update-to-release.bat (for Windows) and wait for it to complete.
- Profit. You're done!
Read full info about new features at the blog post!
We hope you all enjoy it. See you out on the servers soon - happy fragging!
While talking about the new and upcoming features of Xonotic 0.8 is fun, it really doesn’t give the full perspective of actually seeing these things in action. I took some time the other day to do just that in the following video:
This video covers some of the major new things in 0.8. I hope you enjoy it!
A big thank you goes to Archer, who made the intro music to this video. Thanks!
Yesterday I had a chance to talk about Xonotic’s recent activity with Chris from Jupiter Broadcasting on their show Linux Unplugged. If you haven’t listened to them before, do yourself a favor and check out their weekly podcasts covering the latest on Linux, open source software, and development.
Good news everyone! I have updated, revised and combined the previous Newbie Corner blog posts and generated a comprehensive Newbie Tutorial out of them. Initially I wanted to post the result here, but it turned out to be too much to be comfortably readable for a single blog post. So Samual came up with the idea to put it onto the wiki, where I can easily update it whenever needed – and so I did.
New features include (but are not limited to)
an illustrated bunny hopping section with a step by step illustration of strafe turning,
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