

This forced the developers to rewrite the game from scratch, in a proprietary CryENGINE3. As such, the game could not be closed-sourced without the permission of all contributors. Most of these are features ported from Quake 3/Quake Live and some might be undesirable for some Xonotic.
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Disputes over the code, which was developed under GPL, followed. Mod developed by z411 for the BaI Xonotic server. This move created a big controversy and a very negative response of the Nexuiz community. Intentions to contribute back to the free version. In 2010, the two original founders decided to make a deal with a company named IllFonic to create a proprietary remake of the game, which would use the same name, Nexuiz, and the domain, without The game started in 2002 by Lee Vermeulen and Forest ‘LordHavoc’ Hale, originally named Nexuiz, to be a Darkplaces-based free multiplatform arena shooter. The XonStat system tracks a bunch of stats, including win/loss ratio, frag ratio and average accuracy. Xonotic features integrated player statistics.

There are also so called mutators, that allow to slightly modify rules of each game mode. There are 16 different game modes (including the classics: deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag, but including uncommon ones such as a type of football ), 16 weapons with secondary fires, 18 official maps (and a lot of unofficial maps), and a complex HUD editor that lets you tailor the HUD to your exact preference. The art is mostly futuristic, but unofficial maps exist in a variety of styles. The gameplay is very fast-paced, and includes and encourages a form of bunny hopping as well as rocket jumping (in Xonotic "laser jumping" is more common). 5 : 240 × 240 480 × 480 768 × 768 1.024 × 1.024 2.048 × 2.048. Gameplay is also based on Quake (mainly the competitive Quake III Arena), but Xonotic adds some unique touches (for example, the rockets fired from a rocket launcher can be guided with mouse). The game runs on the Darkplaces engine, based on Quake 1's engine. Xonotic is an first-person arena shooter, forked from Nexuiz.
