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Legends FPS Adds Freeware Linux Version

Posted by simoniker on from the more-decent-beerlike-gaming dept.

jmahler writes "The Legends Development Team is proud to announce the availability of our Linux client and server downloads for Legends. Legends is a fast-paced, FPS-style multiplayer game. The game is designed to take advantage of the beautiful environments in the Torque Gaming Engine while still offering the breakneck pace and variety of gameplay styles available from classics such as Quake and Tribes. Our game has been made for gamers, by gamers, and will always remain free (as in beer), supported, and improved as long as there is interest in it." There's also a Windows version of this still-in-development Beta on their download page, and the Tribes-style gameplay looks intriguing ("jetpack use" through large, often open-air multiplayer maps.)

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  1. Re:About Time by jmahler · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well... that's not completely accurate. :) We originally released for Windows, simply because more of us use Windows at home (bad, bad people, I know) but Linux (and maybe Mac) support have been very high on our agenda from the beginning.

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  2. Re:I don't get this at all by Teflonatron · · Score: 2, Informative

    First of all, the Linux client was made along side the Windows client (so it's not Linux only). Second, yes, it is a clone of Tribes...but not really.

    While it does look and feel, for the most part, exactly like Tribes1/2, it was made because of community demand for a more Tribes 1 version of Tribes 2.

    When Dynamix/Sierra made Tribes 2, it nerfed a lot of what made Tribes 1 fun. Ledgends was created and supported by the community as a way to be able to play Tribes 1 with better graphics, as well as create a totally community driven game development team. (Kinda like Linux if you think about it!) This game is truly for/by the community!!!

  3. Fresh gameplay for most of you by mattgreen · · Score: 4, Informative

    The gameplay of Legends is unlike any conventional FPS. It is heavily movement based, very fast and fluid. Learn to ski as early as possible - there will be players utilizing it fully, they are NOT cheating! Do not expect your conventional FPS skills to get you very far here. Traditional FPS is simply slow in comparison. Indeed, the Legends learning curve is nearly vertical. That is the beauty of it. More competant players travel faster over the terrain. Don't be put off by the difficulty. I can say with great confidence that the reward is a game that resembles a sport far more than any game previously.