Review of featured applications

[Arand Nash]

Robert Ancell wrote:
> On 26/03/10 13:16, Arand Nash wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 18:04 +1100, Robert Ancell wrote:
>>
>>> I also wanted to pick one FPS but they all seemed difficult to use.
>>> The problems seemed to be similar:
>>>       * Huge downloads
>>>       * Opening and choosing first menu (e.g. "single player") often
>>>         didn't work, there were no bots
>>>       * Very slow load times
>>> (...)
>>
>> I've tested both openarena and nexuiz.
>> And the only issue there is the indeed huge downloads (oa ~300MB nx
>> ~900MB)
>> They are in my opinion very straigtforward, 2-3 clicks and you're in a
>> singleplayer game with fully functional bots.
>> Both games also has a singleplayer "campaign" in the form of consecutive
>> unlockable skirmish-levels.
> Interesting.  Did you install them through the software center?  Did you
> install any additional packages?

Nope, this was straight out of the USC

>>
>> However, what might speak against them is the ~18 rating that any of
>> these games would have if sold in stores, due to their violent and
>> meatpieces-flying-gory nature.
> I'd agree.
>>
>>> I installed Saurbraten and the ground didn't render.
>>
>> Sauerbraten has a very unfinished touch yes, which probably makes it
>> unsuitable for featuring. But I have ran it countless times without
>> seeing that issue.
>>
> It's probably a driver issue but I have a fairly standard Dell Studio
> laptop with an ATI card so I wouldn't expect any major issues.  (I have
> been running alpha software so it may work for me in Lucid final).

I'm on a Dell with nvidia here (xps1530 & 8600gt), so the discrepancy
might be there. Yours would presumably be a fairly common setup so
presumably good grounds for rejection though.

> (...)


- Arand