Ingame Gore

[officer_rabbit]

Ya I came across this game last week and I think it is freaking awesome. Now I was looking through the folder and I saw that there was a Linux version which is a score for me because that means that we might be able to play it in my class in school, but before I can show this game to my teacher I need to turn the chunks of body that fly around after you kill someone and the blood that shows on the ground, so I was wondering if ANYONE could tell me how to disable this gore so that I would be able to play it in school.

[divVerent]

For a simplest possible way, run the game with the parameters

+"cl_nogibs 1; cl_particles_blood 0"

(EDIT: 1 of course, 1...)

which should disable all blood and gore.

However, you should not play that at school IMHO. This game is not suitable for people below 16 years, maybe not even below 18. If you are younger than that, decide for yourself - it may be okay for you, but please, don't let your whole class play. Playing violent games has to be one's very own decision, and must not be influenced by peer pressure - ESPECIALLY if the players are too young for that.

I am among the developers of Nexuiz. I am playing it. But I would not let my children play it as long as I still call them "children" (once I have any). Even though I do know Nexuiz is one of the most "harmless" FPS games out there - it has about the nicest community (insult swordfighting isn't common), you respawn with a powerful weapon when you die (so dying is less "serious"), you move insanely fast which makes it extremely unrealistic. And the gore is really not that much, especially because it disappears fast.

OTOH, if he really wants to play a FPS and is "too young", and if I have no chance of doing anything against that - I might recommend Nexuiz for the aforementioned reasons.

[C.Brutail]

I agree with you in some points.
I realy recommend not to play ANYTHING at school. LOL, have I've gone made, or forgot my roots? Nope, I haven't forgotten I've started to play FPS when I was 14, and it was in the firs year of grammar school. But I can remember, that my grades were starting to become wors in that time too. Not much, but the change was significant. So I realy recommend, NOT to play any games in school (on the other hand, I just can't forget all those awesome deathmatches with quake2... )

But If you can't stand, here's what to do:
Originating from the nature of quake games, you don't even have to install it on the pc you wanna play. Simply configure up the game for your liking, (and ofc. tune the graphical settings to the pc you wanna play on), and then write out the whole Nexuiz folder to a CD-RW (or a pendrive, that way it will be writable too). All the game data will be loaded in run time, and apart from the first few minutes, and the relative longer loading times, you'll never notice you're playing from CD. And if your teacher asks, you can simply quit and eject the CD or unmount the pendrive.

[torus]

Just to add to what C.Brutail said; If your teacher comes over, and you are playing it off of the drive, do NOT pull a flash drive out without unmounting it first. I have lost 2 flash drives, a 256 mb on and a 2 gig one from doing this. You probably know this, but just in case

Also, my mom is a teacher, and teachers can be really offended if you are off playing a FPS or doing something else while they are trying to teach. Make sure its OK first (I wouldnt even try— in my school playing any games on the computers equals a detention/ write up). Just try not to exhume disrespect, because it will undoubably bite you in the ass later on.

[Psychcf]

I got in trouble for playing "Frets on Fire" one day at school, me and my friend were having a duel between two computers at the library, we got in trouble. It was still awesome though.

Let's not flamewar about this, but I'm going to say if you are over 12, go ahead and play it, as long as you don't turn into a psychopath and kill everyone.

[torus]

I played Descent II when I was eight, and every night since then I have had nightmares where I launch guided missiles at droids in an inescapable martian mine

Oh, and make sure that you dont convince yourself that the hook exists in real life. Very difficult to explain when they find someone who has tried to tarzan swing to school on a length of twine.

[ai]

Heh, one day my entire class played Quake with each other and the funny thing is... so did the teacher

But of course this was on our last year in high school just a few months from graduation. There were other times my classmates just started to play Quake whenever they liked. And the teacher said that if someone walked in on us we would just say that we are studying the game engine and the graphics

[officer_rabbit]

ya to those people that say that they recommend I not take this to school, don't worry. This is a class of High School students whom are either 17 or 18 and it is only for those days, like today, where we have nothing to do such as a 2-hour delay.

[Psychcf]

the one thing that's fun is having a lan party at school. One day you just set up a server, set the port to 8080 b/c of the firewall, and then just get that computer's network IP (which is very easy) and have everyone connect to wha.tev.e.r:8080 and instant lan party

[Shoe]

My high school CIS class runs biweekly LAN parties as a fund raiser, actually. I've tried to get Nex in, but 1.5 ran too slow and 2.0 would randomly lock up; I haven't had the chance to test the most recent versions.