Interested to have a chat regarding an open-source FPS. I know discord is a bad look, but just to get connected @joe3178

Realistically, we would need to raise like 10 million so we could work full time on it and buy quality art. Outside of that it's just a pipe dream.

If someone who actually knows how to run a business, wants to start this up I would gladly work at half of my corporate rate.

If I was a billionaire I literally would do nothing but fund to open source video game projects. And then maybe pull a Red Hat and monetize it somehow.

A high-performance, multiplayer MVP would be the first order of business. No need for art so early. Remember fy_iceworld - that did not need much art!

The question is, what to build it on. Godot?

Depends...

Are we talking about actually getting this done or just dreaming of a nice billionaire giving us money ?

https://codeberg.org/Liblast/liblast-framework

I'd start with that if you want to build it in Godot.

However, I'd prefer to build it from scratch with an actual engine designed for an FPS.

ID Tech for example makes amazing FPS games that aren't resource hungry.

From 30 seconds of googling,

https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG

Seems to be a modernized version of the last Doom engine.

Hypothetically if we could actually get a team together I'd put up my own money to get art done. However, I still think creating a high quality FPS would require money at some point.

> The community can self correct, it can ban people.

The problem is that somewhere along the way, we decided that banning toxic users was some kind of infringement on "free speech". It's wild to me that people think sites like Twitter are a better place with previously banned but now reinstated toxic users.

> It's wild to me that people think sites like Twitter are a better place with previously banned but now reinstated toxic users.

It's because the people doing this had a test for "toxicity" with 100% sensitivity and 0% specificity. It's easy to catch criminals if you lock up everyone ever accused.

i played CS competitively and the cheating was horrendous. if i had to put a number to it, i would guess that 50% were cheating in some form simply because it wasn't very difficult. I would ultimately be relying on checking the number of digits in your Steam ID to tell whether this account was fresh (higher probability that you bought a new one and were cheating). I think the anon matchmaking is the horrible part, not the anti cheat software.

>I think the anon matchmaking is the horrible part, not the anti cheat software.

Exactly. That's why an invite only community server can work.

Anti cheat is a losing game.

i disagree. Faceit and others have really done a great job. Riot's anticheat is also fairly effective. Anyway, it all depends on what you're trying to achieve. If it's casual gameplay, then who cares (although I wouldn't want to play in a server with cheaters even casually). But if you have ranks and a competitive scene, then anticheat is crucial