Xpilot 5.0.1a1

Xpilot 5.0.1a1 is known as a multi-player 2D space game which is developed with rich features. Some features are borrowed from classics like the Atari coin-ups Asteroids and Gravitar, and the home-computer games Thrust (Commodore 64) and Gravity Force (Commodore Amiga), but XPilot has many new aspects too. Highlights include: True client/server based game; optimal speed for every player.

Meta server with up to date information about servers hosting games around the world. A Web of world-wide rating servers; compare your skills with pilots from all around the world, and climb the ladder of the world-wide rating list. 'Real physics'; particles of explosions and sparks from your engines all affect you if you're hit by them. This makes it possible to kill someone by blowing them into a wall with engine thrust or shock waves from explosions. Specialized editors for editing ship-shapes and maps.

Major Features:

1. True client/server based game; optimal speed for every player.
2. Meta server with up to date information about servers hosting games around the world.
3. A web of world-wide rating servers; compare your skills with pilots from all around the world, and climb the ladder of the world-wide rating list.
4. 'Real physics'; particles of explosions and sparks from your engines all affect you if you're hit by them. This makes it possible to kill someone by blowing them into a wall with engine thrust or shock waves from explosions.
5. Specialized editors for editing ship-shapes and maps.
6. Game objective and gameplay adjustable through a number of options, specified on the command line, in special option files, or in the map files. Examples of modes of the game:
7. classical dogfight; equipped with only your gun, you have to rely on your maneuvering and tactical skills
8. team; fight together, steal other team's treasures (involves flying around with a ball in a string, much like in Thrust) and blow up their targets (which are, no doubt, heavily guarded)
9. all out nuclear war; chose carefully between more than twenty weapon and defense systems to stay alive and annihilate your enemies
10. race; make it through the deadly course before your opponents
11. Adjustable gravity; adjustable by putting special attractors or deflectors in the world, or by adjusting the global gravity in various ways.
12. Cannons and personalized and vengeful robot fighters give you a hard time.
13. Watch your energy, and remember to 'dock' with a fuel station to refuel before it's too late.
14. Defend your home base, or terrorize and steal someone else's.
15. Equip your ship with the 15+ defense and weapon systems: afterburners, cloaking devices, sensors, transporters, extra cannons, mines and bombs, rockets (smarts, torpedos and nuclear), ECM, laser, extra tanks, autopilot etc.