With OpenArena you have that some maps still look really nice in 2023 if you set all settings to the highest settings, which any modern GPU can easily handle. Some maps are just plain super cool. So I mean some maps can give you an experience that the best commercial titles can't match right now. Urban Terror is probably similar in that it has been developed more and more over the years and has received better maps and features.
Can you just tell which maps are those? Whenever I check OpenArena I am saddened to see that every server is empty of humans or there are just few russians arguing in regular stype maps
Yeah, nobody plays open arena. Xonotic, another open source shooter, on the other hand has a lot of players.
I still do, because there is no other game which can match the experience of jump-slide-fps action as this one does, simple as that. Sadly there are only ever two maps where people still play and neither of them roll Dust2 or Ryiadh maps, which are my fav.
True it has a golden combination of realism and quakeism.