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Few games today can put me in the heightened frenzy of an Unreal Tournament instagib match. Pure, unadulterated adrenaline.

For a few years Sauerbraten scratched that itch.

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UT1 was basically instagib by default: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3m1sszTEs&t=6s

So many sounds that will forever live in my head.

I think I actually beat UT99 on a laptop trackpad a couple years later. (School device)

i am such a slow old boomer now but i absolutely loved the sauerbraten TOSOK (Team One Shot One Kill) venice servers. also assault cube TOSOK/OSOK (dm variant). also UrbanTerror jump maps. ut_swim will always be in my heart.

I don’t know/remember TOSOK, is that a new mode? We used to play daily circa 2007-2010, my group of friends was in a well-known European clan. Haven’t played it since, sadly.

i think im mixing things up - that term might be unique to assault cube. in sauerbraten i remember a map called venice, everyone had snipers and its one shot to kill anyone, very satisfying if youre good and very frustrating if someones better than you.

I went to look for some videos of the game and damn… I guess it’s time to reinstall.

(Never played Assault Cube, always meant to but Sauerbraten was just so good)

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