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Cube 2: Sauerbraten

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Not to be confused with Q.U.B.E. 2.

Cube 2: Sauerbraten
Cube 2: Sauerbraten cover
Developers
Wouter van Oortmerssen
Lee Salzman
Mike Dysart
Robert Pointon
Quinton Reeves
Commercial support Dot3 Labs
Engines
Sauerbraten
Release dates
Windows May 6, 2004
macOS (OS X) May 6, 2004
Linux May 6, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Multiplayer
Series Cube
Cube 2: Sauerbraten on MobyGames
Cube 2: Sauerbraten on Wikipedia
Cube
Cube 2001
Cube 2: Sauerbraten 2004

Key points

Open source
Available for free

General information

Official forums
Official wiki
Quadropolis - Fan site for Cube engine games
Sauerworld - Community blog/news/forums
Online version of README file
Source code

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sauerbraten
<path-to-game>\data[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/sauerbraten/
Linux $HOME/.sauerbraten
Single player games cannot be saved
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Video

In-game graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.
In-game display settings.
In-game display settings.
In-game resolution settings.
In-game resolution settings.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game mouse settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For major controls only. To manually bind a key, open the console (T) and use bind k a (with "k" being a key and "a" being a command). Further details can be found in the README file.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Implemented with a software cursor, which is susceptible to framerate changes and will feel different from the normal OS/hardware cursor.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
128
Online play
128

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Run the server.bat file (found in <path-to-game>). Further details on running a server can be found in the README file.
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Open the console (T) and use connect <ip> <port> <password> (note that the port and password fields are optional). Further details can be found in the README file.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 28765, 28766
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
PowerPC support was removed from the 2020 builds onwards.[1]
Linux
[2]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 576 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 4 MX
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 590 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 4 MX


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. Sauerbraten Cube 2 - last accessed on 10 January 2023
  2. Debian -- Package Search Results -- sauerbraten - last accessed on 2021-01-26