XPilot is now available from http://www.xpilot.org/
and is no longer carried here.

XPilot is a multi-player 2D space game. Some features are borrowed from
classics like the Atari coin-ups Asteriods and Gravitar, and the
home-computer games Thrust (Commdore 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. 
    - Game objective and gameplay adjustable through a number of options,
      specified on the commandline, in special option files, or in the map
      files. Examples of modes of the game: 
        + classical dogfight; equipped with only your gun, you have to rely
          on your maneuvering and tactical skills 
        + team; fight together, steal other teams'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) 
        + all out nuclear war; chose carefully between more than 15 weapon
          and defense systems to stay alive and annihilate your enemies 
        + race; make it through the deadly course before your opponents 
    - Adjustable gravity; adjustable by putting special attractors or
      deflectors in the world, or by adjusting the global gravity in
    - various ways. 
    - Cannons and personalized and vengeful robot fighters give you a hard
      time. 
    - Watch your energy, and remember to 'dock' with a fuel station to
      refuel before it's too late. 
    - Defend your home base, or terrorize and steal someone else's. 
    - 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. 

To start playing, you need to connect to a server by using a client program
called xpilot. There are always servers running if you check with the meta
server, but if you for some reason do not want to join them, you'll have
to start a server of your own (see man-page xpilots(6)). 

For more information see the XPilot homepage at http://www.xpilot.org/

Bert Gijsbers