The Smokin' Guns game started its life under the name of Western Quake 3. It was originally developed by a team known as 'Iron Claw Interactive'. They released WQ3 beta 2.0 in 2003, after which development all but ceased. In May 2005, development of Western Quake 3 was taken over of by a bunch of cowboys calling themselves The Smokin' Guns with the blessings of the former team. With the release of the stand alone version in 2008, the game itself was renamed to Smokin' Guns.
Smokin' Guns is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere. Our server runs this game in 'Free For All' Deathmatch mode (we like deathmatch!).
Server Details
Our game server is a 64 bit AMD box with 4 GB of RAM running 64 bit Debian Linux. One of the many games we run on this powerful server is Smokin' Guns.
The altFIRE Smokin' Guns game runs a default map cycle in sequential rotation. The max players is set to 12. Maps run with a timelimit of 20 minutes and a fraglimit of 25. When either is reached, the next map will load.
Getting and installing Smokin' Guns
You obviously will need a copy of Smokin' Guns to connect to the server and play. The good news is that this game is completely free. You can download for your particular platform from the official site at http://www.smokin-guns.net.
Connecting to the server
As long as your version of Smokin' Guns is up to date, connecting to the server is simple. To connect to the server, do the following:
1) Start Smokin' Guns
2) Drop the command console using the ' key (usually beside number key 1)
3) Type the following to initiate the connection:
/connect games.altfire.com:27963
Note the :port number on the end. We have chosen to not password protect this server, so even if you are not registered, you can still connect to this server!