When comparing AssaultCube vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” FlightGear is ranked 4th while AssaultCube is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Minimal resource usage
AssaultCube is extremely fast, small, and network efficient for an FPS game.
Pro Cross platform support
AssaultCube runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Pro Fast-paced multiplayer FPS gameplay
AssaultCube does a good job of adding fun, fast paced shooter gameplay (like in Counter Strike) to the open source world.
Pro Activity in multipayer
Many people online. You can play it every time you wish.
Pro In-game level editor with support for realtime multiplayer editing
Admins of a server can enter edit mode for a map during gameplay, updating components of the map live without needing to run other software or develop any code or image assets.
Pro Variety of fun game modes
Pro Has a decent number of community servers
Pro Worldwide scenery
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Pro Free and Open Source
All code written for FlightGear is opensource and available for anyone to use.
Pro Crash animations in some aircrafts
Pro It has world-wide multiplayer
Pro Live cockpit
Pro A lot of aircrafts to add
Pro It has amazing graphics
Pro You can almost recreate real incidents
Pro No bugs
Cons
Con Few weapons
Few weapons. Really. One assault weapon, one pistol, one sniper rifle and one shotgun. Boring.
Con Lack of gameplay refinement
AssaultCube does not have that many weapons (though they do have some variety). Additionally, the game is not very balanced, as spawn points are sometimes in vision of other enemy spawn points.
Con Outdated graphics
Based off the original Cube engine, which has dated quite a bit.
Con Not as graphically advanced as commercial competition
Con Getting stuck upside down
After a crash a pilot may be stuck in an upside down position with no way to recover.