When comparing Terasology vs AssaultCube, the Slant community recommends AssaultCube for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” AssaultCube is ranked 24th while Terasology is ranked 79th. The most important reason people chose AssaultCube is:
AssaultCube is extremely fast, small, and network efficient for an FPS game.
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Pros
Pro Well written in Java
Java is well documented.
Pro Nice looking
Shaders, bloom, film grain and other effects can be enabled.
Pro Free sandbox alternative
The game is inspired by other titles like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress.
Pro Fully moddable
In the game you can create a mod and submit it as a module. You can select multiple modules when you make a new world.
Pro Extremely modular
The engine allows mix-and-match of features that you need.
Pro Active community
The community is very active in the development of the game, they participate regularly to Google Summer of Code and Google Code In.
Pro Can be Minecraft competitor
An open source alternative, fully customizable; easy mod support based on module pieces.
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
Cons
Con Buggy
Con Unstable
Con Slow
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Con Outdated graphics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.