Windage: Arena

Playtest build · 0.52 · Windows

WINDAGE: ARENA

A first-person archery duel with Quake legs. Strafe-jump the length of a 120-metre hall, slide into cover, and put an arrow through a rising balloon — or through the other archer.

Join our discord server to find whom to play with: https://discord.gg/KfnHa2svn

Balloon Hunt

One balloon at a time drifts up from the floor of the gallery and escapes at the roof. Both archers see it. Both can see each other.

• Distance pays. A pop is worth 20 points × (range / 10 m)², capped at 750. A 100-metre shot is the whole match.
• Streaks stack. Consecutive pops multiply ×1.25, ×1.5, ×2. A miss or a death resets the run — you'll hear it drop.
• The other archer is a target too. A kill pays 300 plus a fifth of their score; they're back in 3 seconds.
• First to 1000, or the most after five minutes. Tied at the clock? Overtime — next lead wins.

The bow

• Hold to draw, release to shoot. A snap-shot leaves at a fraction of the speed; a full draw takes about a second and hits like one. Only a full draw one-shots the head.
• Arrows are simulated — drag, drop, and they carry your own velocity when you loose on the move. Lead your target, aim over the far ones.
• Hold at full draw for three seconds and the tremor sets in; four more and the bow lets go on its own.
• Fletching is your colour, so you always know whose arrow just went past your ear.

The legs

Movement is Quake III's, on purpose: air acceleration, strafe jumps that chain past the sprint, circle jumps off a mouse sweep. Sprint and press C to slide — you keep your speed, you can steer, and you can shoot the whole way down. A jump out of a slide carries the speed on. Nothing brakes you but the floor.

Modes

PLAY ONLINE	1v1 against a real person on the public server. The menu picks the arena where someone is already waiting; the numbered buttons join a specific one to meet a friend.
YOU VS BOT	The same match against a bot that solves the same ballistics you do and misses by a dice roll — no aimbot, no hidden help.
PRACTICE	The hall to yourself. Learn the drop, learn the strafe jump, then press E to freeze time and fly a camera around your own shot.

Controls

WASD · Mouse	Move · Look
LMB hold / release	Draw / shoot
Shift	Sprint (toggle)
Space	Jump (hold it — it fires on touchdown)
C	Slide (while sprinting) · ends a slide
E	Director camera (offline): freeze, fly, screenshot with F12
Tab · Esc	Free the cursor · Leave the match

Before you run it

• Windows 10/11, 64-bit. Unzip anywhere and run WindageArena.exe. No installer.
• The build is unsigned, so SmartScreen will object: More info → Run anyway.
• Opens 1920×1080 windowed; resolution, fullscreen, v-sync, sensitivity and the arrow cam are in SETTINGS.
• Online play is two arenas of two on one server — if both are full, the bot is waiting.
• Keep the build current: an old client cannot join a newer server ("Config mismatch").

Attribution on assets/movement goes to www.keviniglesias.com