Weapons and power-ups are scattered around the maps, and range in destructive power from light machine guns to tactical nuclear missiles.
The master server in turn is operated by Longbow Digital Arts from a location in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
For the in-game deformable terrain a Binary-Triangle Tree-based dynamic view dependent level of detail height field renderer was utilized.
On January 20, 2017 the game was released as freeware and the source code as open-source under the GPLv3 license on GitHub.
[9] It won the 2000 Independent Games Festival grand prize, later renamed to the Seumas McNally Grand Prize in honor of the game's lead programmer who died on 21 March 2000, after receiving the award.