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Beta 0.2 of the community revival brings Ace of Spades back with AoS Revival Remastered, a rebuilt game client, the BattleSpades dedicated server, official servers in Europe and the USA, accounts, and a server browser. How to play Ace of Spades.
Ace of Spades was never just another shooter. It was rifles, spades, jetpacks, trenches, towers, and terrible ideas—all colliding in a world you could reshape mid-fight.
The revival brings that exact spirit forward through measured protocol work, open code, and infrastructure the community can actually own. No black boxes. No vanishing servers. Just a battlefield built to last.
Measure the real client and document the truth.
Turn those findings into clean, maintainable code.
Put players, hosts, modders, and makers together again.
Beta 0.2 ships all three: the server that runs matches, the client you play with, and the online services that connect them.
A from-scratch, server-authoritative dedicated server. It works with the original Steam client and the new revival client, and keeps everyone in sync while players shoot, build, collapse, explode, and respawn.
A new native client for Windows with a server browser, Quick Play, Create Match, Map Creator, profiles, and skins. It uses the game assets from your own Ace of Spades installation.
About the clientAccounts, the public server list, verified community listings, match lobbies, profiles, and leaderboards, all run from aosplay.net.
Found a bug? Bug reports, playtests, and match calls happen in the Discord.
Install the client, learn the keys, find a server and bring your friends. Step-by-step guides with real in-game screenshots.
Start hereDownload and install the BattleSpades client, import your Ace of Spades files, sign in with AoSPlay, Steam or as a guest, and get into your first match.
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BasicsEvery default key in BattleSpades (the original Ace of Spades layout), how to rebind keys, and which graphics settings to pick, including the RETAIL shader look.
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PlayUse the Server Browser, Direct Connect and Quick Play, host your own match from the Match Lobby, and learn all ten Ace of Spades game modes and the classes.
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SocialAdd friends, see who's online, send invites (even to offline friends), join a friend's lobby with LEAVE + JOIN, and play together in a Match Lobby.
Read guideThe dedicated server does more than accept connections. It reconstructs the rules that made the original battlefield feel right.
Byte-faithful VXL streaming, CRC validation, block edits, destruction, and disconnected structure collapse.
Server-resolved hit-scan weapons, headshots, tracers, per-weapon tuning, grenades, deaths, and respawns.
Bots run, flank, take cover, build, and chase objectives in every mode, with fair perception and aim.
The ten retail Match Lobby modes, from Team Deathmatch to Occupation, plus Arena.
Fortify the ridge. Tunnel under the objective. Turn somebody’s beautiful tower into physics debris.
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MAP / 03Each phase unlocked the next. Beta 0.2 is out; the work now is closing the gaps players find on the way to 1.0.
Packet formats, ENet transport, movement constants, and client prediction behavior captured in living docs and tests.
Combat, VXL worlds, modes, bots, admin tools, plugins, and portable releases operating on the clean-room core.
New client, online services, accounts, and official servers in Europe and the USA, released 21 September 2026.
Retail parity gaps, more platforms, Steam browser listings, and long-session stability. Track it on the status page.
The short version: yes, you can play it now; yes, it is open; and yes, there is still plenty left to fix.
Ask the people currently breaking—and fixing—the build.
A community project that brings Ace of Spades: Battle Builder back: a new game client, the BattleSpades dedicated server, and the online services (accounts, server list, lobbies) that connect them. The current release is Beta 0.2 (0.2.1-beta.4).
Yes. Beta 0.1 came out on 21 September 2026 and Beta 0.2 followed in early October; official servers run in Europe and the USA. The original Steam client can join BattleSpades servers, and AoS Revival Remastered, the new game client, adds a server browser, Quick Play, and Create Match. Get it from the download page.
Yes. The revival client does not ship the original game content; on first start it imports the assets from your own Ace of Spades installation.
AoS Revival Remastered runs on Windows (installer, or portable x64 and ARM64), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux (x64 and ARM64). BattleSpades server archives are published for the same systems.
No. It is an independent, community-built preservation project and is not affiliated with the original publisher. BattleSpades is a from-scratch, clean-room server.
Yes. Download a portable BattleSpades archive, run it with --check, and open UDP port 27015. Verified community servers can be listed in the public server browser. The server hosting guides cover configuration, modes, bots, and moderation.
In the Ace of Spades community Discord. Include your client version, operating system, the server you were on, and what happened.
Bring your code, your maps, your server, or just your favorite terrible strategy. The next round needs players.
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