--- layout: help game: odamex download_link: https://odamex.net/ ---

Tips

Connecting

While Odamex does have a launcher, if requires that you have DOOM assets available locally. It won't launch the game without it, which means you either need the original game data of open assets such as Freedoom.

However, if you connect to the game server directly, odamex will download the required assets automatically from the server.

From the terminal, type:

odamex -connect {{ site.content.domain_name }} +set cl_name "YourName"

Of course, substitute "YourName" with the in-game name you want.