OPENASE
OPENASE
THE EYE IS BACK.
The legendary server browser from the LAN-party days, rebuilt from scratch. Find a server, check the ping, spot your mates, double-click, frag. Quake 3, Urban Terror, Enemy Territory, Call of Duty, Jedi Knight, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, QuakeWorld, Unreal Tournament, Multi Theft Auto, Battlefield, Counter-Strike, DOOM 3, Tribes and more: 70 games in all, now with an English and French interface.
Muscle memory
Exactly where you left it.
Filter tree on the left. Servers on the right. Friends, players and rules at the bottom. Colored names, padlocks, your favorites starred. Your hands still know the way.
Pick your poison
70 games. Live masters.
Every list below comes from a master server that is still answering today, or from the Steam Web API. Pick a game, hit F5, watch the list fill up.
Quake 3 engine
Quake III Arena
quake3arena · excessiveplus · dpmaster
Urban Terror
master.urbanterror.info
OpenArena
dpmaster.deathmask.net
Enemy Territory
idsoftware · etlegacy masters
Call of Duty
Activision master
Call of Duty 2
Activision master
Call of Duty 4
Activision master
Call of Duty: United Offensive
coduomaster.activision.com
Jedi Outcast
jkhub · jk2mv masters
Jedi Academy
jkhub · jk2mv masters
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
wolfmaster.idsoftware.com
Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force
master.stvef.org · efmaster.tjps.eu
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
master.1fxmod.org
Quake 2 and QuakeWorld
QuakeWorld
master.quakeservers.net · qwmaster.fodquake.net
Quake 2
master.quakeservers.net · master.itbacon.com
Kingpin
master.kingpin.info · master4.kingpin.info
Half-Life and Source (Steam)
Counter-Strike 1.6
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Team Fortress Classic
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Day of Defeat
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Half-Life
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Deathmatch Classic
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Ricochet
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Counter-Strike: Source
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Day of Defeat: Source
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Valve A2S · Steam Web API key
Unreal engine
Unreal Tournament
GameSpy via 333networks
Unreal
333networks · OpenSpy
Deus Ex
333networks
Rune
333networks · OpenSpy
Wheel of Time
333networks
Mobile Forces
333networks
Unreal Tournament 2004
333networks · OpenSpy
Unreal Tournament 2003
OpenSpy
GameSpy (v1)
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
333networks
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
333networks · OpenSpy
No One Lives Forever
OpenSpy
No One Lives Forever 2
OpenSpy
Heretic II
333networks · OpenSpy
Gore
OpenSpy
Drakan: Order of the Flame
333networks
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
333networks
Global Operations
333networks · OpenSpy
Vietcong
OpenSpy
Star Trek: Bridge Commander
OpenSpy
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
333networks · OpenSpy
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead
333networks · OpenSpy
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Breakthrough
333networks · OpenSpy
Battlefield 1942
OpenSpy
Soldier of Fortune
333networks · errorist · OpenSpy
GameSpy v2 and v3
Battlefield 2
OpenSpy · battlefield2.ms.playbf2.ru
Battlefield Vietnam
OpenSpy
Halo: Combat Evolved
s1.master.hosthpc.com
Halo: Custom Edition
s1.master.hosthpc.com
SWAT 4
master.swat4stats.com · OpenSpy
Tribes: Vengeance
OpenSpy
F.E.A.R.
OpenSpy
Star Wars: Battlefront
OpenSpy
Doom 3 engine
DOOM 3
idnet.ua-corp.com
Quake 4
q4master.idsoftware.com
Their own protocols
Starsiege: Tribes
t1m1.tribes1.co · t1m1.pu.net
Tribes 2
TribesNext list
Savage: The Battle for Newerth
Savage DRX list
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
OpenRVS list
Ghost Recon
Add server · LAN
Ghost Recon Demo
Add server · LAN
The Sum of All Fears
Add server · LAN
The Sum of All Fears Demo
Add server · LAN
Multi Theft Auto
Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas
master.multitheftauto.com
Loadout
Everything ASE did. Then some.
No ads, no account, no tracking. Just the tool you remember, written in fast native Rust.
Ping. Flux. PL.
Every server is pinged several times. You get the average, how much it jumps around and how many packets got lost. Pick the server that won't rubber-band.
The Tree
Game types as folders. Tick Mods, Maps, Kill Cam, PunkBuster, country. Build your own filters and color filters.
Double-click. Frag.
OpenASE launches the game with the right mod, your name and the password. Enter works too.
Where are my mates?
Friends tracked on every server you scan, in groups, with a ping when one starts playing. Find any player in a second.
Location
Country for every server and a country filter, from a free monthly GeoIP database. Play where the ping is.
LAN party mode
Special > LAN servers broadcasts on your network and lists every game server it hears. Plug in, play.
Favorites ×8
Favorites1 to 8 like the old days, recently joined, recently added, import and export server lists and your whole profile.
Auto-Search
Finds your installed games in the registry, Steam folders or a full disk sweep. Then it just works.
English & French
The whole interface comes in English and French. Options > General > Language, or let it follow your system.
Make it yours
Pick your toolbar buttons and the colors of the server list, with Quake color codes on or off. Options > Toolbar and Colors.
A sound per friend
Give each friend their own sound: the default one, none, or a .wav file (.wav playback is Windows-only).
Respawn
The servers never left.
The browser did. Thousands of servers are still up, run by communities that never stopped playing.
The All-Seeing Eye arrives. Every clan, every LAN party, every late night starts with its server list.
Yahoo buys it. The masters go dark one by one, and the Eye slowly closes.
OpenASE. Open source, live community masters, native and fast. The Eye opens again, for good this time.
RTFM
The manual.
Two minutes and you're in. Press F1 in OpenASE to land here.
Quick start
- Download the package for your system (Windows, Linux or macOS), unzip, run OpenASE. The setup wizard asks for your connection and your name.
- Click a game in the tree. OpenASE downloads the list and pings everything.
- Sort by Ping, tick filters (game type, mods, maps, Kill Cam, country...).
- Double-click a server, or press Enter. The game starts and connects.
- No game path yet? Tools > Options > Games > Auto-Search.
Keys
| F5 | Refresh the selected game or list |
| Enter | Join the selected server |
| Ctrl+E | Show the selected server |
| Ctrl+D | Clear every filter |
| Ctrl+Q | Collapse the whole tree |
| F1 | This manual |
Friends & lists
- Friends > Add friend: name (colors ignored, partial match), game, group Friends1 to 4.
- In the Friends window each friend can have a sound: default, none or a .wav file (.wav playback is Windows-only).
- Right-click a server: join, refresh, favorite, add to Favorites1 to 8, copy address.
- File > Import server list reads any text with
ip:portentries. - File > Export user profile saves everything to one JSON file.
Good to know
- Ping average round-trip, Flux its variation, PL lost packets.
- Filter > New filter builds rules like
players greater than 4. Tick “color filter” to highlight matches everywhere. - The Half-Life and Source game lists (Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and more) need your free Steam Web API key in Options > General.
- Options > General > Language switches between English and French; "System" follows your OS.
- Options > Toolbar (or right-click the toolbar) chooses the toolbar buttons. Options > Colors sets the list background, alternating rows, selection and text, and turns Quake color codes on or off.
- Ghost Recon and The Sum of All Fears have no master server left: add their servers with Add server, or find them on your LAN.
- The Join command of many newer games is not tested with the game installed yet (issue 1).
- Settings live in
%APPDATA%\OpenASE.
Build it yourself
Compile & play.
FAQ
Questions & answers.
Is this the original All-Seeing Eye?
No. OpenASE is new code written from scratch, inspired by the original. It contains nothing from the Yahoo program and is not affiliated with Yahoo or the original authors.
Is it free? Any ads, accounts or tracking?
Free software under the GPL-3.0. No ads, no account. OpenASE talks to game master servers and game servers, downloads the DB-IP country database once a month (can be turned off) and checks GitHub for a new release (can be turned off). That's it.
Why do the Half-Life and Source games need a Steam key?
Valve shut down the old UDP master for the Half-Life games, and the Source games (Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch) never used it. The server list now comes from the Steam Web API, which needs a free personal key. Servers you add by hand work without one.
Linux? macOS?
Yes. Every release ships Windows, Linux (x64, AppImage or archive) and macOS (universal, Apple Silicon and Intel) builds, all tested in CI. On macOS the app is not notarized yet: right-click it and choose Open the first time. Your games still need to run on your system: ioquake3, Urban Terror, OpenArena, ET: Legacy, UT99 (OldUnreal) and CS 1.6 have native versions; Call of Duty needs Windows or Wine / Proton.
My game is missing.
Games live in one JSON file. If yours speaks the Quake 3, GameSpy or Valve query protocol and still has a live master, it is often a few lines. Open an issue on GitHub.