Hi!
OA new version will be OA3, a content reboot with more coherent assets quality and art style (which will be more anime-ish). Unfortunately the progress is slow due to many reasons (and covid didn't help). ETA: when it's done.
Engine and gamecode development happens pubicly, on github
https://github.com/OpenArena and nightly builds for easy testing gamecode (as OAX mod) and Windows binaries are available (
here and
here respectively). Engine and gamecode will just be an evolution of current ones, while user interface will get a big overhaul (early preview in oax_m nightly builds).
At the moment it's not possible to register new users on the forum, however most community activitiy happens
in the Discord server.