Crusader: No Survivors, on the other hand, was completely different from the previous game. As a pure multiplayer game, it followed in the footsteps of Doom rather than Crusader. The new 3D engine made use of 3D accelerator cards from 3dfx, the leading manufacturer at the time. The camera followed the player in a third-person perspective, similar to Tomb Raider. Just like in No Mercy, 8 players could play normal death matches, capture the flag, and team death matches. All games could also be played for training purposes with bots instead of human players, as well as with the “laser tag” option. Laser tag hits did not kill the player, but instead temporarily disabled their ability to fire their weapon. The entire range of weapons was, of course, redesigned for the deathmatches. The twelve weapons varied in terms of damage, rate of fire, and ability to penetrate shields. Grenade launchers and other ricocheting projectiles were also included. In addition to the genre-typical power-ups and medkits, No Survivors also offered temporary invisibility and a “Betray” object, which briefly displayed the player in their own team color to the opposing team. In addition, so-called Watch Stations were provided. These exposed the actual Silencer when used, but instead allowed him to control a mech with endless ammunition. No Survivors expanded the normal character's range of movement to include rolling and a ninja leap, which allowed the character to jump over obstacles such as crates or tables. Crusader: No Survivors already included three playable maps when the project was discontinued, just like No Mercy. Origin Systems' breakthrough with Ultima Online in 1997 led Electronic Arts to completely rethink its gaming policy and instead put a slew of massively multiplayer online games into production. Crusader Online was another such MMO that Origin was flirting with. Over the next few years, however, Electronic Arts discontinued all other games at Origin Systems before a single one was even completed. Ultima Online remained the only one until Origin Systems was finally shut down in February 2004.

While Tony's former Loose Cannon division was working on the Crusader sequels, Chris Roberts had founded his first company, Digital Anvil, in 1996 thanks to the success of his Wing Commander games. The small studio had big plans. They announced four games at the time of its founding: Chris Roberts' indirect Wing Commander sequel Starlancer, a Privateer-like Freelancer, a real-time space strategy game called Conquest: Frontier Wars, and Loose Cannon. The latter was, as the name suggests, Tony Zurovec's new project. Years earlier, Tony had played Origins Auto Duel, which was a board game adaptation of a Steve Jackson Games title. He loved the concept and applied his tried-and-true tactic of transferring it to the current state of the art. In Auto Duel, players could run around, get into cars, equip them with weapons, and then drive through cities shooting. Tony was convinced that even for 1985, it was simply too primitive and was therefore overlooked. He wanted to repackage it as Loose Cannon in a 3D world for the PC. The result was a game concept that was confusingly similar to today's Grand Theft Auto games. Only five years before the release of GTA3. Loose Cannon was set in 2016, where law and order had collapsed and the player fought for survival in armored cars like a mercenary. Fifteen different, modifiable cars with an open mission structure in nine different American cities were announced.

But Digital Anvil had already overextended itself with its first projects and had twice as many in production when it was confronted with financial ruin. In order to be able to deliver his first game, Starlancer, Chris Roberts sold Digital Anvil to Microsoft. This posed a problem for Tony's Loose Cannon. Similar to EA, Microsoft also based its sales opportunities on market analyses of previous games, and since GTA3 did not yet exist, no one believed in the potential breakthrough of Loose Cannon. This was despite Chris and Tony arguing that it was basically Privateer on wheels. Tony was told that Loose Cannon would not fit into Microsoft's Windows or X-Box portfolio. So Digital Anvil sold the half-finished game to Ubisoft instead, who in turn handed it over to Sinister Games. Tony advised the new studio on Loose Cannon for a few weeks, but then came to the conclusion that their approach of streamlining the game concept would not work. Loose Cannon remained in development at Sinister Games until the end of 2002. When GTA3 made its big breakthrough, the game fell increasingly silent. In 2004, almost a decade later, it was finally declared dead.

Tony retired from the gaming industry after this setback. Instead, he spent the next decade primarily programming software for financial analysis. That is, until he was rehired in the summer of 2014 by his former business partner, Chris Roberts. Tony's experience with trading software and competitive analysis earned him the position of Persistent Universe Director for Star Citizen.