Quake 3?

Kosmiche · 17 Nov 2012 at 11:58

I enjoy playing quake live so I dug out my copy of quake 3 and team arena to play online.

I installed monster browser but I can only find about 10 q3base servers when I search. Is that accurate?

I don't mind playing modded but I can't use the ingame brower as its terrible and all I can find are "excessive" servers when I use it.

I just want ctf, team dm etc but custom maps would be good aswell.

Anyone have a list of servers or a good server browser program that will help me?

Thanks. I'm kind of clueless

FrenchTart · 17 Nov 2012 at 11:59

Why not just play QuakeLive?

Kosmiche · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:01

Quakelive is ok but I want to try out quake 3 and see if its better, I would like to try custom maps and stuff.

What do I get for buying quake live premium?

d_brennen · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:04

You're about 10 years late to the party, just play QL

Kosmiche · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:06

srsly? I thought trying out custom maps would be fun, I don't mind bad graphics I still enjoy ut 99 and I had fun with the recent free release of bf1942.

should I get quake live premium then?

FrenchTart · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:08

The release of QL pretty much killed the already nearly dead Q3 scene so unless you just play singleplayer then yeah...QL it is.

I can't comment on QL premium as I've not tried it.

d_brennen · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:10

No, play free QL and if you fall in love with it then buy the premium sub. By 10 years late I meant to the Q3 scene, rather than graphics/gameplay wise. You'll get murdered by Q3 players who have been religiously playing since '99 anyway and likely not enjoy it that much

caz32 · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:12

QL doesn't have blood

Kosmiche · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:13

d_brennen said:
No, play free QL and if you fall in love with it then buy the premium sub. By 10 years late I meant to the Q3 scene, rather than graphics/gameplay wise. You'll get murdered by Q3 players who have been religiously playing since '99 anyway and likely not enjoy it that much

Thanks, I consider myself pretty handy at twitch fps though.

I'll take your advice and buy premium once I've had enough of standard ql.

Do many people play premium as standard ql isn't exactly bustling with players?

FrenchTart · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:22

Eames said:
Thanks, I consider myself pretty handy at twitch fps though.

I'll take your advice and buy premium once I've had enough of standard ql.

Do many people play premium as standard ql isn't exactly bustling with players?

As far as I'm aware premium and standard players play with each other for the most part. At least in regards to the basic maps.

QL sadly isn't overwhelmed with players though, you're right :/

d_brennen · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:22

QL has never been exactly bursting with players, standard or premium, I only play every few weeks tbh.

Teaf · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:34

I'd have played more if Threewave was part of it, but it's not and that's what I spent all my years in Q3 playing.

badcompany · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:45

quake 3 still plays better than quakelive mind you and its nice to run with some of the good old maps

baldm3 for example.

warren_1979 · 4 Dec 2013 at 18:04

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I thought it better than starting a new one.

I have just installed Quake 3 on my new Windows build for a bit of nostalgia.

I have updated to 1.32 and set the resolution to 1080p. All seems good.

But what is 1.32c patch all about and how do I install it?

Cheers.

jubei · 4 Dec 2013 at 20:14

Eames said:
Thanks, I consider myself pretty handy at twitch fps though.

Would love an update to how you have found yourself on quakelive

For non-quake players and new school players its a whole different ballgame, really shows up just how easy and dumbed down modern fps have become.

Hope you are enjoying it though, i havent played in years now, hate how you have to have premium for the decent tournament maps, the ones in standard rotation are horrendous and if anything will just put newcomers off of the game.

When i get uni out of the way i hope to get back into quake again and will sub for premium.

ak22 · 4 Dec 2013 at 21:13

Quake 3 team arena

Rroff · 4 Dec 2013 at 21:19

warren_1979 said:
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I thought it better than starting a new one.

I have just installed Quake 3 on my new Windows build for a bit of nostalgia.

I have updated to 1.32 and set the resolution to 1080p. All seems good.

But what is 1.32c patch all about and how do I install it?

Cheers.

IIRC the c patch was a sort of optional one that protected against a couple of exploits - mostly relating to being able to crash servers.

Any Quake 3/TA servers still running other than the odd mod will likely be running either OSP or CPMA (will be few if any running baseq3) but 99% of the community have moved over to quakelive AFAIK - never had any problems finding populated games in QL but its a few months since I last checked in.

arc@css · 4 Dec 2013 at 21:46

Upgraded your main rig I see, Rroff? You have good taste in ssd's, as do I.

Omaeka · 5 Dec 2013 at 01:12

People tend to shy away from things that take skill or effort, hence why bazillions of people play CoD and Battlefield where pot luck do most of the work for you. Quakelive has recently had tournaments held with pretty big cash prizes and big viewer bases, so it can't be all that dead.

jonjay · 5 Dec 2013 at 10:15

Quake Live scene is pretty active. There are a lot of premium player, me being one of them.