Quake Live

ShiWarrior · 6 Jan 2015 at 18:19

Well I thought "being as its free" (via steam) I'll download it, missing the Q3 days..

and I try and load the game and it says quake live is down, is it down temporary or is this no longer in operation?

and why is this one free but Quake 3 is £14? they look the same to me?

ShiWarrior · 7 Jan 2015 at 17:02

it is working now

anyone play this ?

its good fun, just like the good old Q3 days...

the only thing I find odd is that everyone is the same colour, green !

qotsa · 7 Jan 2015 at 18:22

I go through periods of addiction with it still. Only instagib rails though, naturally!

Rroff · 7 Jan 2015 at 18:25

I play it on and off - don't have a lot of time for gaming these days or I'd play it more.

Fluke? · 7 Jan 2015 at 18:58

I'd been playing it pretty much exclusively since beta (username Stupid_Baddie if you want to add

), but currently going through a Titanfall binge and I find that as soon as I get used to one engine/movement style I find another impossible (the main reason I no longer play Fortress Forever too) so when I gave QL another blast last week I was even more utterly useless as I was when I was playing every day.
I'll be back at some point though I'm sure.

ShiWarrior · 7 Jan 2015 at 19:07

qotsa said:
I go through periods of addiction with it still. Only instagib rails though, naturally!

I can only do Instagib on UT, on quake I cant hit anything ! lol

my best gun is the shotgun :eek:

ShiWarrior · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:44

I'm addicted to this game now

anyone play it?

Westie · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:50

I play clan arena and ctf a lot.. I played quake 3 tdm ctf and rocket arena for around 10 years...

Best fps ever.

ShiWarrior · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:50

I keep playing the Team games (TDM/Freeze Tag and Domination) via the PLAY NOW button..

Drollic · 12 Jan 2015 at 22:08

Just started playing it every now and again. Never played the original due to cs.

ShiWarrior · 18 Jan 2015 at 14:44

I tried Clan Arena a couple of times and oh boy do I get abused at
because I'm new I get stupid remarks like "why don't you play" I've been kicked too

I cant learn this game when im not there...

I sometimes do pretty well on the team games, been top a couple of times which I'm happy about

Rroff · 18 Jan 2015 at 14:52

Clan arena is a cesspit of toxicity - was hilarious when I came back to the game after a couple of years break - jumped in CA and due to my old ranking it put me into a fairly high skilled game but it took me about half an hour to get my groove back - in the meantime was getting so much abuse, voted team shuffles by whichever team I ended up on, etc. etc. - shut them right up when I was back in my game and started mopping the floor with them over and over

(quite funny that 1-2 of the old regulars recognised me and was trying to warn them but they were mostly a newer generation of players and full of themselves).

ShiWarrior · 18 Jan 2015 at 14:53

Rroff said:
Clan arena is a cesspit of toxicity - was hilarious when I came back to the game after a couple of years break - jumped in CA and due to my old ranking it put me into a fairly high skilled game but it took me about half an hour to get my groove back - in the meantime was getting so much abuse, voted team shuffles by whichever team I ended up on, etc. etc. - shut them right up when I was back in my game and started mopping the floor with them over and over

lol

Rroff · 18 Jan 2015 at 15:04

CA takes a very different style to most other modes btw - atleast for me as I'm a very +forward player you'll just die over and over trying to do that, initially just spam those rockets/plasma and keep with the rest of your team, use cover and stay out of the open especially longer hallways where you can get railed from range until the other team numbers are dropping. Trying to use too much accuracy/precision and/or anything fancy in the opening half of a round will just get you killed.

arc@css · 19 Jan 2015 at 11:06

Although this is not normally my kind of mp, I've been enjoying watching some of the older quake pro matches. Amazing skills & very exciting!

I might actually have to give this another go.

BuffetSlayer · 19 Jan 2015 at 12:58

Been on and off QL since it was beta. All I can say that it's current form is an abomination.

Go find yourself a real Quake 3 server and try that

Or even Quakeworld.

Or RTCW:ET

Or anything really.

Pretty much all of it is better than QL, lol

ShiWarrior · 19 Jan 2015 at 16:39

BuffetSlayer said:
Been on and off QL since it was beta. All I can say that it's current form is an abomination.

Go find yourself a real Quake 3 server and try that

Or even Quakeworld.

Or RTCW:ET

Or anything really.

Pretty much all of it is better than QL, lol

they are all on Q3 aren't they?

I have Q3 on CD from years ago!

BuffetSlayer · 19 Jan 2015 at 17:57

ShiWarrior said:
they are all on Q3 aren't they?

I have Q3 on CD from years ago!

Quake world is quake 1 multiplayer. Still servers about and it's still awesome.

Quake 3 still has servers but the master server browser was turned off years ago. I personally run a q3 threewave capturestrike (it's a mod) server.

ET is based on return to castle wolfenstein engine and physics (basically a q3 engine with restricted physics). Engineer FTW!!

I have loathed QL since its inception really. I play it sometimes to remind myself of why I don't like it. I'm too much of a hardline quake fan I suppose so the problem is probably with me. But having played Q3 since 1999, QL just does not cut it for me. Feels all wrong. They messed with wep balancing and made it ez mode for the masses. Shame really, QL could have been a massive hit but I suppose difficult skilfull games don't sell to the casual players.

I just hope they don't break UT2014 too badly! Lol

cainer · 19 Jan 2015 at 19:29

BuffetSlayer said:
ET is based on return to castle wolfenstein engine and physics (basically a q3 engine with restricted physics). Engineer FTW!!

i miss ET, used to love trickjumping around the maps, personal fav was to jump over the fuel dump wall and plant mines at axis 2nd spawn

Rroff · 19 Jan 2015 at 19:41

BuffetSlayer said:
I have loathed QL since its inception really. I play it sometimes to remind myself of why I don't like it. I'm too much of a hardline quake fan I suppose so the problem is probably with me. But having played Q3 since 1999, QL just does not cut it for me. Feels all wrong. They messed with wep balancing and made it ez mode for the masses. Shame really, QL could have been a massive hit but I suppose difficult skilfull games don't sell to the casual players.

I just hope they don't break UT2014 too badly! Lol

QL ("classic" mode) isn't too far from the original aside from the "netcode" being a bit iffy though they seemed to have finally tightened that up a bit last time I played.

Not a fan of the new generation "pro" duelling gameplay - very heavily orientated around dominating the "stack" and extreme map control which while is quite impressive from the aspect of the mental feat - they go down hard if you ever corner them in an equal scenario - preferred the old school way where fights were more brutal and it was overall more bloody and tense and where map control was mostly secondary (RA/MH aside) and reaction times, pure aim ability, movement and prediction, etc. counted the most.

Still last time I played a few people were still maintaining mass FFA games which are a blast and again last time I played were still populated into the early hours of the morning by a good laid back crowd.