Missing Quake Live maps

[v1l3]

I had to reinstall Quake Live because my computer went hell...now when I use the menu to callvote maps, many of them are missing. Is there a place where I can download these maps again? I'm specifically looking to get back golgothacore, namelessplace, powerstation, sacellum, and seamsandbolts

thanks,
-v1l3

[Johnny Law]

Yeah it's a little annoying that there are a bunch of even the non-premium maps that you can't play locally until you've played them on a remote server.

As far as I know, there's nothing that prevents you from using your web browser to proactively download map pk3s so you can dump them into your QuakeLive baseq3. For example try a URL of the form

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http://cdn.quakelive.com/assets/2010092803/game/baseq3/<mapname_goes_here>.pk3

(I don't think this is some sort of top secret hax0ring; apologies if I'm wrong about that.)

[Eraser]

What's that numeric value though?

[obsidian]

List of QL maps, let me know if there are any missing:

aerowalk
almostlost
arcanecitadel
arenagate
asylum
basesiege
battleforged
beyondreality
blackcathedral
bloodlust
bloodrun
brimstoneabbey
campercrossings
campgrounds
cannedheat
chemicalreaction
cliffside
cobaltstation
coldcathode
coldwar
concretepalace
corrosion
courtyard
deepinside
delirium
demonkeep
devilish
diesirae
dismemberment
distantscreams
doubleimpact
dreadfulplace
dredwerkz
duelingkeeps
electrichead
eviscerated
evolution
eyetoeye
falloutbunker
fatalinstinct
finnegans
fluorescent
focalpoint
foolishlegacy
forgotten
furiousheights
fuse
gothicrage
grimdungeons
hearth
hektik
hellsgate
hellsgateredux
heroskeep
hiddenfortress
houseofdecay
industrialaccident
infinity
innersanctums
intervention
ironworks
japanesecastles
jumpwerkz
leftbehind
leviathan
limbus
longestyard
lostworld
namelessplace
overkill
overlord
phrantic
powerstation
provinggrounds
purgatory
quarantine
realmofsteelrats
rebound
reflux
retribution
revolver
sacellum
scornforge
seamsandbolts
shiningforces
siberia
silence
silentnight
skyward
solid
somewhatdamaged
sorrow
spacecamp
spacechamber
spacectf
spidercrossings
spillway
stonekeep
stronghold
terminalheights
theatreofpain
theedge
threestory
thunderstruck
tornado
toxicity
trinity
troubledwaters
verticalvengeance
vortexportal
warehouse
wargrounds
wicked
windowpain
windsongkeep
wintersedge

[Johnny Law]

What's that numeric value though?

Don't know for sure. If you Google for mentions of cdn.quakelive.com you'll see various numbers in that segment of the URL. If I had to guess, it selects a particular backend (used for load-balancing by whatever service normally hands out these URLs to clients).

[v1l3]

Thank You Very Much!!

[phantazm11]

Corrosion
Cold Cathode
Windsong Keep

Also looks like a lot of cityy's maps are missing from the list.

[Johnny Law]

And a few more:

arcanecitadel
campercrossings
cliffside
delirium
foolishlegacy
fuse
jumpwerkz
leftbehind
limbus
skyward
spacecamp
theedge
warehouse
wicked

[themuffinman]

What's that numeric value though?

Don't know for sure. If you Google for mentions of cdn.quakelive.com you'll see various numbers in that segment of the URL. If I had to guess, it selects a particular backend (used for load-balancing by whatever service normally hands out these URLs to clients).

It's the date of upload in the format of YYYYMMDD01. So to find out when the latest version of the map was added, Google something like this:

update syncerror site:www.quakelive.com/forum <mapname>

... and look for the entry with the latest date.

[themuffinman]

As for a list of maps, there's also this:
http://quakelive.wikispaces.com/Level+Guide
It's probably missing the maps from the last few updates, if anyone wants to keep the site up-to-date, just put in a request to join the wiki and someone will approve it.

[Johnny Law]

It's the date of upload in the format of YYYYMMDD01.

Hmm. As new versions get released, do the old URLs still work? I.e. if I successfully download a map pk3 from some cdn.quakelive.com URL, it might not be the same as the version currently used on the QL servers?

[themuffinman]

Hmm. As new versions get released, do the old URLs still work? I.e. if I successfully download a map pk3 from some cdn.quakelive.com URL, it might not be the same as the version currently used on the QL servers?

I've had a problem with a couple of older map links no longer working, but it's seldom the case. It will be the same one used on the QL servers if you looked for the latest update date in the Google search I mentioned... if not, the map will auto-delete as soon as you've loaded the QL site.

[Eraser]

It's the date of upload in the format of YYYYMMDD01. So to find out when the latest version of the map was added, Google something like this:

update syncerror site:www.quakelive.com/forum <mapname>

... and look for the entry with the latest date.

Yeah that kind of was the point I was implying. The number might be some unique value that's specific to that map so simply inserting "mapname here" might not work. But it was just speculative as I haven't tried.

[Johnny Law]

For one of my QL installs I actually downloaded a few dozen maps using that particular timestamp/URL, and they haven't been deleted, so that's a bit weird... possibly none of them have been updated since 2010 though.

[obsidian]

(Updated list above)


Also, I think the "date" can be any number value. I just tried Aerowalk with today's date (2013092501) and also a random number (12165456465465456) and it still works.

[Eraser]

Maybe it is a date but it just returns whatever version of the map was the most recent one at the supplied date.