coming to an end

Post by **RooKie** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:06 pm

seems pretty much like doomsday to me now that Q4 is out (have that too so nothing to worry about really). I have been lucky to find a server with 1 human player on, most of rest are all bots. shame really, lets see what the next generation brings to us over the coming months

Logging off Q3 forever, never to install again

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Post by **Eraser** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:37 pm

naah I doubt it'll be like that. Don't limit yourself to vanilla FFA or TDM servers, look for servers that run OSP, Rocket Arena or even Freeze Tag. I'm sure there are plenty of players left.

Post by **dzjepp** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:40 pm

Yeah I'm still left *raises hand*

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:01 pm

years and years ago, people were chanting the death knell for quake3 everytime cpl or quakecon came around

"This is the last tournament that will feature quake3, and the community will move on"

fucking lol

people are still playing quake1 and quake2.

if you're concerned about vq3 - yea vq3 tends to attract new players who haven't taken it upon themselves to download the quality mods like osp, ra3, 3wave, cpma etc.

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:06 pm

i find there are always about 4/5 servers on Cpma that are always full or near full, yet the rest stay fairly empty, same for Osp/CA.
A lot of people still play because they got q4, either couldn't run it, or didn't like it and so went back to q3.

I doubt we'll be saying goodbye to q3 for a long time

Post by **RooKie** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:11 pm

i spose i could play more freeze tag every now and then

Post by **Eraser** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:52 pm

If you're in Europe, check out these Freeze Tag servers:

195.11.243.34:27960 (Freeze Tag)
195.11.243.34:27961 (Freeze Tag)
82.211.37.180:27968 (OSP Freeze Tag)

They're usually pretty well loaded.

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:41 pm

Eraser wrote:If you're in Europe, check out these Freeze Tag servers:

195.11.243.34:27960 (Freeze Tag)
195.11.243.34:27961 (Freeze Tag)
82.211.37.180:27968 (OSP Freeze Tag)

They're usually pretty well loaded.

ye, i play on that third one a fair bit, never been on the other two, thanks

Post by **Survivor** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:44 pm

Or you could just ask for a game here, 3 times out of 7 the server will be full in minutes

Post by **DRuM** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:18 am

RooKie wrote:
Logging off Q3 forever, never to install again ...........................
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that made me sad

I still play Q3 because there's things about it that aren't as good in Q4 ( at least for now), but there's things in Q4 that are new and fun. Sometimes though I wonder why I'm playing Q4, because I have a hard time seeing the enemy and getting a decent framerate for what is tbh, exactly the same game as Q3. Yet in Q3, I don't have those problems so why give myself a hard time. But it'll get better. Just remember not to throw a grenade through the teleport or jumpad in Q3, it won't work!

Post by **mjrpes** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:15 am

I'll still be playing quake3 for the time being. I found the frame rates in q4 MP make it unplayable, at least until I can completely upgrade my system. And I'm not going out and doing that until at least January.

Post by **Oeloe** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:45 pm

After the initial hype of Q4 is over, i think some people will decide to stay with Q3 (especially if they play some mod full-time). Q3 will stay alive, but mostly true Q3 fanatics and people that can't run Q4 will keep playing it. I don't have any trouble finding servers btw; it's just not so easy to know how to run multiple versions of Q3 at the same time -- there are still many servers in 1.30 and 1.31 with a level of skill that's very suitable for beginners players. You can find those servers easily with ASE, but you'll need the 1.30 and 1.32 quake3.exe versions (renamed and linked to favorites folders in ASE) or a Q3 version switcher. There should a stickied article about "How can i play previous versions of Q3" with an explanation how to play on 1.30/1.31 servers.

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:14 pm

u just get the watson pr changer thingy

edit: hm this used to be the webby, doesn't work for me though
http://phair.csh.rit.edu/~drwatson/q3a/drwpr.html

Post by **Eraser** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:28 pm

I played both Quake 4 and Quake 3 (Rocket Arena) last night. The evening is long enough for both

Post by **RooKie** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:14 pm

thanks for the support (what am i chattin), i will soon be bak on quake 3

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:27 pm

Survivor wrote:Or you could just ask for a game here, 3 times out of 7 the server will be full in minutes

i'll always be ready to be gauntleted.

Post by **RooKie** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:36 pm

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:38 pm

if you think i'm joking, you should check spam :icon26:

Post by **plained** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:53 am

for now its q3 for me.

to be fair i should give q4 more of a chance, but daym, it feels like work to me

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