Quake3World

Really getting pissed right now. I'm having the same problems I had on Q3. I can't get any mods or custom maps to work on my computer. On Q3 I would always save the map to my Q3base file and would try to join a server on that map and it still wouldnt work right. And now on Q4, when I try to download maps and mods and shit it does the same thing. I'll save the map or mod onto a file and then when I try to play on a server using the map or mod it says I don't have it. Really need help since I have less and less servers to choose from everyday since they're using custom shit.

My bet is you're not unzipping the downloaded .zip file into your q4base.

Are you viewing file extensions? If so your file name should look like filename.pk4

Put that filename.pk4 into the q4base folder.

Then try.

Krazy_K wrote: I'll save the map or mod onto a file

Stupid question, but you are extracting, or dragging/dropping the "custommap.pk4" into your base right?

Wtf is unzipping and extracting?? And when I downloaded the files I would just go into the Q3base file and click save so it would save into the Q3base file.

Am not very good with computers so am pretty clueless on how everything works.

You need to open the file you downloaded and move the custommap.pk4 and place it in your base folder. The stuff you need is inside the file/zip that you downloaded.

Ok hopefully i'll do that right. One more question....when I join a server that uses a mod I don't have, how the fuck am I supposed to know what mod to download? It doesn't tell me, just says am missing files required to play the server.

Hopefully soon servers will be able to have download support. Untill then we can't join servers that have custom maps or mods. My server is free of all Custom maps or mods. If the server gets a Custom map put on it then you can come here to get that information.

Okay listen, when you download pk3's for some reason windows likes to make them a .zip files.

So... when you download a .pk3, go to the filetype and change it to "All File Types" and then go to where the filename is, and change the .zip to .pk3

.pk3 or a .pk4 are zip files.
to unzip a pk4 just rename the extention to zip and unzip it, otherwise put the pk4 into your baseq4 folder. No need to change zips to pk4 globally, you will change all of your zip files to pk4.

It can be confusing if you're not familiar with it. To make it simple you need to understand this:

1. a custom map is always a .pk4 file.
2. those .pk4 files must be in the q4base directory.
3. when you have downloaded a custom map in a zip file, a .pk4 file must should be inside it, which you need to extract and move to q4base.

You can extract zip files by right clicking on them and selecting "extract all", or just double click on them and drag&drop the .pk4 to q4base.

You can download mods too and they are usually zip files with some directories inside them. When you open the zip file you'll see the main folder which you can just drop in the main Quake4 directory (not q4base but the directory above that).

For the record extracting and unzipping are the same thing, incase you're still unclear Krazy K...