Quake3World

Hey

I played Quake Live yesterday and it has nothing to do with the Quake 3 Arena. It feels similar, it sounds fimilar, it looks similar but nothing to do with Quake 3 Arena. They should have just released it as a 1.33 patch for Quake 3 Arena. What do you think?

if it were a 133 patch for q3, how would that make it suck less?

your logic is flawed

I don't understand... it has nothing to do with Q3A? I don't really see a difference. There's a bit more anarchy on QL than on servers that have a "usual" crew. That's why I don't play too much. Other than that, it's pretty much the same for an average joe player.

good point peenyuh (there, i said it). it'd be nice if in the future they could name the servers - e.g. instead of calling up another faceless "CTF NL" because there are a lot of logins from dutch players, pick an alias from a fixed list of decent/proper server names, e.g:
"Good Friends - Like in the Navy!" or "Mr Floppy the Animal Rapist's Bar and Grill".

part of the q3 'community' thing iD're going for is created by server regulars as well as clan members. folks aren't going to want to start adding people to their friends list and using the website community tools without that grace period of having played in the same games a few times - and regular server names are an easy way to accomplish that. it doesn't matter if they wink in and out of existence, it just gives users something to latch onto.

Hi,

I have tried QL and have mixed feelings about it. There are still some bugs (sometimes the WEB interface crashes). Most of the available maps are stale and boring IMO (in spite of the face lift).

However, my main problem is the insane player loads (maxplayer settings) on the servers. Come on, to have 12 or 16 players on a small map is ridiculous. Some people may love the resulting carnage, but IMO most players would prefer a bit slower and more strategic game with 6 or 8 players max. BTW, the same problem ruins game play on most Openarena servers.

There should be more maps available. It is not a problem of choice, there is a huge collection of custom maps. I am sure that any mapper would be glad to donate his/her map to QL if asked by id. Servers should be set up so that the average size of maps on any server would be roughly the same and a reasonable player load (corresponding to the size of maps) should be set.

No mods automatically turns down Q3A (or this case QL) alot. Right now, the standard is pretty much Excessive Plus.

Because of QL, alot of the servers on Q3A have started to die down. There are less and less servers everyday.

Also QL doesnt work on IE8.

riahc3 wrote:No mods automatically turns down Q3A (or this case QL) alot. Right now, the standard is pretty much Excessive Plus.

Because of QL, alot of the servers on Q3A have started to die down. There are less and less servers everyday.

Also QL doesnt work on IE8.

Excessive Plus

speaker wrote: There should be more maps available. It is not a problem of choice, there is a huge collection of custom maps. I am sure that any mapper would be glad to donate his/her map to QL if asked by id.

I haven´t tried Quake Live yet, and this is one of the reasons it doesn´t interest me much. There are dozens of excellent custom maps, so I don´t want to have crappy maps like The Bouncy Map anymore.

And I heard the BFG is still there, why don´t get they rid of the one weapon that breaks the otherwise near-perfect balance?

R. Tetzlaff wrote:

speaker wrote: There should be more maps available. It is not a problem of choice, there is a huge collection of custom maps. I am sure that any mapper would be glad to donate his/her map to QL if asked by id.

I haven´t tried Quake Live yet, and this is one of the reasons it doesn´t interest me much. There are dozens of excellent custom maps, so I don´t want to have crappy maps like The Bouncy Map anymore.

And I heard the BFG is still there, why don´t get they rid of the one weapon that breaks the otherwise near-perfect balance?

they're introducing "custom" maps (ie; not default on retail Q3), not to mention the new maps that are included. i agree with the BFG though. at least remove it for the higher skilled servers.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

riahc3 wrote:No mods automatically turns down Q3A (or this case QL) alot. Right now, the standard is pretty much Excessive Plus.

Because of QL, alot of the servers on Q3A have started to die down. There are less and less servers everyday.

Also QL doesnt work on IE8.

Excessive Plus

What?

i got quake live and i found it to lag and be annoying, but if you have a good connection and dont mind the long long wait to download all the maps and stuff, then its really good and works quite well.

Isn't this a browser game, for office workers and kids?

Not exactly. It's essentially the same as Q3A with some differences.

"The same with differences".

Essentially the same with some differences. I'm sorry your limited intellect won't allow you to interpret that correctly.

lol @ backpedal.

lol.......

There was no backpedal. I stuck with what I said.

Yeah, that it was the same with differences.

I really hope that you are trolling, but sadly I think you really are unable to get your head around what Scourge said.

if GD was a bridge, lawl would live under it

Oh yeah, he's trolling. That's all he knows.

Poor Randy thinks something is the same if it's different.

Not here.

Stop the trolling, lawl.