Quake3World

Hey everyone,

I started a steam group based on the idea people could use it as a quick matching system for deathmatch in games we love that are growing increasingly hard to play online due to players being drawn away over the years. My hope is that it'll primarily be used for Doom or Quake franchises, but I haven't set any solid rules. I'm in like...6 steam groups and I'm not involved with any of them. I don't want this to be like that. The idea is if someone is in this group, the chat should be used like a bat-signal for starting a deathmatch to see who's up for it.

It's a public group:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SuddenDM#

Anyone with advice on how to make the group profile page look less retarded would also be much appreciated.

Cheers & Happy Fragging

Maybe we could use it to play the new Doom or Unreal Tournament? Current indie arena shooter games have poor triple-monitor (not that it's needed in competitive FPS but it's definitely more fun this way) or SLI support. I'm not even talking about games from 1999 or prior.

Why does you having a triple monitor setup have anything to do with anything?

Scourge wrote:Why does you having a triple monitor setup have anything to do with anything?

It has nothing to do with anything at all.

If an FPS or TPS game doesn't support 3M I just don't play it. At the same time I'm not saying anyone should care.

one day gizmodo will post a pic of a three-monitor setup and say "remember when VR looked like this?" and everyone will laugh

also, isn't there already a Q3W steam group?

ToxicBug wrote:Maybe we could use it to play the new Doom or Unreal Tournament? Current indie arena shooter games have poor triple-monitor (not that it's needed in competitive FPS but it's definitely more fun this way) or SLI support. I'm not even talking about games from 1999 or prior.

Fine by me!

and yes, there is a q3w group, which I was previously unaware of, but I think it's more of a community thing than it is an instant match-up kind of thing.

It'd also be nice if people wanted to use the instant-matchup portion of my group to test new maps, that'd be kinda neat to get immediate feedback about whatever you're working on.

I don't necessarily even want to lock it down to just doom/quake, though that'll certainly be my focus...but if people want to deathmatch halo or something, I don't mind, I'll just leave that to the halo fans.

The crux of the idea behind all of this was to bring in all of these dying forum posts where I saw people say "hey...does anyone still play this online?" for quake 4 or whatever..and I would answer those posts with "absolutely" but...they're always months old or years apart. I'm hoping to accumulate all of these stragglers into a modern, trackable platform where people don't seem so left out in the cold.

seremtan wrote:one day gizmodo will post a pic of a three-monitor setup and say "remember when VR looked like this?" and everyone will laugh

That's like comparing headphones to speakers. Assuming that VR actually gets good, it's still a solo activity.

Thanks VolumetricSteve for the effort. Oh, and yes I joined the group yesterday

seremtan wrote:also, isn't there already a Q3W steam group?

Note to self: Better go look for this.