Quake3World

Hi erm i recenetly bought quake 3 arena and i am new to it although i have played the old quakes :icon30: but erm I was wandering whenever i try to connect to a server it says "unable to locate master servers" does anyone know why? oh and my friend has downloaded quake 3 arena demo so he can play with me but whenever he trys to join a server he gets "server uses protocol 68" and "awaiting connection 99999" lol he doesnt connect it just says awaiting connection and the numbers keep going higher any help please?

thx for taking the time to read this.

What Quake you have?Full,demo?

Ive got the full version my friends got the demo

You have to have the same version to play together.

Quoted from the Quake3Arena Discussion (old Beginners Discussion) faq:

Network Protocols

A protocol is the "language" in which the server communicates with the client. If the server uses a differend protocol as your computer (the client) then you won't be able to connect to that server, since the server and client don't understand each other. You will be dumped back to the menu with a message "server uses protocol xx" where xx is the protocol number.
Quake 3 uses different network protocols depending on the point release used.

Point release->Protocol:
1.16 43
1.17 45
1.2x 48
1.30 66
1.31 67
1.32 68

You have version 1.32 and your friend has the demo which is a different version. I can't remember what version it is.

As far as I know, you can't play the demo with the full version. You could download the demo yourself and play that way until your friend can get the full version which is pretty cheap these days as you should know already. Welcome to Q3W btw.

Oh okay thanks for the help :icon25: and thanks for the welcome guess ill download the demo for now then ^_^

Mekeo wrote:Oh okay thanks for the help :icon25: and thanks for the welcome guess ill download the demo for now then ^_^

You should be able to find a full version of Q3 for about $10.