you favourite games apart from Battlefield

Black Mamba · 2024-09-04 03:32:15

Nice we should all play some arena shooters sometime. That's the real FPS experience.

anal_probe · 2024-09-04 12:10:13

Black Mamba wrote:

Nice, always liked arena shooters and their high learning curves. Different dynamic for sure. How active is the Q3/QL competitive scene nowadays? I really liked the old QuakeCon competitions hosted on Quake Live.

I can't really comment on QL as i haven't jumped into that one since 2011/2012 or so, but it no longer has the playernumbers that it used to have, back in the old days.

They (ID Software) kinda put the final nail in the coffin when Quake Champions was released and QL was dropped by QuakeCon, so the pro players also moved over to QC. But even before that, mistakes were made by ID Software itself, they jumped from a Free2Play model to a monthly subscription model and then finally to a single-payment/retail model, and the patches that were released added unnessary things like Loadouts (which was meant to lure new young blood into the game), but nobody really cared about those additions. Quake 3 CPMA (Challenge ProMode Arena mod) is another thing, it's maintained by its own community, pretty similar to what Team Simple is doing for BF1942. It's pretty dead as well, but you should be able to get games going by privately arranging matches through Discord.

The learning curve is indeed steep, in fact, some of those jumps you see in the video (for example to the red armor ledge), takes days or perhaps weeks to learn and months to perfect. It's not a very welcoming game to new players, they often just get raped and never come back again. It's why that whole genre is a niche and so unpopular. But i love those type of games, it took me years to reach a high level, and the feeling you get when you finally start beating pro players is something truly special.

Black Mamba wrote:

Nice we should all play some arena shooters sometime. That's the real FPS experience.

You can head over to playmorepromode.com and DL it for 'free', it's abandonware nowadays so nobody cares (like BF1942), if you need help setting it up etc. give me a PM, i'll be happy to help

edit: ah, actually the core quake 3 game files are not included on that website, for legal reasons... but you can get it from here: https://mega.nz/file/LosA1AJa#H_VxTArD7 … QKMQ8kMlz8
*shhhh, don't tell the internet police*

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anal_probe · 2024-09-04 19:35:27

anal_probe wrote:

ah, actually the core quake 3 game files are not included on that website, for legal reasons... but you can get it from here: https://mega.nz/file/LosA1AJa#H_VxTArD7 … QKMQ8kMlz8
*shhhh, don't tell the internet police*

updated link: full quake 3 and cpma (v. 1.53) included, ready to play: https://mega.nz/file/f50nwQaS#sMwgzrxFd … J8Lq1jcMPI

In Q3 main menu, choose Mods > CPMA 1.53

Last edited by anal_probe (2024-09-04 19:45:12)