Small story short.

I have a stripped WIN 7 with ulta low latencxy with the latest stripped NVIDIA drivers. I have threaded optimization off in the NVIDIA ctrl Panel.

I have a i7-9700k With a GTX 1080. With the latest stripped NVIDIA drivers. I have threaded optimization off in the NVIDIA ctrl Panel.

What seems to help is cap my framerate at 138 with Rivatuner ( my monitor is 144hz)( ingame cap com_maxfps 138 dont do the trick) but that sucks cause it gives inputlag!
r_primitives 2 does not help,
com_idlesleep 0 does not help
I deleted both qzconfig.cfg and repconfig.cfg and disabled steam cloud and tried again with a new config; same problem.

I think it has to do with the NVIDA drivers cause my win 7 is stripped down naked with no windows update etc.

No heres finally question:

What is the most stable NVIDIA driver for windows 7 to play Quake Live on. the populair 441.41?

I just finished FReethys Windows 7 guide to get the lowest input possible on any PC. I also did this for WIN 10 with the WIN 10 guide. ( now i have a dual boot PC)

Its true a stripped down Win 7 has lower inputlag then a stripped Win 10. Not only can u check this in Latenymon but u can actually feel it also just by moving a window up and down in Windows. I am pretty happy with that.
Now i want to put that ultra low input lag to good use in Quake Live!!!

Unfortunate Quake live on Win 7 gives lag spikes ( the red vertical lines in the lagometer) when someone new joins a server or just at random sometimes. On my stripped Win 10 Quake Live runs great but it would be so cool if i could just run it on WIN 7!

I have a i7-9700k With a GTX 1080. With the latest stripped NVIDIA drivers. I have threaded optimization off in the NVIDIA ctrl Panel.

What seems to help is cap my framerate at 138 with Rivatuner ( my monitor is 144hz)( ingame cap com_maxfps 138 dont do the trick) but that sucks cause it gives inputlag!
I can then better play uncapped on my WIN 10 boot.

r_primitives 2 does not help,
I deleted both qzconfig.cfg and repconfig.cfg and disabled steam cloud and tried again with a new config; same problem
Anyone here got any idea what can cause the lagspikes in Win 7 when a new player joins the server? And on other random moments? On my Win 10 build QL runs great with the same exact in gamesettings.
I hope u guys can help me out. Tnx

PS
I finally did it! i found out how to get the green line stable in the lagometer. Put your modem in Bridged mode and get a Ubiquiti Edgerouter X ( 50$) and enable the QoS option.
Its all about bufferbloat. If u dont get a A or A+ rating at the speedtest http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest u can forget about getting a straight green line. I had C grade first. After the Ubiquiti Edgerouter X its A. and finally a stable green line most of the time in QL!!!
I found out about this through the Battle(non)sense video Gamer Setup - This router can save your marriage! video,.

Pc gamers who game on the couch. What do you use for a keyboard/mouse tray? I’ve tried various setups, but haven’t found anything that feels “comfortable” yet.

hi there it's me

Honestly its doesnt make sense to write anything about this guy, because watching teaser and second video will make is obvious for everyone
But there are always people who are in doubt and it's ok. For these people I will do some explanation.

About his aim style.
Well it's hard to watch honestly, the way he aim... He is like swinging his mouse left and right all the time. While spamming AD like crazy. And he is aiming like that all the time except really close fights when his whole screen is just an enemy model. It's not like he is very good at strafing. But he does some weird moves that I wasn't able to explain until I found out that his crosshair snapping at other enemies. And that explains why he struggles to aim when there is multiple enemies in the background and sometimes he even stop shooting and making really long strafes just to position himself toward the wall to focus on enemy that are close to him and prevent his crosshair from snapping on random enemies.

I think that he using a bind, trigger bind that makes his crosshair snap on target, but not permanently, its like assist for aim. When he losing tracking he hits that trigger button and it snaps to the target and since he shaking his crosshair a lot it looks +/- alright. I mean he probably using it not all the time but sometimes. Guess he spent a lot of time figuring out how to use it and when, to make it look like legit aim. But aim it's not just how you hit, it's also how you move… it's funny how those cheating kids don't underestimate experience...

So here is the links
This one is like a teaser https://youtu.be/A1gCg9GMiRM just like a mini movie for my new friend
This one should make it clear that the guy is cheating https://youtu.be/StqWd9CHpl8
This one is a link of his stream https://youtu.be/Vud2WwkOB10 some hilarious 2v2 at the end (aimbot for rockets included)
And a demo where he snaps on other target (last moment from teaser) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UGu8mA9MYICh...sp=sharing
I hope all the links are working. If something is wrong let me know.
It's pure luck. Twitch keep vods for 14 days and when i downloaded his vod it was already 12 days old vod, so few more days and it's gone forever.

I couldn't do a better video. I pick bad editing software. I was looking for a free one and I chose the one that have nice ui. And it have nice and intuitive ui but working really bad. After some time it starts lagging, cpu hits 100% load and i can't preview what i am working on. So all this moments i cut is like 1/4 of his stream. All these trigger moments are from 1 or 2 hours of gameplay.
Btw his stream is recommended to watch. His comments become really hilarious after understanding that he is just a little aimbotting kid. At some point he said “OMG you got destroyed and i am not even warmed up yet”
All the most obvious moments are from his stream (yea another genius streaming how he using cheats) And this moments is so obvious that it should be good proof. But i also have a few demos where he snaps at other enemies it might be enough to vac ban him.

Bonus clip of his buddy sldr (sharing same config, spamming same binds) https://youtu.be/mWuHaqgAv6I Sad part is that it's not only these two geniuses.

20/02/21 Fucking Nice Guy

16 of CIS' finest head to St. Petersburg for this duel event hosted by Factory Esports. Lots of big names in attendance, should be quite epic!

Date: Sunday, February 21, 2021
Start Time: 10:00 MSK / 08:00 CET / 2:00am ET / 11:00pm PT / 6:00pm AEDT
Region: St. Petersburg, Russia
Game Type: Duel
Prize Pool: $10,000

Bracket/Signups: https://dbt.factory-esports.com/

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/arenafps/Factory_Esports/Diabotical_Duel_Masters

Players: AGENT, ARSENY, cas, CHERRA, cYpheR, DancheZzor, dazator, desh x, Fancje, inz, pavel, Recruit91, Rell, SMaLLiK, Troolz, WiseGenie

Stream:

English: https://twitch.tv/timconlan

Russian: https://twitch.tv/factoryesports

RAGE2 100% discount

ends 2/26/2021 at 2:30 AM

Just posting for anybody who would get it but didn't know, also being an id software game and not all that old yet.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/rage-2/home

idk if anyone cares, but they announced diablo 2: resurrected

looks like a snacc of a game

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin https://store.steampowered.com/app/1000410/WRATH_Aeon_of_Ruin/
(Multiplayer on the dev roadmap)

Doombringer
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1156120/DOOMBRINGER/

SPRAWL https://store.steampowered.com/app/1549690/SPRAWL/
(planned pvp multiplayer https://steamcommunity.com/app/1549690/discus...191181470/)

Prodeus https://store.steampowered.com/app/964800/Prodeus/
(planed multiplayer https://steamcommunity.com/app/964800/discuss...609068508/)

Necromunda: Hired Gun (looks visually great in the trailer)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222370/Necromunda_Hired_Gun/

Nail & Crescent; a Quake 1 inspired total conversion for the Quake 2 RTX engine, with an emphasis on tools and resources for community map/mod making.
Twitter https://twitter.com/nail_crescent
Teaser https://youtu.be/BIOJ6QURT5k
Discord https://discord.gg/9FNqVWCkF6
Media: https://imgur.com/a/ygo8H6k

Dread Templar
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1334730/Dread_Templar/

Turbo Overkill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varoEJiaxjo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328350/Turbo_Overkill/

Ion Fury https://store.steampowered.com/app/562860/Ion_Fury/
(Multiplayer mentioned on the last line of the description on Gog https://www.gog.com/game/ion_fury)

Graven (Co-op) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371690/GRAVEN/

Postal: Brain Damaged https://store.steampowered.com/app/1359980/POSTAL_Brain_Damaged/

Kingpin: Reloaded https://store.steampowered.com/app/1224700/Kingpin_Reloaded/

Anomalous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_l7YaAKAo

DUSK https://store.steampowered.com/app/519860/DUSK/
(game from 2018 with DuskWorld multiplayer)

AMID EVIL https://store.steampowered.com/app/673130/AMID_EVIL/
(game from 2019)

Witchfire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KMaDFKeMRU
(kinda looter shooter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchfire_(video_game))

Shadow Warrior 3
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1036890/Shadow_Warrior_3/

Brutal Fate (thanks @Ian215)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1409460/Brutal_Fate/

HROT (thanks @cloned)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/824600/HROT/

ULTRAKILL
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229490/ULTRAKILL/

Core Decay (thanks @Niel_1)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260940/Core_Decay/

Nightmare Reaper (thanks @Niel_1)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051690/Nightmare_Reaper/

Hedon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1072150/Hedon/

Project Warlock
https://store.steampowered.com/app/893680/Project_Warlock/

Viscerafest (thanks @Niel_1)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1406780/Viscerafest/

Hellbound
https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/

Scathe
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1154830/Scathe/

Hedon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urn7VKNYC5A

"CULTIC - A Crunchy 90's Styled Cultist-Slaying Horror FPS Where the First Thing You Do is Die!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YToZ7nsWYtw

Core Decay
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260940/Core_Decay/

+ Doom 2016/Eternal, Wolfensteins...

It's time for Quake 1 remake ;)

So in my mod Uber Arena, one of the taglines I emphasize in promoting it is that it "uses no random number generators" in its game mechanics. That is, every new mechanic is designed to be 100% deterministic and predictable - in theory. But I've been thinking about this and wondering, just because something is not using RNG, does that mean it is indeed 100% skill-based and predictable?

One counterexample I can think of is the headshot system in Unreal Tournament, something that has proven to be a point of major controversy between the UT and Quake crowds, likely because of disagreements about the nature of predictability in game mechanics. So in UT, if you can headshot a player, you will almost always instantly frag them (or at least do significant damage). Obviously, to accomplish this, you have to "go for the head" (as Thor/Thanos would put it). Now, in theory, this is a 100% deterministic mechanic; it is based on a predictable variable - the position of the enemy player's head on the screen and how much screen space the head is occupying (closeness of the player). It seems like there would be no issue. Yet, headshots are often regarded as "random" despite, technically speaking, not being so at all.

The argument here is that, even though it is theoretically predictable, the amount of precision required to pull off headshots using actual skill rather than luck is so great that it exceeds human capabilities, even at top-level tournament play. The railgun, on the other hand, while also requiring good aim, is not so "hard" that a skilled player can't learn how to become a good RG user, as the area that needs to be hit is larger.

It seems, then, that there is a point at which, if a deterministic mechanic becomes sufficiently complex, it "degrades" into randomness because the player cannot feasibly track all of the variables, a phenomenon we'll call "decay into randomness". And to be fair, it's not like RNGs used in games are really random either; it's common knowledge that they use pseudo-randomness generated by seeding the computer clock and performing complex math to output a seemingly random result. Obviously, no one would seriously be expected to calculate RNGs like this on-the-fly in the middle of a heated arena FPS match.

The question is, at what point does "decay into randomness" occur? Where do you draw the line? What are the variables? Is there a formula or algorithm to describe it? For example, in the case of the headshots vs. RG, how small does the area to be hit need to become before it "becomes random"? There is disagreement here, since some argue headshots are skillful and you just need to be good enough to aim at the head consistently, and others feel that is too much to expect out of even the most skilled players and thus it's pure luck. Who is right?

There is also Miller's Law from psychology, or the "Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two", from George A. Miller's famous 1956 paper, where he postulated that the human short-term memory capacity (roughly) ranges from 5 all the way to 9. This principle does put a cap on how many variables a player is reasonably expected to track in an arena FPS match. In a duel, for example, the player is likely timing the RA and MH, as well as attempting to derive the other player's position based on sound cues, which already takes up 3 "slots". If they're tracking another, lesser armor, that's another slot taken. And likely other, more subtle variables too. Once the capacity is exceeded, the player will have to start "dropping" game variables to keep track of and leave them to chance. Adding more things for a player to keep track of adds more skill up to a point, but once you reach the memory limit (which is made more complicated by its fuzziness), it could be argued that too many mechanics/variables might actually decrease skill. Is this true?

Finally, it seems there are some random game mechanics that do appear in competitive play, but are generally considered to be "acceptable". For example, in TDM, while the respawn times for power-ups are fixed, the initial spawn times are randomized. Why is this "okay"? Wouldn't it still be better if they were fixed as well, so players could time the initial spawn as well? Or is there something to be gained from making it random that somehow adds more skill, contrary to the intuition that randomness removes skill? (In Uber Arena, it's worth noting that initial spawn times are also fixed, at 45 seconds into the game, making them completely predictable)

I think this is a really fascinating topic and it would give some good insight into the nature of arena FPS design. Is there anyone with a good background in psychology that could provide more insight? Has there been previous research done on this?

Quake III DeFRaG run on a medival speed map. The idea behind this project was to make the world feel like it’s possessed by dark forces. Special thanks to IMOOR for designing this beautiful map but also to ace & zerosignal for their feedback.

All official records can be found at q3df.org

Music:
BOW CHURCH - Dystopia

Greetings to the whole Quake community. Thanks for watching

:(

QW - dead - but as a super old game still a little bit active, doing some leagues and cups, as a community they are doing quite ok
Q2 - don't care but probably dead
Q3/QL/cpma - dead
Q4 - dead
QC - is this is even a afps? Anyway it runs badly. Sadly most popular one..
Reflex - dead
Diabotical - dead, GD studio focused too much on Wipeout / Clan Arena, main game mode...
New game - not anytime soon

All games played by few players, mostly unplayable most of the time.
Still possible to find some pickup, play and have fun but it is depressing. Sad thing.

And we are all sitting in separate discords, making separate small tournaments instead of maybe joining forces.

Maybe some day Betsheda will close the QC servers and at least some people will go back other games. Even hard to find any sort of temporary alternative...

Sad. Who did this to Quake?...

Can I replace my VG2401 with something that has better black colors but doesn't suck for Quake or im still stuck?

I bought and downloaded quake 4 from steam then followed the install for the q4max mod.

If i initiate through the launcher for the mod it gives me a missing .pak files message. If I iaunch through steam I can view the modded servers but not join them. Is steam an issue for this to work? Please advise.

So last Quake fragmovie I did in 2009 and it was Quake3 using Q3MME as toolset for rendering. I have a couple of demos saved with time marks of some frags worth sharing or at least for me to make a summary of my Quake Live journey, the movie I'm gonna launch in my old age to remember how was it to be a Quaker.

My question is what are the 2021 tools available to boost up and make most efficient workflow for clip rendering? I'm looking for a tool that let's me navigate on the demo to select beginning and end of video sequence and render it in some nice way. I know there was wolfcamql, is it still the thing to go for?

Btw. the movie I mentioned was T13 Clan Fragmovie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v57GHsuEfM4

On Sunday the 28th of February, House of Quake will again be running a Quake Live TDM 4v4 draft cup. Signups are already open in #draft on the HoQ Discord.

So I'm trying to recall what shitcanned q4 so hard at release, and QC seems to have gone down the same path. Can anyone describe a list of why Q4 was lashed at by the hardcores?

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So i bought q4 on steam and i wanted to play some dm/tdm to understand the movement a little better before starting to duel;
but the game feels like capped at 60fps and i can't change resolution; the mouse input feels like it's not tracking how it should and overall the game feels weird; can someone please help me i really want to play this game but i can't play like this Thanks

I have the solution to make quake great again.

Battle Royale set on the Quake 1 universe, some avatars with strafe jumping but other shit nerfed vs non strafe jump capable ones, so we strafejump lovers can do our thing and quake illiterate players can have their cake too.

Make it happen id!

GOGOGO

Me and a friend had the itch to play a few Q3 duels after work but it looks like almost all the servers online are CPMA-CPM servers, whereas we wanted to play CPMA-VQ3.

We played on one of the CPM servers by voting and changing the gameplay, but then these servers are missing all the right maps.

Tried hosting on our own computers but being on shared wifi at each of our homes meant a bad experience.

Does anyone know of a nice VQ3 server still online in EU? I'm guessing QL is where it's at now, but he's not keen on buying it.

im curious to try out 8000hz on a wmo 1.1a, how can i do this in linux such as debian?

thanks i'm new if you have any other tips to improve lighting and weapon explosions thanks again.

https://cocainediesel.fun/

by https://www.esreality.com/?a=users&user_id=46098

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http://www.twitch.tv/cocainediesel

https://youtu.be/eN-HLbs0JeU

On Sunday the 31st of January, House of Quake will again be running a Quake Live TDM 4v4 draft cup. Signups are already open in #draft on the HoQ Discord.


Brackets: https://challonge.com/h3lfnvg1

From reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/...orts_2021/

2GD: We have quite a clear plan for 2021 and 2022. Which involves regular Diabotical updates, but also releasing two new games. The projected budget we have (battle pass purchases included!) cover this, with a little room for GD Studio hiccups (delays).

(...)
2GD: Glitch engine, FPS. All engine updates will benefit Diabotical and future games

(...)
Some guy: He said one of the games will be a class-based shooter (like TF2).

https://clips.twitch.tv/YawningGracefulCarabeefKappa

I didn't do the sixth part of "db i dead" for this, although it's very important.

Here are my estimates of the maps for the 1v1 map pool.

SkyBreak - 8 Bioplant - 4 Kasbah - 5 Monilith - 3 Overgrowth - 3 Amberfall - 4 Raya - 6

Instead of Monolith and Overgrowth, you need to put the Scrubber (7-8) and Fusion Falls (7) maps. The Perilous map should be resized to a smaller size and returned to 1x1 instead of Amberfall.

My fix for the dueling version of Perilous (free exclusive). The old version is suitable for other game modes.
Perilous FIX picture

2GD wrote

The tentative list was done by pro gamer votes. So if anyone is unhappy we would like to shift the blame to Phaze. Phaze was the only pro gamer who turned up to vote. though quite odd since he doesn't compete in duel. Thank you for your time.


Fatal error. It is 2gd's fault that he made this incident.


See also my fix for the Raya map.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/..._thoughts/



Write here what you think about my fixes for 1x1 gamemode.

What are you playing cuurrently? multiplayer? singleplayer? Console games? Whatever?

From my side:
Multiplayer: CPMA, QuakeWorld, Apex, M&B Bannerlord
Singleplayer: Wolfenstein: New Order, Doom 2016, still got Witcher 3 to play haha
Nintendo Switch: In last year I really enjoyed some Zeldas, Mario or Overcooked in coop or some roguelikes there

What about you?

Strangelove put together another huge compilation of Warsow race runs, featuring many of the game's best players and finest runs.

THE DWARF DISEASE PROBLEM in 2021

You know that there are many parameters in the game, about 200. We are constantly discussing them here and there. Gameplay, netcode, different settings, HUDs, colors

By correcting one and making it correct, we forget about other parameters and change them in the wrong direction.

We practically (about 70%) had no problem with incorrect maps in QL. And everyone had already forgotten that in general everything was great with the maps in QL.

With the advent of Diabotical, we had new map makers who didn't play QL but played other shooters.

And you know what?

They made a bunch of bad maps. This new disease to do 2x floor low maps, like maps in DOOM 1 and 2. Flat maps with a desire to a maze.

Two of these maps won the competition. Amberfall and Overgrowth.
And my head was torn apart. ...... Both are low and have 2 floors.

I created a corresponding topic on reddit 2 months ago, but naturally no one read it. Because who am I? I have karma at -5. Who will listen to such a toxic player?

The current list of frankly crappy maps:

Monolith
Overgrowth
Amberfall
Bioplant
.... others

In fact, you yourself can define a crappy map by counting the number of floors or by eye-measuring the height of these maps.

Examples of good and bad maps . For those who are dumb (for you).


And I don't want to see such poor 1x1 games on such poor maps on streams.

The disease turned out to be contagious, it spreads like a coronavirus. New mapmakers are pleased with themselves and admire themselves in the mirror every day. They start to imitate the winners and make the same 2-floor low maps from DOOM 1 (1978 release date).



As a result we have an map editor that is used for what?
In order to destroy the gameplay of the game!

Have you expected a lot of good maps?

How do you like that?

Try this one guys, fun shit. First time i get hooked to a battle royale game.

Does anyone have a link to these guys/girls Discord server?

Got a bone to pick with one of the moron admins.

Cheers!

2020 Have been a year of collective trials, societies shutting partially or completely down, citizens getting isolated in their homes, some have been facing personal loss while others been affected via proxy, not loosing members of family and or friends but their jobs and in some cases due to economical restraints even their homes. I think it's safe to say that no one's been unaffected even if it's only on an emotional plane.

What does this have to do with Quake you might all wonder, bluntly nothing, but it could also mean a lot. I think people are in need of escapism, camaraderie, adventure and plain unadulterated fun. These are a few reasons why we decided to oragnize yet another OMG League CTF Draft Cup

We are going with the same format as previous cups, in other words; you HAVE to sign in to https://qlstats.net/ and make your stats public. Otherwise creating teams will be a complete nightmare, would also be nice of you if you could try and play a couple of games before the cup because of earlier mentioned reason. Finding pre-cup games is best done at House of Quake discord https://discord.gg/FmGgn4b #ctf pickup. Hope to see you there, bring a friend or relative.

Check out this awesome PROMO-video courtesy of Mastermind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomIbsLJNNI

SIGN UP starts on sunday the 3rd of january at 10:00 CET
Time: 07:00 CST, 10 January 2021




Streams: DrSno Konfliqt Vidje

Vidjes' stream will have commentary, Sno and Konfliqt will be in game following respective player


I really hope to see as many of you as possible, GLHF!!!

Hey guys.
Haven't posted on ESR for ages. Some people might remember me from the pre-QC era.
Anyways, as I bought a laptop for the first time in my life, I'm getting rid of my desktop.

My monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ (22", 120Hz).
You think I still can get some € for this lovely 11-year-old? I was happy with it, but I can't estimate the value. It doesn't have HDMI strangely enough.
Any advice would be appreciated.

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-syncmaster-2233rz-review/

I don't want to have to use Reddit for this, does anyone know of an alternative link to see al the deals of each day?

Cheers

I would like to finally own a panel that has decent blacks. I haven't enjoyed watching a movie since I got rid of my CRT as I have been forced to use shitty panels in order to have low input latency and high hz.

Is or there will be something that you can use to play Quake while having good colors? around 24 inch, 1080p is enough, non curved.

The VG259QM looks good but I don't like that it says "TUF GAMING" on the platform.

I am searching this file , probably some one still have it?

Exactly this dmmq3.exe

Its to run quake 3 on s3 savage video card with hi-res textures

OMG. Tournament system is planned again? 12.15.2020

But you know what?????

DO NOT PLAY THE GAME UNTIL HE DOES WHAT HAS PROMISED.
DO NOT PLAY THE GAME UNTIL HE DOES WHAT HAS PROMISED.
DO NOT PLAY THE GAME UNTIL HE DOES WHAT HAS PROMISED.
DO NOT PLAY THE GAME UNTIL HE DOES WHAT HAS PROMISED.
DO NOT PLAY THE GAME UNTIL HE DOES WHAT HAS PROMISED.
DO NOT PLAY THE GAME UNTIL HE DOES WHAT HAS PROMISED.

This will help him.

I will check the quality of the work and tell you if James coped with the task. If he does everything right, I'll tell you if we can return to the game. Stay tuned.

Before the legend

Doom 2 is such a simple game, duel maps barely have any item timming, yet some players dominate a lot. They move in such an annoying way to shoot and blast you with SSG. There is a certain technique to it that I never fully dominated and I remember playing Zdaemon back in 2002.

Last ones date back to 2009.

Hi everyone!. Since I don't know where to concretely asking these couple of questions elsewhere, I just recall about this forum I used to check often when I was a Quake Live player. But out from that, I get back in playing Doom 3 multiplayer, it's just awesome and feels fantastic the gameplay still today. 3 years have passed since I started and still playing it, I've met lot of players from old school to new and now wondering (just for fun purpose) if some event is still made about this underrated section of the game. Did someone actually got an idea about making a new kind of event for Doom 3? Or I must accept that D3 multiplayer just belong to the past?. Nothing special happened about a D3 tournament since 2010 as far as I know but on this site I found more recent post about a reunion of some D3 old school players if I'm not wrong. Thanx for your attention and eventually sorry for a poor english perfomance :-)

Quake III DeFRaG run on a mystical tech map. The aim for the video was to take the viewer on a journey through this unknown world by creating a metaphysical atmosphere. Special thanks to Nemix for designing this gorgeous map but also to ace & zerosignal for their support.

All official records can be found at q3df.org.

Music:
CRYO CHAMBER - Yog-Sothoth

Greetings to the whole Quake community.

Thanks for watching

Stage 1 Final Bracket : Quake Pro League official website

Where : https://www.twitch.tv/quake (main stream)
https://www.twitch.tv/quake2 (second stream)

When : Starts at 8AM (ET), 2 PM (CET)
Friday 11th of December to Sunday 13th of December


For those who haven't followed Quake Champions since the last tournament, one of the most important change that happened was the fact that this QPL season, instead of having the regular matches only being used for rankings, they also decided prize ($150 for each map win, $50 for each map loss), making every match and map count even during regular season. See here for the official news.

As for the Stage Finals, as you can see in the brackets, this time even though still online, the tournament bracket will mix players from both regions right from the start, like I think we all wanted to see.

Here is the prize money for the Stage 1 Final ($100,000 total) :
21st - 24th - $1,000
17th - 20th - $2,000
13th - 16th - $2,750
9th - 12th - $3,750
7th - 8th - $5,000
5th - 6th - $6,000
4th - $7,000
3rd - $8,000
2nd - $10,000
1st - $15,000

Many people ask to fix the damage of weapons, different speeds, time limits, number of teammates, sound radius, number of ammo. enter crouchslide. amount of health, adjust armor ratios and values. the frequency of armor spawn. The most popular thing I've heard is to strengthen the rocket and rail.

There are quite a few such messages on reddit. I AM SURE EVERYONE WOULD CHANGE SOMETHING OF THIS TO ITS DESIRE. That is exactly YOU are reading this and YOU would change something.

But personally 2gd will not introduce mutators into the custom game(shitty pickups). Even if we assume that it happens. You still won't be able to play enough with such mutators, because there is no tournament system and no one will know about your desire to play. you cannot gather people for such a game. you won't be able to stream it.

Do you know how much time it takes to implement mutators and a tournament system? 1 week maximum and 1 person.

Instead, a bunch of unnecessary reddit posts. fix this or that. here and there.

The word RATIONALITY is unknown to him.

https://imgur.com/pVltbsm

Check it out, you guys might or might not like it.

www.sauerbraten.org

What do you think will happen with female switch streamers when projects with virtual characters (like this https://www.twitch.tv/codemiko) get photorealistic? Meaning you have some virtual character, but some dude with voice changer and some motiontracking hardware behind ... :-)
I have a feeling the whole female streaming market with sugardaddy crowdfunding with some whales in it will break down ... or twitch will maybe implement some rule to verify streamers with photo, cuz they will lose all the sugar daddy money as well ... I guess the streaming market will cut in half lol

TimConLAN will be hosting the Christmas ProMode Arena on December 13, 2020 starting on 07:00 CDT.This will be a duel cup utilizing a double elimination format with a BO3 upper bracket, BO1 lower bracket, and BO5 Grand Final.

Registration is open to all players, and players can sign up by joining the TimConLAN Discord and by registering on Challonge.

Map Pool: cpm3b, cpm15, cpm22, cpm24, pukkat2, Fata Morgana & wingsb19.

The prizepool for this tournament is currently at 470 USD, and you can donate by messaging panikborke#7405 on Discord.

Links: www.playmorepromode.com, TimConLAN Discord, Sign Up, TimConLAN

-2GD was asked to reduce the queue time.
-He made pickups.

Question: how do pickups reduce waiting times?

Only by setting a wider rating range. But games of this type are complete shit.

By the way, the tournament system won 2 votes. One is in my VK group (86%), the other is on reddit (52%), and this is despite the fact that SMM was cheated on reddit. with dislikes and likes.

And if you read the comments, it becomes obvious that those who voted against simply did not understand the essence of the tournament system. Thus, I read all the comments and came to the conclusion that the tournament system won 100% of the votes.

By the way, 2gd promised a tournament system and made pickups. He just lied to us.

- pickups are almost useless
- 2gd lied to us
- tournament system won 100% of votes

https://steamcharts.com/app/282440 + 8% to QL online in november. This is the price of dumbness

SMM agency took over the Diabotical

You all know that i'm smart veteran playing from 2003. I have a lot of knowledge about game aspects. I also can prove my statements with practical and mathmeatical examples.

If you remember when QC becoming a pure shit, from patch to patch. I created a lot of post with godlike suggestions, and everyone has liked it.

So, my godlike suggestions, a lot more progressive than all that kind of noobs can suggest. My suggestions even more progressive than 2gds. You can just search my threads over ESR on QC forum and Diabotical forum.

I also can detect SMM. As you remeber i have detect a lot of SMM guys on Quake Champions social media. They ban me and other players with good suggestions.

AND NOW AGAIN ! That SMM shit on Reddit forum . 2GD paying to SMM agents and they are manipulate with likes\dislikes. They even manipulate with POLLs. They have a lot of accounts may be THOUSANDS, and they can easy kill your karma and you will be banned.

Their main trick
" OoH NOOO,,, IT'S NOT MODERATORS, USERS DISLIKED YOUR POST."

So they just shift the blame from themselves to players.

This is another HUGE MISTAKE from 2gd to hire that dumbs, who has no clue is this good suggestion or not.

They also can't lie good, coz YOU JUST CAN"T LIE TO A FATHER OF COMMUNITY WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING!!!

https://moshimoshi.in/what-is-smm/

My prev thread about SMM agents. You can find more
https://www.esreality.com/post/2948676/smm-on...hat-to-do/

How to defeat SMM?. Make more threads about SMM on reddit.

Admins on Diabotical reddit is CHEATING with likes/dislikes, check it out

Anyone watching tonight?

I have links if anyone needs it, who's gonna win?

Click to see

Some time ago people on reddit wondered how to fix the queue time in the game.

I tried to explain the same thing in different ways. Graphically and verbally.

I depicted the clearest explanation graphically. But the frusrtswerg moderator deleted it. In his opinion, it is more important to follow formal rules than to really fix the problem of queues.

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On Sunday the 13th of December, House of Quake will again be running a Quake Live TDM 4v4 draft cup. Signups are already open in #draft on the HoQ Discord.

some rox n grenz action, enjoy :)

https://i.imgur.com/sMTnVoy.jpg

My current list guys. Other maps looks more small , not enought high, not enought wide and has the form of a pancake.

SKYBREAK
PERILOUS

FUSION FALLS video bottom
RAYA(if will be fixed) video bottom
SCRUBBER video bottom

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/..._thoughts/

Hello peeps,

I'm in market for such monitor, will be used for work besides gaming, so having solid colors would be nice too.

Any recommendations from people who have done research lately?

Spaceflux is an upcoming arena shooter in impossible geometry: fractal worlds, infinitely repeating space and fully destructible maps.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1344440/Spaceflux/

Plz post quake maps names in Diabotical here!

MAPMAKERS! plz make more quake maps and name them somehow as in quake for better search!



Furious Heights, toxicity, bloodrun, vertical vengeance, Aerowalk in Diabotical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSrJbF9gZNk&a...xSGEK40ZLi


P.S. 5 versions of bloodrun in Diabotical for now!

So many new maps! 2 bloodruns! vertical vengeance, campgrounds!!

Just look at bloodroom! some new ideas ! Design is awful ...but...

General thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/...y_duel_10/

My marks
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/...;context=3

My tips for mapmakers

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/...;context=3

10 minutes of pure non-stop ffa action, enjoy.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you watch it in 4K or AT LEAST 1440p because youtube's shitty quality with 1080p and lower may ruin your experience, you can also download it which is the best option in my opinion.

movie and performance by dehumanizer

music in order of appearance:
Doom OST - E1M1 - At Doom's Gate
Six Feet Under - Revenge Of The Zombie
Motörhead - Burner
(not) darude - sandstorm xd
Enforcer - One With Fire

Here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/...bt_on_the/

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/806359004?t=01h17m13s

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/806359004?t=01h17m13s

Rafa is wrong about Goldenfrag

In QuakeLive, the problem is when you control the map for the first part of the match and then time runs out.

In other words.

QuakeLive: Player # 1 has 6 minutes to control the level. Player # 2 has 4 minutes to control the level. 6 > 4



Diabotical: Player # 1 has 6 minutes to control the level. Player # 2 has 6 minutes to control the level. 6 = 6

P.S. It doesn't matter who plays defensively. Viewers love long games. =)

Your EXPERT

Hello guys,

I am struggling with continous fps drops in Quake live. Story began when my ingame friend noticed and told me, that I have frame drops and advised me to do some benchmarking with timedemo and fps monitor. After that I found out that my 250 fps in QL fps meter is only average and that my real minimum fps is quite lower than this value. Discovering that I went through a long journey trying improving and fixing everything possible to improve fps.

I have this HW: i9 9900k, GTX 1080ti, 32 GB RAM (3600 MHZ, cl 16), 750 W PSU

Changes I consulted and made include:

-Config: bloom off, post processing off, vertex on, player shadow off, dynamic light off, r_primitives 2, many other settings to improve performance
-BIOS: EIST off, Intel SpeedStep off, C-states off, overclock of CPU to 5 ghz
-Power management of CPU in Win set to max performance
-Afterburner - setting fixed clock frequency and voltage of GPU
-Proceslasso - reserving only one core for QL process, turning HT off
-Windows defender - setting exception for QL
-reinstall Nvidia drivers with DDU
-some registry changes

Before these changes I already had set this:

-Config: com_idlesleep 0 and, r_picmip 5
-Nvidia control panel: texture filtering quality = max performance, shader cache = on, threaded optimization = off, power management mode = max performance.

With these changes I improved average fps in Asylum timedemo from +- 450 to around 700+. Overall fluentness of the game improved noticebly. Most of the fps improvement came from config changes and power managements setting of CPU in Win. Other changes did not do much, max few percents.

When I turn devmap on with bots for example on Quarantine now, I have fps in range of +- 500-800, with lowest value not falling under these 500.

However in normal game without timedemo I still suffer from drops and my fps values looks like this (examples measured with FrameView):

com_maxfps 250
avg: 249
90th: 248
95th: 247
99th: 201

com_maxfps 200
avg: 200
90th: 197
95th: 195
99th: 184

com_maxfps 125
avg: 124
90th: 121
95th: 116
99th: 111

That shows, that the issue of the fps drops was not fully solved and that my system is still pushing always only 80-100% of the value of actually set com_maxfps, although hardware itself with these settings is capable to push constantly 500+ in most demanding maps. Some part of HW is clearly giving for some reason less performance, than game needs for 250 fps.

I also tried changing resolution to lower one or to some 4:3, it makes no difference.
I also tried setting com_hungmegs to higher values, it helped a bit (1-3%), but the game is then unstable and crashes.

I slowly run out of ideas, what is the reason and what to do more to get rid of these drops. Last of actual spoken ideas of people which helped me are:

-low usage of GPU memory, which is supposedly fixed by Win to max 250 MB. When I checked GPU memory usage in task manager, there was constantly around 120 MB. Some motherboards allows to raise this value in Bios, that is not my case. Also there is new AMD Smart Acces Memory feature with their new CPU and GPUs, but I am not planning to buy new PC. Nvidia should be also working on some improvement in this area, but it is just in progress.
-weak PSU (I doubt that)
-setting of RAM in BIOS - I have absolutely no knowledge here
-bad optimization of Nvidia drivers
-just bad optimization of QL engine - I see this less likely, because I spectate other players and some of them have no frame drops at all. It seems that problem is my side.

I look forward of any information or idea, that could help me solve this once for ever, or any way how to do more deep benchmarking to find the reason.

Thank you

I printed a shell for my Logitech G305

I’ve been getting into horror and Science fiction. I read tons of king this year. Please recommend good books please, also audiobooks and good narrators. I commute a lot.

i need download this,where is the link of this freeware ?! thx

I remember when I first got an SSD in 2013, my jaw dropped at how much faster everything was. It was the same feeling when I first upgraded to DSL from dial-up, or to VGA from EGA, or when I saw a video playing on a computer screen for the first time.

Technology is, of course, getting better every year, and we can do amazing things we could never do even a few years ago, but what do you think is going to be the next big jump that makes us wonder how we got along before it (in terms of hardware capabilities available to the average person)?

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So I’m getting myself back onto a PC so I can play some proper games again (anything like quake, so assuming diabotical/reflex if live/cpma is not played anymore and QC looks horrible).

I used to run the old Icemat and had the same one for years but won’t be playing half as much as I used to so don’t think I’ll want to try and get used to that type of speed/glide again.

What’s the fastest cloth pad out there today that will give me a close enough experience to my old trusty Icemat..?

Read that the Aorus AMP500 and Endorphy Cordura Speed are my best bets but I’d assume ESR is going to be a better place to go for this :O)

Thanks!

Hello QuakeWorld - it is finally time for the AllStars Showmatch!
Our top men have picked their teams last week-end, as follows:

Team 777 - Bps, XantoM, BlooD_DoG, Zero, Insane, Blixem

Team 666 - Milton, Raket, Creature, Nigve, Wimpeeh, Diki (yes, the Lohjan Dag)

They will be playing the following maps : CMT4, Dm2, CTL8 (q3dm14 port, omg), Schloss (halten sie!), Dm3, CMT3, E1M2.

The Showmatch will be taking place on this sunday, the 15th of November at 19:00 UTC - brought to you live on SuddendeathTV by Andeh with guest commentary from Nidweyr and hemostick (wait... what?).

You can find player info and more details on this qw.nu post.

took me two days to make, just a simple montage of ctf frags i had on my pc.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you watch it in 4K or AT LEAST 1440p because youtube's shitty quality with 1080p and lower may ruin your experience, you can also download it which is the best option in my opinion.

movie and performance by dehumanizer

Song: Lightracer - Hot Sparks

Forced feminization and a mandate for gay-communism.

All hail Chairman Biden.

Very old video from the first Quake IV world championship. Many famous players like Cooller, Toxjq, Fatal1ty and more. Enjoy. Use subtitles to see players names and some translation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTIobjFhbAk

Czm's lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_wxjP6Hgdo

They were also testing the playerbase to get information, such as which queues are active and which ones aren't. Information that they will use to design future seasons. People are so brainwashed into thinking that if a game isn't an overnight viral success, that means it failed. Do you really think development would be this active if they had reason to believe it would never gain traction? Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/...;context=3

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handicap option

An old idea.

Of course it should be NON RATED games

Basic idea is to have a checkbox option over FIND MATCH button (handicap checkbox) wich can reduce queue times. If you are strong player your stack cap will be decreased.

Developers just need to check average statistics ELO = DMG and DMG received. and compare this to the other ELO's. May be it's should not working in all gamemodes. May be it need some test in SHAFT ARENA or 1v1 aim arena before it will be implemented in serious gamemodes. May be we need "HANDICAP AIM ARENA" and "AIM ARENA" separatedly, coz all 4 players in 2v2 should be agree with that.

As a result it's not precisious, but it's something and you can correct handicap coefficients in future.

What do you think?

Now you can play with teammate during tournament.

You can choose mappool, ELO RANGE, Round robin or Olympic system, bo1 bo2 bo3, higher bracket (and lower bracket), fully automated system without admins.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2GD'S ANNOUNCMENT

Quake II JumpMod run on a futuristic speed map.

The idea behind this project was to create an Alien themed world that would take the viewer to another dimension. All elements had to fit together to generate the desired sci-fi feeling. The final result is a product of many hours of visual and audio editing, nonetheless the core is still based on the typical Q2 engine with normal physics. Special thanks to MAKO for designing this beautiful map but also to fish, zerosignal & ace for their help and support.

Music:
AUDIOMACHINE – Judge and Jury [Mixed by Jonesy]

Greetings to the entire Quake community.

Thanks for watching

Scheduled: 21:00 CDT, 29 October 2020 to 22:00 CST, 28 November 2020
Schedule: Passed

The Keep is hosting their Third Annual Pigeon Classic FPS Charity Event. From Halloween weekend through the entire month of November is our opportunity to support and bolster the forces of the brave individuals fighting on the front lines against COVID-19.

Through the course of all six events there will be a fundraising initiative for the Florence Nightingale Foundation, who support the professional development of nurses & midwives.


We will also have various other streams throughout the month of casual multiplayer & single player gameplay.

Streams: InTheKeep, ZenSports
Links: Full Details & Sign-Up, The Keep Discord, @InTheKeep

Hi

I switched my g mx 518 skates for hyperglides i discovered i still had from years ago. but the inner ring is new and after thinking hyperglides height would cause them not to be an issue i have to say it creates quite a "slowing" effect", still goes faster than before but now uneven i guess? cant tell so far.
Anyways, would it be better off taking off the inner ring to have a depression? buying corepad and putting only the corepad inner ring (thatd be 10e for just the inner ring...) as they seem to be the only ones making g 518 skates?

Scheduled: 06:00 CDT, 25 October 2020 to 12:00 CDT, 25 October 2020
Schedule: Passed

A new TimCon duel cup for Diabotical has been announced over at Plus Forward. It's coming up on October 25th 06:00 CDT with a prize pool of £200. This is an open tournament however be advised that games will be played on Euro servers so head over to Challonge to sign up.


Stream: TimConLAN
Admins: CrazyAl, Noodle
Links: Discord, Bracket, Sign-up

I started a discord server to become a hub for players who want to meet other players, group up and play as a team.

Do you own such titles like - Escape from Tarkov, Squad, Battlefield, Arma, csgo, insurgency,cod and many more, this server could possibly become a nice hangout for players with similar interests.
Group up & deploy together!

We are a friendly community with a relaxed attitude & are welcoming to players of all skill levels.
Casual & competitive gaming, play games which are not so realistic right through to hyper realism titles.

Its new and developing, so if you want to support what i am trying to just click the discord link below.
https://discord.gg/CpdGAfq

first in the hood to get it ( using free talk talk router ) https://www.speedtest.net/result/10247324028

engineer say's it is coming through the wall at 160mbs

netgear AC1900 or something which looks the same as https://www.netgear.com/home/products/network...R7000.aspx

https://www.speedtest.net/result/10248204200

need BT FTTH modem plugged into lan/wan port 4 and reset router, then on window's go into the network & internet settings and click network reset at the bottom, or the internet won't work

i realized most of ideas in my head are just bs that was used to manipulate masses, smh i was a victim to all of this and looking back at it realise its ape level of iq to share it on the internet in form of esr/twitter posts. i am not sure why it happens, maybe cause i am a looser idk, feel sorry for that a little since most people think its a serious business, to me its just brain level hacking since these ideas are really dumb. i regret that.

Quake player and OWN3D.tv co-founder Oleg 'd1ablo' Kogut has passed away on October 5th, as reported on Twitter by Slasher.

Oleg was a Quake III player in 1v1 and TDM, where he played with clan eoe. Later he moved to Quake 4 1v1.

An interview with Oleg from ESWC 2006 can be found on YouTube.

Bye bye money-wise poor people of the UK who thought being sold out is a good idea. Bye bye NHS and hello to chlorinated chicken. Will be interesting to see what other kind of deals the UK is be able to get. Merkel just canceled every Brexit talk. Poor Boris. (Ah not poor he will get some money from some rich people who will really appreciate the opening of the UK market to their products.)

And funny thing about Q Anon is, the people who are victims of all those new age changes support those people who benefit the most from them. By taking advantage of exactly you, the money-wise poor people. They are burning your dreams to get the most out for themselves. It is because you emotionally connect to those people and you start to think, you both are alike. Which is not totally wrong, you are emotionally alike, but the huge difference is, that those people are rich and they will get richter, you not at all. Your problem is, that you do not use your brain to judge the situation, you only use your emotions. And you feel that you were left behind and now you want to come back really big time. Playing an all in with really really bad cards. Pure desperation and you make it worse for all of us with your stupidity.

Thanks

SHOWMATCH QUAKECHAMPIONS DUEL - TONIGHT 20:30 HRS

Tonight from 20:15 hrs tune on www.twitch.tv/vodkax_q3, the best latam players fight for the leathership.The best Duel players from SouthAmerica of Quake Champions: Nosfa, Maxter, InVaSoR and SupremeGTI.

Don't miss up!
Greetings

www.twitch.tv/vodkax_q3

QuakeLatam.

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When I run ezQuake the game comes up, then it disappears. Task Manager shows no Quake application running, but there is a background process ezQuake v3.1 - QuakeWorld(r) Today (32 bit) running. It prevents me from trying to reopen Quakeworld. Tried running as admin; no difference.

Running windows 10. I played some QW last night for an hour or two and did not have this issue.

Any help is much appreciated.

(Ho-hum. Is this thing on?)
Lately, you may have had more time to get to the choppah get your old .cfg off those dusty floppies in the attic and join a Quake server of your preferred iteration. Maybe even QuakeWorld!
At any rate, many have come back during QWarantine, and that influx of players has given us great activity in the form of the QuakeCon At Home duel tournament, the newly-started GetQuad! Nations cup, second season of HammerTime 2v2, fourteenth season of Thunderdome...

After a two year hiatus, it seemed like a good time to have ourselves a good ol' showmatch again : thus cometh QuakeWorld AllStars, 2020 edition.

First, there will be a draft show where two TDM luminaries will draft their teams from a pool of returning and active stars, such as Xantom, Insane, Grisling, Milton, Bps, Blood_Dog, BogoJoker, HangTime, gLAd, Bulat, Blixem ... (more TBD).
Second - these teams will duke it out in a show match comprising at least the classic TB3 maps for our greatest enjoyment, live on SuddendeathTV.

So far, the ETA is sometime in october-november while we iron out the details and finalize the player list.
Until then, if you are, or know oldschool TDM players who could be interested in playing, get in touch with Ocoini on the QuakeWorld Discord, or drop us a DM on FB or Twitter to get involved!
More info on Quakeworld.nu and here as the story develops.

So i recently decided it was time to install and try diabotical. I waited a little to taste a more finished product. Here's my impressions on it, keep in mind it's just my opinions and my point of view. I may be wrong or biased

---------------------The pros: ---------------------------------------------------------

+ Servers all around the globe. South America, Africa, Asia/oceania players finally have another afps platform since qc left them in the dark

+Mouse input feels very good. Very responsive and consistent, in spite of the frame fluctuations

+Graphics aren't that bad, they're about Fortnite level. It's enough

+You can set everything from the game menu, there are tons of options and many are very sensible/refined.

+Nice match browser, you can queue for everything at the same time and you won't have to wait long even playing early in the morning or in other dead timezones.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(Grey area: dash/weeballs. I don't have a definite opinion on those, i'd prefer if they weren't there, but they don't seem to be too broken.)

------------------------------------------The cons: ------------------------------------

-The name: we've already been over this a million times, but it's a dumb name and while it might have made someone giggle once or twice, it's just dumb and generic. Doesn't help the marketing or taking the game seriously.

-The engine is inexpicably heavy for the kind of graphics it outputs. Standard graphical settings give me only 20-30 fps more than QC set to all low settings. Wtf?!

-There are like, 3 graphical options. Quake champions has more graphical settings than Diabotical! WTF?!

- There are no explanations for any command or setting, not even a very basic one, and the crosshair settings don't stay saved, you have to re-set it every time you launch the game

- The hitboxes feels weird, completely inconsistent and unreliable. Sometimes they feel too small in general, but the shape is so weird and having non hittable limbs feels very off. It's difficult to hit in general, with any weapon.

-The sounds cues are bad. They're too childish and generic. It's difficult to spot enemies/friends and it just sounds bad and half assed.

- Some weapons are well designed, like rl, lg and railgun. The others seem half assed and have 0 personality, but the shotgun deserves a special mention: it looks atrocious, it's just a box, it feels like you're holding a tin box that farts out a handful of pebbles.

It sounds bad, and somehow it feels more inconsistent than QC's shotgun. Yes, it didn't seem possible, but apparently it is! More inconsistent than qc's shotty.

-There is no classic tdm. Classic tdm is something that is there in every single shooter, of any kind. It's the most basic multiplayer option, it's what any new player expects to find in a new game.
From this and other choices, i got the impression that the game design was mostly trying to be "not quake". Maybe that's what the game should have been named then, "NotQuake" since it's trying so hard to be different for the sake of it, and mostly in the things that make it just a worse arena fps game experience.

- The EGGBOTS:

They have TERRIBLE visibility. There is no excuse for this, was it so disgusting to give the eggbots a bright neon color? Was it so unacceptable? Was it... i dunno, "too easy to see"? I dunno what's the reasoning behind them.

Yes you can set their colour picking between millions, but they're not bright enough and even when set to maximum yellow/green they're only visible from close, at any distance they blend into the walls and you can't see shit. They also look too small.

Also spherical/bullet shaped hitboxes are only a good idea on paper. They suck in practice. CZM already found out with his Ultrono Arena.

Cilindrical/humanoid hitboxes are the best ones by feeling. Eggs were also a bad choice because that limits their design to a joke. "Eggs! Looooooool! "

Humanoid characters would have been a better choice. Even very stilized and charicatural, WOW style, Fortnite style, quake3/live style. They didn't have to be realistic.

They would have been better for a marketing angle too: you could start with one basic model, and then sell all the cool ones, like robots, aliens, futuristic armor suits, whatever all the cool stuff in the shop.
Who's gonna buy "cool eggs"?

- The first time player experience: terrbile. Simply atrocious. I am a quake veteran, i have years of afps experience, i also dabbled in unreal tournament, warsow, fortnite, call of duty, whatever.

I still struggled a lot. The first matches are BRUTAL, i can only imagine how they must feel to someone new to the genre.

There is no new player protection whatosever, zero. There's a dumb, quick tutorial that's just frustrating because it consists of a bitch talking for half an hour and never shutting up while you're confined in a closed room with a rocket launcher. Cool.

It really prepares you well for the raging spamming inferno you're going to step in.

-And the last point, and the worst of them all: the cheating.

There is already widespread cheating going on, there probably was since the first week of closed beta lets be honest.

It's unbearable. Players aren't even trying to hide it, to be coy and subtle, no: you'll be locked and tracked with lg while dodging or pinpointed mutliple times consecutively with railgun while there's a smoke ball between you and the opponent, and you got there after the ball was already in place, and you changed position after every shot. Like it isn't even there.

You sit around any corner for any amount of time and there'll be someone that "somehows" manages to "see" you while never actually seeing you directly there and perfectly bounce grenades right on your hitbox,direct hit, from any angle, without ever seeing you. The most ridicolous and over the top wallhacking and aimbotting you can witness. Completely careless, they have 0 fear of being called out or- lmao!- banned.

In any server i've been in, a good 50% of the population was cheating hard. 180 degrees flicks hitting you while you're flying in the air at 1000 ups, lg glued on you no matter how hard you're bouncing them around in close combat with rockets, completely fearless pushes all the time because they can always see if you're alone, aiming at them or running away, that kind of stuff.

It's bad, really bad. Worse than in quake champions.

That shit is gonna scare players off faster than they can dribble in.

That's gonna kill the playerbase, worse than any other issue could.

But there's nothing that can be done about that, except SBMM to contain the issue a little, but the playerbase could be already too small for that.


(TL,DR: 6 years..... for this?!)




What are your toughts and feelings about the game, now that it's been out for a couple weeks?

Yes, it has come to that.

I've been on slashdot, hardocp, ars/techreport, anand, etc. for 20 years. But all of them are either dead, on a death spiral, or suck immensely in their current form.

Is there anything left out there with an active community? And not completely consumed with US politics? Not talking about "tech" sites where all people do is argue about amd/nvidia/intel.

Just noticed this channel https://www.youtube.com/c/alldemos/

which has a bunch of old ass demos being uploaded in really nice high quality. It's fun to browse. Not just Quake but old UT stuff too.

heres some recent uploads

Shub vs. DOOMer, bo3 (XSi 2000, LB 1st round) – Shub's only Q3 demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qyTau6nDuQ

Fatal1ty vs. Immortal (XSi 2000, group stage), bo3 – 4K -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx5bxhtuTD8

(UT2003) ESWC 2003: Fatal1ty vs. Lotus, bo3 (Bronze final) – 2K - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqb4wf6OPg