as if kids do homework instead of playing video games..

Be patient please, it takes time to dumb down a game.

Isn't it like kids play more games after summer because the weather becomes worse or am I too 90s?

LOL

You weren't 90s enough. In the 90s I was playing Ultima and Wing Commander all summer long. :(*
/ wasted youth.

wing commander is decidedly NOT a waste. i found a new version of WC Privateer that runs on modern computers if you're interested (it's free)

Yeah, I already played through it on Windows a few years ago. Privateer was amazing! Definitely sunk so many hours into that as a kid, and I regret nothing.

playing on Windows via Privateer Gold? Tachyon FTW! :)

:) You can also go for the GOG.com version, they've set it up well to work in Windows.

What? That's not a relevant site at all...

Not relevant? The site is pretty much specialized in distributing old-ass games.

ha, i'm an idiot - opened that site on my phone, while drunk, saw the front page "DRM-FREE MOVIES", closed the site and posted idiotic post. my bad :P

Well, they reissued privateer and made it compatible with windows, I think they may have just bundled a version of myJEMM or something with it, but for people who are having issues getting it to work on Windows might be an option.
And yeah, tachyon OP. Man.... I am so sad that Privateer 3 and the online version got axed. But Roberts Space Industries is all set to replace that!

Ultima, flip your an old one :) I started on the ZX spectrum in 1982 I think, playing "Hungry Horace" lol

Did you try?
1993 X-Wing
1995 Command & Conquer
1996 Command & Conquer: Red Alert
1997 X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter

I played C&C + C&C:RA constantly until quake came out. Awesome games at the time.

lots and lots of XvT but not online much. I quit it within a few days because I couldn't progress at all.

I wanted to progress, so I chose to fight better ranked players, none of them were actually better than me so they quit, which didn't count as a win for me (at the time, no idea if they fixed that later) :(

bloody match making always an issue somewhere... Hope they are going to bring "achievements" across from QL to Steam too, cus I don't fancy doing them all again.

Used to play on USA servers on 1000 ping with XvT, those were the days.

That just made me chuckle.

The thing with today's gamers, is they do not realise the intense gameplay and graphics and hardware advancements, Let alone, how amazingly easy their experiences have been made with SLPB status as standard and FREE (near enough). With us, having the 14.4k, 28.8, 56k modems as an amazing experience. (But a massive phone bill at the end, god I remember I had "thousands AND THOUSANDS" to pay in phone bills when Quake came on-line.)

1995 Command & Conquer
1996 Command & Conquer: Red Alert
1997 X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter

I'm born the 29 of january 1989, but still I used to play these games when I was a kid :D

They all were amazing games, tho a bit difficult when you're a kid :D

I also used to play "Dark Forces" (starwars) which was also a fucking good game. And was probably the 1st FPS I played :D

also Indiana Jones, Day of the Tentacles, Full Throttle, warcraft 1, the first tomb raider, and so on... :D

damn, was good time ;)

Recently at my mother's place, I was helping her clean out some of my old junk and I stumbled on a box of boot disks that I used to play various games way back... omg memories! hehe.
Oh, to be back in those days when it took like 30 hours of work to even get a game running <3

Red Alert - love that shit!!

Yes, yes you are.

Maybe study isn't as much fun?

It's funny how everyone is hating this new update but they cant wait for it to come out.
I hope they delay it as much as possible.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

We want the band-aid ripped off quickly.

i want it to come out so i can decide if i want to stick to quake or not.

so you will buy a sub for at least one month?

I always have subscribed to quake, since playing duel without being a sub is a total pain in the ass...

I want it so I can decide on subscribing again or going to q3a..

wow yeah look how EVERYONE is wanting the patch to come out in this thread!!

: D

It will be released early October

The all knowing CMSS.

hu?

QL2.0: CMSS Update

C ool
M ega
S hit
S ir

And how do you know this?)))

he heard it from somone who read a comment by somone who read a comment by somone who commented on a focus group that this was true tomorow.

You son of a bitch. You stole my quote from the other day!

"that this was true tomorrow"

that threw me off track lol :D

Sponge is CMSS

figures

figures

figures

figures

$$$$$

figures

so fresh meat after the update? ;)

so there will be fresh meat after the update? ;)

so there will so be fresh so after the update? ;)

summer's already over in na.

Is it?

canada doesn't count.

America, fuck yeah!

huehuehuehue

Jokes on you, neither of you count.

nope, i just went to lake michigan on sunday and it was like 85 and sunny all day!

I'm still in triple digits.

58 degrees out today.

Only 91 today with 50% chance of thunder. I will be back at 102 by Friday.

i'm actually playing through rage again, it's awesome after playing that new wolftang game.

omg -_-

OP is id software?

op = yay0?

AGENT = CMSS?

CMSS = sponge ?!

op is ghey

Release date is 01/04/2015.

If Quake is going to dumb itself down with these new updates, then you may as well just play that new COD game or Titanfall instead.
It'll be essentially the same experience, except QL will have worse graphics, smaller community, worse interface, no matchmaking, worse servers etc etc etc. The list goes on.
If Quake is going to lose it's defining gameplay attributes, then it'll actually have nothing to offer over competitors. Quake Live makes up for it's lack of modern flair with it's superior hardedged competitive gameplay, take that away and it actually has zero advantage in the market.
gg guys. You officially lost me.

y u hef 2 be mad? Its only game.

:>

how is packing 9 weapons all the time any better than a 2 or 3 weapon system where 2 weapons are all you need like it was in quakeworld. even duke nukem forever had 2 weapon system, and it didnt look any worse, all you have to do is balance the guns so that you dont have to pack all the guns all the time, which does look bad. quake 3 guns are not really fun because they dont have 2 fire modes, and switching takes time, a limited 2 weapon system mayb actually make the game less glitchy in that sense that you will alyways have dilemma of switching to a different gun midgame and cause delay during a closeupfight just cause you think 1 of your 9 guns is better. a better solution would be maybe giving damage boost to your primary and secondary guns, with possible levelups depending how long you use them, so you still have 9 guns but only 2 guns that have acceptable damage.

well at least we know 1 person will enjoy it

i played q3 since 2001, i really dont care how many weapons the game has, something needs to be changed, 9 weapons or 2, i still think it reallly isnt going to change how many people will play it, people got used to the overall feel of the game, notsome specific rules, if we look at the game there really is only maybe 3 weapons that are must have which are lighting gun, railgun and rocket launcher, plus mg as a finishing gun, which already is there, so i assume there will be a gauntlet, machinegun + 2 weaps of your choice, and ammo packs on the map + weapons that can replace those 2

in qw btw there is only rl and lg used, the rest is equal to mg, and i see almost no difference in gameplay, its still a high skill gamewith just one gun,

Nades and Quad SSG begs to differ.

I can't tell you how it's going to be because the NDA police aka Yakumo works for id for free and reads everything but I can tell you it's not gonna be like that.

Technically he's a NDA Bobby.

http://www.english-blogs.com/the_english_bobby/

And a bottom

This!

Well, we really still don't know what the update will entail. 'Loadouts' seem certain, but weapon spawns will still exist. Several modes in the leaked dev tracker are identified as being untouched/updated settings. I'm not sure what that means other than possibly denoting the weapon changes. So we will we have Q3 style weps as opposed to QL. Game will be splashier. I prefer QL now, but I recall getting back into Quake with QL, and finding it frustrating I couldn't easily bounce->LG->RG finish which was bread and butter in Q3. So, I think it will be fun for juggling to return. As to the auto-bunny thing. It will just make new meat, meatier. Just easy LG/RG targets. They will probably rethink this, once the game is released and new players just get chewed up alive by decent aimers that view someone in air as a present...and the new mode settings sorta suggest players they are trying to draw should always be holding jump? Sign me up for this massacre made for me.

Something does bother me is HMG. If you can hitscan well, MG is sorta perfectly powered. A beefier MG would really break things. You wouldn't need loadouts in the first place. If you can hit high 30's low 40's with MG NOW, you are a dangerous nuisance that someone will leave alone. You can't really force a fight, but you can make someone think twice, or really punish them if they decide to eat the damage for the kill. Now imagine if MG was any stronger. Seems balance breaking in the wep department.

Great.. :/
All this pressure...

You realise if they release it any time soon now due to this any problems with it are all your fault.

They didn't gave a fuck in 6 years, they won't do it now o/
; )

edit. Do a barrel roll!

They made transition to standalone after browser tech was abandoned by Firefox/Chrome devs. They are working on Steam deploy now.

Yes, they do not give a fuck about Quake.

Now- try to grow up.

Would plus but I know you're not trolling :c

Considering we're talking about the guys who added TA runes and proximity mines to QL....
I would pray this update never comes out.

?
They were both part of Team Arena, the only major official update to Quake3Arena, it just made sense to build QL on that...

It's just a shame that Q2 style runes and ctf were infinitely superior but then they didn't understand that for Q3 itself either :/

why would it make sense to build ql on something that no one liked to begin with?

they think new players from steam will begin to play quake

The code base was certainly improved over Q3A's. Why they decided to use what was freely available in TA is another question entirely.

Give it a week TOPS
Might even happen in a few days.

When those necessary changes will happen - this website will go insane :D

Can't wait to go to town with the heavy mg. It will be like et but without headshots.

So what's everyone's PUT1SR?

QLBROADCAST
We will be going down at 11:00AM CDT (15 minutes) for a game update.


??? usual monthly update or?

Itshappening.gif

its the gameplay update

Q.Q

Im scared :O:O:O

Installing cs:go

Hurry up then

aaaaaand done.

The update is live right now!

wow, yup....lets see how this goes.

http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post301166

At least they were smart enough to keep duel servers as "Classic" (lol).

HEAVYMACHINEGUN!!!!

At least the leak forced them into a partial climb down, really wish they hadn't gone through with it at all though.

What makes you think the leak had anything to do with changes to a work in progress?

YEP

Trust me

All leak change was it stop gauntlet giving a speed boost after many in group complain too.

Yeah sure. You probably know better.

looks like Porosity left. lol

OH MY GOD SO THE LEAK WAS TRUE..i need some drink asap..

I just joined a server. It ain't that bad at all, loadouts were disabled though. I'm happy they let the pro spawned servers free to everyone. So it's all ok and I think I like it.

I can't seem to find the damage number cmds anywhere (cvarlist *damage* didn't help either)

Try cg_damageplum, that's what I was just told.

seta cg_damagePlumColorStyle "2" // 1,2 or 3

The three settings from the advanced game menu give :
seta cg_damagePlum "g mg sg gl rl lg rg pg bfg gh cg ng pl hmg"

or for just AoE (area of effect) "sg gl rl pg bfg"
or off clearcvar cg_damagePlum

obviously you can tailor it to be for any weapons you like editing the list.


"cg_damagePlum" doesn't autocomplete in the console atm, minor bug.

thanks

So where is this thing in steam? is it there yet? because i cant see it.

They did state clearly in the anouncement post that the big ass update we're all trying now, would be weeks before the steam release.

This is obviously so they can see how it all goes and bugfix/modify etc, they want the steam release to go as well as it possibly can given their current resources.

Sadly changes a lot of current players don't like, isn't going to get them reversed if they still feel overall it will increase their steam user retention more than their loss, as that has to be their goal.