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Ironfist 2 cancelled (No comments)
Posted by Lam @ 09:58 CDT, 29 September 2022 - iMsg
Edited by Lam at 10:00 CDT, 29 September 2022 - 1408 Hits
Stealth update awesomeness, peak QC (3 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 06:19 CDT, 29 July 2021 - iMsg
- QC got updated yesterday (not the usual Thursday)

- BNL didn't say what it was updating for, there's no official announcement at quake.com or twitter.com/quake, so the only announcement was made by some guy on Reddit (link)

- I managed to play a single game before it crashed

- wrote a nice crash report (turret exploded over my dead body, maybe it had something to do with the crash)

- the crash dump reporter failed to send crash data to Bethesda, but helpfully suggested reporting it through help.bethesda.net

- help.bethesda.net doesn't work, spitting out API errors

- managed to get around it by logging in to bethesda.net first, but then trying to report an issue it gets stuck on empty "select a product page" (even though you had to select one before even getting a "submit ticket" button)

I just want to say, this is peak QC. Thing updates with no announcement, starts crashing immediately, then you're sent on a path of broken websites which leads to nothing :) (Broken websites are the standard there, stats.quake.com anyone? Smoliczech saved the day on that front, now we need a t0st for actual client too ;))
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QuakeCon 2017 (8 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 17:06 CDT, 23 August 2017 - iMsg
View Coverage: QC17
Organiser: QuakeCon
Website: http://www.quakecon.org
Location: Grapevine, TX, USA
Duration: 24 Aug 2017 to 27 Aug 2017

Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 24 August 2017 to 22:00 CDT, 27 August 2017
Schedule: Passed

An annual celebration of games and the people who play them, QuakeCon was founded in 1996 and has grown to become a major event that draws fans from around the globe. More than 10,000 gamers attended last year’s festivities, participating in the LAN party and partaking in a wide range of activities, panels, tournaments, workshops and exhibits from leading tech companies showcasing the newest hardware and gaming accessories. Over the years, attendees have also been treated to exclusive presentations and hands-on for several of Bethesda’s upcoming games, including DOOM, Dishonored 2, Quake Champions and more.

Links: Quakecon Home
Edited by Lam at 17:11 CDT, 23 August 2017 - 15630 Hits
Marty Stratton answers questions on DooM (106 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 15:05 CST, 22 January 2016 - iMsg
We all KNEW it's CoD console crap with Doom monsters, but marketing wants ut to think otherwise. So they had a Q&A to confirm all of that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrIMb-ro-UI

TL;DR:

- it's shit

- it's slow (shooting 15 monsters while crawling is "speed" to them... oh btw! Doom had speed)

- it's not supposed to be a labirynth with backtracking (aka Doom) because that's frustrating; read: it's going to be linear

- there will be DLCs unlike Wolfenstein

- Doom Marine will have a story

- checkpoints instead of saving, read: it has has to be linear

- he clearly confirms there's "gating" and "no puzzles", aka the game is 100% linear and all the fun is supposed to be in combat, to quote "constant combat problem solving" :DDDDD

- the most awesome multiplayer experience is racing in lanes without meating each other

+ music is done by Mick Gordon just like Wolfenstein

PS. 2 guns at the same time despite Myth Busters totally finding out actual hero can carry 8 guns np.
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QL Steam Exclusive beta goes public (234 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 13:03 CDT, 21 October 2015 - iMsg
In the words of sponge himself:

19:59.47 <sponge-> if anyone wants to try out the new quake live, just right click
        quake live on steam, properties, beta, and opt into the beta branch
19:59.54 <sponge-> we're basically at a near release candidate state!


Goodbye friends, standalone master race salutes you!

Edit: check also our forum topic QL Steam switch Q&A with SyncError.
Edited by Badb0y at 09:44 CDT, 22 October 2015 - 63767 Hits
ulbe please (12 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 15:35 CDT, 14 September 2015 - iMsg
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QuakeCon 2015 stats / scoreboards (15 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 04:51 CDT, 27 July 2015 - iMsg
I'm happy to report Czech Republic LesTR managed to import stats of the QuakeCon 2015 Tri-Masters Tournament.

You can see all the player statistics, browse through games and check scores here:
Day 1: http://qlstats.info/quakecon-2015-tdm
Day 2: http://qlstats.info/quakecon-2015-ctf
Day 3: http://qlstats.info/quakecon-2015-duel
(Note: some of the order is wrong because stats didn't include timestamps and we just made those up; might not include all games; might still include warmup games.)

Big thanks to United States of America sponge for sharing the raw data from his tracker.
Edited by Lam at 13:49 CDT, 28 July 2015 - 17519 Hits
#tdmpickup draft #11 (34 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 14:05 CDT, 12 May 2015 - iMsg
Scheduled: 09:00 CDT, 17 May 2015 to 16:00 CDT, 17 May 2015
Schedule: Passed

This Sunday the weather is forecast to be rainy, so why not play in another multi-team pickup, also known as #tdmpickup Draft Tournament!

The 10th tournament we've hosted gathered 92 players forming 23 teams. You can watch VODs at Flair TV and Level Up TV. Spoiler: it was won by team pecka (pecka, lethiferous, Apollo440 and Batu1), followed by team empish and "team Harry" ;) who were awarded paintings and postcards signed by the most acclaimed Quake painter, Russia vikatje. Some action shots!

Our 11th Cup in this series will start at 10:00 CDT, 17 May 2015. Signups will start at 09:00 CDT, 17 May 2015 and will last for one hour.

We'll try the incomplete DE format once again, and to motivate you to play until the last game, there's again a prize for third place!

All players are invited to participate, but remember, each player has to play at least 10 TDM pickups prior to the tournament. Please warm up by playing with us all week!


Links: Brackets
Streams: twitch Flair
Edited by Lam at 15:31 CDT, 17 May 2015 - 37755 Hits
#tdmpickup draft #10 (117 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 14:40 CST, 5 March 2015 - iMsg
Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 15 March 2015 to 17:00 CDT, 15 March 2015
Schedule: Passed

At #tdmpickup, we have many reasons to celebrate: played our 40 000th game last month, HoQ TDM season just finished, QuakeCon 2015 featuring TDM... This calls for yet another #tdmpickup Draft Tournament!

Our 10th Cup will start at 11:00 CDT, 15 March 2015. Signups will start at 10:00 CDT, 15 March 2015 and will last for one hour.

Many of you complained about the SE format in the past, so in a change from previous tournaments, #10 will feature a best-of-1 Loser's Bracket for all teams except WB finalists.

All players are invited to participate, but remember, each player has to play at least 10 TDM pickups prior to the tournament. Please warm up by playing with us all week!


Links: tdmpickup.eu, QLStats
Streams: twitch FlairTV, twitch sparks/cl0ck, twitch Level Up TV
Edited by xou at 18:41 CDT, 15 March 2015 - 50342 Hits
Quake Live Demo Tools 1.2.1 released (73 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 07:52 CST, 20 January 2015 - iMsg
I'm proud to announce the release of Quake Live Demo Tools 1.2.1.

This is the same QLDT you used to use and love, now with support for new Quake Live demo format (dm_90), playback in the standalone QL (including Steam version) and better integration of WolfcamQL, along with other long awaited fixes.

For those who have never used it before - QLDT is a program allowing quick navigation and playback of QL demos from your collection, complete with features to search for frag streaks, specific frags or things said in chat. With just a few mouse clicks, you can cut short snippets from your demos.

Direct download: Windows installer
Edited by xou at 09:34 CST, 20 January 2015 - 48974 Hits
#tdmpickup Draft #9 (35 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 13:31 CST, 19 February 2014 - iMsg
Scheduled: 10:00 CST, 23 February 2014 to 16:00 CST, 23 February 2014
Schedule: Passed

Live update: Congratulations to team gienon (gienon, URAZ, lethiferous, Gauldoth) and thanks everyone for playing!

Streams: Funnyb (English), nix0n (Russian), ka5ta (no cast)
POV Streams: ash, Centinela, moogen, Xron

Long time has passed since our last draft. Keep reading to learn how to play in one on this very Sunday!

The 9th #tdmpickup Draft Tournament will be played at 10:00 CST, 23 February 2014. Signups will start at 09:00 CST, 23 February 2014 and will last for one hour.

As usual, all players are invited to participate. Teams will be created automatically from the pool of all signed up players. Remember, each player has to play at least 10 TDM pickups prior to the tournament. So if you aren't ranked already, start playing pickups today! Have fun!


Apologies for late announcement, but real life scheduling conflicts had to be resolved to make this possible.

Links: tdmpickup.eu, QLStats
Edited by Lam at 16:01 CST, 23 February 2014 - 17445 Hits
YouTube Live Expands To All Channels (10 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 07:53 CST, 13 December 2013 - iMsg
Just yesterday on the YouTube Creator blog, Google has announced that live streaming will be expanded to all channels.

What makes this interesting is that unlike Twitch.tv, YouTube Live offers quality selection to all channels, plus there's an option of rewinding in the live stream.

Previously the option was only available to channels with high number of followers. Now it's already being rolled out to all verified channels in good standing.
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#tdmpickup Draft #8 (27 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 08:30 CST, 21 November 2013 - iMsg
Scheduled: 09:00 CST, 24 November 2013 to 17:00 CST, 24 November 2013
Schedule: Passed

With the duel community preparing for next week's DreamHack, it's high time to announce another event in the #tdmpickup draft tournament series.

The 8th #tdmpickup Draft Tournament will be played on Sunday, at 10:00 CST, 24 November 2013. Signups will start at 09:00 CST, 24 November 2013 and will last for one hour.

As usual, all players are invited to participate. Teams will be created automatically from the pool of all signed up players. Remember, each player has to play at least 10 TDM pickups prior to the tournament. So if you aren't ranked already, start playing pickups today! Have fun!


Links: tdmpickup.eu, QLStats
Edited by Lam at 02:54 CST, 25 November 2013 - 14574 Hits
#tdmpickup Draft #7 (68 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 12:44 CDT, 1 October 2013 - iMsg
Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 6 October 2013 to 16:00 CDT, 6 October 2013
Schedule: Passed

Live update: 96 players signed up; 24 teams generated. Click for brackets

With the summer holidays finally over and with all our TDM friends back from Prague, we are glad to annouce a new #tdmpickup draft tournament.

The 7th edition of the #tdmpickup Draft Tournament will be played on Sunday, at 10:00 CDT, 6 October 2013. Signups will start at 09:00 CDT, 6 October 2013 and will last for one hour.

As usual, all players are invited to participate. Teams will be created automatically from the pool of all signed up players. Remember, each player has to play at least 10 TDM pickups prior to the tournament. So if you aren't ranked already, start playing pickups today! Have fun!


Links: tdmpickup.eu, QLStats
Edited by Lam at 17:11 CDT, 6 October 2013 - 27446 Hits
sigh, Faceit (30 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 13:24 CDT, 13 August 2013 - iMsg
So I've played in 3 cups this month, but can't join any more. I'm supposed to be able to join 4, right? I wanted to play the Road to Prague on Sunday, now what? :(

The whole thing is stupid anyways. Just don't give us any points if we're not unlimited/premium, but let us populate the cups alongside the paying people. You know, like Race in QL - all players can play but only premiums can win.


The site isn't any better either.

It's hard to check my own results from the past. There's no dedicated page, so you have to go to your own player profile (a bit counter-intuitive) and it's mixed with the weekly bars and friend notifications. You need to scroll, pause while it loads, scroll, pause while it loads more... and keep doing that for a minute to get your whole history.

I have to expand "how to play" on the main page to see all my online friends.

There's no way to list cups without logging in (past or upcoming).

There's no way to get list of cup's participants without logging in.

When you're logged in and check participants and it's a team cup, you can't click on people's names to go to their profiles. You see Faceit account names and need to search using the top bar.

There's no way to see prize distribution for a cup.

"Match Finished" doesn't work and you need to report scores to nsx each time (poor guy).

"Team menu" doesn't say anything about my team/teams (you have to click the triangle on top, then Account, then Teams List on the left), although it has a button to create a new team (that will never appear there).

When you receive FP, there's a notification, but it doesn't even tell you where you won those. It should just link a cup.

Browsing past tournaments is horribly painful. Again, you scroll, it loads, you scroll more, it loads etc. for minutes. And if you click a cup and click back, you land on a page with upcoming tournaments, have to click "past" again and start scrolling again.

Oh, and it logs me out semi-randomly. Like I'm logged in for a week, all works, then suddenly "home" button redirects me to a login page and that's it.


tl;dr: let me play my 4th cup on Sunday.
Edited by Lam at 13:29 CDT, 13 August 2013 - 6138 Hits
super_koziol vs QLPP18 (22 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 10:44 CDT, 18 July 2013 - iMsg
Practicing for a Distant Screams ice race.

Edited by Lam at 10:44 CDT, 18 July 2013 - 11375 Hits
#tdmpickup Draft #6 - with Level Up TV! (132 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 12:19 CDT, 28 May 2013 - iMsg
Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 2 June 2013 to 17:00 CDT, 2 June 2013
Schedule: Passed

It is my privilege to announce that the wonder duo of United Kingdom Disrepute and United Kingdom vor has agreed to come out of slumber and once again host a stream covering our next Draft Cup.

The 6th #tdmpickup Draft Tournament will be played on Sunday, at 10:00 CDT, 2 June 2013. Signups will start at 09:00 CDT, 2 June 2013 and will last for one hour.

As usual, all players are invited to participate. Teams will be created automatically from the pool of all signed up players. Remember, each player has to play at least 10 TDM pickups prior to the tournament. So if you aren't ranked already, start playing pickups today! Have fun!


Stream: lvlup2 Level Up TV
Links: tdmpickup.eu, QLStats, Level Up TV
Edited by Lam at 17:08 CDT, 2 June 2013 - 50839 Hits
#tdmpickup Draft #5 - this Sunday! (52 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 16:39 CDT, 23 April 2013 - iMsg
Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 28 April 2013 to 18:00 CDT, 28 April 2013
Schedule: Passed

Welcome to the 5th #tdmpickup Draft Tournament! The tournament will be played on Sunday, at 10:00 CDT, 28 April 2013. Signups will start at 09:00 CDT, 28 April 2013 and will last for one hour.

Tournament format and maplist stays the same as last time. As usual, teams will be created automatically from the pool of all signed up players.

Players of all skill levels are welcome, as long as they have played at least 10 TDM pickups prior to the tournament.


Have fun!

Links: tdmpickup.eu, QLStats
Edited by twister_ at 00:59 CDT, 29 April 2013 - 18464 Hits
Please add WGA Season 2 as event (3 comments)
Posted by Lam @ 04:52 CDT, 12 April 2013 - iMsg
As the title says. World Gamers Arena is starting Season 2 of their league, this time with TDM and CTF, so there will be much to cover!
Edited by ShadyAK at 18:48 CDT, 23 June 2013 - 1250 Hits
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