WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH IM NOT READY !!!!

I DONT LIKE THISSSSSSS

isn't that frag movie a horrible way of showing your game to everyone on steam? you don't get a quick understanding of the game, there's no hud and if anything this video just intimidates players since it showing high level tournament gameplay from pro players

I just think it's odd to have a frag movie like that as your main 'this is quake live' video on steam, steam of all places ffs

Steam trailers aren't usually tutorials. All the people need to know at this point is that people shoot each others and that it looks cool and fun. New players watching this won't recognize pro players or high level gameplay, they'll see people being torn apart by different weapons.
I really don't know what ELSE it could be.

It should be gibs, tits, cigars and pentagrams.

That might have had an impact even though that's not my thing. They would probably need a second videos for touchy countries like Germany. That's if that would even be allowed in the first place for other countries with the current ESBR rating. Of course they could have gone with a re-rating as well if they're willing to wait a long time and have issues with different content over different countries.

Quake isn't a fucking indie game

Quake is QUAKE

it's not *Quake*

it's fucking QUAKE

:D

AND XIAN.

Quake Live PEGI 18

that's the old Quake :(

Go on the community hub and post some stuffs if you think you can do better, everyone can help!

It's an advertisement, not a tutorial. It's just meant to be a quick way of getting people interested. The type of player who might stick with Quake is not the type to be 'intimidated' by high level gameplay, but rather inspired.

my favorite thing is that video was 100% made in Wolfcam. hehe.

Hehe

hehe?

Yeah plus showing Rapha get fragged so many times just gives the impression of player shortage. Also, whats up with this pussy music? I want my Quake fiddling with industrial noize!

All hail Sonic Mayhem.

Yeah boys time to fill the Steam hub with helpful shit.

I'm looking at you Yakumo

I wonder how many zealots and fucking fanatics will spam community section on Steam with "this game is shit, don't play it!" posts just because they do not like new announcer.

Thanks for the idea, on my way.

I thought I've seen something about it already lol, before the game even released on Steam haha =''''D

I wonder how many id zealots and ql fanatics will spam community section on steam with "this game is awesome, buy a pro account so you can spawn classic servers!" posts just because they want to keep their free pro subscription.

see wut i did there

works both ways man

Wasn't the shitty launcher change their excuse for why they dropped linux support? Now with steam, I don't see that relevant anymore but the steam page says windows only...

The in-game web renderer and lack of in-house Linux knowledge was the reason.

lack of in-house Linux knowledge

At least they admit being noobs :D

Are we still able to play using the launcher currently available or will we have to launch it through steam?

Like other people have said I hope there isn't too much bashing on the Steam page by current players due to tiny things that they don't like, all that will do is damage the game, community and genre as a whole.
This is a great way to get people into FPS arena shooters so don't fuck it up by being a retard and slating the game we've loved for many years. Instead use it to promote tutorials, VODs and tourneys.

Regular launcher will still be available.

Agree on the other points

And will use just that.

Most of the bashing will come from new players.

That's up to them. What we don't need is people discouraging new players from atleast trying it. Just because the game is free doesn't mean people will still take the time to try it, especially if there's loads of people stating that they've played the game for years and now its shit.
When I'm on the fence about games on steam I will read through some comments to get the general feeling towards a game from people who have played it for more than a couple of minutes.

If some people want to warn noobs that they're about to get pounded in their first game, then i believe that is warranted. They should know to expect a very lopsided entry in tier 3 when they first connect. At least that way they'll expect to get destroyed. Think of the opposite effect when they see the headlines on the front page: "easily play against others at your own skill level" and then get trumped badly in that first outing. Pretty sure they'll be more raged in the latter situation.

Transparency is key here.

Already encountered "I won't play this shit anymore" from a new account. ))

...but it isn't the game we've loved for many years...

If it gets more people into the GENRE instead of killing off any chance we have of increasing the player base for this game and future arena shooters.

sir, its still not the game we`ve all played for years now..

Since 2008 we have been playing one game, one completly different from what it is today, up until recently, for what???So iD decides to spit in face of those loyal fanbase supporters that kept playing the game no matter the conditions?First they lied to us with f2p, now they decided to ditch us like old shoes even tho we paid for the game, for who?Bunch of pizzabox 12yo CMSS kiddie hordes.. PLS.SRSLY IF SOMEONE THINKS THEY GONNA BRING MILLIONS OF JEW$$ IN THEIR PIXIE DUST BAG, LMAO!!!When TTimo was still working on this game, updates made sense, game had a direction, a concept!!Since he left, entire game went down the drench,every single update was a joke, one after another.THEY COULD HAVE RELEASED THE GAME ON STEAM YEARS AND YEARS AGO.

.... yes I get that.

But I think it's a good opportunity for the genre in general.

sure, reach broader audience is always a good opportunity.. its just that they fucked up that opportunity years ago, doing miserable work as usually.

Last 2 updates are just a coverup for their own incompetence, they need an excuse to justify so late Steam release.So they comeup with this "big gameplay updates" joke instead.

it's all good to release your shit on steam, but will the servers and the actual game hold ? it's not unusual to see 20k+ people trying out a F2P shooter

<@sponge> and in beta they couldn't do it because the site couldn't manage more than 2000 people online at once
<@sponge> shit happens
<@sponge> this is how software/game dev happens
<@sponge> we've been fighting our infrastructure ever since day 1
<@sponge> and it still sucks

what has changed ? (the announcer, yes, I get it)

this could be a massive failfest (in line with the other changes, yes, I also get that)

The difference is that nobody gives a fuck about the game now.

Shit was hype in 2008.

considering what's played on steam at release, I'm pretty sure ql will have a very good start "oh yeah quake, I heard of that", some will come back to play with their friends or just to enjoy populated servers

keeping players around is what's going to be tricky, especially if everything falls apart tonight

Im having a feeling games like Unturned will be more played than quake..

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

it's highly probable, yes
until the "zombie quake" update ))

oh, but we already have squarehead tankjr and vampiric dmg too.FUCK, now we need to make iD tweak "classic mode..

Until the 238th time of being utterly destroyed.

That's weird, 2000? Cause I distinctly remember a time in closed beta they made a big deal about having all users online at the same time to test the site. That was back when there was a counter on the site to show how many were currently online. How accurate that counter was I don't know, but I do know it showed a bit over 13k.

lol he calls the biggest mistake in all quake history that shit just happens?

in Australia the servers weren't holding with around 40 regular players. ggggggggggggggggg

Woo! Be nice to the noobs, guys!

Gentle rape : 3 :
*insert sloth img here*

this is the moment we have all been waiting for its the zombie apocalypse! open the gates i am ready!

THE MOMENT THAT CLOCK HITS ZERO IM GONNA RAPE EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DOTA ELF GAME PLAYER ON THIS PLANET INTO FUCKING OBLIVION

Ahahahhaha :D :D

hahaha

and since keeping your from doing that is one of many things that not got introduced to the game beforehand, im pretty sure the newcomers will enjoy it aswell and stick to the game forever + throw their money at pro subscriptions.

now you care?

lol

I'M WATCHING YER SIX N1GGA

[img1]

WHY THERE'S NO SCHEDULED LISTING YET?!!?!?!11ONE

CAN'T WAIT

Haha, 70% of that steam QL trailer is my CTF and TDM team getting shit on. GG

ah yes, good ol CTF Pickups. I'm sure noobs will be welcomed with open arms.

good times.

on a related note: 90% of it has rapha dying

haha, yea people notced that.

Fuck sake!

nasty business that, the VO guys taken too many slow mo pills, "yawn!!! impressive"

iiiiiiiiiiiDDDDmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmEEEE
ppppppppppppppppPPPPrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRR
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEE
ssssssssssssssssSSSSssssssssSSSS
iiiiiiiiiiIIIIvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVVVV
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEE

He ran out of vaseline.

ql old news

Wait I haven't played QL in like 2 weeks, only QW,COM and GO, but can you still use the old announcer voice, because this voice sounds so dull.

No.

:/

GL QL! <3

Curious to know who the ghosters guy is who is pro-actively trolling in favor of the devs on the new steam ql forum..
http://steamcommunity.com/app/282440/discussi...297746992/

http://steamcommunity.com/app/282440/discussi...297859797/

well its not me, altho i agree with him on both gore & linux support :P

i think it would be a really cool idea if you would be able to buy ql subscriptions through the steam wallet money, dunno if it will be possible on the release

Most important question, will there be a queue?

...

haha

i have no idea if those steam people are pro trolls or just extremly stupid.. but there are ongoing discussions if this is a ripoff of halo and old xbox shooters

Nobody knows about Quake so it's to be expected.

yea, those kids weren't even born when quake came out.

Some of the trolls are actual Quaker, I assume it is their way of bitching about their own game. Pretty ridiculous even if the latest changes were far from being decent.

Personally I'm still mad that they haven't created some kind of progression to smooth the learning curve and maybe added unlockables instead of going all in and deteriorating the gameplay.

Oh well, it still doesn't justify going full retard and bitching about it on the steam forum.

[img1]http://i.imgur.com/TC7oyen.png

almost

priceless :D

Quakefail has just launched on steam
it's happening!

Put your configs in this folder/directory.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Quake Live\9237848273893745489645786\baseq3

You'll have a folder with random numbers, I'm assuming it's your steam id. But you put your configs in there and do /exec autoexec.

Anyone get the game to work? Mine crashes after launch.

Welcome to QL 2.0

Hahahahaaaaa =D

I saw this too, hilarious

Servers down?

It displays

503 Service Unavailable

No server is available to handle this request.

black text on black background

fucking game wants to fail

2,568 2,568 Quake Live

steam stats

What stats ? (I mean where do I find them...)

http://store.steampowered.com/stats

WTF... more than Killing Floor and Borderlands... not that bad :p.

Launch day numbers will drop off hugely.

QL had a queue of 100k on it's launch day or something stupid like that.

not even 3000 people played today. it's at 1.8k right now.

ql's playerbase is as small as vedic said it was

the Devs can't hide from the truth anymore

There are people who play with the standalone and not steam (me). Are those people taken into account in the steamcharts ?

no

Then there's no need to masturbate over steam numbers for now, there are more players than we can see.

(which doesn't mean QL has a big playerbase)

o that old excuse, of "there are more players on standalone" just make it all steam only, and hope that it continues to progress, and be monitored for improvements. No one likes to see a good game tampered with, and modified, but there is stuff that needs to be done.

it already is, check again

as predicted

This chart may be interesting (after some time)
http://www.steamcharts.com/app/282440

Too bad you can't F5 that shit.

You can F5 this shit, every 10 min.

Doesn't work.

Did they change the default weapon binds back to numbers as well?

Quote:

Great game very fun gameplay, Its Fast paced, graphics are slightly better than quake 3 series, game ruin's many lives cause you never want too stop playing quake live or get up too pee or you might just PEE IN A BOTTLE cause your so lazy and dont want too stop playing quake live for 30secs its awesome game does take lots of skill you'll get better if you KEEP PLAYING. so keep trying and soon you'll play just like the pros :D

Wow so many newbies on CTF

i love u

i love u too

:DDD (no homo)

I like how you still can't see populated servers on the browser that are below your skill level so quake always looks dead.

ql not working on steam.... fuckin grey screen
only me ?

WP sponge.

"this is the best game ever sponged, and I'm not biased" (c) made

what a tool

i noticed flashsoul has almost as many hours played as sponge.

the truth is revealing itself nicely hehe

Interesting. What are your conclusions over this piece of information?

by the way, nice post on steam. Have plus :)

And...who posted tyrone :D

I wonder if they'll even keep the game going until christmas time, this year?

Will we even have the option to be disappointed about no Winter's Edge for a 2nd year in a row?

so many newbs streaming :p

still cant run the game in fullscreen :( 17 fps and stutters fek

sell drugs, buy new pc :D

i7 920 with gtx 480 its not the pc, but youre right on the drug part

there's actually people playing this.

FFA servers are full.
ctf servers are full... haven't seen that at all since 2010.
pretty sure i saw tdm, freeze tag ect ect.

now kgb can go slum and destroy the community

almost 2k. wow game is so full!!

<crickets>

you wouldn't know
you weren't there......

the crickets were louder before
now their songs of sorrow r drowned out by "COMBO KILL!"
"RAMPAGE!"
"FIRST FRAG!"

fuller than i've seen it in a long time.

scary...

kgb will def be causing a few hundred people to ragequit by the end of the week. He always shows up at dinnertime O.O

I still think it pushed out like a "hot curry fart", a "bad steam release"

Why put I fragged Rapha 10 times onto their first promo stream, and have the "time played" on the video, mostly Duel, when they say at the start "12 GAME TYPES". Why the f*ck didn't they put on some Shaolin Productions, much better idea. Why that VO. zzzz Why only 1 demo? OMG, Why not more caster exclamations, and rofl moments? gash..

That's why this game is failing as it's being fed by "external", "uneducated, "poorly informed", "SELF MOTIVATED", "partially influential" "singular game knowledge nubs" (not necessarily in that order of priority) who "try" to think they know the way forward for "all game modes". Anyone who thinks they know "all" 12 game types are idiots.

And i'm not talking about those who tried their best to get it to what the vast majority wanted. I feel for you guys.

But I guess that they won't listen to this anyway. GG QL. A great fluid dynamic game / team game screwed up the ass.

As I said b4 block all non-steam accounts, to give a true representation of who's playing what mod, as this could be good, or bad, but they are in feet first now, right up to the curry pits, with Steam release!.

Anyway, I think i'll go have a nice curry now.

Today - lots of 1100, 1200 Elo Newbies fight against >2.000 elo veterans!

Nice ID. This will definitely help for a nice first quake experience.

It will if veterans stand up to the challenge. If the community turns out to be shit then let it burn.
http://www.quakelive.com/r/profile/matches/fa...d90/duel/1
This guy told me that server was green for him. id obviously fails when it comes to match making but it's not end of the world.

Everyone here is complaining how new-school players are lazy, want to have everything for free like health regen, aim asist, skill matching etc. How about us? Do you still remember how it was without central authority we can blame for every evil there is? It's up to us to recognize new players as necessity and make them feel welcome, not id. If we scare away every new player then - even though I find ql amazing - let it die because we don't deserve anything better.

13:9 seems pretty okay.

I'm not sure I want to ask every opponent whether he's new or not and then proceed to either rape or explain the game for 10 minutes through ingame chat. I usually tell them to go play a ffa, do some movement tutorials or find some other, new player and friend them.

I understand many people cba with helping others, but what else do you wanna do in case that guy just installed, rape rape rape? Sounds fun. I actually saw 3 people streaming on twitch and they said they just started QL. Watched them play, friendly people, it would be sad if they get trashed and decide to not spend more time in this game anymore because of us. By the way if you guys see new players on Twitch, notice that they mostly go with instagib, and variety pack and I asked them if they liked it out of curiosity they said yes it's fun...

Now let the Quake elitists tell them to gtfo with their "shitty modes" because they don't play duel. Don't give them a chance guys o/

ps: this message wasn't exclusively pointing at you, I mean just the first part, the rest is more general sry.

It's too bad there's no voicechat (I doubt people will bother installing ts/mumble, and one would still need a server). I'd be infinitely more willing to do some teaching if it didn't involve typing out whole books in ingame chat.

If they add you on steam (if you use the steam client ofc xD) then you can talk to each other with mic, no need to install TS etc.

ah ffs, i wanted to avoid doing tthat

Avoid using steam? gotta wait until they let you use one account on both steam and usual launcher D: unless you don't like steam!

It's okay only because I made it okay with /handicap 50 and loose play.
My point was that "sending newbies to play against >2.000 elo veterans" doesn't need to be a discouraging "first quake experience".

I'm not a saint but I can spare 15 minutes every day to play a beginner and give him advice. I mean play not "rape into oblivion". Play with /handicap, give them items, don't rush all the time so they can think. Sending them to ffa servers, irc, ql forums etc. is ok too.

Since when 13:9 in duel is raping a newbie?

He probably could have raped him but decided to go easy on him.

anyone feels that config/sensitivity in Steam version is different? I can't hit a shit ;d

but I didn't played recently and and moved from wmo to g100s again ;p

It feels exactly the same to me, it must be the mouse.
good choice you made with g100s, you're gonna love it

I was switching between wmo and g100s because I couldnt decide. I forgot that I changed mousepad recently and real dpi of g100s is lower on it. Switched the sens and its good now.

Whats g100s real dpi like?

seems that it depends of the surface ;d

now i got a4 tech 500 mp and its about 880 dpi, 1000 dpi in settings.

The Same thing happens to me. I have a qck heavy and a roccat sota. The g100s dpi seems higher on the roccat sota.

whats dpi like on qck?

It is very close the differences is likely do to the negative accel. If I move the mouse slowly on the roccat sota and the qck I would have the same cm/360.

Steam release?

Every Quaker gets a release of build up steam when he sees what the next update made of his fav game.


Drilling that deeper, we can say that QL has run out of steam a long time ago.

so I thought loadouts were just FFA... I guess I was wrong. it'd in TDM too. jesus christ now TDM is horrible

Horrible for competition, no doubt. It makes TDM fun and playable for everyone in a casual setting though. That said, it would be much better without the shitty ammo system.

lol, have to be more specific when you say shitty ammo system. The old shitty system or the new shitty system?

The shitiest one : the new one with unified ammo and faster ammo respawn.

no man it's horrible

TDM isn't fun when you auto-spawn with two weapons, the same for FFA and CTF. It's just not the same and it's just not fun.

And is it really more playable? Before you barely had weapons (maybe), now you have weapons and die ten times quicker. it's just really lame

Horrible for competition, yes. Horrible for casual games? No. Well, maybe it's horrible even casually for you, but the simple fact that TDM is now a popular mode can show you that many disagree with you. I don't really get why you're unhappy about that, honestly. Other people now have fun and your fun wasn't reduced because nobody played TDM outside of pickups anyway (and those still exist with a classic ruleset although I never see you in #natdm.ql). On top of that, the new TDM is still more competitive than CA so this change overall makes what's played on QL more competitive in average. Isn't that a good thing?

but the simple fact that TDM is now a popular mode can show you that many disagree with you

we have all those full servers because of steam, not because of loadouts. you can't say that because the regular tdm wasn't on steam, if it was it would have the same numbers if not close.

why am I unhappy? when has the past 10 years of TDM ever involved loadouts in Quake, UT, or other arena fps games? never, so why is it SUCH A SHOCK THAT I DONT LIKE TDM OH NO SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG WITH ME

No. People started playing TDM between the update and the Steam release. Steam only amplified the phenomenon. As for normal TDM having those numbers, no way in hell would that have happened.

I'm not asking you why you're not liking the new TDM. I'm asking you why it affects you : you were not playing before and you still aren't playing.

I wasn't playing before because it was impossible. No public servers, low activity pickups with the same small group of people. There wasn't a player base to find a TDM game unless you got a pickup during the night. Also I cheked post-loadouts pre-steam, tdm was still dead.

" As for normal TDM having those numbers, no way in hell would that have happened."

too bad you can't ever know that. We could of had the same numbers minus loadouts, you honestly have zero information to say otherwise. if anything the stats prove you're wrong, steam brought in an additional 2-5K concurrent players. you're ignorant if you think TDM would be dead if it was the 'classic' way. 2-5K new players aren't going to ignore a popular game mode like TDM.

It affects me because I would play TDM if it was normal and had players. Before it was normal with no players. Now it has players but it's not normal, it has loadouts, which is awful. So really we are back at square one, no point in bringing in players when you kill the mode people loved in the first place

Also I cheked post-loadouts pre-steam, tdm was still dead.

Yet I played some public TDM during this time.

Anyway, you're right that we can't prove anything without access to an alternate universe. But I honestly don't see new players staying to play in a mode where they're stuck for minutes with nothing but the mg.

But I honestly don't see new players staying to play in a mode where they're stuck for minutes with nothing but the mg.

but I honestly don't see new players staying to play in a mode where they're killed in five seconds off every spawn

basically I'm saying that regular TDM would still have players post-steam, because you're an idiot if you think 2-5K new players won't touch TEAM DEATHMATCH. seriously talk about 'not getting it' ...

you can like loadouts all you want, that's not the reason TDM is popular. it's the steam release. we had no tdm before steam. we would have tdm post-steam and have a good tdm if it wasn't loadouts

it's not that complicated. regular tdm would still have the same players as the cluster*** version now

Sure, they'd try it : it's called Team Deathmatch. Then they'd uninstall. I really don't think it's the same thing. I played the new TDM with some people who hated the classic TDM and they loved it. Call that anecdotal evidence if you wish, that's the data I gathered.

Why would you want to play classic tdm with random noobs? Its beyond me. tdm without weapon drops and teamplay is just frustrating nonsense and no fun at all.

Rape potential in tdm is huge.
Grab LG every 30 seconds >> Kill midgets with mg

the game was as popular in 2009 with full tdm and ctf servers without these changes.
It's the fact it's on steam as to why these gametypes are populated.
Would have been the same if they hadn't changed it.

an influx of noobs will allow them to play with other noobs. Doesn't matter what the settings are.
So you can't say it's the changes that brought people. they would have come regardless.
Ql was popular from 2009-2011
if this ql maintains the current player base for that long and continues to grow it after 2 years then you could argue the gameplay changes worked. until then.... no one knows.

Public TDM was dead anyway so it doesn't change anything.
FFA is completely another matter, instead.

I have not played for several months but decided to check ql2.0 out at last after reading about all the bitching on here.

I think they have done a great job personally. The announcer isn't too bad and you get used to it. The gameplay changes are much more newb friendly and should keep newbies around for longer. I am enjoying playing on all the packed servers at the moment !

The newer gametypes are finally being played and will be enjoyed by the masses.

QL in its present form is far superior to when they started the open beta. If this QL had been released in 2008/09 and they had servers to cope with that initial rush I think it would have been much more successful.

I hope the players keep increasing now due to WOM !

Good work.

nice 4100 players in game, does that count both steam and non steam users?

i dont think steam can track users that use the old client

Only STEAM users are counted on STEAM graph/stats

nice 5k+, thats nice.

Around 5000 QL players. Man, that's a huge community.
Some noob here wrote that there's going to be an onslaught of oldschools writing bad reviews because they don't like the new announcer. Noobzor, you fail to see that if a game is good no amount of criticism can draw people away from it. Good things can defend themselves by themselves, they don't need help.

QL in its current stage is a Frankenstein FPS with one leg in 1999 and other in weird hipster-freindly FPS culture of today. It looks like a corpse that was stitched together ater 5 years of being mercillessly beaten with a meat tenderizer.

what's the point of new players when the game modes have been ruined

I saw like 20 full TDM servers, I have barely seen one full server in the past two years for NA. I joined and there it is, LOADOUTS

I thought they only put loadouts for tdm and ctf, it's sad to know those modes are ruined too

OH BUT THERE'S CLASSIC MODE, what a surprise, no classic servers. So before you struggled to find a NA TDM server, now you struggle just the same, except 20 full servers are taunting you while you remember the fun you used to have

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2gmgtn...h_trailer/

was funny to read at about ~200 comments, most of them negative. Almost all top posts were people complaining or saying "loadouts...why". You know it's bad when even reddit universally agrees on it

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2gz2t1...ake_lives/

What was stopping people from playing QL?

"Lack of modern interface and 1v1 matchmaking. People have become used to having a CoD/Dota/LoL/CS:GO matchmaking and MMR system. The game is great, but it feels like a game from 10 years ago (because it is a game from 10 years ago). Players don't want to join a 1v1 server and wait in a queue or go on IRC to setup a match. They want to click one button and be matched against a player of similar skill. Also hats."

sponge: "too hard"

ye, but matchmaking for 5k people is probably still not enough. And now its 3k.

any1 tell my why tdm mode is played 5v5 now?