You know, after taking 25 minutes* to get onto a server - quake 4 can actually be fun.

The most basic features I want are available (brightskins, better hud) - and there are a couple of good maps to play (bliptourney1, phrantic). I'm pretty excited to see what maps are released in the next 2 months. I really want to play some 2v2's and 4v4's.

I'm also a big fan of the more traditional 1v1 games, where there is no fraglimit or short timelimit. A good 15 minute game is much more fun, especially when the skill levels are close. I'm almost sick of the quick mini tournaments that q4 have - makes me think of ra3 more then OSP with the short playing time unless you're always winning. (which c'mon, i'm a fucking allstar - I never lose). q4max, please change the tournament system to something more traditional, or simply create an arena system which will allow for more free-flowing entrance to playing.

* Took me 25 minutes to get onto the server because for some reason I'll put my q4 cd in, the auto-run will pop up, i'll hit play, and then 30 seconds later the message to "input the q4 cd" pops up. Really fucking annoying, I have to reboot a lot in order to get rid of it. As well, when joining servers I seem to have to reload the map 2-3 times before I don't get disconnected and the server lets me in, which is really weird. Anyone know if you load the mod before you connect if i'll avoid that problem?

It's just too bad there is such a small NA community and the rest of my friends from Defiance aren't playing much.