Quake

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5634150

Another Quake Champions 1v1 Duel LAN announced, hosted by Keencon

Nov 10th-12th in Barcelona

Mappers had 60 hours to create a map using custom progs - based on Copper and featuring the diving gear from Dwell - with no restrictions on texturing or gameplay other than the prompt.

The Reload Map Jam is made in collaboration with the Reload Magazine, which has hosted or collaborated on previous game and mapping jams over the past year.

Ever since release I'll get a random crash in the middle of gameplay. Sometimes it'll take a few minutes, sometimes an hour or so. Always during gameplay.

Sucks when I'm playing online and I lose my score :(

If you want to help test the map you can grab it from here: https://github.com/protox/cityscape/ Just place the pkz file into your action directory and load with map cityscape01 in console Leave feedback in here or on my youtube in comments, thanks

You can get Action Quake2 via AQtion on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1978800/AQtion/

Very cool video that has a ton of information and visuals packed into it, really worth watching if you are a Quake2 fan

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/fireblu-jam.259/

FIERYBLU madness has finally reared its ugly head, and what it sees is YOU!

Blast through ELEVEN new maps and a start map

WARNING: flashing images, those with photo-sensitivity should be extremely cautious about these maps.

The first level in the remaster includes a new (to me?) part of the map and I can't find anything written about it at all. It's to the left of the main corridor; you can jump out the windows and find some more crashed rescue pods.

Thought I was going crazy (I played this game a lot many years ago) but booted up the 'original' game and it's not there.

Are there other changes to levels in this remaster? Or maybe this existed before in some other version I'm not familiar with?

There is still a community around Action Quake2, mostly on discord, people still organize games: https://discord.aq2world.com

You can always play against bots or play local lan as well.

All the evidence that Quake 2 remastered is probably coming soon

If by some chance you don't own Quake games yet, you can by them if you want. GOG sale is live already, Steam will probably appear at some point soon.

There is a rumor Quake2 may have a remake similar to Quake1 and that it will be announced during Quakecon, so might be a good idea to own Quake2 on Steam in case they give it for free.

https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_quakecon/

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/quakeconsale/

Found this on r/Quake kind of interesting, Quake III Revolution was a PS2 game that combined Quake 3 Arena & Team Arena with some other changes. Apparently the game had a ton of voice acting for the Quake3 characters, some are pretty bad while others are okay.

Gameplay video can be found here: https://youtu.be/wWXVpSpPIXA

Tom "Entropy" Kizmey vs Dennis "Thresh" Fong, Carmack gave his Ferrari 328 to the winner

Just under $15 USD, includes Quake 1 remaster, potentially may have Quake 2 remaster in the future?

Matt always has epic videos related to Quake.

This is a mod that changes most models to lego like, kind of interesting.

A good long while back i decided to compile a few mods I found into a single 7z archive, just to make it easier for others to find, some of these support bots, others don’t but could still be fun in a LAN session. This includes mods like CPMA, Eternal Arena, ExcessivePlus, Q3Pong and more. Some of these were incredibly hard to find, tried to find the latest version of each of these but that wasn’t always simple. Just extract these into your main Quake III folder, select via the mod menu, or optionally make a shortcut, and your good to go.

Quick tip: If it pops up asking for a CDKey, go into your main Baseq3 folder and look for Q3Key, then paste that into the mod folder, it’ll stop asking for it, assuming putting your key into the cdkey menu doesn't work, note that only some of them do that, shouldn’t cause any weird errors but always good to be cautious.

I also recall going in to scrub any keys from the folders but if I missed any then lemme know and I can go in and fix that.

The Source port I use is QuakeIIIe (The Edawn one), but some of them like Eternal Arena and Painkeep work better with ioquake, so best run those with that, same with Defrag which runs best with iodfequake, at least when I tried these before, they might work better, in my experience anyway.

Quick note that with some of these it defaults your character model to either Grunt or Sarge in a Team based gametype like CTF, if it does the former then it fixes upon death, if it’s Sarge then it’s stuck like that. Best I can tell that just seems to be how the mods are and searches didn’t find any fix.

But yeah hope this proves to be helpful, if you have any mod suggestions then feel free to let me know and I’ll look out for them.

I recently released a new single-player episode for Quake called Deathmatch Dimension. It contains ten maps of classic Quake goodness, inspired by the deathmatch maps that shipped with the original game. Each map has been lovingly rebuilt from the ground up for intense combat with Quake's familiar bestiary, and can be played as a full episode in sequence, or by starting with the shotgun for an extra challenge.

All maps support single-player, coop and deathmatch, and a standard playthrough is probably around two hours long.

Enjoy!

https://twitter.com/kinofabino/status/1167094066540109825