Quake live open beta starts today.

[Hardkore]

I have been following quake live for a while but i hadn't check up on it until today.

http://cdn-web.quakelive.com/web1/ql_splash/index.html

Open beta starts today at 6 pm. Can't wait. You guys gonna be there?

[Darc]

It's a web browser game.


Meh.

[DProxy]

It's a web browser game.


Meh.

Not any normal web browser game!! its QUAKE..

[darknight55]

It doesnt lag in tutorial mode.

[zeroburrito]

yea timer on quakelive.com is DDHHMMSS. the one i put up seperates it.

[Leafninja]

I'll try it just to see what it's like.

[Bacn]

It's good to see more people will be online. Not that the number of users is a problem or anything.

[zeroburrito]

It's good to see more people will be online. Not that the number of users is a problem or anything.

yea well the lower numbers in cb messed with the tiers of players(low thousands it seemed). lets hope with more players the tiers will work out better. lower tier players were forced to join higher tier games and screw the teams a little. i don't totally agree with the way players are tiered either. the training and getting to the last hall was way too easy. i think the strafe hall should be to get to the second door. if you can't strafe, you should immediately be thrown into the novice door.

[Diji]

Wohoooo! A new wave of nu- newcomers to play with. If it's your first time. Played it during whole CB, it's fun guys trust me, the learning curve is just hard and painful lol ; it's notting like the campfest COD or CS series, no camping, no sniping at long range, no grenade to spam ( lol! ).

[MoonSoul]

it's quake 3 arena(best fps of all time) with some updates(weapons, weapon damage, game modes, maps, etc). you run it through a browser with the ability to go fullscreen. it downloads about 300 megs to your hd. it uses the unlagged netcode so there is no lag unless you're playing from across the world. you can choose servers near you just like any other game. games are sorted by your skill level so you don't get ***** hard. has full stat tracking. this is probably the best thing to ever happen to the internet.

if you have never seen or played quake 3 here is a video.

http://www.wegame.com/watch/Get_Quaked_3/

Some of those kills were just too baddass

Couldn't stop watching

[zeroburrito]

Some of those kills were just too baddass

Couldn't stop watching

yea it's an awesome video.

also, don't be frightened by that video if you are new and want to play. those are all done over months of play constantly recording, editing the other parts out. those types of frags aren't the norm(mainly the air rockets), but they do happen.

[Leafninja]

I've never played any Quake games.

[zeroburrito]

I've never played any Quake games.

you're in for a treat, but may want to quit after a few minutes, yes minutes of play if you're getting dominated. stick with it and you will become better. game is REALLY fun when you can frag people consistently.

[MoonSoul]

yea it's an awesome video.

also, don't be frightened by that video if you are new and want to play. those are all done over months of play constantly recording, editing the other parts out. those types of frags aren't the norm(mainly the air rockets), but they do happen.

Gotta admit, after watching the video all i could think was


"....myea, I'd get ***** pretty bad XD"

It was really impressive.

[Diji]

Gotta admit, after watching the video all i could think was


"....myea, I'd get ***** pretty bad "

It was really impressive.

Lol, well, those were pro long time players. There's a skill matching system, so you won't fall in the same category as those guys. The category will change as you get better at the game. But become good fast! once you can do what they do in this video, you get a rush of adrenaline at every kill! :O ( lol, ok, maybe not, but it's really fun ).

[Astro]

Shit! Sign me in!

[xantus]

iv been playing the closed beta for a while .. .and well ...meh its just quake

[doctormario]

iv been playing the closed beta for a while .. .and well ...meh its just quake

What did you expect?

I think people set their standards too high for this game. It's a time-passer, that's all. There is absolutely nothing new here. To me, there's nothing wrong with that. They set out to provide free Quake III arena over your browser and succeeded.

It's like someone saying, after they played mario bros. 3 over some rom database that "meh, it's just mario"

No shit it's just mario. That's the point! What did you expect the game to do? Fix you a sandwich? Mail you a funny card with ten dollars in it?

It is what it is. But I don't think it deserves too much negative criticism since we all played this game back in the day and loved it--wasted hours deathmatching in it--and although it doesn't hold a candle to FPS's of today it's still amusing to take a trip down memory lane and go BFG someone up the tailpipe. And it's really sweet that you can bust this out at work without having to install the software.

[zeroburrito]

it may not hold a candle to the graphics(though there is something to be said about flying around a map at 200+ fps) of the fps's of today, but no game since has come even close to the twitch gameplay or speed it has.

[EpicPhail]

I'm a sniper but the rail gun + rokeeets = GeeGee.Who needs "Aim" the game was, and is amazing.

TBH My whole family was harkore about quake.

[marcipaans]

so it will be the same installable Quake III Arena, but just purely playable in browser like Pirate Galaxy for example?

[zeroburrito]

so it will be the same installable Quake III Arena, but just purely playable in browser like Pirate Galaxy for example?

it will download about 300mb of files to your computer which will finish before you're even done with the 10 minute training session. it's quake 3 with some weapon tweaks and additions. you can go fullscreen and not even notice it's running from a browser. you can't join quake 3 arena servers, only the servers that id provides through the browser.

[marcipaans]

But i wont need any setup.exe like file to download to play?

[zeroburrito]

But i wont need any setup.exe like file to download to play?

nope, you just log in and play. it has a friends list, chat etc.

[marcipaans]

awesome
used to play q3 though i sucked and learned a bit strafe jump