Quake live open beta starts today.

[Dark Revalation]

Been forever since I've played a good game of Quake, gonna give it a shot.

[zeroburrito]

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

it will have tiers that it sets you in so you play against others of your relative skill level if you so choose. so that should help. the system isn't perfect though.

[EpicPhail]

it will have tiers that it sets you in so you play against others of your relative skill level. so that should help. the system isn't perfect though.

Far far farrrr from perf.

I got ranked novice and was DESTROYING everyone.It saddened me.Im hoping I dont do something stupid again and play people relitively around my skill.

[Own3d]

Oh yea, I am ready to pwn some n00bs

[zeroburrito]

Far far farrrr from perf.

I got ranked novice and was DESTROYING everyone.It saddened me.Im hoping I dont do something stupid again and play people relitively around my skill.

yes, i'm hoping the smaller numbers of players screwed the system a bit. the training needs to be a lot harder and the strafe hall needs to be the first step.

[EpicPhail]

yes, i'm hoping the smaller numbers of players screwed the system a bit. the training needs to be a lot harder and the strafe hall needs to be the first step.

I dont even know what I did wrong ^o).I was joking around and BAM. -.-.

[doctormario]

Yeah, this is pretty badass.

lol, grenade launcher...

[xantus]

unlockable player models and player mods are not "something simple" to implement. once you introduce unlockables you have to establish some type of database that keeps track of what a player has done to achieve those unlockables. and mods? i don't think they were interested in creating the browser-based version of Q3A so that people could play mods.

once again, the expectation bar is set waaaaaaaay too high. it's Q3A, that's it.

well there already are medals for achievements and kill/death ranking as well as being able to challenge players of your level of experience based of the k/d ratio. and why woulnt they want to make it modable? .. its not like they lose anything by it, and probobly some more ppl would join because of it and so that it woulnt interferee with the rankings and so on they could make some kind of dedicated server where mods would be allowed

[zeroburrito]

well, so far they have duel, ffa, tdm, ca, instagib and ctf.

unlockable things won't work as everyone uses forcemodel to make enemies easier to hear/spot. having levels would not be good as people would have an advantage over others. you want something more competitive than quake? is that possible? mainly this is just to get new people and older people back into quake.

[doctormario]

well there already are medals for achievements and kill/death ranking as well as being able to challenge players of your level of experience based of the k/d ratio. and why woulnt they want to make it modable? .. its not like they lose anything by it, and probobly some more ppl would join because of it and so that it woulnt interferee with the rankings and so on they could make some kind of dedicated server where mods would be allowed

you're missing the entire point of what they did.

if you want to mod Q3A then go reinstall Q3A and play on their mod servers.

yes, there's medals pertaining to k/d ratio, but these are things that are not visually represented during gameplay and have no effect on the system. having to load mods and new player models would be taxing because they probably wouldn't be optimized (especially community mods).

this is supposed to be as simple as simple gets: Q3A in your browser. Bing-bang-boom. The actual game, software and all, still exists and there are still servers open for it. What the hell would be the point in reinventing the wheel? It's clear the developers did this for shits and giggles and are proud of themselves for being able to do it. They already have a game with a huge mod community.

Don't get me wrong, down the road there may be all kinds of new things in QLive. But, c'mon, this is the first open beta of the game. You want mods and unlockables and all sorts of extras? Get real, bud.

[zeroburrito]

the quakelive irc channel is overflowing now. over 700 users.

[minajkl]

I hope it dosen't lag or crash when it opens EDIT: 2k seconds left

[fyren]

Talk about Server Tolerance testing O.o

[Diji]

Don't know if I should be happy that so many people are trying to play or If should be disseapointed about how bad it's lagging right now cause of the flood. lol.

[zeroburrito]

i think the queue is just for creating accounts.

[AkaSnake]

Position in queue: 8466 '
Lol

[zeroburrito]

looks like lots of people still love quake =0

[LunFai]

Position in queue: 8466 '
Lol

And I felt bad for being 7300 :3

I swear it's frozen.

[invadertim]

Position in queue: 9204

LuLz ima be waitting for a long long time :P

[zeroburrito]

[18:36] <SyncError> Rumors are that we have a billion in line.
[18:36] <SyncError> So if you're # 8,000 or so, that's not too bad in the grand scheme of things and we hope you hang on!

bahaha =)

[Dark Revalation]

looks like lots of people still love quake =0

Depending on the lag and everything, it might be cut down by alot.

[Jrgsubzero]

Position in queue: 11970

~I want to know what love is, I want you to show me~

[kbe2k6]

lol the download started out of no where but then froze; at least I got that far.

[Seya]

i tried it ..... Place in line 11060 wow .... seriously ....... forget it.....

[kuturu4FA]

damn im in que 9438. . . o well i'll wait