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Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:00 am**

Get on now I have a few minutes while I'm prepping a computer before I take off for work.

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:06 am**

Faust wrote:i know. there was a grappling hook in Q3A, too. didnt exist in the config menu, had to manually add/bind it in console.

Well now you get prox mines instead. lol

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:39 am**

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Get on now I have a few minutes while I'm prepping a computer before I take off for work.

just got outta shower and on way out door. mornings are no bueno for me. too groggyr hung over

i dont think they were modd'd Q3A servers with grapple hook (i could be wrong, which as we all know is the most likely possibility). i never played Quake at all till a friend turned me on to Q2, but i do remember hanging from the bottom of the rail gun platform in Q3A on what is called The Logest Yard map in QL. plus the CTF space map.

are the prox mines only certain maps/mods in QL? some of the weaps in the config menu i dont think ive picked up yet.

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:48 am**

Faust wrote:are the prox mines only certain maps/mods in QL? some of the weaps in the config menu i dont think ive picked up yet.

Yes Shotgun, Prox mines, Chaingun, and BFG are in limited maps.

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:10 am**

ah. have yet to pick up the chaingun and prox mines

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:45 am**

Faust wrote:ah. have yet to pick up the chaingun and prox mines

Some maps also have Doubler, Guard, Scout, and Armor powerups.

Doubler doubles your damage, Guard blocks about half they say, Scout makes you move faster, but only allows you to keep 50 armor without it ticking down, and Armor regens 10 armor a second up to 100.

Doubler with Rail, the shotgun or chaingun works well, but can really suck if 1 team has all the good railers. lol

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:51 pm**

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Modded servers maybe? I love love loooooved the hook in Quake 1...I spent ooodles of hours playing on a server which ran a mod called "Requiem".

I don't recall seeing it in Q3....if there's a modded server that runs one...lemme know!

I played a mod of insta freeze tag that had the hook enabled in Q3A...hope QL adds freeze tag to the mods...greatest mod ever.

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:09 pm**

YARDofSTUF wrote:Some maps also have Doubler, Guard, Scout, and Armor powerups.

Doubler doubles your damage, Guard blocks about half they say, Scout makes you move faster, but only allows you to keep 50 armor without it ticking down, and Armor regens 10 armor a second up to 100.

Doubler with Rail, the shotgun or chaingun works well, but can really suck if 1 team has all the good railers. lol

yeah, ive picked up the floaty "M" and "T". havent found the runfast one yet. just learning the map layouts is enough of a challenge for the time being for me.

i looked around and i am surprised to not find a single decent screenie of someone using the grapple hook. in looking i did uncover the fact that it could either be on a server that had cheat codes enabled (/give grappling hook for the hook, /give all gave all except the hook), or on a mod server. i guess that was awhile ago, so a lot of the old Q3A pages have gone poof. had me worried that i had lost my last brain cell.

sorry bout this morn, YeOlde. i did a drive-by post on the way into the shower. i have morning class Mon - Thurs and was rushing to not be late, lol

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:38 am**

Another handy item is the alternative match browser made by some players:

Found at:

http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11140

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:33 pm**

YARDofSTUF wrote:Another handy item is the alternative match browser made by some players:

Found at:

http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11140

nice find! ill be checking that out.

as far as the SG fragging, since it seems we'd only have 3 thus far if it were to happen, any preference on mode? i wouldnt mind ctf, tdm or clan but that would require me knowing the map or else i would just be a huge suckpump. FFA, instagib would be quick and dirty fun. just find an empty server, change the map to what we want and get a few minutes of fun in.

ideas? for me, Mon-Thurs are hit 'n miss. after class i do do tutoring, which can be 1 to 3 hours. unpredictable. Thurs evening through sunday afternoon can be considered open. doesnt really matter to me.

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:27 pm**

I am a CTF *****. 1276 games played, 1255 are CTF.

Stonecat loves his FFA. 1307 games played, 1304 are FFA.

Loop2kil switches between CA and FFA. 218 games played, 133 are CA and 85 are FFA.

So it looks like FFA. If I saw you all in one I'd probably join.

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:55 am**

There is also a good tier checker:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/45432

I'm at tier 2 for FFA, 3 for everything else, finally back down to tier 3 in CTF, feels good to be able to score again. lol

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:42 pm**

FFA: 4 Duel: 3 TDM: 4 CA: 2 CTF: 4

ouch...see I told you I was getting owned in CA(there are some reallllly good players in CA)...but its hella fun

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:12 pm**

FFA:2
Duel:1
TDM:3
CA:2
CTF:3

now if i only knew what those meant.

bah, stupid mouse! anyone else have the mouse crap out on occasion? like, trigger and zoom work, but no X/Y axis? my earlier fix only works sometimes.

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:48 pm**

Faust wrote:FFA:2
Duel:1
TDM:3
CA:2
CTF:3

now if i only knew what those meant.

bah, stupid mouse! anyone else have the mouse crap out on occasion? like, trigger and zoom work, but no X/Y axis? my earlier fix only works sometimes.

Tiers 1-5, 1 is the lowest, 5 is the highest.

My mouse hasn't crapped out on me for a while now.

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:34 pm**

YARDofSTUF wrote:Tiers 1-5, 1 is the lowest, 5 is the highest.

My mouse hasn't crapped out on me for a while now.

ah, got it.

got a couple rounds in there with YoSC, and i saw loop in there too for a bit my in game chat blows. either im playin or im chattin and pretty much feeding other peopls' score

. on the maps i know im seem to be a strong starter and then fizzle out. ^&$# quad damage ho's

.

gets funner and funner

now to try and get my ranking out of the sheeter.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:56 am**

Faust wrote:ah, got it.

got a couple rounds in there with YoSC, and i saw loop in there too for a bit my in game chat blows.

Yeah that was fun. You did pretty well in a few rounds.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:59 am**

gonna have to do it again!

Posted: **Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:22 pm**

Sweet, Faust and I played a little Clan Arena yesterday...fun stuff. That was a pretty good server we were on, the players didn't walk all over us

Posted: **Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:39 pm**

yup. not too bad teamwork for a (non-serious) pug. my main problem is i tend to push the skirmish line too quickly. im used time = opportunity for them to heal. the downside is, i will tear ass forward kinda not paying attention to if teammates are actually following me or if the opfor has come up from behind. usually, as long as i take 1 of them with me when i die its not completely faulted logic, but it doesnt exactly work well with the idea of kinda trying to win

Posted: **Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:57 pm**

Yeah, in that mod the kamikaze approach that I seem to take a good bit of the time, doesn't work that well...When I spec the better players they have a certain 'patience' that seems to help them attack at better times and with the right weapon.

Posted: **Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:06 pm**

Changed my config more from the other post.

Screenie:

Nice bright map and solid white enemies(black head though so they "fit" better) to help with finding them.

Also started to use the vstr command for binds so that I can bind 2 weapons to 1 key and basically toggle between them.

I have the rocketlauncher and shotgun on Q, the lightning gun and railgun on E, and the gauntlet and proxy mines on R.

Code: Select all

// Config File

unbindall

// Bind Movement

bind w "+forward"
bind a "+moveleft"
bind s "+back"
bind d "+moveright"
bind SPACE "+moveup"
bind CTRL "+movedown"
bind SHIFT "+speed"
bind f "+button2"
bind END "dropflag; say_team ^3Low Health! Take FLAG!!"
bind g "dropweapon"
bind MOUSE1 "+attack"
bind MOUSE2 "+zoom"
bind MWHEELDOWN "weapprev"
bind MWHEELUP "weapnext"


// Bind General

bind TAB "+scores"
bind h "+chat"
bind t "messagemode"
bind y "messagemode2"
bind F1 "vote yes"
bind F2 "vote no"
bind F3 "readyup"


// Bind Weapons

//bind  "weapon 1" // Gauntlet
//bind  "weapon 3" // Shotgun
//bind  "weapon 5" // Rocket Launcher
//bind  "weapon 6" // Lightning Gun
//bind  "weapon 7" // Railgun
//bind  "weapon 12" // Prox Mines

bind 4 "weapon 2" // Machine Gun
bind 6 "weapon 4" // Grenade Launcher
bind 1 "weapon 8" // Plasma Rifle
bind 5 "weapon 9" // BFG
bind 7 "weapon 11" // Nailgun
bind 3 "weapon 13" // Chaingun


// Bind Extras

bind = "record"
bind - "stoprecord"
bind F4 "exec autoexec"
bind F5 "cg_forceEnemyModel keel"
bind F6 "cg_forceEnemyModel keel/sport"
bind F7 "cg_forceEnemyModel keel/bright; cg_enemyHeadColor 0x000000FF; cg_enemyUpperColor 0xFFFFFFFF; cg_enemyLowerColor 0xFFFFFFFF"
bind F8 "cg_forceEnemyModel keel/bright; cg_enemyHeadColor 0x000000FF; cg_enemyUpperColor 0xFFFF00FF; cg_enemyLowerColor 0xFFFF00FF"
bind F12 "screenshotJPEG"


// VSTR Binds

seta RLswitch "weapon 5; set RLSGswitch vstr SGswitch"
Seta SGswitch "weapon 3; set RLSGswitch vstr RLswitch"
seta RLSGswitch "vstr RLswitch"
bind q "vstr RLSGswitch"

seta RGswitch "weapon 7; set RGLGswitch vstr LGswitch"
seta LGswitch "weapon 6; set RGLGswitch vstr RGswitch"
seta RGLGswitch "vstr RGswitch"
bind e "vstr RGLGswitch"

seta GAswitch "weapon 1; set GAPMswitch vstr PMswitch"
seta PMswitch "weapon 12; set GAPMswitch vstr GAswitch"
seta GAPMswitch "vstr GAswitch"
bind r "vstr GAPMswitch"


// Chat Binds

bind HOME "say_team ^1BASE OVERRUN!!!"
bind PGDN "say_team Enemy IN/OUT ^1LOW"
bind PGUP "say_team Enemy IN/OUT ^1HIGH"
bind DEL "say_team ^5MEGA Up!"
bind INS "say_team ^5Medkit Up!"


// Chat settings

seta bot_nochat "1"
seta cg_chatbeep "1"
seta cg_teamChatTime "3000"
seta cg_teamChatHeight "0"
seta cg_teamChatBeep "1"
seta cg_teamChatsOnly "0"


// Name
// Colors - ^1=Red ^2=Green ^3=Yellow ^4=Blue ^5=Cyan ^6=Magenta ^7=White ^^8=Black

seta clan ""
seta name "^3YoS"


// Crosshair

seta cg_crosshairSize "35"
seta cg_crosshairPulse "1"
seta cg_crosshairHealth "0"
seta cg_crosshairColor "3"
seta cg_crosshairBrightness "1.0"
seta cg_crosshairX "0"
seta cg_crosshairY "0"
seta cg_drawCrosshairNames "1"
seta cg_drawCrosshair "3"


// Model Settings

seta cg_enemyHeadColor "0x000000FF"
seta cg_enemyUpperColor "0xFFFFFFFF"
seta cg_enemyLowerColor "0xFFFFFFFF"
seta cg_teamUpperColor "0x408000FF"
seta cg_teamLowerColor "0x408000FF"
seta cg_teamHeadColor "0x408000FF"
seta cg_forceRedTeamModel ""
seta cg_forceBlueTeamModel ""
seta cg_forceModel "0"
seta cg_forceTeamModel "Sarge"
seta cg_forceEnemyModel "keel/bright"
seta headmodel "Sarge/default"
seta model "Sarge/default"
seta team_headmodel "Sarge/default"
seta team_model "Sarge/default"
seta sex "male"


// Gun Options

seta cg_autoswitch "1"
seta cg_bob "0"
seta cg_brassTime "0"
seta cg_drawAmmoWarning "1"
seta cg_drawGun "1"
seta cg_lightningImpact "1"
seta cg_muzzleFlash "1"
seta cg_newWeaponBar "1"
seta cg_noProjectileTrail "1"
seta cg_oldRocket "1"
seta cg_oldPlasma "1"
seta cg_smokeRadius_RL "0"
seta cg_smokeRadius_GL "0"
seta cg_smoke_SG "0"
seta cg_switchToEmpty "1"
seta cg_switchOnEmpty "1"
seta cg_trueLightning "1"


// Rail Settings

seta color1 "3"
seta color2 "3"
seta cg_oldRail "1"
seta r_railcorewidth "6"
seta r_railwidth "5"
seta r_railsegmentlength "8"
seta cg_railTrailTime "500"
seta cg_predictLocalRailShots "1"


// Mouse related

seta cl_mouseAccel "0"
seta cl_mouseAccelStyle "0"
seta cl_mouseAccelOffset "0"
seta cl_mouseSensCap "0"
seta in_mouse "2"
seta m_filter "0"
seta sensitivity "6.44"


// General

seta cg_allowtaunt "0"
seta cg_scalePlayersModelsToBB "1"
seta com_maxfps "125"
seta com_allowConsole "1"
seta scr_conspeed "3"
seta com_hunkMegs "128"
seta com_soundMegs "32"


// Net related

seta cg_lagometer "0"
seta cg_nopredict "0"
seta cg_predictItems "0"
seta cg_showmiss "0"
seta cg_smoothClients "0"
seta cl_maxpackets "90"
seta cl_maxPing "800"
seta cl_packetdup "0"
seta rate "20000"
seta snaps "30"


// Visuals

seta cg_fov "105"
seta cg_zoomfov "45"
seta cg_draw2D "1"
seta cg_draw3dIcons "1"
seta cg_drawIcons "1"
seta cg_drawFPS "0"
seta cg_drawStatus "1"
seta cg_drawSnapshot "0"
seta cg_drawRewards "1"
seta cg_drawAttacker "0"
seta cg_drawFriend "1"
seta cg_drawTeamOverlay "1"
seta cg_gunX "0"
seta cg_gunY "0"
seta cg_gunZ "0"
seta cg_kickScale "0"
seta cg_levelTimerDirection "1"
seta cg_marks "1"
seta cg_playerNames "1"
seta cg_scorePlums "1"
seta cg_selfOnTeamOverlay "0"
seta cg_shadows "1"
seta cg_simpleitems "0"
seta cg_stats "0"
seta com_blood "1"
seta cg_gibs "10"


// Graphics Settings

seta r_gl_vendor "NVIDIA Corporation"
seta r_gl_renderer "GeForce 7800 GTX/PCI/SSE2"
seta r_gl_reserved "1"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "21"
seta r_contrast "1.05"
seta r_enablePostProcess "1"
seta r_fullbright "0"
seta r_gamma "1"
seta r_inBrowserMode "12"
seta r_inGameVideo "0"
seta r_lodbias "0"
seta r_mapOverBrightBits "3"
seta r_overBrightBits "1"
seta r_picmip "0"
seta r_subdivisions "80"
seta r_dynamiclight "1"
seta r_vertexlight "0"


// Sound

seta s_ambient "0"
seta s_doppler "0"
seta s_volume "0.8"
seta s_musicvolume "0.302083"


// Demo

seta cl_autoRecordDemo "0"
seta cl_demoRecordMessage "1"


// Misc(Stuff I won't touch and most of what I don't know)

seta handicap "100"
seta cg_autoAction ""
seta cg_cameraOrbitDelay "50"
seta cg_deferPlayers "1"
seta cg_playVoiceChats "1"
seta cg_respawnTimerX "10"
seta cg_respawnTimerY "100"
seta cg_showVoiceText "1"
seta teamtask "0"

Posted: **Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:47 pm**

nice! i bet thatll help a lot for the maps with a lot of long distance shots.

btw, anyone else's friends list being flakey? mines saying theres 1 friend online, but theres nobody in the list.

Posted: **Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:26 pm**

I just view the list if theres a name they are on. lol

Posted: **Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:24 pm**

YARDofSTUF wrote:I just view the list if theres a name they are on. lol

yeah, usually thats how it is for me. just today at the top of the "friends online" area at the top it would say 1 friend online, but their icon and click to join match botton wasnt there. wierd

Posted: **Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:51 pm**

I think that happened to me just after I replied to this. hah.

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:38 am**

Never heard of this dude... Trying it now. THX !

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:10 am**

Was pretty fun the other 3x guys from Speedguide and we were in first/second/third for several maps.

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:35 am**

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Was pretty fun the other 3x guys from Speedguide and we were in first/second/third for several maps.

The last map where I won before you left, when I pulled ahead of you I was like ahah, I have to hold on to this! And then killed myself on my own rocket.

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:35 pm**

YARDofSTUF wrote:The last map where I won before you left, when I pulled ahead of you I was like ahah, I have to hold on to this! And then killed myself on my own rocket.

when i first started playing again, i was rocket launcher happy. now, not so much. more use the shotty unless im outside. i am a complete menace to my k/d ratio with a rocket launcher. 2nd leading cause of death is falling either into space or lava. or green goo.

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:39 pm**

Faust wrote:when i first started playing again, i was rocket launcher happy. now, not so much. more use the shotty unless im outside. i am a complete menace to my k/d ratio with a rocket launcher. 2nd leading cause of death is falling either into space or lava. or green goo.

I love the shotty, RL is nice too, and plasma in long corridors.

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:38 pm**

YARDofSTUF wrote:I love the shotty, RL is nice too, and plasma in long corridors.

too many years of mmoing has left my pinpoint aim in the crapper. as far as fun, for me its either dumping a load of grenades into a dogpile from the next room, or jumping/zigzagging down a long hallway or across an open area to fist a guy trying to rail me.

hrmm, that just doesnt sound right.

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:05 pm**

Try the word, pummel. lol

Posted: **Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:50 pm**

Rainy weather ahead....may be spending some time online tonight!

Friday Night Frag Fest..let's plan it!

Posted: **Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:15 pm**

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Rainy weather ahead....may be spending some time online tonight!
Friday Night Frag Fest..let's plan it!

I'll follow you guys into a FFA. What time?

Posted: **Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:33 pm**

I'll follow you guys into a FFA. What time?

/nods

Posted: **Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:35 pm**

I'll prolly be online not long after 6...but fairly steady on after 7-730.

Posted: **Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:41 pm**

im in. hopefully ill get a ping under 100. ^%&* 2400 miles of hops.

Posted: **Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:44 pm**

We can try to keep on Texas servers...I have great low pings to them, usually 30-40.

I'm still fine tuning my newly rebuilt PFSense box, just brought her online this week..added a ton of SNORT rules but I'm still tweaking the traffic shaping.

Think I have a failing coax splitter in my basement though, I'll get occasional periods of the flashing disconnect icon while playing.

Posted: **Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:47 am**

I logged in around 6 and saw Faust wasn't there yet, left, and forgot all about it shortly after. lol

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