So what multiplayer games are Quake fans playing these days?

Todd wrote:

> I loved Quake 2 multi-player, but when I couldn't get it to run under
> XP, I went to Unreal Tournament. When I tried to get back to Quake 3,
> I couldn't quite get the hang of it.
>
> UT is now up to version 3. From the Quake/Doom people, an arena only
> game hasn't been released since... Quake 3 Arena. I guess Id realized
> that they did it right the first time, and chose not to try to improve
> on perfection.

Either that, or they're not as popular as they once were, since the game
industry has moved on to a whole raft of new types of online games,
especially concentrating on team-based and objective-based games.

> So, for those who've tired of the Arena, what multiplayer games do you
> find to be the funnest?
>
> (Another plus for Quake3: The background story makes more sense. UT
> never did explain how the players eternally die and respawn. Q3 is
> some kind of afterlife.)

It's not very much of a decent explanation. _Unreal Tournament 3_ tries
a more coherent explanation, but it's still not very convincing (and
didn't receive very good reviews in any case). If you're looking for an
"arena"-style deathmatch game where you die and respawn, then I think
you're just going to have to face the fact that there's no real rational
way to explain that and just play and enjoy yourself.

> (One negative (to my knowledge): No vehicles. I don't much care for
> the vehicles, but Onslaught has the most servers running of all UT2004
> game types.)

A large majority of the modern team-based FPS games have vehicles,
because that's what people want.

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Todd wrote:
> I loved Quake 2 multi-player, but when I couldn't get it to run under
> XP, I went to Unreal Tournament. When I tried to get back to Quake 3,
> I couldn't quite get the hang of it.
>
> UT is now up to version 3. From the Quake/Doom people, an arena only
> game hasn't been released since... Quake 3 Arena. I guess Id realized
> that they did it right the first time, and chose not to try to improve
> on perfection. On the Unreal side, there are more players on original
> UT than either of its two (or three) sequels.
>
> So, for those who've tired of the Arena, what multiplayer games do you
> find to be the funnest?
>
> (Another plus for Quake3: The background story makes more sense. UT
> never did explain how the players eternally die and respawn. Q3 is
> some kind of afterlife.)
>
> (One negative (to my knowledge): No vehicles. I don't much care for
> the vehicles, but Onslaught has the most servers running of all UT2004
> game types.)
>
>
Urban Terror. And q3 instaunlagged instagib if I can find people.

Todd wrote:
> I loved Quake 2 multi-player, but when I couldn't get it to run under
> XP, I went to Unreal Tournament. When I tried to get back to Quake 3,
> I couldn't quite get the hang of it.
>
> UT is now up to version 3. From the Quake/Doom people, an arena only
> game hasn't been released since... Quake 3 Arena. I guess Id realized
> that they did it right the first time, and chose not to try to improve
> on perfection. On the Unreal side, there are more players on original
> UT than either of its two (or three) sequels.
>
> So, for those who've tired of the Arena, what multiplayer games do you
> find to be the funnest?
>
> (Another plus for Quake3: The background story makes more sense. UT
> never did explain how the players eternally die and respawn. Q3 is
> some kind of afterlife.)
>
> (One negative (to my knowledge): No vehicles. I don't much care for
> the vehicles, but Onslaught has the most servers running of all UT2004
> game types.)
>
>
Man, i cant believe this old group is still here........lol

I have not posted to this group in years now. Glad to see its somewhat
still alive.

But to answer your question, i more or less play Enemy Territory now
more than anything. But i still have a few Q3 servers up and running
right along side my Enemy Territory servers.

JAKS.

I am playing on Comcast and suddenly 4-5 months ago I can still see many
many servers of Enemy Territory on xfire (100 or less ping) to play BUT
always have problems with connection or server message 22. When I try to
stay online with Enemy Territory and "play online" no servers show to play
... always getting errors about pak. Been playing for year w/no problem
except about a year or so ago had the same problem. Forgot solution.

Also about 3 years ago I changed to new video board and lcd and have not
been able to play Quake 3. Using pny geforce 8500gt 512 ddr2. Lost settings
I had in config file and xfire startup for the game but somehow low it and
thought could be problem. Now computer just locks up.


"Mr Buckly" <mrbuckly.RemoveThis@windstream.net> wrote in message
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> Todd wrote:
>> I loved Quake 2 multi-player, but when I couldn't get it to run under
>> XP, I went to Unreal Tournament. When I tried to get back to Quake 3,
>> I couldn't quite get the hang of it.
>>
>> UT is now up to version 3. From the Quake/Doom people, an arena only
>> game hasn't been released since... Quake 3 Arena. I guess Id realized
>> that they did it right the first time, and chose not to try to improve
>> on perfection. On the Unreal side, there are more players on original
>> UT than either of its two (or three) sequels.
>>
>> So, for those who've tired of the Arena, what multiplayer games do you
>> find to be the funnest?
>>
>> (Another plus for Quake3: The background story makes more sense. UT
>> never did explain how the players eternally die and respawn. Q3 is
>> some kind of afterlife.)
>>
>> (One negative (to my knowledge): No vehicles. I don't much care for
>> the vehicles, but Onslaught has the most servers running of all UT2004
>> game types.)
>>
>>
> Man, i cant believe this old group is still here........lol
>
> I have not posted to this group in years now. Glad to see its somewhat
> still alive.
>
> But to answer your question, i more or less play Enemy Territory now more
> than anything. But i still have a few Q3 servers up and running right
> along side my Enemy Territory servers.
>
> JAKS.