/arena/ - Arena FPS General

There are options in the menu to get the normal Quake HUD once you get the textures fixed, no?

just got scalebearer out of a box. pls no wipe.

Agreed, I didn't mean it literally.

nobody plays quake vanilla anymore

anyone want to join two anons for some TDM?

I play vanilla Quake singleplayer

YOU BASTARDS. WHY ARE YOU TORTURING ME LIKE THIS?

who /no invite/ here?

J U S T

you can literally buy a key for the price of a fucking bag of chips.

I asked if I should buy one and 3 anons told me it's not worth it.

do you consult your mom about what you should wear to high school every day? give your balls a tug you tit fucker.

>giving money to Russians and Chinese for any reason

>>complaining about not beta testing a piece of shit

wew lads

Oh well, then I'm still not missing anything.

we usually ask your mom when she's over

>paying for a beta
l0l

nice one user.

just buy the fucking key if you want to play it though. in my opinion it's worth 4-6 dollars or whatever the fucking the chinks and ruskies are selling it for.

ORBB WHEN?

SOON*

that image gave me a chuckle thanks user

What do you think about the new casual Quake that's coming out on consoles in 2017?

Lucy when?

Galena's hitboxes are fucked right now and you can't nailjump consistently because of the netcode.

HAHAHA YEAHH

nailjump? (i'm new)

youtube.com/watch?v=RmRNQXG3jJY

thanks m8

Rail either needs to be nerfed back to 80 damage or go all the way with 100 damage and balance champions accordingly. LG needs reduced range, Galena needs her hitboxes fixed, and the game needs a nade launcher. What else?

I'm upset that I still don't have a chance to play QC beta.

>Galena's hitboxes are fucked right now
In her favor or no?

matchmaking

There already is matchmaking and it sucks because I'd rather join a server and not wait between rounds.

Massively in her favor.

i want to get better. can anyone give me just a few general tips? i don't know if i'm losing fights because my aim/tracking is shit or because i shouldn't be taking those fights in the first place.

>got a triple kill with scalebearer's charge when contesting the quad

this game might not be total trash

never fight without a good weapon(rl,lg,super shotgun),rl is good for close range/spaming lg is good for mid range and use rail for long range, if you're low run away, shoot at people's feet with the rl to knock them up for an easy direct/rail, shooting at people's feet with lg makes it easier to see which way they're strafing for some people

arena fps community might be the harshest, most unpleasable game critics I've ever seen

>"UHHH THISH ROCKET HITBOX RELATIONSHIP DOESN'T CONFORM TO QUAKE VER. 24.1.26c's X, Y, Z, T ROCKET LAUNCHER ROTATIONS, AS WE ALL KNOW IS THE BEST VERSION OF THE ROCKET LAUNCHER.
>ALSO THIS IS TOO MUCH LIKE OVERWATCH
>I HOPE SOMEONE IS GETTING FIRED OVER THIS BLUNDER"

>direct/rail

The best kind of rail.
t. shpuld

thanks. ive been taking way too many fights with starter weapons i think. i'll focus more on getting better weapons before engaging. it's just hard in FFA where you have more people coming up your ass than christy mack.

fuck off with your strawman retard

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knowing the map is a huge part of ffa, once you know where people generally fight you can avoid those areas until you have a gun

also, how often do you goes scope in? i hardly ever use it unless i'm using the rail.

only with the rail

thanks. maybe i can get out of the dumpster now.

I'd never fight without armour if I could help it. At this point in the game, you can grab the armour pickups a lot of the time because most players aren't going to be looking for them. Same for the megahealth.

they really need to have clientside hit detection like overwatch
I never do well with the slow fat characters, because they're so easy to hit, especially with the lg
Meanwhile I have my cursor on the smaller characters and get shitty hit detection because of their toothpick hitboxes and constant movement.
Add all of this up to a really one-sided gunfight. I get a kd ratio of 3 as anarki/nyx, and barely positive as clutch

i'm pretty sure the hit detection is already clientside which is garbage go back to server side like the good old days at least shit makes sense

Apparently they enlarged the hitboxes of the light champs but I doubt it'll change things much. As soon as the update finishes I'm just buying Slash again. At this point in the game I think you should only be playing Slash, Nyx or Anarki.

>permanent champions behind pay walls

fucking dropped

yeah, im going to start paying more attention to the maps to try and remember where all the important shit is.

>trying to find a reason to stop playing
>can buy all champs outright instead of fucking with f2p
>can get champs from crates unlocked on leveling up

just leave

you have a random chance of getting them permanently

*a paywall

Let the pitchfork rest until they announce a price, and if there are other paid things or if that's all.

I had 4 of them by the end of the beta last week. If anything they're way too generous.

Both server side hit detection and client side hit detection have their changes on gameplay.

Client side hit detection favors the shooter.
Server side hit detection favors the nimble.

With movement being such a major part of QC, I think server side hit detection would be the real way to go. It might just be better to bring toothpick characters speed down, and hope that players get better at making slow fat characters go fast.

The real challenge is getting servers located all over the world with enough power to run very high tick rate and minimize latency as much as possible to begin with. The reason the closed beta is blowing out some people's internet connections is because they're probably trying to see just how many updates per second they can get out of modern day internet connections and users and their own servers.

Just copy Quake Live's current netcode and paste it into whatever meme engine they're using right now.

Quake Live's netcode is often berated for rewarding you aiming behind targets rather than on them. It's not perfect.

The people that berate it are the same people that complain about having 50 ping. They're delusional retards that need excuses for missing shots so their ego isn't hurt. QL's netcode is a lot better than when it first came out.

Good god this game is terrible.

Clunky movement, godawful hit detection, and warping enemies.

It's impossible to tell what is going on because sound is so fucked and enemy models are indistinguishable from teammates close up.

How do they fuck up something so badly?

I'm the other way around.
Unless they're like "LOL microtransaction that'll be FIFTEEN DOLLARS" the hybrid pay-to-unlock or play-to-unlock system generates way more content, better content for a game in the long run. Overwatch dumped a ballsy 50 up front price, asked for money for RNG lootboxes for skins, then release content less often than a dead MMO and it's all painful for it.

In the game's defense the previous quake betas all had their own problems as well the question is whether or not they will fix them on release. If I remember correctly you had a limit on strafe jumping before Q3 was released and they were planning on patching it out completely before they got flooded with fanmail telling them not to.

lucy?

History of quake:

Every iteration has been garbage, stop remaking the game Quake 1 alpha was fine.

what are you even on about

Arena FPS fans are impossible to please and will always bitch about everything. Always.

what are you even on about

xD

I finally figured out that turning down resolution scaling increases FPS. I am getting about 90 FPS with stutters and super blurry picture instead of 60 FPS with stutters and a slideshow. Not good enough.

it's better to play at a lower resolution than to turn down resolution scaling

go nailgun for starter weapon, shotgun is good too. starter is basically emergency while you're going to some weapon spawns. If you're new the machinegun wont do you well cause it's hard to aim for a noob. And memorize where mega spawns on all maps.

get a better rig, I never go below 80 on high and my parts are about 2 years old at this point

If they keep the 500plat every 5 levels into the main game then I'm set. I won't even use some of them, hell once Orbb comes out I'm only using him.

I never really thought about how fucked up Orbb was. He's literally a couple of arms grafted onto some alien eyeball.

Orbb is cute

Look closer and you'll realize his arms are actually attached to a human pelvic bone in place of where the legs should be.

>favors the nimble

is this some sort of weird joke? If anarki is going really fast, and I drag my crosshair onto his body and shoot my rail, I should hit him. I had my crosshair over the pixels which represent where his hitboxes are.

Why should I have to calculate how much to shoot into the future based on 70 ping? If they were accurate on their screen, meaning they had 70% accuracy with rails on their screen, then that should mean 70% rails.

am i missing something or is there no crosshair customization yet?

there is none

Overwatch netcode is garbage.

>want to make webms and post shit
>trying my hardest to at least not be at the bottom of the scoreboard

fuck

you guys want to see anything in particular that isnt gameplay?

screenshot of your usename

i could record some gameplay but i can't be bothered to censor stuff out

i'm playing on the minimum resolution and with low resolution scaling

>pay once
>get all champions
literally the shareware model revived you goon.

I will try to record a webm of crouchsliding for the lads that couldn't get into the beta. Bear in mind I never played Quake 4.

i work for quake ill ban you if you post it

NDA

I'm quakeing in my boots right now.

Never played quake before, mostly played fighters my entire life. I get the same rush from playing this game from when I compete in tourneys. I just went 32-3 and hit so many good airborne rockets and rails. Feels fucking good man.

Here's your (Rimshot)

Try Quake Live it gives an even bigger rush especially when you start killing people above your skill level