/arena/ - Arena FPS General

Patrician's Choice Edition

A place to discuss all of your favorite oldschool and modern arena shooters such as Quake Live, Quake Champions, Unreal Tournament, Reflex, etc.

Play Quakeworld for free: nquake.com/
Play Quake 2 for free: q2s.tastyspleen.net/
Play Unreal Tournament 4 for free: epicgames.com/unrealtournament/
Play Warsow for free: warsow.net/
CPMA DEZ Installer (comes with maps and doesn't require base Quake 3, make sure to save configs as my.cfg and not autoexec.cfg): drive.google.com/open?id=0B0wfFzzjvCheTVVzSmdnQ1BLUms
Xonotic: xonotic.org/
Link to Quake 2 Starter with Quake 2 and its expansions: mega.nz/#!EAxAlSwa!9v0PQ7QgN60mXDptMqWXvdAC2srSCnb7pGPqZojG2QI
sourceforge.net/projects/voretournament/

Quake Champions closed beta signup: quake.bethesda.net/en/signup
QC beta is now 24/7. The beta is no longer under NDA.
UT4 Patch Notes: youtube.com/watch?v=rNE1XN6E1Cc
Quake Champions interview with Zero4 and Tim Willits: twitch dot tv/videos/144807974
twitch dot tv/videos/144852481

Duel Tutorials and Tips:
youtube.com/watch?v=pLmuRRm1Bag&list=PLxP7tvMqaXzDjw7OYYIEbplCdZOaHLFPg
youtube.com/watch?v=f8CP1oSy_-o
youtube.com/watch?v=QRe3g65S4Zs&list=PLgbx1wWCtM2DYy26yCLbtY6A0XRiSEM3u&index=1
youtube.com/watch?v=n2tdDZWSGy4
youtube.com/watch?v=dkED2PSrl1c

Slipgate to the previous thread:

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=i_E1KiXJfAs
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

First for HUH

>zoot finally meets a proper opponent

I had a dream of playing /arena/ games. The genre is dead, but it was all right.

>gets one lucky kill then runs away like a little bitch
>proper opponent

his match against fazz was probably the most impressive from the previous round

Fresh OC for fresh bread

YOU CAN'T RUN FROM ZOOT

>YOU CAN'T RUN FROM ZOOT
ZOOT CAN'T RUN FROM VOO

NICE
JUMP
PAD

This is probably the best QC duel so far.

>dat movement

:(

Go cooller.

COOLLER

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>car salesman
sir i can asure u our cars r cooller than the competishuns

lads seriously everytime i close QC it uninstalls what the fuck

I just know bethesda launcher loves to redownload over and over again. Tried uninstalling everything and reinstalling?

I have heard of some bad buggs in the beth launcher but this some takes the fucking cake

Sudden death TDM with 2-31 guy in your team

I am talking it.

*nods respectfully in your direction*

Every champion has it's place
And Clutch's place is dumpster

did you not see agent completely rape his opponent with clutch like 30 minutes ago?

>And Clutch's place is dumpster

t. shitter

All CPM-fags like wichtl and fazz are using Clutch now.

Anarki is the most annoying piece of shit though, especially if your rail is not on pro-level.

adad gg eat my ballz bro ;)

they seriously need to advertise this tournament better

i had no idea it was on until i checked this thread

>raep :D

same desu

but then again, it's still beta

can somebody explain this tournament? like its a qualifier for what exactly

but if you hear anarki say 'eat my balls bro' that means he's dying a lot
i thought that would be the one phrase you would want to hear from him if you hate him

it's a qualifier for a lan that's a qualifier for quakecon

Why does Ranger have a large chin

what's up with this bracket

where's rapha

why are there only like 3 NA players who i recognize

I hope Thump4 or gellehsak win.

>NA players

gellehsak has made HAL_9000 his bitch with over 100 ping

>where's rapha
Watching and learning every single move

cant wait to see him get stomped

shop scales face on the guy he's supposedly going to get stomped by
gotta keep the joke going

im taking a shit

>highest base stats
>ultra low cd fu shield
he seems gud enough

don't forget faster than every champion but slash and anarki

OP delivered for once, my fav q3 artwork

terrible tie knot, though

and the shirt is way too tight

t. skelly

o u wanted to practice movement in our online only game? 2bad cheng chong
rine end here

how much damage does galena totem do?

Did you launch Anarki into space?

i need a break from this game, it keeps appearing in my dreams
>shit happening somewhere near Sarnath shotgun jump pad
>ranger walking around with machinegun in hand
>camera pans out and focus on some woman appearing behind him
>she flips a switch on the gun she's holding
>ranger hears it, turns around immediately, already aiming down the mg sights
>the spot is now empty, camera pans back to ranger lowering his gun
>character appears behind him again, bein so quick she's blurred
>ranger turns around again and she jumps away again
>repeat several times wit hthe camera now doing circles around ranger
>eventually he manages grab her wrist before she escapes again
>they're still not facing each other
>nervous silence, camera pans to ranger's back, he turns his head around a little
>ranger lets out 'in the mood for your little games again, nyx'?
>character replies 'this isn't nyx' and pushes him down the jump pad hole
>ranger falls flat on his face
>camera pans over him
>real nyx appears crouched next to him and turns him around
>'what's the matter, you tip over your boots again'
>'very funny. we got an intruder. a woman. and she's fast.'
>'an intruder, huh. whaddya say I intrude you with this first?'
>she fucking leans forward and kisses him
>the kiss lasts viery briefly, but they both seem to be enjoying it
>nevertheless once it's over ranger seems to snap out of the moment and yells 'stop fooling around! it could get us both killed if-
>sudden stop
>nyx sees the fear in his eyes
>'ranger? what's wrong?'
>he's just staring, paralyzed with fear, pupils growing ever so bigger
>nyx realizes he's looking at something behind her
>turns around and gets decapitated with something that looks like a machete
>gushing blood, her body falls to the ground
>the killer approaches ranger who's still lying on the ground
>crouches over him, leans over and whispers into his ear 'the games are over, I win'
>promptly impales him with a spear through his heart
>camera pans out of the scene

how did you make the game look so bad

if you don't send this to shillits as the concept for Hunter release RIGHT NOW bad spawns will curse you for the rest of enternity

so what do i buy, reflex, quake live, or both?

Quake Live
Nobody plays Reflex

ql has players, better bots, choices of physics

reflex has better implemented mechanics and a great map editor

picmip
nvidia driver "hacks"

ql it is, time for a nostalgia trip.

played vql/vq3 for years
thanks to anarki and sorlag i finally got a grasp on cpm movement, got my reflex since early access but i think im finally ready to give it a spin in duel

>TIM WILLITS'
>ABOUT TO MAKE
>YOU HIS BITCH.

>Suck It Down.

ded thred ded ____

Redhead

>people complaining about clutch in the qualifier chats because they see fast and frantic anarki vs clutch game play
They call him op but counting so far he has a ~50% win rate in non-mirror match ups. And most of the games they play him in he's the starting champion.
These people will kill afps once again. We really need a purge. And no it's not quake dads clearly it's stupid kids who play QL.
Tbh. QL feels kinda superfluous with QC coming out. They're more similar than QL and CPMA.

I miss my slutfu

THOSE L E G S

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youtube.com/watch?v=i_E1KiXJfAs fazz is having azz kicked

>better implemented mechanics
>poor man's CPMA
mein sides

so whats going to be last game mode in champions

CTF

Not clan arena.

Thank fuck Jehar is casting over that one CS dude. No more Quake word salad.

thank god

being forced to play Overwatch tournaments this month, thanks to Blizzard and their forced coontract shit...

I think people are getting dramatically better at Duel while he and Dahang are away too, I fear they get spanked in the qualifier they do play in after being required to grind babby watch.

Jehar is a cool dude he was like top 3 in TS500 and active in a lot of games.

Got a passthrough rail in Reflex today.
Makes me appreciate the game more because I can't remember when I got one last.

how do i make QC look like shit?
all these fancy graphics are annoying af

You use driver configuration for that.

>never any arguments other than the totally subjective LG differences and the totally subjective slightly lower acceleration when Q3 strafing
CPMA is Reflex for poor people. But people who can't even afford 5$ shouldn't be playing videogames.

not him but thats impossible with something shit like intel hd4400 isnt it

Not sure but I wouldn't expect intel to have that.

It's like CPMA with worse movement, retard balance where rockets were nerfed while melee gets 100dmg, less content and gamemodes, a pricetag, and no future. I'd get a refund for it if I could but I spent too much time waiting in matchmaking. Also the game shits itself if you have more than 80ping ehich means the game is guaranteed to die as soon as the NA or EU scene start thinning out.

gellehsak vs carnage right now on twitch for QC

>worse movement
It's the same movement aside from what I mentioned. AFAIK.
Motivate.
>rockets nerfed
That's fine. It's clearly subjective and rockets are still very powerful in reflex.
>gauntlet vs axe
user the reason you changed the axe like that is consistency.
In CPMA gauntlet doesn't make sense because it's a weapon that relies on people being close together in a game where speeds are high. In reflex you find situations at close range where pulling out the axe is the right move. In CPMA this doesn't really happen unless you're teleporter camping.
>no future
Well cpma players shouldn't talk

In reflex you get good netcode, which IS WAY better than CPMA in the best cases and worst cases (though more noticeable in Reflex because you're not constantly struggling with it like in CPMA). A good community willing to help newbies unlike CPMA. Matchmaking that works well. Especially considering the player count in these games. Proper fucking mouse acceleration options. A good input processing model (1000hz is good). Easy access to new maps so you can actually try them. Developers that are actively working on the game and an LG equivalent that doesn't absolutely dominate every situation where its in range.

LG shouldn't be that powerful its a weapon which gives you minimal positional advantage and has the highest dps in the game by a long shot. It's a clear compromise with the QW crowd who had 30dmg LG. These games are supposed to be more than aim and CPMA is more than aim but the amount which you can simply out aim people is dumb.
And of course the netcode is so bad you can't actually react well to where your enemy is aiming the LG. In Reflex you can actually fucking dodge it beyond recognizing patterns in your opponent. You get to react. It makes LG battles so much better its stupid.
Playing CPMA LG after playing some reflex feels like playing fucking QC LG. They shoot over there where you're not and you still get hit pretty much.

>its the same movement except worse and slower
>its subjective that rocket splash is shit and people are shilling for a new ruleset in the discord because the current one is trash
>people with a free mod shouldn't talk when it offers everything the paid $15 game does and more
>the game completely shitting itself as soon as you go over 80ms with no lag comp is somehow better than CPMA

our boy gellehsak won

>this duel

>gives up the map
>lets chance have all the items, never fights for mega
>wins by ranger ult
welp

another sudden death

I honestly can't tell if you're "merely pretending" or just have have terminal case of choice-supportive bias.

I almost wonder if you're capable of embarrassing yourself even more.

the power of QC duel

Reminder

clips dot twitch dot tv/SuaveTangibleHumanAliens

no more nyx mirrors pls

Thank you chance!

>my opponent aimed better than me
>i lost because of it

all seems right in the universe to me

this was made before rail got nerfed, bj was added, and every champion got buffed in ways to encourage faster play

He's complaining about TTK on low health heroes, which are the only heroes that can compete in map control, and this allows for snowballs. It's a valid complaint.

Quake isn't a game about aim, it's a game about map control. This is why Rapha has been arguably the best player so long, despite having terrible aim compared to players like strenx or tox.