/arena/ - Arena FPS General

>Tim Spillits
pls post the photo of him with the cum stain on his pants

It's funny to think how Q3A's crazy jumping animations wouldn't work at all with Q:C's exact hitbox system.

why would having the quad spawn in the middle create so much lag compared to the pillar room? Is sabre this bad?

There are only codelets left in id
Bring back Carmack

I played a duel against Rapha recently and it was on blood covenant and he raped me with a lot of rail. Does he normally play like this because it’s dm6 and you’re supposed to use rail or was he just toying with me?

It kind of inspired me to start using rail more and I practiced switching to rail to finish off kills against bots in cpma and now my kd improved in non-duel qc matches where I don’t just use lg 100% of the time. Tho I’m scared to play duel again cause I might go up against a pro again

considering Carmack stole from Zenimax and owes them a lot of money you can safely assume that he's never ever coming back to id

oculus had to pay zenimax because palmer luckey broke NDA, not because carmack stole code

I guess you missed the summer of Q2 finals that happened just a few hours ago. Fucking rail country. Anyways, rail has always been very important to Duel
>empty map with only two players
>freedom to position and find angles is far greater than in any other gamemode
>can get a cheeky 80dmg poke out of a peek, useful either if you want to close in or hold back while you wait for mega/red
It's a weapon basically made for the gamemode

wrong

roadtovr.com/verdict-analysis-why-jury-awarded-zenimax-500-million-oculus-vr-lawsuit-facebook-id-software/

Oculus is actually still using stolen code to this day

Zenimax claimed that. As far as I know they couldn't prove shit and Carmack counter-sued

I'm fairly sure they were assmad Carmack saw the VR window of opportunity and left. And he only left because Zenimax didn't want to make VR an integral component of NuDoom

We could be living in a very different world right now, a world in which VR had its singular killer app and in which the Doom series could have innovated realtime graphics twice

they lost that part of the lawsuit, Oculus was found guilty of stealing code from Zenimax

"Plaintiffs used Dr. David Dobkin, Professor of Computer Science at Princeton, to shepherd jurors through the AFC Test. At the end of his testimony, Dr. Dobkin concluded he is “absolutely certain Oculus copied from ZeniMax code,” and the jury agreed."

roadtovr.com/verdict-analysis-why-jury-awarded-zenimax-500-million-oculus-vr-lawsuit-facebook-id-software/

either way, my point is that Carmack burnt that bridge big time

VR is rubbish. Just gimme a good fuckin' game, no gimmicks attached.

oh and Doom VFR is releasing very soon as well

youtu.be/yraYJYr2YtQ

I used to play a lot of duel in QL like Elo 1800 at highest and from what I’d seen Rapha’s strong suit was maps like dm13(lost world) because there was no rail and it was all positioning so it surprised me that it was all he used in the match against me. I guess qc is a different game huh

This is not really true. Only the really highest level Q2 players can get away with using the rail that much and even at some points in the finals you would see David whiffing tons of close range rails. Chaingun and rockets are arguably more important in fights but rail is what gets you the spawnfrags.

>le rapha is tactical player not aimer :^)
rapha never had bad aim. That's a retarded meme. You still need clean execution to capitalize on "tactical play"
Among the top players, some will be more consistent with certain weapons, but if you land 45% rail in a match and cypher lands 50%, you can still beat him

Q3A vs QL. Been playing QC but have been getting tired of the lag and poor hit detection.

Which one has mechanics most similar to QC (I am aware that character stats and abilities are unique to QC)?
Which one has the most active NA community (size and daily fluctuation)?
Which one has the has a community most willing to deal with noobs?
Which one has the most active NA servers (preferably Dallas area)?
Which one has the best mod support?
Which one do you personally believe is the best?

>and even at some points in the finals you would see David whiffing tons of close range rails.
I saw him landing a shitton of rails from close. Same as the Q2 Quakecon finals, in which his opponent jokingly typed "unbind your rail" in chat

Nobody plays Q3A anymore. Everyone has either moved on to QL or plays CPMA mod.

He didn’t rely on aim in quake live like strenx for example. I was timing all the armor and mega health in the match against him and he just let me take it because his rail aim was so good. I know Rapha isn’t a bad aimer and it shows in some of the tournaments he’s played but it just shocks me how less important item control is in qc

>Chaingun and rockets are arguably more important in fights
bjorn has better chaingun % than David but it (mostly) didn't matter

>tfw okay at aiming but always fuck up strafejumping
why am i such a failure

Stack is low as fuck in QC

I weep to think what would happen to people that think Sorlag is "tanky" if they went back to older Quakes, in which you could go 200/200 and soak up rails

Land that delicious pelvis on my face, Crash!

Anyways if anybody got the Humble Bundle and isn't planning on using the Quake Champs key or already own the game on Steam I'm interested in buying it off you, nothing crazy but we can work something out.
[email protected]

CPMA is a mod for Q3A isn't it? I probably should have been more specific lol

The people pushing VR are the same idiots who didnt learn shit from the fall out of motion controls.

This VR fad needs to fucking die.

Crash is not for sexual, you miscreant.

bjorn went full tilt after getting spawnfragged and ztn2dm3 is a rail heavy map
he played much better in the upper brackets and david is the best q2 player in the world right now

Just hold forward and left and turn mouse left and hit jump then when you land switch to forward and right and turn mouse right and hit jump again. Watch people strafejump to know timing and just imitate till you get it

youtube.com/watch?v=A1MJPMl8B5Y
a lot of the webms i see here have really bad movement and circle jumps that wouldn't even let you hit the first strafe pad of a jump map

who tf cares about double xp? double favor if anything

I'm still a QC noob, haven't played in tens of years.

This 2x XP event is basically making me get to 'ashamed to suck' levels way faster.

It's gonna create padded account levels if anything. LV40s that don't know much about the game

Still, you can get level up chests and reliquaries faster

>Everyday since the patch the peak steam players has been getting higher.
>It went over 1000 today
We can make it lads.

>excited for 1000 players
~800 daily was dead, but 1000 is alive!
so this...is the power...of afps...

Humble Bundle buyers, that's what those numbers going up are.

They're even less likely to stick around than those who've bought the pack.

All in all I can't tell where we're headed.

>players return to qc
>rubberband all over the place
>crash to desktop
>they wonder why they even have this game installed

The very fact they're already resorting to Humble Bundle should be a massive red flag re: sales and adherence

Considering QC was hitting daily peaks of 650 prior to the patch that's an improvement

The game will do a lot better once it's free to play and CTF.
Sac is just shit, people dont want to pay for access, and by the time F2P comes around there will be a lot of improvements to the netcode and game optimization, and the 12th character(Athena) will be here.

I personally think that IDSoft is playing a waiting game right now, trying to time it with the crash of overwatch, so that players looking for a better game than overwatch will come to QC beause it's free and has "Heroes" for them to get into.

reminder that cosmetics are a mistake

really wish those 1000 players were playing the pre-patch version, at least then they wouldn't have had to deal with these crashes and bug

I remember Battleborn. That thing being in the Humble Bundle felt like a deathknell so you may be onto something.

There are a lot of shitty ways to do cosmetics, but that in that picture is actually kinda cool. As long as they have a mix of serious and weird cosmetics I'd actually really like what's in that pic.

It isn't that bad yet

No, battleborn was dead on arrival because fucktarded pritchford decided to kick a hornets nets and Overwatch sandbagged the shit out of them, not once but TWICE.

OW sandbagged them on release, AND F2P launch.
Pritch is a fucking retard. That's why BB is dead.

Hopefully they put out the hot fix soon, but I actually haven't had problems besides crashing with the new patch and a lot of people are saying reinstalling is fixing a lot of the problems. So maybe the fresh installs aren't getting many problem.

>tfw already lv30 before double XP and still suck
I'm sorry, teammates who thought I was better at the game than I actually am.

The humble bundle version isn't the full champ pack tho. It's a glorified F2P version with BJ and a few other bonuses. The humble bundle is just letting more people get their hands on the game.

>I personally think that IDSoft is playing a waiting game right now, trying to time it with the crash of overwatch, so that players looking for a better game than overwatch will come to QC beause it's free and has "Heroes" for them to get into.
I hope you're right, but also it might ricochet on them because they are still in deep beta. Very deep. So while they wait for OW crash the potential players might meet one of the shittiest netcodes of 2017.

>by the time F2P comes around there will be a lot of improvements to the netcode and game optimization
we can only hope user

HUH

UNF

WOOF

do you show off your passion for quake in real life?

...

I'd be willing to wear the Slash hoodie

Are you a cute girl?

I'm Anonymous

Eh, close enough.

>slash hoodie
>not getting slash tattooed on your chest
filthy casual

There's a lot of lv30 noobs, though

>star in the background looks like an actual star instead of the "you tried" distorted shape on her actual tattoo
IIIIIIIIIID

I'm still pissed the euro store has way better shit than the us store

I wear this hat

I kinda want this

No. I won mine at E3. If anyone can have it, what's the point.

>tfw duel starts to click in your head
>You're now on time with big item spawns
>Your depth of sound perception is acute
>You now know how every map works and what teleporter goes where
>You're proficient at almost every gun

Holy fuck, this feels amazing, /arena/

I haven't felt this good about getting good at a game in awhile

Duel is for fags

wanna play some quakeworld and put those skills to the test

I'd have to re-learn a lot of things over again, so probably not.

QC right now is my first arena shooter and I feel like I'm only good in the sense that QC has dumbed down some things from previous games.

I still want to try other Quake's at a later date, but I like QC for now. It's a good introduction to the genre.

I got a chuckle or two after not touching this shit in a while. Pretty depressing desu.

>no red quack snapback
>no slash hoodie
>no quake hoodie
>no Nyx leggings for gf
>no gf to wear the leggings

Why is NA so inferior to EU in quake, even in our merch?

>skiddie topscoring
wew, no surprise there

>I still want to try other Quake's at a later date, but I like QC for now. It's a good introduction to the genre.
It is, but I feel sorry your exposure to id software MP has been with this mess of an engine. Other Quakes have PERFECT netcode. Even Netquake (the MP for the default-ass Quake executable, no prediction of any kind, no optimization) is very smooth and playable these days, since T1-tier internet speeds are very common (back then most people had dial-up and it was too demanding, hence Quakeworld's development)

QC feels almost like a disrespect to the technical greatness of the old Quakes in some areas

>just got a Beyond the Grave with the fucking shotgun

Going back to Quake series it's like uncovering all over again forgotten dark magicks. You did it earlier, you remember some tricks but you need practice. But when you get it right you feel powerful once again and almost invincible at the times. You know Average Joe can get you so easily and probably will be devastated. Ah I feel bad leaving Quake for other FPSes right now...

Panini is botting. Report and D/C if you see them.

>join match
>immediately crash
>well ok
>restart game
>Would you like to rejoin the game you quit?
>no
>join another match
>puts me back into the same game anyway, except now everyone else on the server has also crashed and is listed as disconnected on the scoreboard
>fuck around by myself for two minutes until it clears them and I auto-win
>play button is greyed out back at the menu anyway

She finally went insane after not getting Chowder's smegma-caked dick for so long.

Did something changed awhile I was away since the patch deployed?
Just did a match and the game went smooth and perfect I would say. Rockets were as precise as you would expect, the MG didn't missed and overall the performance was decent with no hiccups or stutters.

What

VR should only be for porn games where you use waggle controls to flip skirts and slap titties.

Rockets seem a bit more reliable, but it wouldn't surprise me if they just made their radius bigger, or the damage falloff less intense. All that has changed in that regard for me are damage values (e.g. a rocket near someone will do a credible 50+ instead of like, 12)

However, I still get some very conspicuous duds, and especially duds as I get killed. It seems rockets shot "from the grave" are especially likely to not register for me

>However, I still get some very conspicuous duds, and especially duds as I get killed. It seems rockets shot "from the grave" are especially likely to not register for me
I'd imagine that would be an issue with client-side rockets. Your screen shows an instantly-firing rocket, but it never really came out for the server, and you died before it could be shot. And dead players can't shoot

Man, Ranger is fun. Everything else wrong with the game aside, I'm so happy they didn't make the free character suck.

I wonder if the last thing my body does before I die is giving me an erection

Rockets are finally landing where they need to and showing their damage dealt instantly since i can finally get direct hits and airbornes at (kinda) will and not complete luck.

But the patch brought me a shitton of other problems after that like many others reported. Nevertheless they went away today wtf.

>Play Doom and Visor
>Even though their speed is a bit below Ranger, still feel slow as hell to play
>Can't even have fun
>switch back to ranger
>Fast again
>mfw

I love Ranger's huge mobility but I can't stand how slow they go. I don't even play Nyx or Anarki because of how retardly broken they are atm.

>Double XP extended to the 16th
Neat.

So is buying the champions pack on G2A legit? or is that just the humble bundle key

I don't think there are many better feels than landing a DEUDLY SLIPGATE........ on some fucker Scalebearer-charging you or someone plinking at you from down the hallway who doesn't realize they don't have room to dodge the HUH.