today we see the end of a long awaited search for quakeworld's best european player. over the weekend qhlan3 took place in sollentuna, sweden, which was attended by around two hundred competitors and spectators. competitions included:
1v1 quakeworld - (1st griffen, 2nd dag)
2v2 quakeworld - (1st space & striker, 2nd griffen, mrlame)
4v4 quakeworld - (1st slackers, 2nd hellfire)
there was also a broodwars competition and a counter strike competition.
wrestling was also thrown in for the amusement of all and to show the world that nerds can hold themselves up in a fight.
prizes were decent enough, griffen waddled away with an amd athlon xp 1900+, 512mb ddr, 80gb.
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over on telefragged i found news that on macworld theres an interview with trent reznor of nin fame. it is mentioned that trent may be doing the sound track for doom 3. this is not the first time he has worked with id as he has also worked on the original quake sound track.
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latest version of demo show creator is out. it will help you to play all the old q3 demo formats with ease.heres some info on what it can do from the creators:it's a light version of dsc (quake iii arena demo player) with point release 1.31 compatibility.
look at the context menu for demo files. double click a demo to play it. convert a dm3 demo to the dm_48 format.
open the properties window of a demo, save demo and player descriptions (only dm3 and dm_48 demos for now).
switch q3a version manually via shortcuts.get it now from dsc
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the new pack was released a few days ago. you still of course need the whooping 120+mb 1.0 pack. this is just an upgrade with fixes and stuff. slurp it here.
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theres an extreamly good article over on xsr by p1erre about your q3 configuration. he goes into some good detail about various areas such as -
- general commands & binds
- movement & attacking
- sounds & connection
- video settings
- mouse settings
- aliases & scripts
- cpma.ra3 & ra3 commands
its good (its not completed yet), so go have
a read.
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i just noticed on uk gamer that theres a quakeworld duel competition starting run by tronus. you can sign up on the league website or in their channel #qwduels.
players will duel in the best out of 3 maps which will take the league over a number of weeks, if a player wins 2 games out of the 3 he or she will automaticaly be the winner.
the spammiest among you will be disappointed to hear that dm4 is not in the map list, the chosen maps are dm2, dm6 and ztndm3. closing date for entries is 20/01/2002.
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an interesting article is over on salon.com about the "rise and fall" of john romero's ionstorm.
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over on pocket quake they have recently ported quake 2 over to the pocket pc/win ce format. now you can play quake 2 as well as quake 1 on the train or at the bus stop. oh wait, you can do that already with a laptop.
still, its a novel idea and much easier to carry with you than a laptop.
download it for your palmtop here
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leviathon has written a very informative column on qn about a lot of the most popular q3 mods around at the moment. since most of us are stuck on isdn or modem, downloading 80mb mods is rare enough, but here you can take a look at whats available and see whats worth downloading.
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| while team.ie trials are on this weekend (read below), the uk team has already been announced. it features some familiar names from clans dn, jams, wr and 4k. the team is: blitz, caustic, chad, dynamic, gibbs, m0rph, nih, rabid, r, tezz , kryten (sub), telly (sub)
the team was decided by a committee who voted for their top 10 players based upon history, performance in trials and other factors.
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i just read on quakenation that clanbase have decided on the maplist for next seasons clanbase q3dm eurocup and the clanbase open q3dm cup.
the maps chosen are:
- q3dm14tmp
- cpm4
- ospdm5
- ospdm6
- ospdm12
i have been anticipating the dismissal of dm7 from major tournaments for a long time, but i was never convinced that dm6 would be dropped, since despite lacking tactical depth, it is the most popular tdm map in q3. theres 223 comments on the clanbase announcement here so far, and although i've only read about 100 of them, it seems that people are unhappy with the retention of cpm4 at the expense of a classic dm6/7.
its good to see so many of the new osp maps being used, since we could do with some new maps and the other "new" maps being used in leagues lately haven't really caught on.
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the trials for the national quakeworld team will take place this sunday, the 6th of jan. anyone wishing to trial for the team should be in #team.ie for 8pm.
teams will be picked on the night. players will be expected to have qizmo fully functioning. qw 2.3 and morequake 0.94 will be allowed as a client. the maps will be dm3 and e1m2.
you can download all the above from the quake.ie ftp.
we will not accept delays from players who do not have them running and reporting correctly, without pack errors.
if you have any queries, please contact myself or spliffy. feel free to pass this info onto a friend.
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we at quake.ie wish you a happy and drink filled new years! now let the drinking commence 
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viper over on xsreality has made everything okay. his article is an explanation of how to go faster and jump further in quake3, how do make the t2 jump and he covers the dm6 railgun jump from both directions, complete with diagrams and pictures. get it here.
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the euroctf
league is due to kick off in about 2 weeks time. below is irelands group
prediction from xsreality.com .you can
read the predictions for the rest of the groups here.
group 2 ::
wales, iom, scotland, england, ireland, n. ireland
england should
take the 1st spot pretty easily, their squad includes very good ctf players
such as blokey and ranger, both from clan neo. the fight for the 2nd spot will
be alot more interesting, i think that scotland and wales have an equal chance
of taking the 2nd spot, but if i had to pick one team now, i'd say wales, only
because they managed to get 2nd place in last euroctf season.
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on behalf of the team here at quake.ie, we wish to simply say, have a nice christmas and happy holidays.
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all our q3 servers are now upgraded to q3 pointrelease 1.31. you can nab it from our files section.
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saw this on clanbase. id software have released the source to quake ii. now, i'm not a fan of q2, but its still played by a huge amount of players and all i can see is cheats being brought out for it now that the source is available. ahh well, i guess you q2 freaks will have to turn to q3 or some other game.
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the long awaited and much hyped mod for q3, generations, was just released. generations is a game concept that has spanned games, spanned engines, spanned teams, and spanned fps fans' collective consciousness. its finally out and you can slurp it here.
its still a beta (0.99a) and it uses the 1.30 pr at this moment in time, but i would imagine they will release an update for it.
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i was shocked myself to see this on quakenation, but hey, if id are gonna release the fixes, cool.
anyway, its a 26mb download, which you can nab here. you can also get it via the auto-update feature within q3, but i have no idea how big it is.
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if you ever played quake/qw, then you probably watched a few versions of the quake-done-quick team's efforts at clearing quake's four episodes in record time. well they put the latest effort into avi divx format and of all the movies and general quake shite that we all download, this is an utter must.
it is 170megs and worth every minute you sit waiting for your download. absolutely savage. of course, being ever so thoughtful, i put a local copy here on quake.ie. download it, its brilliant.
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the boys from clanbio are at it again with a teaser from their new q3 movie called progression. its very classy and worth a download. it sort of reminds me of the film se7en with the way its done. class. i'm looking forward to seeing the full thing.
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bio.b picked up a default win this week over 4k who have quit q3 tdm. next week they play their first bwdml in a long time against gs, a belgian clan with a lineup similar to the ctf clan iqs.
in div2a, hat got a good result against rp, forcing another draw from the english team. hat were at their jammiest on cpm4, and their hiding skills in the last minute of the game gave them a win of 89-87. they had a bad start on dm7, and despite a good effort to come back into it, they ended up losing the game 96-114. this gives hat an important fixture next week against the lowest placed active clan f34r. a win here could set up a nice finale vs lkff to decide who will remain in div2 next season.
bio.r got a good win over n2s in div3b taking cpm4 by 131-84. dm7 was a ffa-like game where bio's new recruit blunt made his presence felt, finishing on 56 frags and a net of +33, the only posivite net on his team, but enough to give bio a 145-119 win. a similar performance could give them a win next week over lsr to keep them in touch with promotion.
fcuk postponed the div3d fixture vs fh, and next week we have a default win over cn.
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jeese, theres more national teams going at the moment then you can shake a stick at. i'm sorta jumping on the bandwagon here, along with splif, were gonna try and get the irish national team up and running.
from the way trends are taking place, with germany playing netherlands recently and now the qw uk team is being created, it does look like people are hotting up for a nations cup.
anyway, if your interested in being on the team and you have the skill/dedication and commitment, stick your name down here in the comments or drop me or splif an email and we'll get you sorted.
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over 100+ (*cough* slosh.ign.ie) of our servers have been upgraded to osp 1.0. we'll probably have to upgrade them again in a couple of days when they fix the bugs in it
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clanbase have announced that the dates for the lan finals in rotterdam is on the 12th and 13th and january, 2002. more details on clanbase.
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as the topic says, the long awaited non beta version of osp is out. at a whooping 45 megs and some cool features, most people have been really looking forward to this baby. nab it from the quake.ie ftp.
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ok, i'm running the trials for the uk quake3 urban terror team this sunday at 9pm, meeting in #ukut on quakenet. whats that got to do with the price of weed some of you may ask, and the answer is that as far as i know there is no ireland side currently, so if anyone out there wants to trial for the uk side, i'll make it uk & ireland so they can play if they want.
i'm told quake3 urban terror hasn't really taken off in ireland yet but on the offchance there is a secret club of q3ut masters out there, here's your chance to play in the espl-europe.net and clanbase nationals competitions coming up in the new year.
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as most of you may know, the first non-beta version of the popular mod, osp, is getting released this coming friday, 14th. what i spotted over on cached was a nice article from method about whats in osp and the new 'n cool stuff coming with it. worth a read.
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