Hey just an idea if QGL/Ausgamers could host a Quake1 CTF server? Pretty much the same as the Powerup CTF server all those years ago? I thought it would be awesome for some nostalgic fun. We could tee up some weekly games, pretty rad.. Thoughts?

I've looked for servers online but all I find are quakeworld servers overseas with people just duelling. Lag is shocking and it's no where near as fun as CTF was..

Shit yea I'll host it

I would say buying it off steam for like $10 would be the easiest way.. runs in Win7 etc.

Netquake or quakeworld ? :-)

this came up a few years ago & i think term had some problems getting a dedicated nq server running properly coz it's so old or something ike that. i imagine there would be all sorts of server--client issues with everyone running different nq clients.
whenever i get quakectf nostalgia i just fire up my quake client -game ctf & load a demo from the powerup server & have a phat belly laugh at everyone lagging to the bejeezuz. :D

I'm pretty sure there's still QuakeWorld servers around...

I'd play QW but not NQ.

I think there was QWCTF..

yep here is a steam group for it, but in America.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/QWCTF

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But QW defiled the purity of NQ! Ahh.. whatever.

I'm down, beeyotches.

Ah, I lie, NQ is not supported. HA!

Nah I want old school action. Ticcles used to be a hell of a player, as I recall..

this came up a few years ago & i think term had some problems getting a dedicated nq server running properly coz it's so old or something ike that. i imagine there would be all sorts of server--client issues with everyone running different nq clients.
whenever i get quakectf nostalgia i just fire up my quake client -game ctf & load a demo from the powerup server & have a phat belly laugh at everyone lagging to the bejeezuz. :D

yeah I went through this hell recently trying to resurrect quake for a lan game. I found the darkplaces engine quite good for client side, I just used it as a listen server though since it was for a LAN game of 4 people.

OMG that is an awsome idea , think I still have my cfg file around here some where.Powerup and the overhand ctf grapple FTW.

Quakeworld is for internet play only

Even RA3 would be fun

so when's this happening? I just took my pc in for a looking at so all I have now is quake 1 & quake 3 available to play on my laptop. Let's get this party started

less chatter, more air rockets

mate you can run a quake server on a 486

my point is, just host one yourself, run the server on your smart phone or something... hell you could probably play it on one too!

my router is a wrt54g, 200mhz cpu with 16mb of ram. Perfect for a quake server!

I'm running one right now. Pull down the console & connect to 127.0.0.1 for a good time.

and then what?

where da serverz at?

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might post a news.com link

I'm checking to see if we can get it added back to server bookings on GameArena - then people can just start a server whenever they want and it doesn't require a full time thing to be online all the time.

You need to download the KTX server file. KTX lets the users change settings from duel, team dm, dm, clan arena etc etc.

http://qw-dev.net/projects/ktx/

Be warned the website doesn't display properly.

you are a good person Trog! (in the shrimp voice from shark tale)

Trog/Jmr, you guys looked into the quake server yet? or has this died in the ass again lol

I remember the powerup server had blue and gold keys as flags and the maps were original iD maps and not custom 3wave ones. Did this come with quake or is it a mod?

The threewave mod had pretty crappy looking flags/grapple and the maps were shit.

I ran a quake ctf server the other week to see how hard it was, is the grapple supposed to look like a mace? and the flags were just normal flags.

ok I finally managed to get what I think is some CTF shit happening, the axe is the grapple, the gold & blue keys are the flags. It won't let me capture them, but I figure that's because there's only me on the server but I dunno, maybe it's just because I'm noob.

demon: I looked at the qw server readme thing and it says this:
512 Custom Capture the Flag
The enables the use of new sounds, models, maps and skins for
Capture the Flag. If you enable this, your clients must
download the CTF custom pak file and install it.
***NOTE: Not in QW version, assumes custom

which I assume means you can't use the old blue/gold keys thing with quakeworld server?

I'm trying to get this mvdsv + ktx thing working but that website is fucked up.

it's the pre-war shit in ktx I think. You don't lose health, you don't lose ammo, etc. The warmup bit where you can just go absolutely batshit crazy on each other while you wait for the slower clients to connect. But I think since there's only me there, the warmup session never ends. Needs a second person in there to test.

The KTX site is broken as hell so it's hard trying to configure it.

edit: yep I was right, connected my laptop as a second player and all was good. flags get captured, etc.

Only, I don't much care for the standard id maps as ctf maps

dm6 does look good, I agree about the 3wave maps being shit, except for mckinley base.

I've given up trying to configure that KTX thing. Jmr, knock yourself out.