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Quake3, Biitches. (A Devore-length post, and no, I'm not ****ed)
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03-05-1999 6:21pm#1Any of you who have been around as long as myself in Quake, which is a disturbingly long time, will remember when quake first came out, and the way irish quake was shaped from then til now.
Us UL ppl, completely ignorant of the then-savagely powerful connection we were sitting on, danced around the lan killing muppets, thinking we were great, while on the famous quake.iol.ie:26001, all irish quake players ran around killing muppets in a neverending ffa, where a clan name meant jacksh!t, apart from a few fancy colours.
Eventually, thanks to a bit of work from different people, we all started meeting, more on the indigo ctf server than anywhere else, and those of us that were able to win all the time (me, krusty, g.o.w., tomb, cloud, scaryspice), thought we were sh!thot, more clans formed and things were looking up, especially with the events like quakefest and quakelords.
But in reality, we were always muppets, people were using the mouse and quakeworld when we were only realizing that we could type 'name Zero' in the console instead of going to multiplayer-->setup-->name.
The world was using proxies for ages and ages, it took the accidental meeting of us with 4k_Ser before we knew sh!t about proxies. They had a clan league with multiple divisions in the UK and huge tournaments in the US, when we were still clan-hopping and declaring our brilliance on the IOL mailing list and a whole two clan wars being played every three months.
The sad truth of it all, is that in the whole country, the Irish Quakers can only put out maybe TWO decent teams that could take on a division 1 UK clan, even after all this time, remember quake 1.01 is here since october-november 1996. There are only maybe ten people in the country who can properly execute teamplay throughout a clan war without stopping halfway through and saying ' emm....what the FUKK do i do now? '
Quake2 had a better startoff, because they were mostly born from the Q1 scene, and those that werent, knew from the q1 scene that the UK was the place to learn as they were so far ahead, so the few good q2eers clans we have here actually do well across the water, but they are by no means exceptional.
Us lads down here in UL, in one of our many Quake conversations, are always saying, 'jezus, imagine if we knew two years ago what we know now, if we started playing Quake in the beginning with the mouse, FOV, mipcap, hacked models, decent teamplay, everything, just IMAGINE how good we would have been, nobody in UK could have touched us', and its true, the thing is, us paddies are always second best because anything new we learn, we learn from others, nothing is found out to better our game that isnt from a popular webpage or from the opposition, who dont tell us til they ram a quad rocket up our ar$es.
What I'm saying, boys and girls, is that as regards both national and international gaming, the new way to go is QUAKE3, which is on the horizon. I have played it in Linux, there some good and some bad aspects to it, but as a Q1eer I prefer it to Q2. The game is new, quake veterans obviously have a better kickstart in it than newbies, but what I'm saying is that, as regards Q3, around the world, we are ALL EQUAL, the names Sujoy, QPD, Beast, CW, XC, EA, Hakeem, Xenon, they all mean NOTHING now, to reach the top in Q3 is a hard fast race, but we are all on the starting line at the same point, of course naturals by the name of Xenon and Thresh, and on a lower scale, Timber etc., of course they have a headstart, but not so much of a headstart that you can't lean forward and grab the b@stards by the back of their shorts and pass them out. It's not that hard, there are some very smart ppl that we have here in the Irish Quakers, in both Q1 and Q2, just that nobody ever bothers to get ahead of international opposition because by the time we have an interest, we are miles behind.
What I am proposing, is that from the word GO, we take Quake3 apart, we gain every advantage by learning the physics, knowing every trick and bug, we have our team tactics for every level embedded in our brains before the first Quake3 tournie is even considered. As soon as Q3 comes out, we should go to town on it, for once make the Irish Team be a team to be reckoned with.
What u think? And yes I am bored off my tree, thus the Devore-type message
[This message has been edited by Zero (edited 03-05-99).]
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sep q3 runs on a p150 under linux, cause we had a german guy on the server the other night, so we can have a hpb lpb war all over again. hehe.
/me hopes they have voodoo's in the puters next year in college :-)
I`ll be playin q3 and quake after me exams in 19 days..and ut if I can get a copy..
Ro.
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Ahem...
Well if my name is going to be bandied about I think I aught to have my say
Zero's dead right and its something that we discussed when I was down there recently.
Quake needs a kick in the *****here.
In the us they could handle the split between q1 and q2, here both sides lost critical mass.
We have a chance to learn about q3 from the start. We can scour the net for tactics and report back here, as well as create our own.
As for the machines to run it... well I dunno. Its a problem none of us can fix.
We just have to hope that the proliferation of high spec machines means the price of p350s drops. Its not that expensive to do and upgrade these days.
In all seriousness we have seen players like Regi, Koopa, Beast and Bunny have a go at Q2 and be seriously ninja at it. We have a lot of good q2 players who could make the jump too. There are serious discussions about a trip to Australia for the national q3 team in the offing, though obviously sponsorship will be a problem.
If q3 doesnt suck we will have a community again the way it was a year ago I feel.
Q3 could be the best thing to happen to irish quake for a long long time.
DeV.
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Poor Jaden the test is out
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just not the winblows one..
my guess is it`ll not be out for at least a week or so, cause they had serious probs with macs, nothing wrong with my linux though, worked perfect from the work go...
Ro(about to sit an exam)nin or is the s h i t an exam?...
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I think all you Irish chaps have a good chance of beating everyone in Europe but as far as the US goes - forget it. They have free local calls and free ISDN/Cable not to mention too much time on their hands. I think yis should stick to Europe for Q3, there's no way you can beat the yanks. They have hundreds of people who play Quake full-time, how many people in Ireland play Quake for a living? Not many methinks but as far as Europe goes we should have 'em all by the balls.
Monty if you're reading this, TAKE IT!!! and tell your sister to TAKE IT!!! also
-Zenif
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