Completely free no limit quake?

[evilmegaman]

Just wondering if there's a way to play quake online without any sort of limitations for free. If there's not, I can always buy it or not buy it but I like to keep it as legal as possible...

[Baker]

Just wondering if there's a way to play quake online without any sort of limitations for free

Yes, currently there are 2 options. Soon, I expect there will be 3.

Right now, one option is FreeQuake: http://freequake.quakeone.com

The downside of this is that right now, there is only 1 compatible server, that being xctf.clan-rum.org which is not very busy because we don't want to be promoting FreeQuake with just a single server. This will be changing shortly, there are 3 more on the way.

If it weren't for one the developers being insanely busy, I think 1 of them would have gone online last week. That one is insanely fun. Also the Bomber IronRocket server, which runs basically all custom maps, is expected to go FreeQuake compatible with custom maps in the near future.

On the Quakeworld side of things, there is a distribution called fQuake, with similar limits, although some servers are configured to auto-download maps you do not have (DM6 and such):

http://ftp.yi.se/pub/software/fquake/

There ARE limits on these, none of these options is that great for single player. To get anything going with Quake in single player, even running custom maps, you basically have to have all the monster models and those are largely pak1.pak, except for E1M1 thru E1M8.

Stay tuned for interesting developments in the next couple of weeks.

[tical]

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has all your downloads needed

[Canadian*Sniper]

I can't believe you just posted that Well I guess it doesn't matter since CheapAlert is gone I don't want that site to disapear :S

[Monster]

Now you are gonna be sent to jail for being a supporter of free quake. No more quake for you tical!

[tical]

You think ID Software actually cares about Quake?

[Yellow No. 5]

Well they care about doom2 piracy, so yes.
http://mancubus.net/forums/index.php?topic=651.0

[Canadian*Sniper]

If a company can set an example by sueing someone for any reason, they'll do it.

[Baker]

It isn't hard to have Quake servers that don't require anything except legal and freely available downloads.

And I'm not talking about 2nd best servers or token servers either.

For example, unless you play DM3 on Bomber, none of the pak1.pak models or maps are being used. In fact, none of the pak0.pak maps are being used either.

And --- in fact --- I am working on combining some existing projects and some liberally licensed models/sounds into a synthetic pak0.pak that will be composed of 100% non-ID software components.

[TheKlink]

i thank you in advance.

seriously, links like that should only be pm-only, and then only between trusted members.

[Baker]

The posting of links to downloads that are against copyright are discouraged.

Currently, our informal moderation rules that Solecord and everyone else decided upon is that the only "for sure" thing we will instantly delete is pornography related or is someone gets overly abusive towards another member of the forum.

I feel that it is disrespectful to ID Software, personally.

There may soon be a discussion about this topic in regards to moderation.

edit = I see Yellow has already edited.