Bringin it back...

[xenster]

Well, I dropped out of playing quake for a while for warcraft 3, but I recently found my old quake directory and decided to fire up all seeing eye and hop around a bit. I recently discovered this forum and I think it's great that there's a dedicated community out there. From what it sounds like though, this forum is made up of a bunch of netquake players, which I thought was dead. I tried connecting to some of the servers listed on this site to see what's up, but I can't connect. I'm running FTE, does that have anything to do with it? Also, I downloaded a few CA replays and the gameplay looks so drastically slow compared to when I'm playing, is it the difference between nq and qw?

btw, thanks to whoever made FTE, it looks beautiful.

[Baker]

There are really only 4 clients that are well-suited for playing NetQuake online:

Qrack, ProQuake, DarkPlaces and JoeQuake.

FTE is a nice engine, but it's ability to play NetQuake is very limited (it "works" but it isn't smooth). It is also not NAT fixed for NQ, this could be why you can't connect. Additionally, almost every NQ server is a ProQuake server, Qrack/DarkPlaces/ProQuake all have extended ProQuake functionality in some form that FTE does not have with NQ (ping in scoreboard, teamscore in HUD, loc support).

The main difference between NetQuake and Quakeworld is that Quakeworld uses prediction (predicted aim and predicted movement) and allows unlimited acceleration via bunnyhopping.

You really won't learn too much about NetQuake by watching demos, just connect to rage.quakeone.com with one of the above clients and try it out. You might like or you might prefer Quakeworld, it's all personal choice.

Game play in NetQuake does not have to be slow, btw.

[Spirit]

xenster: Come to quakeworld.nu for QW awesomeness (that's fast, polished, active and has a big playerbase!).

[Baker]

(QW) ... active and has a big playerbase!.

Quit disappointing USA players with false promises

/Unless you are suggesting people move to Europe.