Anyone in here want to play some Quake 3? - Servers are in EU, but anyone is welcome. Just beware of high ping if you're outside of EU. Sourceport + game download is in the thread.

[Bag of Bones]

Info
Discord where the guy who runs the server is and where posts when he is going to try and get CTF modes or something going is: https://discord.gg/EVEhFZyNWx

For those who don't want to join any discords, the servers are still up and open to be used if you just wanna play with friends or something. You can connect using the "/connect" command, or find them in the server browser under the name "BickDickBandit". The password for them is "bluefire" To use passwords do "/password bluefire" in console before you join them.
BickDickBandit_0 194.233.174.131:27960
BickDickBandit_1 194.233.174.131:27961
BickDickBandit_2 194.233.174.131:27962

• You don't need to already have the game. Here is a mega link to the download. It's the quake3plus sourceport with all the pk3 files already in the proper places. You only need to change your keybinds and player settings since it is using my friends old settings right now. https://mega.nz/folder/fXAyDTKZ Key: em5lOEFZW8WWXSzpOKIpQQ
• The servers are using vanilla quake 3 balance, not quake live balance like many quake 3 servers run nowadays.
• The servers are "unlagged" servers, basically meaning they use improved actually good netcode as opposed to the vanilla Quake 3 delay type netcode.
• I've attached a text file which lists all the maps currently on the server incase. Vanilla maps aren't listed, but they are on the server as well. The maps list gets updated every so often, so there will be more in the future. You can change maps in the server using /callvote map mapname Example: "/callvote map pukka3tourney2"

To anyone who is, understandable skeptical about downloading files from an unknown asshole on the internet, I'll link the q3plus mod/sourceport and you can just get it working yourself with your copy of quake3 if you want to play. https://q3area.blogspot.com/. Once you extract the q3plus-3e file you will need to drop your pak.pk3 files from your Q3 copy into the q3plus folder (q3plus-3e > q3plus).

I will post in this thread in the future when they're planning on gathering to do some CTF or something, that way people who want to play but don't wanna use discord can still know when they're playing.

Here's some commands to use when you get the game started to edit some of your settings that aren't listed in options menu.

Spoiler: Console Commands

Basic Server Commands
/maps #List of maps in the server. You don't need to type anything in the mapname between (). Those are just there to show the gametype it's made for, and it's name.
/callvote map "mapname" #Callvote to change the map.
/callvote gametype "X" #Changes gametype. 0 = FFA, 1 = Duel, 3 = TDM, 4 = CTF, 5 = RTF, 6 = 1Flag CTF, 7 = Clan Arena, 8 = Freeze Tag, 9 = PTL
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Commands to Improve Play
Enter these commands into your quake3 CMD by pressing ` when in game. Add a / at the beginning of commands when using the console. Example: "/cg_noblink 1" The important one is the "/cg_nobobbing 8" damage flinch. The others are just there for quality of life if someone prefers them.
/cg_modelscale 1 #default is 0 which looks small and makes fov feel off
/cg_delagweapons 15 #default is 0, delag 15 does all hitscan
/cg_nobobbing 15 #default is 0, nobobbing 8 is damage kick and the rest are bob
/cg_drawtimer 2 #timer going up instead of down
/cg_enemymodel "keel/pm" #force model, same as osp
/cg_noblink 1 #disable stupid fancy blinky names
/cg_ambient 0 #disables ambient sounds
/cg_fov [fov-number] #changes fov to degrees of whatever number you enter. Default is 90.
/cg_autoswitch 0 #Turns weapon swapping on pickup off.
/cg_drawrewards 0 #Removes accolade picture and announcer comments for things like "Impressive" and "Humiliation"
Rest of the client commands. https://www.quakearea.com/blog/cvars&cmds.html
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Color Commands + Country Flag
/cg_country xx Changes flag displayed by your name. "cg_country de" would be Germany for example.
/cg_colors xxxxx Changes your and your teams colors on your client.
/cg_enemycolors xxxxx Changes enemy team colors on your client. (Only works if you also use /cg_enemyModel pm) 1st number = Railgun trail color, 2nd number = Head color, 3rd number = Torso color, 4th number = Legs color, 5th number = Railgun spiral color. Basic colors are: 1 = Red, 2 = Green, 3 = Yellow, 4 = Blue, 5 = Cyan, 6 = Pink, 7 = White, 8 = Orange, 9 = Purple.
If you want to change shades across the color spectrum, use letters in the alphabet from A to Z. Example: /cg_colors 12221 (red railgun) /cg_colors b222b
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Weapon Orientation Commands
/cg_gunx X
/cg_guny X
/cg_gunz X
Default values are 0, use other numbers to move the gun on the 3 axis to place it where you want in your first person view.

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

I'm down. I use a trackball now and my reflexes are decidedly slower, so I'm nowhere near as good as I used to be, but it still sounds like fun.

Edit: Shit, just saw servers are in EU. I'm on the west coast of the US so my ping is going to suck shit.

 

[Basement Dwelling Dork]

why not haven't gotten much to do anyways. plus it'll be a good chance to try playing it again.

 

[Just A Butt]

hey yeah lets all download whatever this executable is and just fuckin' run it!
nothing could possibly go wrong!

 

[Bag of Bones]

I updated the first post to have the server IPs and entry password so anyone can use them whenever.

hey yeah lets all download whatever this executable is and just fuckin' run it!
nothing could possibly go wrong!

Yeah, your skepticism is understandable. If you don't want to use the mega link, I put a link to the q3plus mod page so you can use your own copy of quake3 to get the pak.pk3 files and run q3plus yourself.
I'll post here in the future if there's any updates with the servers like if they'll be going down for X amount of time or if they're being used to host a tourney so they'll be unavailable from X to Y times. I'll also post times when people are planning to try and get some gametypes like CTF going incase anyone wants to join in those when they're trying to find enough players to get it going.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

"Want to play quake 3"

Yeah

"EU servers"

Oh no.