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Site summary for week ending 05 Sep (2 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 7 September 2014 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

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HoQ TDM Fall Season opens signups (17 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by doz3r @ 05:03 CDT, 7 September 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 7 September 2014 to 16:59 CDT, 28 September 2014
Schedule: Passed

The summer is nearly over so its time for the

Quake Live TDM 4v4 Fall Season. The signups are open from Sunday 7th September until 28th September.

Check below for all needed informations and sign-up! (If you already have player and clan account on House of Quake, feel free to sign-up right away. Otherwise make sure to register yourselves and your clan first.)

Important

Tournament Details

Maps

Streams:

QLTDM

funnyb
Links: Rules, Signup,

HoQLeagues

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Destiny: a CPM defrag movie (19 comments)

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Posted by Kabcorp @ 04:51 CDT, 7 September 2014 - iMsg




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Rating: 8.1 (30 votes)

Destiny, a new CPM Defrag movie featuring Z0RN.

Directed by Z0RN & Kabcorp
Edited by Kabcorp

HF =)

Movie File - Shitty quality () 0MB
- YouTube (580 clicks)
Movie File - mp4 720p 30fps (destiny_hd.mp4) 1280MB
- mediafire.com (61 clicks)

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ESH ONW #20 QLTDM 2v2 (21 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by doz3r @ 11:41 CDT, 3 September 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 14 September 2014 to 15:00 CDT, 14 September 2014
Schedule: Passed

Another Edition of ESH

Quake Live TDM 2v2. Cup will be held 14 September 2014 at 07:00 CST, with check-ins starting from 06:00 CST.

Check below for all needed informations and sign-up! (If you already have player and clan account on Esports Heaven, feel free to sign-up right away. Otherwise make sure to register yourselves and your clan first.)

Important

Tournament Details

Maps

Streams:

QLTDM

Elder_ru
Links: Rules, Sign up (requires ESH account)

#esh.ql

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Quake Live Top Plays - Ep.3 (Season 1) (50 comments)

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Posted by Regulator @ 06:34 CDT, 3 September 2014 - iMsg




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Rating: 7.1 (45 votes)

Episode 3 of the Quake Live Top Plays series. This time we have Top 5 CTF followed by Top 5 Duel.

Produced by Axel "Regulator" Bowen-Dale, Commentary by Daniel "ddk" Kapadia.

Contact

Submit your demos at qltopplays at hotmail dot com.

Episode List

Starring

Links:

WASD Gamers,

WASD Gamers

Movie File - Stream () 0MB
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Movie File - Download (Quake Live Top Plays - Ep.3 [WASD].mp4) 127MB
- Mega.co.nz (20 clicks)
- Speedyshare (26 clicks)

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CPM Masters 2014 in the makings (257 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by EKSelenc @ 13:02 CDT, 1 September 2014 - iMsg

Event: masterscup

It is now time to get prepared for CPM Masters 2014. The next Cup is to start on late November, with finals being closed out somewhat at the end of the year.

November 2013 was a great month for

Promode. Not only did we hold the first Cup with a decent prize pool in a long time, but we also managed to fund it well enough to actually become the highest stakes' event ever in the history of the favorite title. What's more important, we stated, as a matter of fact, that we are capable of making such kind of thing happen all by ourselves, starting from the donations and through to the winners announcement. Love and passion for the game has been retained throughout the whole tourney, bringing spectators some of the finest jewels to marvel at, including matchups between veterans and newer players, adepts of different playstyles and approaches.

Donations are accepted via PayPal to cpmmasters2014@gmail.com from anyone willing to take part or show some support for CPMA CPM. Any sum is welcome, but this time the goal should probably be trying to beat last year's pool of $1,400. As for the tournament's format, the discussion is currently open to the community.

Donation guidelines

Gamemode for the Cup

Thoughts on the map pool

Particular rules and awards

Officiating

Misc info

We welcome any members of the community to share thoughts on the upcoming event in the comments or on #masterscup. A news post on ESR will be made once the details has been worked out. Show your love for Promode once again! Donate for Masters Cup to be big this year.

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Faceit New Cup Format (81 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by easytarget @ 12:47 CDT, 1 September 2014 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

Hi to everyone, I know it has been awhile since we have done any updates in regards to Quake Live on our site. Well I am happy to announce that we have changed our cup format completely in order to offer our beloved Quake Live community the chance at some free daily cups. Please refer to the schedule below or visit us on the Faceit Site.

We have also decided to bring back and promote the beloved team aspect of Quake Live with some 4v4 TDM/CTF Cups every second Sunday, in the early evenings. These events will be held bi-weekly with the first event being TDM in EU and CTF in N.A. The first event will be at 11:00 CDT, 14 September 2014 in EU and in NA at 18:00 CDT, 14 September 2014 . We are hoping that some of the players who normally play and stream would be willing to help out and sign a team up and stream these events in EU.

Feedback in regards to these changes is always of course welcomed and we would like to know what you all are thinking. All of our cups will still be played in the Quake Live "Classic" style of play, they are still Bo1 until the Semi-Finals and Final which is Bo3. With all of the major updates that have occurred and are still coming, at this time we are not able to add any new Quake Live accounts to FACEIT Profiles. This is due to changes in the Quake Live API, which our systems are not yet in line with. Hopefully this issue will soon be resolved and very soon new Quake Live accounts can be added to profiles again.

Quake Live Europe Schedule

Quake Live North America Schedule

CTF 4v4 Map pool

TDM 4v4 Map pool

TDM 2v2 Map pool

CA 2v2 Map pool

Duel Map pool

Links: FACEIT.com,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEIT,

FACEITcom

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125 FPS September League, Final Day (370 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 09:23 CDT, 1 September 2014 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

The 125 FPS Project is proud to announce 125 FPS September'14 QuakeLive Duel Season! As usual huge thanks to our sponsor Alexey A from the Moscow region and to the rest of the donators as well.

Live report

follow us on twitter for the current info from the report, also you can read news about our projects here http://125fps.com

30 Sept
- prize spreading
1st cypher 15000 RUR
2nd evil 7500 RUR
3rd-4th ash and pavel - 2500 RUR
5-8th winz, gienon, clawz, cyber - 1000 RUR

26 Sept
- congratulation to our sept'14 champion - cypher !

22 Sept
- 125 FPS Sept'14 League Playoff Stage
http://125fps.challonge.com/sep14_playoff

22 Sept: 1st 1/8 winz vs cooller, 3rd 1/8 madball vs pavel
23 Sept: 2nd 1/8 yay0 vs gienon, 4th 1/8 cyber vs p0ni,
24 Sept: 1st 1/4 cypher vs <winz|cooller>, 2nd 1/4 ash vs <yay0|gienon>
25 Sept: 3rd 1/4 clawz vs <madball|pavel>, 4th 1/4 evil vs <cyber|p0ni>
26 Sept: two semifinals and final

20 Sept
- B2 postponed match, cooller won 2-0 rehepapp

17 Sept
- added some new strings to 125 fps events rules chapter
"Common Rules for 125fps events
- Players participating in 125fps events must record demos of all their games and save them for at least two weeks. The demos must be provided to the admins upon request.
- To participate in 125fps events players must have accumulated at least 3 days of playtime and 300 duels in their quake live account.
- The 125fps administration reserves the right to make a decision based on common sense in some situations, even if the decision contradicts certain rules"

14 Sep
- D1 tie: matrox won both and twister lose to both, so 2nd matrox, 3rd garpy
- gs2 groups:
15 Sep, A2: cypher p0ni madball plazma fazz
16 Sep, B2: cooller yay0 clawz baksteen rehepapp
17 Sep, C2: ash pavel philian cyber garpy
18 Sep, D2: evil winz _______ matr0x_pl gienon

11 Sep
- C1 group - 1st _______ , 2nd cyber, 3rd fire_bot but he cant play next week, so rehapapp pass to gs2 instead of fire_bot
- D1 group today http://125fps.challonge.com/sep14_gs1_d1

9 Sep
- tie matches at B1 group for baksteen, fazz and razorback. baksteen won fazz, but now razorback will try to find his opponents during this week

8 Sep
some news
- guismo cant play his day and rest of week, so he is out and is replaced with... tadaam, fazz ! welcome and gl

7 Sep
- gs1 groups
08 Sep, Group A1: plazma, clawz, xron, gienon, sev3n, zanzan
09 Sep, Group B1: baksteen, base_, philian, arseny_, fazz, razorback
10 Sep, Group C1: dem0n, _______, cyber, rehepapp, fire_bot, zanes_
11 Sep, Group D1: madball, 3rd garpy, twister, 108, sting_pl, 2nd matr0x_pl

01 Sep
- league is announced

Schedule and results

VODs

Rules

Players

Prize Pool

Our September'14 Donators
31500RUR from Alexey A!

thanks a lot!

Donate Manifest from AlexeyA:
"Hi everybody! My name is Aleksey. Beginning with February 2013 I am sponsoring the 125 FPS QuakeLive League (http://125fps.com) and provide almost all of the prize money from my own pocket. Why do I do this? Because like many of us I played the first Quake and even Duke Nukem)) on lan during my childhood. Time goes by and Im a grown-up man now with all the obligations that come along with it. Yet still I want the Quake community to flourish and reward me and all fans of the game with great matches, tournaments, reports etc.
When there are no tournaments with prize money the interest of players and fans decreases and thats what Im trying to combat. Im sure Im not the only one. The community has a lot of adult, successful people, as well as many young people who fell in love with the game.
I want to ask the community to help build on the foundation I and the 125fps team have laid and increase the prizes in the coming leagues. Fundraising is nothing new and is employed to collect funds for all kinds of events. Im sure that many of you will be happy to chip in a sum thats admissible for yourselves and even happier to follow the tournament you yourself made a contribution to!
Below are various ways to donate money for prize funds of 125fps.com leagues.
The reputation of the 125fps leagues guarantees for a fair distribution of funds. I myself will continue to contribute about 31500p(~1000$) every month.
I propose the following prize money distribution (31500RUR + donations)
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15% of the donations will go towards the organization and coverage of the league, in particular recruitment of streamers.
Additionally I suggest limiting the prize pool of every league by 3500$. If there is more than 2500$ worth of donations the surplus funds get transfered to the next league. The biggest donators will be listed below every leagues prize pool (voluntary).
The fundraising will start with the announcement of the next league."
Webmoney

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Yandex-money 41001536914373
PayPal nikolay.grishin@gmail.com (nico_qd's account)

You can discuss this text at the original post here

Credits

Cup Admins: Nico, []34[], Xron, Green (search on IRC or write to nikolay.grishin@gmail.com)
Streams:

ZLive

elder_ru,

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Links: Cup Website,

#125fps

Edited by Nico_QD at 05:10 CDT, 30 September 2014 - 171663 Hits

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RICKROLLERS Duel cup (21 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by adem @ 07:16 CDT, 1 September 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 07:30 CDT, 7 September 2014 to 14:00 CDT, 7 September 2014
Schedule: Passed

KeRpaL proudly presents

Warsow RICKROLLERS Duel cup with prizes at 7th of September, Sunday. Everybody are welcome to participate.

Cup Details

Main theme

Stream: eatatmedve
Links: Brackets, Warsow.net //

#RICKROLLERS

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Site summary for week ending 29 Aug (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 31 August 2014 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

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MASTERS CUP 2013 PREVIEW - HAL_9000 (4 comments)

( Movie: Q3)

Posted by mouse* @ 09:12 CDT, 31 August 2014 - iMsg




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Rating: 9.1 (8 votes)

I dont think anyone has posted this here before.

Results

enjoy.

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gaiia | CPMA World Champion 2013 (207 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by DEZ_ @ 03:01 CDT, 28 August 2014 - iMsg




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Rating: 8.8 (201 votes)

This is a CPMA fragmovie about

gaiia created by

Lunokhod-2 (special thanks for help in creating to

DEZ).

Movie stats

Movie File - Shitty quality () 0MB
- YouTube (3083 clicks)
Movie File - Download 60fps (PROMODE gaiia finland.mp4) 272MB
- disk.yandex.com (209 clicks)
- MaverickServers.com (257 clicks)

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Level Up TV - We’re Talking It Ep 6 (122 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Disrepute @ 13:37 CDT, 27 August 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 28 August 2014 to 15:00 CDT, 28 August 2014
Schedule: Passed

Level Up TV is back and hot on the heels of the latest Quake Live update is ready to talk! We have finally reached episode 6 of ‘We’re Talking It’ our topical chat show, and this time it features

Disrepute,

vor and

nvc.

Discussion topics

The Quake Live update, the major changes, the community and our reactions, how it will impact the future of the game... and all the related topics around. We also have some community questions to answer! Tune in on TV1 twitch.tv/leveluptv.

VOD: Episode, Q&A
Related: Level Up TV -

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Quake Live Update - August 27, 2014 (755 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Teen Queen @ 11:44 CDT, 27 August 2014 - iMsg

The long awaited update that stirred up a lot of heated arguments is finally here, this is one of the first steps towards the transition that will prepare

Quake Live for the official

Steam release. The developers included a heartfelt message along with the changelog, instead of the stale config variable and map fixes, this time the impactful changes won't leave anyone unaffected. The mellow message from the developers shines light on a new perspective that you either love or hate. Is this a new beginning or the everlasting end? You decide.

"Quake is a masterful game of skill, often compared to Chess by its veteran players. However, with that depth has come a challenge to welcome and capture new players long enough for them to discover the joy to be found in what many consider the finest Deathmatch game ever made."

Message from the developers

Last month at QuakeCon we announced that Quake Live would be coming to Steam and with that expansion take on some new gameplay changes and features. At that time, we did not have many specifics to share as we were poised to keep an open mind as to what our future would look like, and wanted to see how we could introduce a wider audience to the game we so dearly love. Quake is a masterful game of skill, often compared to Chess by its veteran players. However, with that depth has come a challenge to welcome and capture new players long enough for them to discover the joy to be found in what many consider the finest Deathmatch game ever made.

For some of us that joy is simply nostalgia of our early days, an introduction to online FPS that ushered in a new era of gaming. For many it is a love of mastery, striving to become better in a competitive world that seems to have no upper bounds. It is a game of limitless growth where the movement, strategy, and perfection of aim seem to be an extension of our human selves where hard work, dedication, and confidence can translate into a measurable improvement that brings a great pride to our players. While Quake will always be a home to the competitive base, we have often longed for a wider audience who could experience, appreciate, and fall in love with all that it has to offer.

For new players, it has been quite clear what the greatest barriers are: effectiveness on spawn, movement, and item control. These elements on several levels also make our game great, so we wanted to inspect what could be done to make the game a more enjoyable experience, all while teaching players a bit of the meta-game depth.
We tested several ideas including granting players better starting weapons and compared that to the lessons learned in Clan Arena where players get to try out various weapons and see their effectiveness each round. We found that providing the player one single "primary" weapon of their choice in addition to letting them have a bit more freedom as to which "secondary" they spawn with allows players to try out various weapons and become more effective on spawn which has been the key complaint of newcomers. Meanwhile we still want to highly encourage picking up weapons throughout the arena, so we have minimized the amount of ammo granted on spawn so that players will continue to roam and gather both weapons and ammo. Allowing the new behavior of choosing some starting weapons greatly improved the experience in modes such as FFA and TDM and helped make some of the more chaotic modes like Domination quite enjoyable. Hence, Domination will now be ran publicly for all to play.

Additionally we wanted to find a way to teach players a few core bits of information concerning item timing. We have introduced item timers, present transparently in the world (not on your HUD), that all relay item respawn information under the following design guidelines: Each item timer has a radial display divided into slices. Elapsed time is drawn as solid slices. Each slice represents 5 seconds. Active regions are represented by blinking slices that blink once per second. The timers should adequately teach players when an item is about to respawn or when it is better to move along even without this knowledge. And as players continue to play, they will begin to understand exactly how much time elapses per slice and can begin utilizing the timer indicator in coordination with their match timer to know when items will become available. To both minimize visual noise that the timers could incur and to prevent an unnecessary flood of information throughout the world, item timers are only visible while in close proximity, gently fading in as you approach.

The final hurdle for new players to overcome was strafe jumping. We wanted to preserve strafe jumping as is, as both its intentional use and its subtle influences as you traverse the map are what make Quake feel incredibly smooth and responsive. For many of us, learning strafe jumping came naturally or for long time players was simply the foundation of our FPS experience. But we wanted to assist players and provide them with a simpler means of movement to allow them to keep up the pace as they overtime learn to more fully benefit from strafing. A basic "bunny" and auto-hop mechanic has been introduced that allows players to simple hold forward and jump to build up some speed. However, because the new bunnyjumping only provides a limited amount of accel gain, and is only effective on straightaways, players will still need to learn strafe jumping over time – we hope that this new mechanic will allow both general movement and gameplay to become more accessible encouraging them to continue to play so that they may over time become more accustom to the finer side of Quake.

But ultimately these changes have not been introduced for the new player alone. We feel that these elements overall help bring Quake one step closer to being a modern shooter, while still holding true to our roots of remaining an incredibly fast paced old school shooter. We've had a lot of fun with these new additions, and hope that you learn to appreciate them.

For players who have taken great pride in becoming skilled in our more challenging areas such as competitive Duel, we hope that running our FFA and Teamplay servers with these new, fun, and accessible mechanics that we can begin to build a larger base of players who could then try their luck at the Classic Duel experience. Here players will have to shed their new skin and play under slightly more challenging conditions, but ones that we know have proven themselves true in the e-sports arena.

Sincerely,
The Quake Live Team

New Quake Live Ruleset

General Game Changes

In addition to our major ruleset changes, the following global game changes have been made:
- Added a new weapon, the Heavy Machinegun (HMG).
- Lightning Gun now does 6 damage per cell across all rulesets, or 120 damage per second.
- New higher resolution font added.
- Widescreen Support for huds (see default huds for implementation examples).
- New in-game UI (menu and loading screens).
- Disabled the pk3 encryption. Paks can now be opened like a zip file; maps load up to 25% faster.
- Added flagstand POIs in CTF.
- Enabled self-kills with an additional 1 second respawn penalty.
- Quad firing sound reduced on high rate of fire weapons: mg, pg, cg, hmg.
- Added damage number indicators for damage dealt, can be customized by various color styles and enabled or disabled per weapon.
- Fixed a bug in that could cause the best weapon selection to fail.
Machinegun now drops to grant users mg ammo.
- Infected zombies now have air control and can double jump.
- Fixed the CHEATS ENABLED notification on the map loading screen from lagging behind its proper state.
- Reduced the default amount of player movement bobbing.
- Reduced the default amount of damage kick movement.
- By default, don't show weapons you don't have in inventory on your weaponbar.
- By default, bob major items when simpleitems are enabled.
Prevent broken shader image on crosshair '30', '60', '90', which would equate to crosshair "none" as the cycle repeats.
- Bots now randomly select loadouts, when applicable.
- Greatly reduced multiple pickups prediction errors.
- Removed the option to move to FreeCam while dead in elimination based gametypes.
- The PQL ruleset has been renamed 'Turbo'.
- Stonekeep map layout slightly modified.
- Trimmed out 19 maps will be added back later after being updated. (Arena Gate, Bloodlust, Colbat Station, Concrete Palace, Dies Irae, Double Impact, Eviscerated, Focal Point, Forgotten, Golgotha Core, Hell's Gate Redux, Hero's Keep, Power Station, Proving Grounds, Sacellum, Solid, Sorrow, Space Camp, Spillway, Terminal Heights, Terminus)

Create Match Features

Arena Changes

Links: Source

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QW Claustrophobopolis grand finals (23 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Teen Queen @ 10:24 CDT, 27 August 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 3 September 2014 to 14:00 CDT, 3 September 2014
Schedule: Passed

Just when you thought old shooters are gone for good,

Quakeworld comes up with an exciting one map cup. The tournament has already come to an end, the all-Swedish finals between

LocKtar vs

Xterm will be played on September 3rd at 12:00 CST. A detailed description of the cup progression and participants is listed below.

Grand Finals Info

Cup Details

Stream: SuddenDeathTV
Links: Source, Get Quake, Brackets and results

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