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LAUNCHED A COMPETITIVE eSPORTS PLATFORM! (15 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by GBGivana @ 08:26 CST, 5 November 2015 - iMsg

https://www.gamingbattleground.com/ check it out. It is finally there and there is a $200 League of Legends tournament. Also Hearthstone, DOTA2 and CSGO. :)

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A taste of iCTF (Movie) (5 comments)

( Movie: Gaming)

Posted by G4rlock @ 13:15 CST, 3 November 2015 - iMsg




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Rating: 7.9 (14 votes)

This is a fun project ive struggled finishing, but it's finally done!
Its basically a movie of the Overfrag iCTF 2014 autumn finals,
between team D1cks (my team) and team crazy 8.
Thought some of you might enjoy :). I incorperated some of the teamspeak for both teams which I think you dont see very often.

Hope you enjoy!

Youtube

Google Drive

Edited by G4rlock at 07:58 CST, 21 November 2015 - 3419 Hits

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125FPS Sunday Cup#17 (89 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 09:10 CST, 3 November 2015 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 09:00 CST, 8 November 2015 to 13:00 CST, 8 November 2015
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS QuakeLive Duel Sunday Cup #17 this weekend.

Information

VODs

Streams:

zLive,

102,

flairTV
Links: Cup page, Event Rules, Web chat, 125FPS Balance 2015; 125FPS Donate link

Edited by Nico_QD at 13:48 CST, 11 November 2015 - 42259 Hits

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Site summary for week ending 30 Oct (4 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 1 November 2015 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

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HoQ TDM Fall 2015 - Round 3 (13 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:28 CDT, 30 October 2015 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Fall 2015

The third round of the TDM League is starting on Sunday evening.

After the big Quake Live update, the rules have changed a bit. All the players are now required to enter their Steam ID on the HoQ website, you can read more about it.

Also, 3 matches from the 2nd round are still to be played. We encourage all the players to join the HoQ Steam Group for better communication!

All the results of the other Round2 matches are available. Also we have some VODs and spec demos.

Late matches

Round 3 schedule

The news will be updated if the teams are rescheduling. We really urge the teams to reschedule as soon as possible when needed, and contact the admins about it.

Update: You can now use the HoQ gametype factories on your dedicated servers (workshop.txt) for the proper settings.

Streams: Flair TV, fazz,

102
Links: Schedule, Rules, Prize money, Sponsored by ZOWIE
Contacts:

#HoQLeagues,

Steam Group

Edited by xou at 12:18 CST, 3 November 2015 - 8569 Hits

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Site summary for week ending 23 Oct (2 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CDT, 25 October 2015 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

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HoQ CA Fall 2015 - Round 2 (8 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 05:37 CDT, 25 October 2015 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Fall 2015

Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 29 October 2015 to 16:30 CDT, 29 October 2015
Schedule: Passed

Round 2 is scheduled for next Thursday (15:00 CDT, 29 October 2015). Leftover games from first round (

You don't know me vs

Last Men Standing and

Team Pulse vs

Italian Death Squad 1) should be played tonight.

All teams who decide to reschedule their matches due to inability to play at designated time, should inform admins as soon as possible with next nearest date.

Update: It's mandatory for all teams to take screenshots after each map and send them to: ca AT houseofquake DOT com . For teams that do not have any server they can play on, we will have some of them ready for tonight. Just ask admins in #HoQLeagues @ Quakenet.

Round 2

Lineups

Streams: Flair TV
Links: Schedule, Rules,

#HoQLeagues, Steam Group

Edited by PerpetualWar at 12:25 CDT, 29 October 2015 - 10132 Hits

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quanthem (92 comments)

( Major Movie: Q4)

Posted by zuphrin @ 16:08 CDT, 23 October 2015 - iMsg




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A Quake 4 fragmovie featuring frags from around 2007 to 2010, edited by zuphrin.
After redoing the movie thrice, losing everything due to hard drives breaking down twice and accidentally formatting one of my hard drives once, I've finally managed to finish the movie.

Oh and it features a few frags from tox and avek :).

Details:

Movie File - Stream (YouTube) 0MB
- YouTube (1967 clicks)
Movie File - Low Quality (720p60 12000 kbit) 429MB
- Google Drive (56 clicks)
- Google Drive (2 clicks)
Movie File - High Quality (1080p60 30000 kbit) 1044MB
- Google Drive (161 clicks)
- Google Drive (7 clicks)

Edited by Demiurge at 16:30 CDT, 23 October 2015 - 53999 Hits

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Reflex 0.37 Update Released (67 comments)

( Major News: Reflex)

Posted by entik @ 12:32 CDT, 23 October 2015 - iMsg

After much anticipation, excitement, and eggplant...the Reflex 0.37 update has been released. This update is quite large and has a long list of improvements for the art, the map editor, general game and bug fixes, and engine improvements. Most notably though, this update brings the Capture The Flag game mode to the table.

Reflex Development Update Video

0.37 Change Log

Art:

Early ancient Japan theme: bridge, shoji doors, candles, lanterns, crates, roof tiles, boulders, windows
Early vegetation: monkey tufts, underwater_grass, seaweed_01, grass_monkey_01
Added LODs for many (many) meshes throughout the game!
Carnage pickup updated
Carnage player effect updated
Updated melee weapon (more to come :))
Added weapon decal assets
Added effects: bubbles, drill effect,

Editor:

Added EntityVolumeSelect (can use to create persistent selections, select VolumeSelect, click select)
Added 2d box select (hold control & click n drag)
Added light overrides to effects, so it's now easier to make lighting fit correctly in custom maps.
Added team materials -- these are magic materials that change colour with the team colours.
Added "teamIndex" to pointlight & spotlight overrides. this allows you to colour a light by team colour.
Added me_listprefabs to show list of prefabs in the current map
Added me_purgeprefabs to remove un-used prefabs (client side only, can only do 5 at a time, bit rough but it works)

Player visibility:

Added hero lighting to assist player visibility
Map creators can specify team colours in the worldspawn entity for their map
Clients can also override player colours locally
Console commands are:
cl_team_colors_relative
cl_team_colors_overridden
cl_team_color_a
cl_team_color_b
cl_team_color_enemy
cl_team_color_friend
Or better yet, just use the options menu

Game:

Added Capture The Flag mode (OMG HYPE!!1)
Removed outlines for various technical and gameplay reasons.
Added capsule hitbox for hit detection
Added silhouettes (r_silhouette) -- wallhack for friendly players/flag carriers/gibs/etc.
Increased player size to 72 units high / 36 wide for various artistic and gameplay reasons
Removed "downloading gamestate" console spam when connecting
Increased bolt range from 4096 -> 16384
Added "callvote shuffle" command
Added bind re mutator (for replay editor), added default replay binds to game_default.cfg
Added error to server browser when we fail to connect to steam (rather than just seeing 0 servers)
Quad damage sound now only triggers on initial fire for IC (too late to save Fleabittens eardrums).

Maps:

Added map CTF-Monolith by promeus & friends
Added DM-Ashur promeus & friends
Update thct7 from Tehace
Updated f14p1 from F14m3z

Bug fixes:

Flag/quad/mega/resist now dropped if you switch out of player mode (into spec/editor)
s_volume now correctly applied as sound system is initialised (rather than a few frames later)
Prefabs now correctly appear in replays
Plasma effect now reduces correctly on LOW effect setting
Powerups spawn now delayed at start of match
Fixed math bug where we weren't detecting camera was inside a scaled spotlight correctly (causing flickering)
Fixed bug where replays with > 8 players didn't playback properly
Fixed lua error in OptionsMenu.lua when adding bogus fields to widget positions
Local player weapon fire sounds are now properly attached (no-longer lag behind player)

Engine:

Added NVIDIA cloth
Added symbol to flag reflex.exe as a 3d intensive app on AMD mobile cards
Added software occlusion
Particle systems now sleep when occluded/notvisible
Tweaked static batching to better support large maps
Improved profilers, see cl_show_profiler 1/2/3, r_profiler 1/2, cl_show_traffic, cl_show_lagmeter
Added r_fullscreen_forcestretch for $aboo

Lua:

Added extra lua flags to death message: "deathTargetHadFlag", "deathTargetHadQuad", "deathTargetHadResist", "deathTargetHadMega"
Added CTF events
Added lua variable connectedToSteam

Server Admin Notes:

Expect an increased server load with 8-10 players on fully detailed Capture The Flag maps. RAM can jump from 30MB to 110MB and it's possible to be sending 30kb/sec per client.
This will be optimised in the future but for now, keep an eye on your server loads.
We are currently investigating a crash bug with the dedicated server software -- please send any crash reports.

Known Bugs:

Cloth occasionally vanishes -- just treat it as "Capture The Pole" until it comes back.
This is a huge release so expect this list to grow. Please send all crash reports!
Getting a few crash reports in the new occlusion engine. You can use r_occlusion 0 to disable it as a workaround for now. (update: this is occurring on older CPUs, working on a fix currently)

0.37.1 Point Release

Links: Official Announcement

Edited by entik at 15:59 CDT, 23 October 2015 - 27249 Hits

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125FPS Sunday Cup#16 (35 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 10:03 CDT, 23 October 2015 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 25 October 2015 to 14:00 CDT, 25 October 2015
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS QuakeLive Duel Sunday Cup #16 will take place this weekend.

Information

VODs

Streams:

zLive,

102,

flairTV,

Moppz
Links: Cup page, Event Rules, Web chat, 125FPS Balance 2015; 125FPS Donate link

Edited by Badb0y at 07:25 CST, 10 November 2015 - 17767 Hits

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HoQ TDM Fall 2015 - Round 2 (9 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 05:55 CDT, 23 October 2015 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Fall 2015

The second round of the TDM League will start on Sunday evening (just after the Daylight Saving Time clock change). From the first round, there is still one match to play,

102 vs

CZE. It will be played this Sunday. In the third division,

v2 was sanctioned with the first default loss because of a no-show.

For the rest of the 1st round matches, you can check the results page and the VODs.

Round 2 schedule

Probable line-ups

The news will be updated if the teams are rescheduling. We really urge the teams to reschedule as soon as possible when needed, and contact the admins about it.

Streams: Flair TV, fazz,

102
Links: Schedule, Rules, Prize money, Sponsored by ZOWIE
Contacts:

#HoQLeagues,

Steam Group

Edited by xou at 15:00 CDT, 29 October 2015 - 7537 Hits

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PCpowerplay Interview: Stratton on Doom (141 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Teen Queen @ 22:44 CDT, 21 October 2015 - iMsg

With the release of Doom IV just around the corner, countless speculations and closed beta access, PCPower play magazine decided to interview

id Software executive producer Marty Stratton. Stratton's name is a staple in the gaming communtiy, prior to working with id software, he was involved with Activision around the time when Time Commando was released. This interview sheds some light on id software's upcoming title which needs no introduction, the return of the granddaddy of First-person Shooters, Doom.

The fourth installation, titled simply "Doom" will be published by Bethesda Softworks, renown for their Elder Scrolls series, revitalizing the Fallout franchise and most of the later id software releases, from Doom 3 all the way to Rage and Wolfenstein: New Order. Take a peak behind the curtains and see what's stock for the new installation of Doom.

A few snippets:

PCPP: We played the multiplayer yesterday, a few rounds in the course of an hour. For me it felt a lot like Quake.

Marty Stratton: I’ve heard that.

PCPP: Is that by design?

Marty Stratton: We went into this saying, Doom is fast. Movement is the most important thing in the game. Movement and guns, certainly from a multiplayer perspective, and then I’ve said demons is another key ingredient, and we’ve brought that into the multiplayer, as well. So it was this meshing of principles, I guess, as much as anything that really happened to work well over the course of single-player and multiplayer.

[...]

PCPP: Just to clarify, there is regenerative health?

Marty Stratton: No regenerative health.

Doom will be available Spring 2016 on XBOX ONE, PS4 and PC. Full interview can be read on PC PowerPlay official website. Don't forget, you are the demons.

Links: Interview on PCPP, Doom closed alpha, Doom Bethstore

Edited by Badb0y at 05:31 CDT, 22 October 2015 - 34279 Hits

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QL Steam Exclusive beta goes public (234 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Lam @ 13:03 CDT, 21 October 2015 - iMsg

In the words of sponge himself:

19:59.47 <sponge-> if anyone wants to try out the new quake live, just right click

        quake live on steam, properties, beta, and opt into the beta branch

19:59.54 <sponge-> we're basically at a near release candidate state!

Goodbye friends, standalone master race salutes you!

Edit: check also our forum topic QL Steam switch Q&A with SyncError.

Edited by Badb0y at 09:44 CDT, 22 October 2015 - 68470 Hits

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HoQ CA Fall 2015 - Round 1 (14 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 01:34 CDT, 21 October 2015 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Fall 2015

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 22 October 2015 to 15:30 CDT, 22 October 2015
Schedule: Passed

Signups for

HoQ CA Fall 2015 season are closed and divisions published. We have 27 teams across 4 divisions. First round matches will be played at Thursday 14:00 CDT, 22 October 2015. You can check schedule below.