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125 FPS Sunday Cup#31 (Season#29) (33 comments)

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Posted by Nico_QD @ 05:49 CDT, 21 March 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 27 March 2016 to 14:00 CDT, 27 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS QuakeLive Duel Sunday Cup #31, as a part of Duel Season#29, will take place this weekend.

Sign up link http://125fps.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/XRtMEu7BJj

Information

Streams:

102,

zLive, Stream HUB
Links: Season#29 page, Event Rules, Web chat, 125FPS Balance 2015-2016;
Donate: 125FPS Donate link. Guys, pls donate some money, and we will continue our events

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HoQ TDM Spring Season Draft Groups (88 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by doz3r @ 20:10 CDT, 20 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Spring 2016

Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 27 March 2016 to 17:00 CDT, 27 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The signups of

Quake Live TDM 4v4 Spring Season 2016 have been closed. Here are the draft groups. Division 1 will play Sundays 21:00 CEST, Division 2 will play Mondays 21:00 CEST and Division 3 plays Tuesdays 21:00 CEST. The Spring Season will start Sunday 27th of March. We continue the donations to build up some more prize money. Donate for the league.

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3

Donations

Maps

Streams:

Flair

funnyb

102
Links: Rules, Signup,

HoQLeagues

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Site summary for week ending 18 Mar (No comments)

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Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CDT, 20 March 2016 - iMsg

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Reflex Update 0.40 (53 comments)

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Posted by entik @ 23:33 CDT, 18 March 2016 - iMsg

Update 0.40 dropped earlier today. Highlights of this update include new first person weapon animations, hand models in first person, new Ion Cannon sounds, re-vamped scoreboard, in-game stats for weapons, new weapon effects, and more.

Reflex 0.40.0 marks the first release using a new set of internal development tools. While developing, we often find ourselves going back to the Steam build to play random peasants and are immediately stuck by how much it sucks compared to the development version we've been using. With these new systems in place, we should be able to release smaller updates more often, instead of holding on to good features for 3 weeks waiting for other features to become shippable. We're not entirely sure what our release schedule will be like yet, but the take away for players is that you can expect to see features within a couple of days of them being ready.

Gif of some of the new animations
Ion Cannon in action

Change Log & Notes

Tech:

- Fixed multiple reflection probes for shader quality 0
- Added simplistic network compression & encryption, seeing a reduction of around 33% traffic (server->client only)
- Changed default sv_steam_port from 25797 to 25788
- Reduced jittering of all entities client-side
- Reduced jittering when colliding with other players
- Added comment support to config (.cfg) files
- Connect coomand is now just <ip:port>
- Use "password <blah>" in the console to supply a server password
- This format is required for steam:// links
- We now load player steam friends list, and their avatars
- Allowed friend info for players you meet in a server (to get their avatar + steam info)

Dedicated servers:

- IMPORTANT: Our dedicated servers now require the Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) to be installed.
- Steam is supposed to install it automatically but that doesn't seem to work with SteamCMD.
- We expect we'll end up including this in future releases but for now we don't.

Weapons:

- All weapons again obey weapon offsets
- Updated IC: revised mesh, updated beam and impact effects, additional animation and glow effects when firing, new sounds based on states
- Fixed ioncannon beam clipping through ground visually in some instances in first person
- Added player hands in first person
- New first person weapon animation system
- Shotgun, boltrifle, plasmarifle casings eject from their correct positions again
- New first person melee animations

Art:

- Optimisation pass on egyptian meshes
- Optimisation pass on japan meshes

Effects:

- Blood decals are now larger and moister with smoother normals (helps look a bit thicker)
- Gib decals have more velocity spread (more likely to go on walls)
- CTF carried flag wisp toned down (might need another pass still)
- Blood on melee weapons now correctly matches blood in the world.
- Robot blood is now some kind of blueish coolant or something

Stats:

- Added in-game stats for weapons, powerups & generic player info (calculated server side)
- We also now track top 5 race times (and distance / topspeed / avgspeed), and store these for each player too
- Stats are all pushed to lua
- Stats are currently only available during matches -- no fancy web API.

Scoreboard:

- Implemented new scoreboard to showcase stats
- Scoreboard is different per gamemode
- Scoreboard is interactive
- By default hold +showscores and rightclick to enable cursor.
- You can click on another player to view more info about them, including adding them to friends / viewing their profile
- You can re-bind the scoreboard cursor release in the options menu. Either with the "showscorescursor" command for a specific key, or "showscorescursorhook" which allows you to hook it in to an existing key "Jump" / "Attack".
- You can now see player steam avatars on scoreboard
- You can now see friend status / add player to friends list on scoreboard
- Added flag for each player to the scoreboard, this is toggled with cl_country (cl_country default is pulled from steam)

Gameplay:

- Implemented /roll command (WoW style). To use, type "roll 20" in console
- Improved the feel of projectiles by pushing the projectile spawn position from 8 to 28 (and fixed all the bugs that usually would have caused).

Editor:

- Added ReflectionProbe entity. The old effect based reflection probes still work but are deprecated.
- Added me_showclip
- Added "Show Clip" to MapEditor.lua titlebar, which controls me_showclip

Bugfixes:

- Players will no longer get stuck inside each other
- Instead, they will have their collision disabled until it can be resolved.
- Internally, this is now known as "Patrick Swayzeing"
- Fixed bug where overlapping guns could prevent pickups. i.e. if player full on burst ammo, and burst gun overlapped RL, RL was blocked.
- Steam defaults are now applied after config load (this was probably causing steam defaults to be stomped :|) note - they are only applied if cvar is at default value!
- Clicking on ReflectionProbe no longer breaks it
- Fixed issue where prefab names with a space in them weren't properly being parsed in on map load.
- Fixed issue where end of game sound would sometimes play on connection
- Right click friend->join game should now work

Known Issues

- Players are Patrick Swayzeing more often than expected.
- Again, our Dedicated Server currently requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) to be installed
- Race times in scoreboard are not sorted properly
- Race times do not reset properly

Links: Reflex Forums Post

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QuakeCon 2016 Registration Opening Round (41 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 15:44 CDT, 14 March 2016 - iMsg

Earlier QuakeCon on

their Twitter account announced that the QuakeCon 2016 online pre-registration for the 'BYOC Select-a-Seat with UAC Command Center Seating' package will be open for attendees on March 14th at 7pm CT/8pm ET. If you wish to register go here.

The BYOC Select-a-Seat with UAC Command Center Seating ($400 – limit of 32 packages available) includes the following:

BYOC UAC details

QuakeCon 2016 is offering three additional BYOC Premium packages all of which will be available for registration over the coming weeks. If you are interested in what the additional three BYOC Premium packages include and when they will be available, go here.

Do note the following, if you are interested in participating in this year's QuakeCon 2016 BYOC you must pre-purchase one of the 'BYOC Select-a-Seat' packages through QC's site and register online. You should also be aware that all 'BYOC Select-a-Seat' packages are limited so do hurry and reserve your spot. The general attendance still remains free.

Besides that, there will be giveaways for a limited number of BYOC seats once the regular BYOC seats are sold out. Therefore if you're still not 'sold' or you were too late to register in time but would still like to attend, you can try your luck. So be sure to follow the QuakeCon twitter and the QuakeCon Facebook page.

Links: QuakeCon 2016,

QuakeCon twitter,

QuakeCon facebook

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125 FPS Sunday Cup#30 (Season#29) (32 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 04:18 CDT, 14 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 20 March 2016 to 14:00 CDT, 20 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS QuakeLive Duel Sunday Cup #30, as a part of Duel Season#29, will take place this weekend.

Sign up link http://125fps.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/nJCkSwlNyG

Information

Streams:

102,

zLive, Stream HUB
Links: Season#29 page, Event Rules, Web chat, 125FPS Balance 2015-2016;
Donate: 125FPS Donate link. Guys, pls donate some money, and we will continue our events

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Site summary for week ending 11 Mar (2 comments)

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Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CDT, 13 March 2016 - iMsg

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MLG Columbus 2016 groups released (17 comments)

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Posted by viaIImaximus @ 02:49 CST, 12 March 2016 - iMsg

The first ever North American Major Championship in Counter-Strike, MLG Columbus 2016, has released groups and schedule for the top 16 teams attending this event on Instagram. Being the first major to feature $1,000,000 in prize money, as we have already reported, everything is set for this to be one of the most exciting LAN events of the year. The groups and seed pools were decided upon team's performance at the previous major, DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca, and the main qualifier.

Groups

Schedule

Like with any event such as this, there are no easy groups, but there's always a 'group of death'. That certainly refers to the group D, which features teams that are similar in skill. Certainly Na'Vi is the strongest contender to take the top spot of this group, especially since Virtus.pro has been showing some weak performance lately; all the while G2 Esports and Cloud9 are looking strong at the moment. Is that the reason to write off Virtus.pro before the event even started? Most certainly not. Hopefully they will step up their game and prepare for this competition properly.

The event itself will be taking place at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio from March 29th to April 3rd, 2016. So be ready to clear your schedule and tune into streams to watch the best gameplay CS:GO has to offer. Also expect some betting fixtures!

Links: MLG Columbus 2016, Schedule

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DNF EU Duel Noob Cup #8 (80 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 18:16 CST, 10 March 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 13 March 2016 to 13:00 CDT, 13 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The eighth DNF Duel Noob Tournament will be held on Sunday, 13th March at 08:00 CDT This is a fun tournament intended as a way to encourage low to medium skill players to improve in a competitive environment.

DNF will be providing servers hosted in

Europe, the password will be announced in the Discord channel before the tournament starts. If you set up a password protected server to play on, you must announce the password in the channel before your game starts.

Format

Sign-up Requirements

Map Pool

Admin:

n0cturn3
Stream:

DuelNoob
Links: Challonge, DNF Discord

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Quake Live North American Duel Cup #15 (51 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by flair @ 14:04 CST, 10 March 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 16:00 CDT, 20 March 2016 to 21:00 CDT, 20 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

Three cups down and three to go! The 2016 Spring season of the North American Duel Cup continues Sunday at 16:00 CDT, 20 March 2016.
Signups for the event will be made available to the public two or three hours before the event starts.
Remember to vote for your favorite maps in our strawpoll to decide the playoffs map pool.
Dates for the remaining cups this season can be found below

Thank You For Quaking

Details

Map List

Prize Pool

Season

Stream:

FlairTV
Links:

Brackets, Webchat, Spring 2016

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Site summary for week ending 04 Mar (5 comments)

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Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 6 March 2016 - iMsg

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125 FPS Sunday Cup#29 (Season#29) (37 comments)

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Posted by Nico_QD @ 13:35 CST, 6 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 13 March 2016 to 14:00 CDT, 13 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS QuakeLive Duel Sunday Cup #29, as a part of Duel Season#29, will take place this weekend.

Information

Streams:

102,

zLive, quakehub.com
Links: Season#29 page, Event Rules, Web chat, 125FPS Balance 2015-2016;
Donate: 125FPS Donate link. Guys, pls donate some money, and we will continue our events

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QL | Favorite three (37 comments)

( Major Movie: QL)

Posted by happy @ 05:22 CST, 6 March 2016 - iMsg




	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Rating: 8 (88 votes)

This is my first Quake Live movie.

Starring

Screenshot

Music:
slow sun – before you go
Chaos Chaos - Do you feel it?
K1llRGVP – Pinklight

Very few people sent me their demos, so I want to thank LEE for giving me demos from his democall. Subscribe his youtube channel.

I hope you enjoyed the movie. Thank you. (c) impegZ

Movie File - Stream (Favorite three) 0MB
- Youtube (1303 clicks)
Movie File - Download (Favorite Three) 688MB
- MEGA (98 clicks)

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Quake Live - "MIDAIR" (29 comments)

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Posted by AsphyxEvents @ 12:51 CST, 4 March 2016 - iMsg




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Rating: 6.9 (49 votes)

Quake Live - "MIDAIR" Movie by AsphyEvents

Featured Players

Special Thanks

Movie File - Youtube (720p60) 217MB
- Youtube (767 clicks)
Movie File - Download (MP4 - 60 FPS) 217MB
- Dropbox (39 clicks)
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#NACTF.QL Competitive CTF Tournament (17 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by THUNDERBOSS @ 03:08 CST, 4 March 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 16:00 CDT, 27 March 2016 to 22:00 CDT, 27 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

After two successful draft cups we’re happy to announce our first competitive tournament. The tournament will take place on Sunday 16:00 CDT, 27 March 2016. We are announcing this early to allow players time to form teams and prepare for the competition. The sign-ups are open now, and players will need to confirm their availability on the day of the tournament. Players are encouraged to join #nactf.ql on irc.quakenet.org for more information and to play in some CTF pickup games.

Format and Rules

Map List

Tentative Schedule

Further Details

Stream:

TBA
Links: WebChat, Challonge