I don't know why you would call it chess quake though, why not "beginner" quake?

Besides, Quake isn't brain surgery, I doubt that n00bs would play any better with the rules above against a good player than if they were playing a normal game.

Well I was thinking about how to not overload people's minds with 10 weapons and 5 items, mainly to avoid new players being pissed of by the immense complexity of Quake :)

As a chess player I found this name almost offensive.

Seriously, it's got nothing to do with chess :-)

Well then you don't know about Quake maps concentrating on position and item play being categorized 'chessy'?

Totally. Every time I play a game I'm like "fuck I should be figuring out a cure for cancer with this brain of mine"... and then I switch to lg.

Your comparison is vague, at best. You shoot things in the game, so why not call it paintballquake? You run in the game, so why not call it trackandfieldquake?

Hey guys this is my first and only forum thread in years and I think you should show a little bit more respect since you come here as guests.

Eat a bag of hell.

Devilious!

You mean vizari, clearly.

New Quake players aren't overloaded with weapons... they're already used to 15 various sniper rifles in CS or COD. They're overloaded with uber-super-bunny-hop-strafing, which they don't understand. This is the first thing that comes to many people's minds when they hear 'Quake'.

Wrong, quake has less weapons, but each one has a fundamental impact on the gameplay which is what he's talking about, as opposed to most other games which have far more weapons but don't offer anywhere near the learning curve of what the quake weapons do (minus the gimmicky new ones-which I have not even bound.).

Its like learning ryu/ken/sagat. When you should be learning...
Ryu/Guile/Zangief because you cover far more principles.
Learning ryu/ken/sagat will only teach you one style of play.
The others will teach you 3 seperate so you become more effective.

The irony here is you've shown why new players struggle because they're used to such small differences in weapons and when thye come to quake they're unable to use the weapons as effectively as they need too to survie against decent players.
There is more to it than that ofc, but mis-use of weapons in quake = instant fail.

I don't really care, I just like to educate the internet.

you know what scion one of the best q2dm players told about the team strategy: "we just run around and kill em all" .
this message is sufficient for any n00b to understand the game

"Quake isn't brain surgery, "

What? I've done thousands of brain transplantations with my pummel.

(And "found" the donor with my shotty)

sounds like it would be boring and probably more frustrating than the real deal

so that's where "chess" comes from.


(kidding)

go suck a fuck... y aren't you online?

too busy sucking the fucking ha

STILL not ordered my connection - will be doing soon tho!

bleh you are a problem... sd isn't around you aren't around fac is playing wow... basically that's it i have no LOOP!!

hahaha deal with it!

One of the shit things about FFA is the item load outs on maps are often all wrong. So often a small-medium sized map ends up with the railgun/shaft on it and it just ruins the FFA especially when the maps end up getting over filled.

FFA on small-medium maps needs to be 4-6 players and have less hitscan weapons.

I'd prefer to see G/GL/RL/PG though (Since it makes the rounds less about aim reaction skills), but the rest of the "idea" is sound, perhaps the Quad could last a shorter time but spawn more too.

The first one foremost thing would be giving newcomers an explanation on what the game is about. I've seen it in Call of Juarez 2 Multiplayer where you are being shown the map's objectives with some camera flights and a narrator explaining what you should do. Of course we can do that with videos but it would be even more nice to put it into Quake Live itself.
Id have successfully implemented an introduction to Quake, but somebody should go on to explain Duel, TDM and CTF by showing locations in maps being played and explaining what needs to be done to win the game.
I would also reduce the amount of available maps to the ones being played really, keep some stupid FFA maps but enhance item positioning. Also add some really good maps for TDM and Duel of course...

I just had another idea:
In duel, when you die, you spawn with nothing, right? Why don't we think about something like "ClanDuel" where after every kill one of your clanmate spawns instead of you. It could also be done after every 3rd frag.
Your mates need to watch the game very closely to be prepared for when they get their chance. It would be like in relay races, one after another.

That could be sort of fun.

that was actually a good idea

Hey guys I've come up with another game: snakes and ladders Quake.


It's like standard quake but you spawn with the rocket launcher and the megahealth now makes your pain sounds sound like Mr. T so when enemies shoot you once they'll be too scared to do it again.

yeah! you can call it Quakes and Ladders!

Pummel , machine gun, Shotgun and nades... with small maps.. are there bombsites or hostages to rescue on these maps?

um how about for 1v1 a tactical map like you see in medieval total war, and inside countries you have there specific quake map names, if you get to surround one country (map) then it is a win, else you have to fight your way through; and when you send an assassin the screen goes 2d, with one trying to rail the other strafing from 3 shots, your opponent succeeding to kill you from three rails (your king died) meaning you lost the possibility for the innitiative (attack/chose a map) for three moves; the assassin you got if you lost a battle/map, depending on the frags, multiple of 5 -if you lost between 5-10 frags behind, your assassin is skill 1, 10-15 skill 2, and above 15 assassin is skill 3, skill 1 =damage 40, skill 2 =dmg 100 and skill 3 = dmg 120 (to balance the chances a bit)

-just a momentum idea, at least it looks more of a brains game mode than yours =D

I don't understand... are you really Scarlet's father or what?

what a silly question, of course, my dear! I'm teaching her the path of glorious life on every night

1. e4

... c5

2.Nf3

... d6

3.Bb5+

... Nc6

how about sudoku quake

why is this thread still active?!

It's not the only fail in here being active!