1) Ladders
2) "live" button on mainpage showing live streams of tourneys. when none are on, show a schedule or vods.
3) demos: easier playback of demos (like qldp) and also add demos of tourneys automatically to the main site.
4) newbie friendly gametype like Bomb & Defuse from Warswo to attract new players (not only for premium users!!)
5) new maps

6) big PR/advertising by zenimax/id

^

oh .. and #1 ladders.

4. pls don't

Just make Freeze Tag & Insta Freeze Tag free for the newbs.

new maps arent really necessary, just more maps in the standard pool. no more of this subscriber-catering bullshit.

related to #1 and #2

linking competition sites via ql. i'd imagine this to be a 2 way process where u could create brackets and stuff on ql site or link to an external site, AND traffic in the other direction such as announcing cups and stuff on the ql site.

gtv+inbuilt casting as an alternative to live streams (soz lvlup).

ps: o and cpm gameplay option on pro servers. kthx. :)

1) Ladders
2) More server locations/providers (i hate i3D with a passion)
3) Revamped FT
4) Fix the fucking sound system.
5) Trick jumping mode and the possibility to spawn such servers for online play (unlimited ammo etc).

Wouldn't hurt to add decent in-game stats and chat tokens for all gametypes...

more server locations/providers

this should def. be repeated!
more server locations/providers especially for middle east, asia, south america, italy,....

Ladders and ability of players to organize cups and such ingame
Better skill-system
Browser-less launcher/lobby
Better demo/casting support
maps++

/edit: fix the all-new duel scoreboard, it has lots of bugs

I would like ladders (as everyone eles) and I would really love if new maps were for everyone so it would be easier to find a public match on these new maps. New maps aren’t nice if you don't ever get the chance to play them. :(

Something that would be really cool is a GTV-like feature. Imagine when watching an event that you connected via Quake Live like if it was GTV, being able to change pov and just watch the game with your own resolution/HUD/etc. (item timers should be an option).
If the game is shoutcasted then the caster s voice should be a part of the game sound and you can now decide for yourself whether you want to hear the cast or not (a different volume cvar deciding the casting volume would be awesome!). At last you are able to select to change pov manually or just see the pov that the caster is seeing (like back in the days and like in UT2k4).

Beside these things and new maps just once a year I don’t need anything eles.


EDIT:
And for bug fixes I would love if ID fixed that minor lag you get when disconnecting from a server it is SO annoying! + When your opponent quits from a duel the scoreboard shows HIS stats and not yours. That'a annoying aswell.

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[+] for dm6

Why? It's still pretty much the best ca map around. Don't like it - don't play on it...

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Well, it's also, quite possibly, the most noob-friendly 1v1 map around. Can't think of an easier map to learn the basics of timing, control and positioning.

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Haha, no idea. o.o Maybe it just doesn't suit your style or some shit like that. :P

because you can't hide in dm6

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true, cause u can't in dm6 :p

CA SUX

I see you have some issues with more noob-friendly gametypes. The fuck does it matter to you what other people play? Stop being a retarded butthurt fuckwit whining bitch, not everyone wants to play the same shit you do, deal with it.

can we remove cs and wow from the list off online games already?

I don't play either and they really hurt the games I do play.

ffa is noobfriendly (sort of)
noobskill level CA is retarded friendly, and ppl stick with it
that's why I hate CA, anyother gametype is fine for me :>
i'll tell you more, i'd like to see defrag in ql, so i'm not against gametypes just against retardedfriendly ones

only people who hate ca with such passion are the ones who get owned by noobs in ca ie. people with no aim.

that's not the case ;)
if you scroll down you will see why I don't like ca :)

blah blah you probably have <30 lg

:>

PK movement doesnt fit in quake, pk is pk, quake already has great CPM movement system they should stick to this

.exe

QL needs a smart marketing strategy, not a disrespectful, slow and half-working one.

hadn't noticed it had a marketing strategy.

1) keep stupid shit like cpm out of quake live

Ability to create LAN servers for anyone and with only a couple of clicks!

Every LAN-party must have some Quake present, otherwise it's just nerds wasting away life!

Yay, I wanna get drunk with k1llsen again!

1. gtv
2. gtv
3. gtv
4. gtv
5. gtv
6. fix the goddamn netcode fffffffs

I'm tired of shortsighted idiots bitching about gtv. If QL gets gtv we can forget about quake as a competitive game. No, that's not hyperbole. The second there is gtv you can kiss goodbye any hopes of turning QL into an ad revenue driven esport (and hence into an esport at all).

The ability to stream content with minimal resources is the greatest thing that could have happened to esports. It's fucking revolutionary. With almost no investment anyone can become a hub of entertainment, and, if done correctly and diligently, a revenue generating hub. And what does one do with that revenue? Reinvest it.

So here we are, at the prepubescent stages of having quakelive streamers be able to monetize their content (look at the ads own3d is putting on the QL vods from lvl^) with a glimmer of hope that in the not so distant future we might have tournaments not because of some benevolent organizer, but because its PROFITABLE to have them be played and watched, and you, you want to take this potential and hand it all over to id.

Just think about that for a long while. You want to take the last life line keeping quake from falling into oblivion (ala Enemy Territory) and you want to hand it back to the guys that have stumbled on every step of the monetization process.

theres nothing forcing a tournament holder to run gtv servers. they can insist on streams only.

no.

see cs, hltv and tournaments with streams.

Haha you are comparing CS to quake? Are you having a wet dream moment? Because bringing up a completely different game, with an embarassingly large disparity in user base size is a fucking dumb argument.

Now notice I didn't say the concept of gtv is bad. I just said for quakelive, for the present moment, a gtv, made by id, will kill the tournament aspect of the game.

what? you having a seizure? relax...

long version for the retards: cs has the ability of hltv and it does get used a lot. the big money tournaments sometimes restrict their live coverage to streams, so they can make us look at all the fancy ads. both co-exist quite nicely, whatever else you were trying to say... flew right past me.

sorry m8, but you are retarded

streams force viewers to watch one specific match with mostly dumbass casters, with gtv you can choose between a couple of matches with a simple console command and you have gamesound without someone mumbling in the back

ut like rocket launcher
tanks
pixel shader 4 with trees and bushes to hide in
alt entering to make your mouse hidden completely to the desktop
being able to fake nick


on a serious note, spawn killing.

lolumad?

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FIRE
WIND
WATER
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GOOOOOO PLAAAAAANEEEEET!!!!

FTFY

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1) no-more gameplay changes
2) stop messing with useless cvars
3) a competitive mappool with only free maps
4) lan support + more locations
5) gtv + ingame voip for casters
6) more support, and more tournaments (i.e. ql @ wcg, eswc, mlg, to keep staying in IEM and don't lose EPS)
7) remove CA
8) remove spawnprotection and cycle map on duel servers
9) a located system to broadcast info&news about regional tournaments and stuff like that, to help each community to grow up competitively and stop playing randomly

You did good until 7, are you retarded?
CA is probably the mode that is played most, and is most noob friendly with sit n go value to drag casuals into the game.
If you dont like it play something else.

I don't like it, I don't play it
I blame it for being the main cause this game is dying

tdm died because of it
noobs get easy into it, but they stick to it and don't play anything else, just random playing shit
we are plenty of players out there playing CA, but this game is dying
imagine all these players in duel or tdm or ctf

there was a time you could see 6-7 full tdm servers on the browser, then CA happened, and noobs stupidity, now you can play a large clanarena on ztn at anytime, but it's almost impossible to find a decent public tdm server

CA is noobfriendly, but it doesn't really make you improve, I'v seen people from ca playing only with rocket in duel, not being able to strafe, after months of ca

CA is DEATH

it won't be removed but w\e...

RA3/CA has always had the majority of players in quake, removing it would not make them play vanilla.

lol, so you think all the noobs will go play TDM/duel if they didn't have CA? Ca is hardly the reason why TDM isn't popular, i mean not even the old veterans are playing it...

would have yea
otherwise there's no explanation why public tdm died just after CA mod was implemented
vet do play it, just not in public, and maybe they are some different reason to don't like this tdm
while noobs just have "omg i have a -40 net, this game sux, i don't kill anybody, FFFFUUUU" while in CA u can almost always frag someone by spam or by steal frags to mates
nowadays an average CA player quits a tdm match after less than 5-7 mins

so you are implying the former tdm players made the choice to change to ca and stayed there?


In which case, it seems like they enjoy it more. Who are you to demand that they may not play what they want to play?

i'm not talking about midskill or above players, but newbyes and lowskill
former tdm players probably kept playing tdm, but the total amount of players that used to play tdm to learn the game, just switched to CA and stayed there because they were better there

imho

yes, so?
You are saying pretty much the same thing that I am saying. Former tdm players to ca and stayed there, because they quite obviously enjoyed it more.


I mean, do you really want to tell me newbies and lowskill players should not be allowed to play their preferred gamemode because you want your cannon fodder?

there used to be a ton of active pub tdm servers when the weapon spawning was 5 or 10 seconds

w/o CA they would have just quit instead of playing harder game modes. Some of them might get into other modes eventually. game is dead without CA, and it actually needs more noob friendly modes.

sad but true ; )

No they can just play FFA like everyone else did when they were newbs back in the day

I have not played over 20 FFA matches in the last ten years.

So your wrong, FFA is the mode of poisen imo :(

You aint a newb tho :) but u did play it when you were one!! i joined my first clan playing with people on a FFA server whos asked me to join, but unlike clans formed on CA servers clans who formed on ffa servers went on to play TDM while now days you get CA clans

no, I played duel/tdm weekly at lans until it got my internet back in late 2000, where I played duel, tdm and ra3 :P

FFA is so stupidly random, even measured against ra3/CA :/

FFA!!

remove CA = QL dies

Every game needs a newbie friendly gametype to introduce people to the game.

FFA

#1: ladder
#2: fix bugs
#3: extend site features ("addon like" server browser and demo player, better clan support, etc...)
#4: integrate the e-sports side of quake into ql.com with a schedule, featured articles/movies and streams
#5: keep the steady flow of maps

this

- bug fixes, also get basic elements of the game finalized or at least close to it. The sound still blows and the netcode is still flaky (which you guys admitted at Qcon I believe).

- advertising? Where is this "PR machine" that was mentioned in the past?

- tourney system on quakelive.com. It would be free to signup/play for prem/pro users, standard users would pay a small, one-time fee for that tourney (small enough to make it attractive, big enough to make it worthwhile for id). During the period of the tourney, standard users that signed up would have access to all prem/pro content on designated tourney servers. Would be nice to have it for all or at least a few gametypes and if possible, different skill levels so lower level people could compete and get into the game (in general) more.

- a way to challenge another player or clan. A clan leader/creator can challenge another leader/creator, or one user can challenge another via a button from their profile. Maybe even have a page on the site that shows all current or upcoming challenges so people could view matches they'd like to see.

- more USEFUL features in general that make things easier or at least more enjoyable integrated into the site. By that, things like a proper demo player, visual hud generator (very nice namad), gtv, streams, etc, etc.

- proper 1v1, 2v2 CA queue system.

- some of the options when spawning a server are nice. But the last I remember there's still nothing regarding initial hp/ar, falling damage on/off, armor damage on/off. Then again my other account keeps getting screwed with, so it's been a while since I viewed those options.

Edit:

- wider SG spread please. Hopefully it would cut down on the ridiculous amount of damage it can do at longer ranges.

1.gtv
2.gtv
3.gtv
4.gtv
5.gtv

1) The ability to browse servers whilst being on a server already..

+ the ability to change clantag while ingame

Same as when it came out: FUCKING NEW GOOD TDM MAPS. :)

ping 5
zero4
zero4
BJB-cypher 20-0
jamerio-noctis 30-1 =p
...

lol.

- More server locations and more stable server providers. Especially need Scandinavian servers, southern/middle Sweden would be a good choice. Those living in the northern parts of Scandinavia get pretty bad pings to mainland Europe and there are many Scandinavian teams and players that would benefit from this.

- Ladders/tourney system for the Quake Live site. I dunno, come up with something. :p

- Where necessary, rethink the premium/pro system. I don't dislike it, but it has some flaws. Freezetag and freezerail are great newbie gametypes, and are much appreciated by most casual players, but the majority of premium/pro players aren't interested and it's pretty dead in its current state. Just make it free. If you id guys want to further entice people to subscribe to premium/pro, keep adding content like you do but think about what you can add that would also benefit you on standard servers. Premium scoreboards for example is just a start.

- Advertise the damn game. The game has been alive only by word of mouth since the open beta launch, it needs a push.

- Much better built in demo watching tools, and while you're at it, add some more sophisticated movie making tools too. Free camming, wav dumping etc...

1) Ladders, tourneys, cups and leagues, available and accessible on-site.
2) Advertising.
3) Integrated IRC client.
4) Integrated voice comm.
5) Better engine optimization.

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6) Ability to change nickname (separate account name from in-game name).
7) GTV.
8) More gametypes (i'd love some TF-like shit a'la Weapons Factory).
9) MVD.
10) More interaction with the community.

3) Integrated IRC client.

jebus howd we miss this. ++++

1.Ladders motherfucker
2. Ability to play/setup lan without any hassles
3. Capturestrike for premium / Defrag + tribes style jetpack mode for free
4. Chat system for newbs to ask questions (like irc but built into site)
5. MARKETING to get new players

1.Implement GTV.
2.Fix FPS drops, and sound issues.
3.Better demo playback support.
4.Make premium maps available to free users.
5.LAN support.

+1.Implement Militia into Quake Live.

1. Ladders
2. In game overlay with chat/joining/server browser etc.
3. Community casting/tournaments integrated on the site
4. VOIP
5. Better lan support

1. Increase maxfps to 500. 125 fps causes negative accel on fast movements, or it feels like that. I always overshot 180 flip turns switching from ql to quake with 500fps. 500 fps will make everything more responsive and it goes well with 500hz mouse. Flick shots are better with more fps. Also one can make full use off crt monitors, 35 hz increase is smoother (160hz instead off 125)

2. Greyscale simpleitems! it would be so nice. I hate all the colors in ql and the simpleitems are the worst , especially the green armor shards and railgun icon. The shapes are all different and if they are not, like the health icons, 50 health could be darker than 25 etc.

3. Enemymodels/skins without any textures, just hole model is all the same green color, a silhuett realy.

4. Enemymodels Without ANY animations, whole model is static, no walking or strafing with legs or other parts off the body moving. Will be a more truthful representation off the hitbox.

5. Double the armor value in tdm, ra gives 200 etc, and make quad do 4x damage in tdm again (and ctf maybe)


Pluss a bunch off other stuff, like, i realy hate the pummel, i always have this habit from other games to close up on enemy with some weapons (like shotgun to maximize damage) but then u always get hit with like 3X pummel hits. Also that damn weapon feels so fucking random. Plasma is shit too, sg do too much damage, and the bfg should never been in the game from the beginning.
Pummel must be one off the lamest weapon in all fps history. Why didnt they keep the axe from q1? At least one had to time the hit, it didnt do fucking 50 damage on the slightest touch.

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Gotta love silent letters ;)

what's the max value of com_maxfps now?

also it just can't be 500 unless id fixed or fixes jump height issues with that value and others such as 250 and 333

125fps. And iirc, the jumpheight is hardcoded at a certain value ( either 125 or 85, can't remember ).

jumpheight is fixed, yes, but I remember there were other issues with 333 fps. I wonder if those are fixed, too.

yeah sure, we desperately need to calculate more than 3 times as much frame than a 160hz screen could display, drop 2/3rd of them cause the monitor can't refresh that fast + drop 20 of them completely out of sync/get half images, whatever side effect would finish to ruin your whole retarded point
Second time I've heard that bullshit ( high freq / whatever the fuck out of sync massive fps count ) in a week.

inbef4 osper whine.

You are fucking stupid, Even if screen can't go higer than 160hz having 500fps compared to 125 will decrese max videolagg from 8ms to 2ms. Also having higher fps than monitor display reduces tearing a lot.
one can cap it to 480fps to sync with 160hz and it will also sync with server framrate thats 40fps. If fps wasnt capped i would sett it to 320 or 480 fps. Now with 125fps it doesnt sync well with 40 server fps.

Why dont you play with 60 fps if you dont think it its important. Everyone set it to 125 fps for a reason, its the smoothest.
Do you think 125 fps is some magical value where it stops beeing smoother and more fps doesnt matter?

Its just fucking retarded being beeing against more fps, it wont change the gameplay and noone will whine if they removed the cap. It will only make the game more crisp, smoother and more responsive, why the fuck be against that.

rofl i can't imagine what kind of a monster rig you'd need to be able to make ql have stable 500 fps, if semi-modern rigs struggle with 125 on vertex 0.

you just proved you don't have a clue about your whole point.
I'm not agains't the ability to pump out more fps, I'm against giving this ability to retards like you who don't understand what they'll be fiddling with cause I'll have to fix their shit on irc later on.

your requests are totally retarted and selfish

There are so many better things to ask for ... probably few thousands

I dont see how its selfish. What so retarded with better skins and models? Quake its about the battle not looking at fancy player animations. And why is greyscale simpleitems retarted or selfish?

I realy would like gtv, ladders and making premium maps available for everyone (maybe make premum subcriber have some months with the map first then make them available to all so the subscriber dont get angry for paying for nothing) but thats mentioned 50 times here already

1) CPMA
2) CPMA
3) CPMA
4) CPMA
5) CPMA

hi m8t, i think that game already exist! it called cpma i will show u a link!!! http://www.promode.org/ hear u go m8t

Righteous!!! He should buy you a bear in return!!

Is that meightt or matet?

old / bigger hitboxes

^

This would be great....

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buff lg to 8 damage
reduce rail to 50 damage/remove it

wrong account strenx?

1. Ladders
2. Advertising(so ppl know the game exists)
3. Maps free for everyone
4. rewindable demos + command to save audio from demo
5. Lan servers for prem/pro
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6. replace LG simple icon with cpma one.
7. browserless launcher

i'd like to see more new players that don't just play ca and whine

THIS

1) older movement (no chain jumping, pmove_StepHeight 18)
2) better hit detection on high ping (70-90)
3) Q3 ammo system
4) Q3 spawn system
5) remove spawn protection

6) option to remove in game friend chat

2, 4, 5 for me :)

whats so wrong whit the new movement? why is everyone so afraid of something new and fresh?

I don't understand how you can call it "fresh". The new movement has very little effect on the game strategically.

Judging from the duel map pool, imo the only nice thing that chain jumping did to the game was allow you to double jump to the PG on hektik. (And this isn't even used much) But if id just lowered that ledge a tiny bit you would be able to jump to it with the old movement to.

One annoyance I have is the way people exit teles now. Sometimes on t7 / furious heights when your waiting on the upper floor with RG to shoot someone after they exit the MH tele you miss because the second they appear they jump like 15 feet high, and you end up shooting a rail below their feet. If someone runs into a trap there should be a high probability that they will be punished for it. There is no way they should be able to jump over your crosshair, especially if they didn't even know you were there in the first place.

The new teleporter behavior can also cause problems with map geometry. On dm13 / lost world, if you chain jump out of the RA portal you will get stuck on the ceiling. If you crouch in mid air you can avoid this, but I would prefer being able to jump out smoothly without needing to dodge the ceiling every time, as it was with the old movement.

In some cases chain jumping can also make it easier to over jump things. On dm13 when you do the stair jump from plasma YA to the middle area, there is a slight increase in speed since you are jumping onto steps. Even on the older movement you could over jump this, so the increase in speed is definitely not a good idea.

As for the step height change, some jumps are to easy now, you can jump onto some things that you should not be able to, and the movement even looks / feels bugged when you are pulled onto a ledge after doing a jump that you would of missed with the old movement.

I support the general concept of quake live. Making the game more accessible, and providing skill matching and tutorials is a great way to help expand the games audience. But please id software, don't try to take away from the games learning curve to help new players. Many new players enjoy learning the various skills involved with quake, and the ones that don't are better off playing a different game.

well its fresh for Vanilla Q3.
well yeah the current maps was not made whit chain jumping in mind but the general concept is good imho.
i can't see how it lower the skill gap, more likely the opposite of they made/edit the maps whit CJ in mind.
i think this could add some more depth to movement which in my mind doesn't play a huge role anymore (except for in fight dodging ofc) and i just feel that Q3 players in general have always been afraid of some change.

Chain jumping doesn't effect the skill gap. I was talking about the step height change at the end of my post. Pretty much all chain jumping does, other than cause problems, is allow you to jump up steps faster. The movement speed and jump height while on a flat surface or going down steps is the same.

Chain jumps feel too random, they just need to get double jumps working

ur entire post comes down to "i dont like it".

What did you expect it to come down to?

the main reason for adding chain/ramp jumps is to stress movement skill and widen the gaps there and to address the issue of making the game support aggressiveness a bit more. u didnt really address that at all. things like tele exits arent that big of a deal. people will get used to them.

i do agree that the ledge detection feels buggy at times. im not sure how the way its done in ql differs from the way its done in cpma for instance but needless to say cpmas method feels way smoother. i sort of wonder if it has something to do with the smoothing fix they did for stairs a while back but not sure.

but overall i would rather have a faster movement system which allows for creative jumps while at the same time requiring you to actually have to work to get those jumps right, than a stagnant base vq3 movement system.

ps: this really shouldnt need to be said but i can give u a lot of examples of cases where chain jumps make gameplay more interesting as opposed to the bugs u pointed out. since u seem to only duel think of how much faster stairs are on ztn for instance, where u can chase a +backer through the stair tunnel near ya/rl to the gl with chain/ramp jumps or on dm13 near pg/shards where u can make a chain of 3 jumps to the 50 bubble.

the one other note i would make tho is that altho ramp jumps are now possible nobody so far as ive seen has used it in any games, mostly because of the buggy interaction between ramp jumps and chain jumps on stairs which results in ridiculous velocity gain on stairs with double jumps. i seriously wish id would either fix this or remove ramp jump or come with some sort of rampjump scale value so we can standardize the physics and move on. having uncertainty about a basic game element such as movement is unacceptable. its stupid to design maps and then have elements of the map design break because of physics changes later on.

the main reason for adding chain/ramp jumps is to stress movement skill

QL does not have ramp jumps.

to address the issue of making the game support aggressiveness a bit more.

The fact you think the game should support aggressiveness more is just your opinion, it's not necessary an "issue". I'm not so sure that has anything to do with why id added chain jumping either.

i do agree that the ledge detection feels buggy at times. im not sure how the way its done in ql differs from the way its done in cpma for instance but needless to say cpmas method feels way smoother.

It's because of the step height change. Step height used to be set to 18, now it's at 22. The higher the step height the easier jumps, and the higher the pull. The lower the step height the more difficult the jumps, and the lower the pull. You can load a practice game, and experiment with the pmove_stepheight command.

I'm guessing cpma vq3 uses step height 18 (which is one thing I listed in my post) since as far as I know that was originally the default in quake live.

it does have ramp jumps. its an option on pro servers. as for what id's intentions were for adding chain/ramp jumps - what else do u think it was? maybe i stated it in a weird way but quite clearly their intention was to make movement faster/smoother.

and no, the issue with ledge detection has nothing to do with the step height. its got to do with the way ql detects edges and puts you over them if theyre at a certain threshold.

Okay, I forgot about the ramp jump setting. Ramp jumping is off by default though, and I have yet to play on a single server that has it on.

id probably added chain jumping because they wanted to add a new feature to the movement that was easy for everyone to use. I don't think they added it to make the game more +forward, and if that is why, it was not a very effective way to do it.

and no, the issue with ledge detection has nothing to do with the step height. its got to do with the way ql detects edges and puts you over them if theyre at a certain threshold.

What you described is exactly what step height has an effect on.

u think chain/double jumping is easy? lol u havent put too much thought into it evidently.

and no it isnt step height, its hard to explain, but it has to do with when the game detects an edge while ur in vertical motion and what it does with that info. ql somehow artificially pops u up above the ledge, so theres a slight delay when u hit the edge and then ur above it. its very similar to corner hugging. cpma is very different, its smooth, theres no freezing and then hitching up to a different height.

change stepheight in a local game and paly around with it and ull see what i mean.

1 - GTV w/ Caster support so all can hear (mutable)
2 - Easier demo player
3 - Ladder

No point in advertising TBH.
Everyone now just plays on consoles and base how good a game is on it's graphics or how new it is, most console gamers now just want to be told they're amazing straight away by doing nothing and you aren't exactly going to get that from Quakelive what requires skill when you're playing against others playing serious unlike CoD on a console were you're playing against 15+ players and more than likely the majority of them are just playing for the lols.

it could be a start to lets say get the game on steam, you get some PR automatically

their would only be a small increase for the duration of the advertising but will die again after the adverts have been taken down, it might only get a tiny bit more public CTF players and thats it.
Everyone that wants to play Quake is.
IMO

An awesome utility to amend your config, it's a pain atm. An extra would be the ability to try other peoples graphic settings keeping own binds etc. Like you join a server and pick someone and boom you get there graphics.

netcode improvement or change not keen on it at all. if it goes in thats when i go premium or whatever it is.

I quite like the idea of integrated voice be fun to talk shit on pubs.

+old hitboxes or hitbox improvement

defrag is awesome aswell, mind pg is totally fucked you can pretty much go where you want in its current state, you just stick to the wall.

would be nice to make the pg a useful gun again.

remove clan arena, add capturestrike

maps from previous quake games

aircontrol pmove command for pro users

edit: lan obviously

1. LAN servers
2. ladders
3. improve demo playback
4. GTV support
5. bomb & defuse from warsow, it would rock so hard!!!

5. umad?

I think it's too late for Quake Live.

1. Sound/Server Crash/Config fixes.
2. Mentor System. (Add disciple/mentor tab to the site, where new players register as students and experienced players can opt to register as mentors.Veterans have more to offer newbs than the ridiculous tutorials.)
3. Instructional Demos. (Easy access to view instructional demos on the main site, like how to strafe, or high level duels, or a demo with commentary explaining items, timings, etc. These can be approved by mods or something, so there aren't stupid spam demos of people railing newbs 100 times and thinking they are pro. I'm sure the mods are itching for something to do.)
4. PR/Advertising.
5. Integrated Tournament Coverage.

Edit: It is too late for Quake Live.

that mentor thing sounds like fun

Sif trolls wouldn't sign up as mentors and just laugh hard at newbs...

maybe they could have a "rate your mentor" feature, where people are banned from being mentor after so many ratings.

Sure the newbie still has to find out that "dm6 is all shaft" isn't the best piece of advice before giving a bad rating, but I believe there is a good chance that a mentoring system is helpful.

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yes.

Where is the downside?

Yeah, I'd really love to see most all these things implemented. And like to think they would bring people in and help keep people around. But to be honest, the majority of these features should've been in the game a year or even longer ago. Or at the very least development starting on them. At this point, if any of these larger features are implemented, it'll probably be months if not longer before the kinks and whatnot are worked out. So I ain't holding my breath for any of this stuff.

I don't know, like I said in another thread, it seems like the people working on this have no direction at all. They admit there's ongoing problem(s) with the netcode or they're not satisfied with it, what do they do? Give us chain/double jumps and some other physics tweaks. My beef with the physics changes is they haven't really done anything as far as advancing gameplay.

Yeah, I've seen the 1 or 2 vids out with these nifty jumps on various maps. But based on what I've seen playing daily and the tourneys I've watched, nothing has changed for the most part. So they spent that time doing stuff with the physics when it could've been put towards something else that would have hopefully an (positive) impact on the game. And this instance isn't the only time it's happened.

Then again, it might not seem so random if they threw a little info our way on a consistent basis.

honestly who would want to do that mentor shit for free? people play games for fun, not to give lessons to complete strangers. other than trough playing them of course.

I'm opening a Quake dojo. Drop by for some training.

hey you better drop that shit or I'll challenge you to an FFA duel.

They took away the holiday maps, right? That means you lost your chance. I retired as the best FFA The Edge player of all time.

damn

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I'd like to see the quitlag removed, seems like the game started hanging for 5-10secs a few updates ago when quitting.

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yea, it's was all in the package. but i think it's better now?

A development team that actually cares what u all wrote here.

id, sync, write to all PC review sites and suggest to include quakelive in lower end hardware (notebook, igp, dedicated gpu, ulv processors, barebone/home media gpus) benchmarks

with a note that only a solid minimum framerate of 125 is enough for high quality competitive play etc...

1- turkish servers

the other 4 don't matter. I'll subscribe once #1 has been done.

Dunpeal can play on EU servers without too much hassle.

you asked him if he really plays with too much hassle? I play with him alot...

technically I don't play with too much hassle either then if you wanna compare, but I do know I NEVER played ql below 65 ping (and that's once in a blue moon, and the routing gods favor me) and I would like to have atleast the option of having been able to play it.

No, I did not ask him. But he seems fine and never complains, afaik. :)

as do I when I play, complaining won't help us since that ping is the lowest available.

Heck, we are actually "content" when we don't get screwed over by routing which can sometimes happen and we get our 65-80 ping :)

but neither of us will get prem or pro until we get our turkish servers, this I know.

Dunno. The turkish scene is rather small, innit? I just know a handful of players lurking on ESR...

Before ql the quake community was completely dead and only a handful of players still tried to play quake (q3 vq3 and cpm, and some q2 players which was more active). With the start of ql though, some of the old players re-emerged and surprisingly newbies emerged too. it is small compared to gernany, sweden, or russia of course.

The problem is that none of these players have a "home", there are no turkish community websites anymore and because there are no turkish servers everybody is scattered around. I usually spot alot of unknown new players playing ca/ffa whatever after I see their flag in the match reports (80% of the time they really ARE turkish too, they speak the language when talked to and their ping match)

anyways long story short, currently there are alot more new turkish players but they are scattered around. I have no way of saying exactly how much because of this but I THINK they would warrant a server, especially considering we have chinese servers etc that are most of the time completely empty.

0. Fuckin' start promoting this fuckin' game already

1. More colours for names and clantags
2. Ladders, etc
3. Demo player with proper seek bar and other usual playback controls
4. More server locations
5. Tourney system built-in into QL website. I.e. admins enter participants list, select tourney system, fill in groups/brackets and the rest is done by QL.
6. Automatic server-side MVD demo recording (and permanent storage for all major tourneys)
7. Yeah, GTV

considering all the trouble they have had with their systems I would be scared of bringing in server-side demo recording and storage :x

- Lower MG damage.
- Lower SG damage (or larger spread).
- Show multiple chat lines at once (without using +chat) (1 line is useless for team communication).
- Useful team chat tokens (such as item thats under x-hair).
- Improved sound system.
- Demo management/playback via QL.com.
- Visual HUD or similar built into QL.com.
- Ladders.
- Advertise QL.
- BattleSuit back to old no splash dmg.
- Option to hide friend on/offline & buddy chat msgs (for Movie making etc).
- Mapping SDK.

- Lower SG damage (or larger spread).

slightly larger non random spread would be the best fix for sg imho

- Improved sound system.

in my top 5 ql sound is part of "fix bugs" ;)

Duel should definetly not have lower MG damage, perhaps TDM would need it.

Yes, sorry, I only play TDM. I've no idea about it for duel.

the ammount of mg ammo, even while hitting 40% mg is barely enough to kill a freshly spawned player, lowering the damage could help but they would need to increase the ammo, in fact they need to increase the ammo by 20% regardless if u ask me...

Something similar to Invasion from UT would actually breathe some life into this game. All the currently included gametypes fucking suck, duel included.

They'd have to create some new bots/maps (Outside and aliens and that) for it to work properly, but that would be awesome.

Invasion indeed was quite enjoyable mod.

this
also: jailbreak!!! best

Most important imo is:

- Ladders
- Streams and stuff included on the site
- Add our new TDM Map! ;D
- Fix known bugs asap and not after a month... so annoying
- and Freezetag should be a free game mode

Slower rockets

I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T THINK OF IT SOONER! I KNOW HOW TO SAVE QUAKE LIVE! THE ONE THING IT LACKS!




BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

didnt they remove the grrl model or something because of boobies?

They also took out sarges cig. :<

Gameplay:
Raise shaft fire rate
Wider spread on SG and MG
90 damage rail, longer reload time (1500->2000)
Remove unlagged netcode

Other:
Option to turn friend system on/off
Demo/"Replays" system
Visualhud on ingame menu
Fix quitlag bug

Why does everyone want the MG to get nerfed even more???

anti-cess

spawn weapon should not be that strong. this is a significant issue in tdm.

Hello?! Are you all in the wrong movie??? The MG as it is right now is too weak and as a starter weapon you should be equipped with something to defend yourself upon respawn. And MG also isn't the finisher it used to be, now you just switch to SG and it will do the trick for you.

PS: toxjq himself said that it should be stronger...

if it was me id put pummel as respawn weapon. spawn raping all the way! you fucked up and you died. you respawn and you should not be able to have any advantage. bigger mg spread might be fairest solution.

This game is already one sided. And therefore I love CPMA and OSP, because of the several ways you could take back control and win a game.

aka ffa cess

Also in FFA you have to defend yourself off the start, with your starterweapon, namely MG. And you need to do so until you get hold of one of the pickupweapons.

So, if everyone starts/respawns with MG, than there will be alot of people running around with this weapon of course. What so curious about it? And for TDM it's almost the same, with players not being able to grab themselves a pickupweapon, because of lacking skill or the increased weapon respawn time.

so you agree that it makes TDM more like FFA, k

the mg is already overpowered in ffa, if you can aim that is.

please stop :/ you're wrong (or rather: you want something completely different than what most people with some skill do).

as mentioned above, while damage might be reasonable - its already nerf to fk in tdm by the spread and ultra limited ammo on spawn

lol

hoho

you spawn with what, 50 ammo, even with q3's 5 damage per bullet, thats only 250 damage... fresh spawners have 120 health as it is...

this means you need to be hitting best part of 40% mg with full ammo to kill anyone with even 100 health... yeh its more than achievable but hardly an easy feat considering the spread, and general aim required.

imho it should be impossible to begin with, even 2 spawners shouldnt be able to kill someone with a stack

make the hitbox smaller and it will be impossible <3

i suggest that its about right as is, normally you managed to kill a player 1v1 in a mg fight (think first spawns on a game) with a few bullets to spare..

half the maps from experience, its not uncommon for at least a few players to have not picked up a weapon off spawns, so you end up with a couple of peeps, with 2 bullets in the mg trying to gauntlet each other at quad : x

a russian soldier form the 40 using the timemachine would eyeball you like hell if he'd 'hear' this discussion =p

if you are unable to kill a freshly spawned player with mg you lack some very basic aim skills and _really_ shouldn't comment on the issue any further.

yeah... seriously.

did you even read what i wrote - care to share any games with us where you average over 40% mg during the 20 min tdm?

I said yes it happens, but i also gave you figures which are pretty obvious to follow, my aims fine but its not often you see 40% mg in tdm, share with us your remarkable ability.

Machinegun 5,357 43% 8%

over 1000+ tdm games, so yeah i do that.

rubbish
zealots use those cute little blades when they fight

imagine zealots with marine-assault rifles, 2-gate zealot rush would be so much more effective :>

abomination!

worst request until now

and you forgot one:
- All players should play with handicap 80 vs diabz

nub troll

what do you mean turn friend system on/off?
you can turn of the messages your recieve when friends log on/join the game if thats what you want.

When they come online / go offline and the messaging system.

1.) old hit boxes
2.) 8-8-8 lg
3.) 100 rail

Only then will I be able to crush the skilless +backers who defend all the time.

hehe, you have other topic about it :)

1.) old hit boxes

Why should id restore the old hitboxes again? This has been their solution for the "hitboxes limping behind", so you could hit around walls. This was way easier for them than fixing there rubbish netcode.

I know you want to be sarcastic and all, but you do realize that if you have a hitbox that is bigger than the model getting rid of hitting around walls is quite difficult, don't you?

I'm not being sarcastic at all.

Could we agree on the fact, that there has been an issue with the hitbox limping behind at a given player speed, where the playermodel was pushing against one border of the hitbox and the rest of the box was behind the playermodel?

Well, and id attempted to solve this by scaling the hitboxes down, so there is nothing limping behind anymore, because of the reduced size. But instead they should have fixed their crappy netcode.

Can you link me to a statement from id software that that was their intention when making the hitboxes circular instead of rectangular?

By now you should know that there are rarely statements by id software. Sorry, I can't help you out here.

But it's more than clear to me, that it's a fact. QL had an issue with the hitboxes and without coming up with another solution, they just reduced the hitboxes and nothing else has been done about that issue since then.

PS: Apparently I've found something that comes close to your requested statement.

Here (by Sync):

We chose not to update QUAKE LIVE this week in order to continue testing our update build a bit more with the private testing group. The main change being tested is a new method for detecting how/when hits to you or enemies are registered.
These experimental “hitbox” changes have been requested by many players for quite a while and have been in private testing for an extended period of time, but we wanted to get another week of testing in before rolling them out to everyone next Tuesday.

The changes are subtle, and many likely won’t notice a major difference, but this should help reduce occurrences where you actually miss an enemies body with a shot, but actually register a hit (because the “hitbox” is larger than the body itself). Our new hitboxes more closely match the size of a player’s body.

If you are a member of our private testing group, but have not participated recently, we’d like to encourage you to jump in and help us wrap up the testing of these changes.

Nope, you are just reading stuff into it.

I mean seriously, trying to solve a problem with a lagging hitbox by making it cylindrical would be simply moronic. It would still lag, and when the view is parallel to the mapping directions, would have the exact same effect.

So no, neither your assumption or your interpretation of a text is enough to convince that id intended to solve an issue with lagging hitboxes by making them cylindrical.


/e

especially since sync writes The changes are subtle.
I mean, how subtle do you think a hitbox reduction by an average 28(?) percent is?

How come your always trying to defend id, when someone is arguing against them? x_X

And I don't think, that I've read that much into it.
There was this particular issue with the lagging hitboxes and id software responded to it in that way: Sizing down the hitboxes, make them cylindrical and more fitting to the actual playermodel.

It has nothing to do with either assumption or interpretation of a text. It's plainly what id software did.

When Sync said the changes were just subtle, he just lied.

The hitbox changes alone weren't id's solution to the problem(s). From what I recall there were a number of changes made (some slight, some not in the case of hitboxes) to reduce issues people were having at the time (and some might say, still are).

I only defend them when I think the accusations are made up or make no sense (or, as in this case, I first want to make sure there is actual evidence to go with)

There is lots of stuff where id did a bad job with ql and for which they are and should be criticized.
So let me ask you in return, why do people feel the need to dilute the value of that reasonable criticism with assumed and made up points?

It has nothing to do with either assumption or interpretation of a text. It's plainly what id software did.

When Sync said the changes were just subtle, he just lied.

That pretty much sums up the validity of your points.
If part of a statement can be interpreted to back your assumption is must be true and if a different part of the same statement counters your point it must be a lie.

The new hitboxes reward better aiming and dodging.

I do not deny that,but I already hit very very high accuracies, but with those settings I would hit such high accuracies that 99% of people would not be able to stop me. It would be, be aggressive or go home.

but they'd be hitting better accuracies, as well.
And there is a good chance that their relative increase will be higher than yours.

...naaahhh.

UNPOSSIBLE!!!!

They may reward good dodging but at a good level they actually only reward completely crazy aimers. Good aimers will hit ( off the top of my head ) 5-6% less than on old hitboxes while crazy bots will hit 2% less.
Old hitboxes would scale this a bit, and would be balanced with 7dmg lg.

tl;dr : noctis ( but I think he's right )

"At a good level", and who are you?

A terrible player who wins his matches against terrible players only due to his ability to hit 35% lg on pretty much every random pubber.

Doesn't mean I can't watch a ton of top players matches and analyse wtf is going on.

It does.

90 dmg rail and faster shaft sure means something too then.

Yep, and explaining it for you isn't at the top of my list.

"nice aggressive skills" (some1 to me when I was in shape)

ut2k4 live :V

1.) gtv
2.) fix shotgun
3.) fix sound
4.) more TDM maps
5.) i really hate the scrolling spec list

1. Ladders

Also improve duel skill rating:
- Don't count scores, but just win/lose
- Less sensitive. As it is now, 2 good wins or bad loses are enought to catapult your skillrating up or down (sometimes 1 is also enought).

1. lan support
2. free ft
3. news feed of tournaments and live results

-CPM gameplay
-maybe some other mods like defrag etc
-CPMA's netcode or something just as good (and/or hitbox fix)
-a proper demo viewer
-lan support

(and ut2k4 live omfg yesssssss)

random spawning items (+10/-10 sec)
remove rail
beef up rl (125) and lg (10-10-10)
cpm movement
if +b is pressed = -100 hp.
standing in one spot for more then 1 sec = -100hp
remove gay friend system, and implement something from this millennium.
remove all maps created earlier then 2008.

better native server browser

MVD
DEFRAG
FIXES
MAPS

servers round the middle east especially arab gulf servers

fixed anti lag and netcode

rebalanced LG (up damage and lagged with a different slower fire rate and maybe slow posiotion updating) maybe

maps used in competitions to be available to free users for zotac and such maybe for 2-3 days a week at least or until they are dropped from competitions

random spawn system

lower reload time to 1250 or 1300 or 85 dmg rail

slow rockets down to 930 UPS PLEASE with a cherry on top

LAN support

fixed map sensitivity crap

fix the sound and update it (Open al) 44khz

Dont know how this would work.

MG - 6 dmg slightly slower fire rate
LG - 6 or 7 dmg but higher fire rate
RG - 90 dmg but slower reload
RL - slower rocket speed
PG - More lift on hits, to see more impressive jumps or wall climbs with it.

PG - More lift on hits, to see more impressive jumps or wall climbs with it.

It's not strong enough already? http://www.own3d.tv/video/29222/If_You_Wanna_Trick

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I can do the plasma climb on ZTN if my opponent gives me 7 attempts (avg.) at it. I'm so inconsistent at the fucker, that in a situation where I have no rockets but have plasma and time to climb, I'm more likely to grenade jump then attempt to plasma climb it :[

What about practicing it then?

Effort

I just don't understand why you 'whine' about something you just could practice. Whining about something you can't do anything about, like crappy QL server locations or your favourite weapon being too weak, makes sense to some degree, but whining about a something you could easily learn is just retarded. :)

I did like 20 minutes practice and I can do it most of the time. Just get a system in place and then do it every time.

hats
role based teamplay
leveling up
micro transactions
hats

anticheat...

i came across several players that knew were i was the whole time... and yes i had played them before and they lost hard... funny thing is that they joined a server i was on.. (there! now you cant flame me for playing nubs! :P)

A ''You've been raped by ESR'' voice taunt

Or Death messages as ''Squashed by LIAM''

What QL needs...

1. Bring back Q3's RL. Rockets are way too fast in QL, removing prediction skill and making it a dream for +back style. It's the #1 reason that +back dominates in QL. RL should be a real 'close-range' weapon like it was in Q3.

2. Bring back Q3's MG (for duels). The MG is way too weak for duels in QL (first the lowered damage, then thin hitboxes so it got even weaker). You can have a weaker MG for TDM'ers, but give back Q3's MG for duel!

I agree with this.
Also a bigger hitbox could be fine (not as big as the old one though).

I would also like a lot more options for the pro-users while making server.

Like :
- ability to save a map-list for each gametype.
- ability to callvote a gametype in game (that's a pain to have to diconnect/close server/then do a new one)
- ability to choose the time limit.
- Choice of the percentage of the players thats should type F3 to ready up (all is too much for public games)
- Ability to put a motd

1. so true, rl is almost like rail in ql with that speed. Aim at the feet?? ... lol, just go for full hits, or u will lose vs good players.

0) Remove the hitsound. x-D

Why does everyone want to have a bigger hitbox o_O?
You should be rewarded to have a better aim, it's still a ->fps<-.

Cus I see my fucking shot rail going through the enemy's body sometimes :(

in before lag. 24ms.

Well, that's beeing fixed within the next update. I wouldn't want the hitboxes to change again.

what?

I want smaller hitboxes so I can abuse my aim even more. And dodge rails easier.

haha :p Are you one of the guys who are on the benificial end of the current situation? tell me the secret please

small hitbox reduces effienciensy of instahit guns with a long reload time.
So lg and rl will get a negative effect, but not as much as rail. And I'm pleased :>

yeah that would have been the case if they didn't make the LG stronger when they changed the hitbox, but since they did the LG is actually stronger now than it was before

Don't know if someone already stated but:

Fix the goddamn double loading when you double clicked a server.
proces:
- double click server
- game loads windowed mode 8secs
- game goes fullscreen 1 or 2 secs
- game loads fullscreen mode 8 secs
- enter game

e: I'm probably one of the few where it takes 8secs to load the game as my pc is old and shit

cant play crysis 2 with high detail on 1980x1080 on 1GZ and 512 memory?
BLAME THE GAMEDESIGNER, he obv cant make good game!

Lol, I just actually blamed my own pc for the long loading dude. The only thing which bothers me is that it first 'has' to load windowed mode and then goes to fullscreen and loads again.

learn2read thnx

how about ads?

that 15 second ad? Well yeah, it's annoying but i think it's fair to be hindered by that when you are not paying.

I really hope the PayPal ability comes soon!

Dunno if it's been already mentioned:

- When watching streams, you sometimes can get confused who you're following atm, since the enemy models are always green, no matter what POV. Why not implementing two enemy colours, as it's the case with Warsow. So one player is always white and the other one always green. (I can imagine a menu point for "Enemy 1/Team 1 - Colour: xxx" and "Enemy 2/Team 2 - Colour: yyy".)

- Freezetag is a lot of fun to play for me already. But apart from minor features I would add and tweak, what annoys me the most is the fact, that you can't spectate your team mates when you're down. I think intentionally it was thought of as a more realistic and fair method, like in CS: When you're dead – you're dead. But sometimes it's taking the fun off the game for me, when I have to sit and wait in my chilly corner, watching nothing but my team mates icons through the wall and listening to the sounds.

- The already mentioned ladders would be really cool for duel players. So that's the feature I would like to see as well.

- Also the "What's next?"-section on the site, informing us about the upcoming/on air live streams would be kick ass, even tho it would require more administration by id software/moderators. Better yet: Give trusted guys like lvl, Lo3 and such a special privilege to add and edit streams.

- How about adding visual damage points feedback for spectators? Like it's the case in many RPGs and MMOs. I can't think of a good way adding that feature without dishonest people using it to their advance (like, having a mate in Teamspeak and spectating the game). Apart from the potential misuse I like the idea.

the guy in teamspeak would have to watch health/armor as it is right now. dmg value wouldn't help him much.

I made a video how the visual damage feedback could look like. While I was at it, I had another idea of how an additional status bar for one's opponent could look like:

Here's a 30 seconds animation I did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DedViYPa6xI
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i would like those bars for enemy health/armor and weapons but the dmg numbers popping up, i dont know

Well, maybe it's not subtle enough, but I think spectators would benefit from it and somehow it add more sports feeling to the game, imo.

not part of the game to estimate opponents health, and bring a larger element of risk into it?

this all is about specs pov

oh, my bad :) I just watched the vid and thought otherwise. For stream/spec, I agree that could be a nice feature if implemented well; would choose MVD over it anyday though :(

Very nice! As an addition, for repeated damage (shaft, machinegun, or combos) it would make sense for the numbers to add up to a single one, so that it's easier to get the quantity.

Good idea!

Perhaps an adjustable Damage In Last x seconds, defaulting to 2 seconds? If set to more than 2 seconds perhaps differentiating by weapon.

Also, % hits in last x seconds so you could see the accuracy over the last skirmish.

An Enemy Overlay showing health, armour, wepon stack and last 2 items picked up.

Damage during the last few seconds and use two numbers : one above the ennemy for the last damage being dealt, and next to it, a + and the new damage.
Like, first rocket 80, second +30 and if there's a third one 110 + whatever.
for lg you'd just add up on the first number without caring about the + unless there are different bursts of lg or a combo ( not just a single burst of lg that would hit then miss then hit ).
Plasma would behave like other projectiles ( just clearing that up cause the rate of fire is pretty high )

If there's a long enough pause ( 3 seconds? ) or death and a x+y situation, it would simply have to become a red or whatever colour big sum.

i wish it would show this when i watch demos

inbe4 deafening whine on the ql forums when someone finds this post.

On-site map making.

Customised cfg/hud section where they could be uploaded and rated.

- be even more awesome
- move away from vienna (relocate)
- build a decent website around something that I like
- take exercising more seriously (+ nutrition)
- stop wasting time reading retarded 'flamewars' on ESR + stop commenting on them
- make another trip to asia (will be hard this year)

1) Anticheat
2) Anticheat what?
3) Anticheat guess what?
4) Anticheat not really?
5) Anticheat. maybe make the community grow up a bit
6) Anticheat.

5) Anticheat. maybe make the community grow up a bit

If you want to change anything, start with yourself.

1) LADDER SYSTEM (Hello starcraft 2)
2) GTV
3) instead of making a cg_grenadecolor change to the game, sit down with all the top players and come to some agreement of how to balance/fix the gameplay (including top players who dont play because they hate the game, like toxjq)
4) anticheat
5) Maps
6) Donate 100 euro from John Carmack's multi trillion bank account every month to a tournament for the top players in the ladder, give a REASON for people to play (well this ones just a dream :<)

1, LADDER SYSTEM!!! (see sc2). for 99% of the players its obvious they never will never have a chance in international tournaments, but this does not have to mean they sentenced to play the game uncompetitively. implement ladders with ELO system and tiers and give a reason to practice and come back to play one more match.

2, BEGINNER SERVERS. make servers where ppl unable to join with an older than 2-3 months account and also get kicked if their aim reaches like 30%. this way they will be able to enjoy the game while learning it not just get horribly owned at the first few occasions and uninstall it. (prime example is my friend who played exactly 10 mins on a vanilla account without any cfg in a tdm game before he stated the game is annoying and fucks him up rather than entertaining him, had a 0/30 frag difference and uninstalled)

3, DEMOVIEWER. its not the fucking stone age anymore, make it like a media player or something. me, who knows how to do it easily still not viewing demos because its a fucking pain. now imagine ppl who have no idea how to make a demo watchable.

4, MICROPAYMENTS. i dont care about all the shit advantages of having a premium/pro account, but id rather pay to play on 2-3 maps. why cant i just buy these maps separatedly for a one time fee? let me just buy each map for 2$ and allow my account to play on them instead of provide a lot more stuff for a monthly fee what i dont need.

5, SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY. it doesnt take much effort to get someone running a news section where developers congratulates to recent tournament winners, makes the casual player informed about upcoming events, providing links about where to watch streams, some fan stuff also for those who need it (like downloadable wallpapers, etc).

I remember id said they'd implement paypal in a more widespreed manner after qcon '10.... still waiting....

so this would be my #1
fix the horrible netcode
or make unlagged a server setting

decrease of ammo-amount in CA (LG / GL !)

or maybe implement "classes" like in w§w ca, would be a fun change i think

bleh...

1) ahxnxa
2) ahxnxa
3) ahxnxa
4) ahxnxa
5) ahxnxa

I don't have a certain to-do list, but more payment options (both payment method and length of contract) would be nice.

Nice might not be the proper term, I find urgent more suitable from my point of view.
Some players are willing to buy but don't have the option to do so, why would anyone want to cut down their potential customers, as far as my knowledge goes, from a supplier point of view, your endeavour is to reach the highest amount of customers, I'm bedazzled by the fact that id is taking 5 months to take care of a simple, minor thing like PayPal.

It's just beyond me why anyone would NOT want to introduce payment options, maybe in future even sms-payments if some countries allow, paysafe etc etc

The more the merrier, right?

I'd really like to know how hard can it be to set up a paypal account and get new subscribers.

Every extra payment system costs some money, potentially for each country. Since most people have credit cards, adding wierd assed payment methods like SMS so that 4 people can chose to pay with it instead of their credit card seems like a waste of money.

Except in the US and maybe UK I think most young people don't have credit cards.

You get VISA debit cards in the UK now so it's more a US problem I think

I've had a VISA debit card since I was 15... Most of my friends ~16. So I don't think the problem is in the US.

what I meant was that credit cards are common in UK and US, but not so much in other countries

'for' instead of 'in'

1 implement magic spell system, spells could be used by doing key combos of the movement keys and such (like I take your 100ish red coat right now!)
2 since mega comes every 1 minutes on courtyard and rail every 35 secs on ctf4, therefore grenadelauncher should come every 55 seconds on ironworks, and lg every 2 minutes on siberia
3 wider shotgunpellet spread, and 1.5 quadfactor, 2-5-1 lg, 45 hp/particle plasma
4 replace ranger doom grunt models with homer peter griffin and towel from southpark
5 implement decorations on maps, maps look very cheap and crude

remove privet pyle from devteam

i'd rather they started working on q3 again. That has more promise than this garbage game.

wtf, there's spawn protection in duel now?

It's always been on the standard servers. Not sure if it's enabled on premium public servers though.

christ... how many seconds after you spawn do you have this?

I believe it's 50% reduction in dmg for 1sec.

that's not too bad I guess.

Gotta hand it to id, just when you think they can't fuck up their own game any further they bring the fire once more.

It's fucking irritating. Say if you look for the plasma to rail kill on ZTN from the grenade launcher to the top right platform near the shotgun, they survive everytime (and it's not as if they're that much damaged either)

1. LAN Servers
2. LAN Servers
3. LAN Servers
4. Ladder
5. More Sitefeatures, to follow player/teams (stalking!)

RPG mod. You gain exp and level up after so much exp is accrued. You choose what class you want to start out as via weapon. Lightning gun heals with a stream of divine light flooding the target! Be a healer! Every time you level you get stat buffs, +1 permanent increase to armor or health or damage. Huge maps to accomodate up to 100 players! Quests! Factions! PVP! MOUNTS! GUILDS! GOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD! WORLD OF QUAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck yeah, i always wondered what would be pvp like in quake!

in no specific order

1. fix the netcode. i can go into a server with 10 ping and occasionally score hits on people that are so far around corners that they are in the next room already.

2. the sound is so broken sometimes it's ridiculous. yo whatup mysteriously silent bouncepads and dropped sounds if a couple people lg at the same time.

3. the payment system is moronic. i'll take monthly and buy it in a year bulk for the discount if i want it thanks.

It would be cool if you have stats, to have them at least synced and more insightful, more options to see what is going on with your game in data not just the feel you have.

For instance:
You want to compare periods of your play, because you've beeen praccying a lot with certain weapons. Or maybe tried to get you net more positive.

You could then do a chart compare a set of games with opponents average difficulty (skill level) and base your findings on that. Comapring their accuracy and yours in a match you guys played.

actually keeping stats for the whole duration of each account is retarted. It should be for the last say 100 games or so.

Also change leader boards from the hall of shame that it is now to something honourable. I mean if I ever see myself on the 1st page of the leader board, I will uninstall the game. Fortunately, it has many ppl that play 24/7 no matter what we say about small community.

They could also add filters for country etc. in the "leader board" and the friend search function.

There is a country filter in the leaderboard ... try customize button.

The duration is irrelevant the data changes for as long as you play.
Options that should be avail are:
Saving stats loading stats from file
Making match comparisons against other players and against averages of those players and yourself.
Making match comparisons over time against your average etc.

That way you could see weekly progress and fall in form against your average. What makes this possible is skill matching and repetition of maps that are played on pubs and in competitions. For instance you could compare how you played those 4-5 maps that are cycled with pretty much same people on your skill rating with randoms crashing the game this week and two weeks before or two months ago if you load that month.
From that data you can gather that you did above your average by a margin of 15 and 20 percent per week and you lost against opponents that are something like 10 percent below their average in that game, or maybe you won with your below avg vs their above average game.

This sound a little stats crazed but when you look at it really we have stats in a useless form, this would provide something meaningful to do with them, provides coverage depth for casting when you can prepare with stats from players in the game and also provides a reference point you go from and to when you play for an extended period of time.

all u ask is good and u could ask 1000 more such nice things, but is way too much for them. They can't implement even the simplest things. Charts? ... r u serious? (let them first add some simple filters and then we can dream for that)

Changing the period that they keep the stats is very simple and it will give you and indication of your progress. Like it is now, if you have pld a lot, in order to see something change in ur stats, you might need a month or more.

Actually, there so many things they could do and a lot of ppl have great ideas. QL could had been the best game ever, but they don't try. Great initiative to make q3 in a browser, great start (the site and the way u search for a game looks great), but they didn't follow through. They should. It still has a huge potential imo.

Optimist, pessimist issue here really ...

The point is to make people aware of the potential by suggesting stuff in various communities, that way the potential given time should develop.

If you take the pessimistic line here, they are gonna quit developing this game in half a year so we shouldn't propose anything here :)

gogo power rangers!

How about

Serverside demos of top games and on the QL site you can look at a list of recommended games and view them with a click.

Demos are great for newbs as well, it may even get them into TDM/CTF

a server-side demo recording and last 3-5 match demos on player profile

Yeah, that would be good for recruiting players in clans. You could scout his performance on a regular basis and see if you'd call him up for a test game.

Stop stealing my idea :P per player would be harder to do cos the amount of space they take up, imo top tourney matches would be better

you can search the ql.com forum, i open a thread for server-side demo, long way ago (probably it's not available anymore tho since they changed forum...)
:P

btw a sort of dropbox with last 3-5 demos would be enough, and it's not really per player because it'd be for premium only probably and if i play tdm it's not just for me but for all 8 players, and so on
should be such a waste of space considering the hw request id has for servers, and I don't think static memory is much used

the very first problem is the server-sided demo recording, which we'v been asking since the closed beta, and they didn't even provided a sort of easy way to see a demo directly from the website
so I don't expect to see it in the near future

Bad idea. The QL servers would crash constantly for everyone trying to download coollers demos

ffs add new server locations

just met a fellow quaker from Kuwait and he's playing on .de servers with 170 ms ping

they want to play - just give them what they want - they'd be sooo happy with 60ms servers in their region...

Why don't duel demos have both povs available anyways?

Because in terms of implementation, demos are just recording your network stream, which for performance reasons do not include updates of entities out of your visibility area.

server side demos would fix this, doesn't?

Or just client side, but with more information sent to each client.

and most likely broken(i.e. promode) sound

Defrag in QL would be cool, but I doubt they would even come close to implimenting the system that q3df.org has.

also would need a steady flow of defrag maps to satisfy the hardcore jumpers at least 1-2 maps a day.

IMO out of those mentioned the priority things we need:

- fix quit lag/sound bug
- ladder system
- GTV
- better demo playback (including the ability to pause and rewind)
- trick jumping mode or maps
- a way to challenge another player or clan

Error 404

Fix FreezeTag and listern to the community !

Decent ladder.

Tiered armor system.

no

1. Capturestrike
2. Proper moviemaking (freecamming and pov switching, among other things)
3. multiview demos, or ability to download serverdemos after the match is done
4. GTV of some sort
5. cpm

It would be nice if the premium scoreboard was easier to see through. Sometimes when you die, you want to see when you're opponent picks up an item, but it's almost impossible with this scoreboard.

fix the shit when u get browser error if u leave a server and then try to join another

To be able to restart from a particular time in the game...

ie, if there's a disconnect and players are all back on the server, the server admin can "load" the last game being played on that server at a particular point with the game paused. Players would be put in the place that they were at that particular time ready for the server admin to unpause.

This would be mainly for use in competition, but I can't see why a pro subscriber couldn't do it either.

this would be great for training/instruction purposes as well

YES - remove spawnprotection and cycle map on duel servers
NO - old / bigger hitboxes
PLS - ability to spawn LAN servers

LANPLS

I know its never going to happen but

- Fix the mouse consistency issue
- Get rid of the premium/standard map and mode features. Allow everyone to see all maps but any addition features like scoreboard, chat tokens etc only available to premium and pro users.

hey python:
make sure cg_zoomsensitivity is 0. This seems to effect normal fov sens also which fucks it up for me( could be placebo but feels weird imo)

also use PRISM with nothing running and no driver for mx510.

This pretty much fixed my sens issues..

- old / bigger hitboxes
no

Learn to aim Memento_Mori cuz old hitboxes were just super craps.

Learn to read Anonymous cuz that wasn't my personal suggestion.

1. New/ better/ or old netcode. I'm not fussy cpma and osp both had better netcode in my book. Either one of these would be a good place to start!

2. Get rid of premium/ pro content and have a low cost subscription for all players. ie less/ around a pound/euro/dollar per month.
Then introduce a free trial period which can be gifted to players by paying customers and lasts about 14 hours, similar to Starcraft 2. (Which is a good system!) But you should need a code to get it so that cheap people don't just create lots of accounts

3. More quality ctf maps. Beg, steal or borrow them! I won't comment on duel maps because i'm useless at it and don't no whether duellers care about new maps or not.

4. Improve the chat feature. I quite like talking to people on my friends list but its hardly a feature at the moment and you can't have multiple user chats. If they need inspiration, look at steam. It does look ugly but it is very functional!

5. If ID are going to charge a subscription fee, then they need to deliver some value for it. There should be regular improvements otherwise they should offer refunds to paying customers.

id should be investing all their efforts into making time travel possible; so they can go back and not hire the first project leader cause he did a horrendous job (not exactly sure when he was let go). The whole project has been a fumbled mess with no clear plan or strategy for over 2 years now.

Oh and the whole going open public with no private server structure in place really made sure this thing will never fly. Any potential new playerbase has already seen what ql is (dead/a mess) and moved on or back to their old games. The damage was unrepairable, get working on that time travel machine guys! D:

1. aiming down sights
2. bullet spread
3. flash grenades
4. night vision goggles
5. edit all player models to have stermy's haircut

seriously, in random order, but for some reason numbered anyway:
1. More new maps! + adjust ammo respawns for current maps.
2. old q3 crosshairs(not the high res blackline ones)
3. Obviously a demo playback gui.
4. New sounds, really. Not just the sound system, just new sounds in general, like pickup sounds or new anouncers... also the 'you have lost the lead' and 'you have taken the lead' announcements seem to be delayed quite a lot..
5. New animations for rockettrails, grenadetrails, maybe new weapon/item models alltogether. And yes, this is a serious request... anything to attract new players, even though that means replacing cool looking 12 year old animations with new cool looking animations.

I have to admit I was a bit disappointed when I played QL for the first time. I thought the game would have gotten a reskin, and maybe that would have been enough to make the game feel a bit more new. I would love to see new weapon models with high-res skins.

yep. New explosions/etc would make the game look so much better

1. old 2008 style browser: to be able to see players stats on maps, with percentage wins/losses
2. old shotgun damage
3. old hitboxes
4. if yu spectate, after the match starts, don't change the pov on default -when I watch streams I always loose the 1st few seconds; sometimes the stream guy isn't there so we see nothing till he
appears and changes the pov
5. new bot quotes, taken from players, like: you are nothink on the LAN

this is a brilliant thread.
i think everything i want has already been said here.

let me think...

I'd love to be able to have more graphical settings.
If the game could look like some of the frag videos we see, it'd be awesome.
and of course it would be entirely your choice to set your graphics up really high but Spectators and Commentators could have some pretty sweet looking setups and it'd be better for all the spectators.

and i will add most of it to q43a, just to laugh some more

1. q3 in-game info style, the kill messages shown together with public chat and "player has flag message" with a standart historylength of 3 sentences. And the teamchat separated.
2. extra custom maps (make a ql mapdisign program downloadable for everyone)
3. more characters allowed in clantag
4. fix the serverbrowser bug --> servers are shown with players in it who are empty or offline
5. smth like gtv would be nice
6. start to make some advertising for quakelive, i haven't seen any yet.... a big missing factor for expanding the community i think

more asses, titties,dicks and balls

in chickenshit quakelive, its cert 12 and cant have a cigar in a mouth. you want http://openarena.ws/

- Improve clan page system, which is useless at the moment.
- Ability to decrease chat flood protection in say_team.
- Improved scoreboard for TDM (net !).
- Ladders.
- Enhanced spectating in TDM (overview, dynamic pov switching, etc..)
- Gibs.

ability to save server presets, maybe have some predefined one that are also displayed when connecting (easier for leagues etc)

same goes for server browser. also sound notifications for chat messages, offline messaging system..

id software, I got 3 letters for ya:

GTV biatch!

real niggaz dont die

fix netcode/hit detection