except that you can not spawn servers unless you pay for one... oh, and the game too. there are also apparently no players and all but 5 servers with two different client versions, yay!

what's wrong with 1.80?

http://www.esreality.com/post/1651776/rocket-arena-1-80-released/

community didnt accept it.

ENSLAVED BY ID
PAID FOR Q3 SO ALL SERVICES BY ID ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO YOU FOR A LIFETIME
THIS IS SO COOL I NEED TO TRY THIS "RA3" THING RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

youre a mess

lol ra3

you get the idea, do whatever you want with it.

this will never happen as long as QL is still up and running because people are stupid. despite how shitty things are being run in QL, Q3 still lacks that convenience factor / centralization / ease of accessibility which is why no one is going to bother with it. not to mention that people would have to pay monthly out of pocket to cover server costs, heh.

think about it, we're paying ID for subscriptions instead of paying for better quality Q3 servers in almost any location and reviving the community because they told us to. we're nothing but mindless sheep who follow other mindless sheep.

*puts on a tinfoil hat*

Ok Mr. Anonymous, they can't track our brainwaves with this devices.
Please, do enlighten me, how come people can't bother downloading a single web browser plugin and start the game?

Do you really expect anyone who isn't familiar with q3 to
a) get an illegal copy
b) install 20 different patches and updates
c) download maps, configs, settings
d) find the proper client version that is compatible with the server of choice
e) set up a Q3 folder and clean everything up, put everything from point c) to respective folders
f) enjoy playing with ~20 same guys who are by now pretty damn good at the game
g) install 3rd party chat clients in order to get a team game going
h) search for a populated server WITHOUT bots

Ok, I guess we're done here. NO ONE is going through all that hassle to try the game out. Modern games are pushed into your face and constantly advertised as easy to join and play.
There's no way to TRY q3. Either you go all the way or don't play at all.

Now let's put existing QL players.

You really think the playerbase will flock to q3 just because QL would presumably be shut down?
There are alternatives on the market and I think people would rather play something new.
I might be wrong on this point but seriously, I just don't see a massive influx of players from any direction, be it newer ones or veterans.

I don't approve of some actions by id, can hardly say they put any effort into at least THINKING about the results some of their actions might have.

What id did with QL is unite quake players (I see a lot of q2, q1 and obviously q3 players still active), not to mention that there's a lot of players coming from different franchises (ET, CS, UT...).
The problem with q3 is that it's scattered all over the place. You have defrag players, osp nerds, cpm heroes, vq3 diehards etc

My guess is that paying the lousy 20 bucks for keeping the game alive and working (well... most of the time) isn't such a big deal.

After all, I still get my jizz on whenever some big QL tournament is running, we'll have faceit with weekly 125€ awards, Adroits LAN, HoQ CTF, CB cups and so on.

I know you're bitter because no one wants to play with you, but don't call people stupid just because we choose to play with actual people, united on the same client with same ruleset and paying half the price for a whole year of service.

cpm heroes

What these new people don't get is that q3 was reaching its death right before QL was announced, and that it's not like even 1% of QL players will go under that 8 step process to go back to it. 99% will just play the newest CoD and quake simply dies (as the rest are in a lousy situation too).

Qlive CA needs to be more like RA3. CBA to go to RA3 now and wait for maybe one or two people to join. Been there, done that.

why would you use ra3 when cpma has complete rocket arena support and modes with a superior netcode?

oh, nostalgia goggles

maps

you can use ra3 maps in cpma. full multi-arena support.

had no idea. Probably the reason why they still played ra3.

does that include being able to play in multiple smaller teams?

i really am not sure the details. I believe it had support for smaller teams/queue in different arenas, but I am not the best person to answer that. All I know is I have played CPMA with RA3 multi arena maps.

yep

but why use cpma when there is already a client?

netcode, features, etc. you ever played ra3? :p

"i like and played in the past
Q3 OSP "

dont bite :x

maybe i shoot to quick back. objectively yes, they can play ra cpma.

but these cpma guys always say "come to cpma the land of wonders" in all contexts. thats annoying. like freaking christians.

what about xerp lg and ra cpma?

the ra guys have an old community, their own mod. they wont come to cpma. ctf scene didnt like cpma vq3 either.

This is basically terrorism

you could join #ra3pickup.se on quakenet, id be happy to play when you !add

it's cool you're all still active there, but everyone from middle europe hf on lagged 70+ ping =/

id totally play some ra3

I'd re-install RA3 just to play drunken mummy again. I'm willing to host a server in virginia if anyone is interested from the states.

!q3 okidoki in #cpmpickup

I've played there loads of times, I've seen Zoot play on it and I was like "that looks CPMish, are you on okidoki?" and he was like "yea" and then it was 16:20 and the people rejoiced.

100 dmg rail, 8-8-8 LG, huge hitboxes, bad netcode, no thanks.

...

You have to admit that in RA3 dying by 2 rails is retarded.

not when you're best weapon is the rg =p

not dying by 2 rails is retarded. QL is forever crippled.

rail is retarded*

RA3 is good to rage germans,not much else.

we, from time to time, play on this server : 46.4.23.80:27960 , feel free to come, have some fun, check from time to time if there is people on, or simply motivate some people to do those steps