So I have been out of the loop for a while, meaning last time I played was sometime before qlranks got introduced, valiantly, for our displeasure. One might say.

In any case the last few years I have not played any games at all, probably becasue of none being as flawless as quake. And I never could seem to shake the feeling that something's been amiss, and that would be quake!

Playing as close to a perfect duel as you can, with splitsecond item-timing, well thought out ambushes, hearing the hitbeeps go crazy when you catch someone off-guard or in the air with a close to 100% lg. (xerp or not) Rocket to rail combo on a freshly spawned opponent. 3-4x 100dmg rail kills. 15min games. Hearing the announcer say "sudden death, while you know its infinite... Fuck that feels so amazing!

That's what I want, and my question is if it's possible to find any games, I mean is it populated, at all, anymore?

I guess ql will have to work, recent changes or not. Even though I could never seem to adapt from cpma aggro style to conservative ql styles...