There's more than the season to be jolly around here at the QUAKE LIVE World Headquarters, this season also marks the 15th anniversary of Quake II. What better time than now, and with the 15th Premium Pak no less, to celebrate the release of Quake II with the Quake II themed Premium Pak. We've got both seasons in mind with these new arenas: two deathmatch arenas from the original Quake II, a brand new TDM arena with a Strogg theme, and finally a brand new CTF arena set in the snow.
We are also launching public PQL Clan Arena servers available to both Premium and Pro players. These are now available in most locations in tiered and unrestricted variations.
The Edge:
Built for the new year is QUAKE LIVE's new version of The Edge. This version has been built off the original Quake II source, providing an authentic Edge-xperience, with a Strogg-inspired theme new to QUAKE LIVE. While the gameplay remains largely similar, elimination based game modes feature a teleporter inspired by the Quake 1 version of the arena: a two way portal in between the catwalks near the Rocket Launcher, and the Railgun room, to discourage those looking to wait out the around in solitude. The Edge takes the place of Winter's Edge, and will be available through the new year.
Warehouse:
Also making its QUAKE LIVE debut is Quake II's Warehouse. The Strogg have seen fit to retrofit a recently taken military warehouse to process and manufacture Stroyent for the Strogg war machine. A hidden Battle Suit at the end of the conveyor belt awaits those up along the top of the facility, but be careful of being crushed, and recently installed decontaminating lasers. A few new tricks and spaces have been opened up since this warehouse was last visited, creating new routes for combat veterans who have fought here before. Warehouse is also available through the new year.
Left Behind:
Left Behind is a new Strogg-themed Team Deathmatch arena created by Ferdinand 'cityy' List. Left Behind offers lot of nooks and jumps to skip around areas to best fit your strategy. The central area features a large rock hanging over lava, so some caution is required when speeding around the rooms, especially when playing with PQL. Left Behind is also more than suitable for Clan Arena modes.
Cold Cathode (CTF):
Rounding out this update is a new Capture the Flag arena, created by cityy and Phantazm11. Cold Cathode is certainly a cool looking map, both literally due to the snow, and also from the fluorescent light beams that wrap around the arena. Defenders have a Yellow Armor, Megahealth, and Red Armor well within their reach, but will have to lose sight of their flag in order to grab them. Flag carriers have ample opportunity to run, and outmaneuver chasing defenders by switching routes. Teams will want to defend the alternating Regeneration and Quad Damage between the bases to most effectively aid their offense.
Name: Lekii Region: Europe (Germany) Skill: Decent, but nothing too impressive (~1600 elo in duel, cb div2 back then in ctf) Gametype : Duel, CTF (only irc pickup or cw's)
God dammit I can't believe I totally missed the e-sport side of this game and now it seems on the down Have pretty much been consuming all the youtube videos available from tournaments in the past few days. 2GD and Joe are fantastic commentators that really bring you the game and it's surprisingly many layers closers.
I must confess I was totally ignorant when it came to fps e-sport, and still am, but quake live is something else. Kinda like broodwar where you watch way more than play yourself and you can really see the styles when watching these players.
Can someone give me some infos on how the scene is doing in terms of upcoming tournaments to watch?
Can someone give me some infos on how the scene is doing in terms of upcoming tournaments to watch?
Game is somehow doing better without a LAN scene A lot of pros said they were going to stop playing but they all still play. Tdm is supposedly doing really well in Europe. Weekly online tournaments for duel Mlg says they have interest in a pc fps game So start playing now if you have any interest in competing Learn the ropes in ql and you'll be ready to take on any future fps
As for watching Esreality.com is the quakelive hub
Look up on the top corner to see the streams Qlranktv is usually on 24/7 You can watch practice games from good-great players there
Question about the premium paks. Are most of the active players in the community purchasing those packs? I've been playing for a few weeks now and most of the time I just see Clan arena games that are active. I want to start trying to play TDM games so I can start to learn the spawn timings and etc. I could do the same in Duel, except there's no one to play with =_=. The Duel games that are active are like Tier 4. I'm Tier 3 in CA and etc, but in Duel I'm definitely going to be noob lol. I don't even know if the tier system is that accurate anyway, I see such a wide range of skill in my CA games.
On February 04 2013 02:20 Snuggles wrote: Question about the premium paks. Are most of the active players in the community purchasing those packs? I've been playing for a few weeks now and most of the time I just see Clan arena games that are active. I want to start trying to play TDM games so I can start to learn the spawn timings and etc. I could do the same in Duel, except there's no one to play with =_=. The Duel games that are active are like Tier 4. I'm Tier 3 in CA and etc, but in Duel I'm definitely going to be noob lol. I don't even know if the tier system is that accurate anyway, I see such a wide range of skill in my CA games.
in North America, there aren't that many people with premium. I think most Duelists have premium though. and for skill ranking try checking QLRANKS some of the games played don't get updated though. but i think qlranks is definitely better than quake lives tier system
On February 04 2013 02:20 Snuggles wrote: Question about the premium paks. Are most of the active players in the community purchasing those packs? I've been playing for a few weeks now and most of the time I just see Clan arena games that are active. I want to start trying to play TDM games so I can start to learn the spawn timings and etc. I could do the same in Duel, except there's no one to play with =_=. The Duel games that are active are like Tier 4. I'm Tier 3 in CA and etc, but in Duel I'm definitely going to be noob lol. I don't even know if the tier system is that accurate anyway, I see such a wide range of skill in my CA games.
in North America, there aren't that many people with premium. I think most Duelists have premium though. and for skill ranking try checking QLRANKS some of the games played don't get updated though. but i think qlranks is definitely better than quake lives tier system
On February 04 2013 02:20 Snuggles wrote: Question about the premium paks. Are most of the active players in the community purchasing those packs? I've been playing for a few weeks now and most of the time I just see Clan arena games that are active. I want to start trying to play TDM games so I can start to learn the spawn timings and etc. I could do the same in Duel, except there's no one to play with =_=. The Duel games that are active are like Tier 4. I'm Tier 3 in CA and etc, but in Duel I'm definitely going to be noob lol. I don't even know if the tier system is that accurate anyway, I see such a wide range of skill in my CA games.
in North America, there aren't that many people with premium. I think most Duelists have premium though. and for skill ranking try checking QLRANKS some of the games played don't get updated though. but i think qlranks is definitely better than quake lives tier system
Wow QLranks is awesome. Holy crap thanks.
QLranks is pretty accurate in measuring skill level, at least for duel. If you use Firefox, I recommend you to install QLRanks Display Greasemonkey script, which shows players elo ranks on their profiles and when you click to see match details. It looks like this
QLPrism (lightweight browser for QL) has it built in.
On February 04 2013 02:20 Snuggles wrote: Question about the premium paks. Are most of the active players in the community purchasing those packs? I've been playing for a few weeks now and most of the time I just see Clan arena games that are active. I want to start trying to play TDM games so I can start to learn the spawn timings and etc. I could do the same in Duel, except there's no one to play with =_=. The Duel games that are active are like Tier 4. I'm Tier 3 in CA and etc, but in Duel I'm definitely going to be noob lol. I don't even know if the tier system is that accurate anyway, I see such a wide range of skill in my CA games.
in North America, there aren't that many people with premium. I think most Duelists have premium though. and for skill ranking try checking QLRANKS some of the games played don't get updated though. but i think qlranks is definitely better than quake lives tier system
Hey guys help me out. I'm having a lot of trouble staying alive in Clan Arena. It seems like I tend to get myself into sticky situations. Like sometimes I would jump right into a group of enemies around a corner, or run away from a 1v2 just to go face first into another enemy =(
EPT
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