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sllik
Canada21 Posts
206.51.232.120:27910 Come play! Don't have AQ2 anymore? PM me! Light! Camera! Action! | ||
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
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mrhobbers
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Whalecore
Norway1110 Posts
This the game I grew up playing. Used to play with the ID xantir if anyone remember. Best game ever, nothing will ever become like it. It's so three dimensional compared to Counter-Strike. You have people moving all over the place. I still have it installed on my PC and play it every once in a while. | ||
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leser
Croatia239 Posts
but hey, at least I was kind of happy to see r1ch administrating TL, my last 2 or so years of q2 were played on r1q2  | ||
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sllik
Canada21 Posts
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absalom86
Iceland1770 Posts
Used to play this game on a broken ISDN with 170 ping on avarage so I only used the sniper and throwing knives and had to smart aim ahead of targets. Still managed to be one of the best players in my ( albeit small ) country. | ||
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Saafen
Sweden79 Posts
Is the community alive in canada/us? AQ2 is still alive in Europe with some servers and ClanWars running. Not big tho :< | ||
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SonuvBob
Aiur21549 Posts
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UniversalSnip
9871 Posts
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Whalecore
Norway1110 Posts
On May 15 2011 03:34 sllik wrote: which servers do you play on? Pelitutka.fi servers, as they seem to have most players these days. http://www.pelitutka.fi/v4/index.php?id=9 | ||
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neooffs
Brazil34 Posts
I've played plenty of QW Team Fortress on the old days and a lot of Urban Terror today, but trying aq2 gets me confused... dark maps, don't know what weapons to pick or how to pick, don't know where to go, this kind of things... but I surely understand why people like it... it's almost like trying to play deathmatch quake 1 | ||
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OneThreeOne
Norway86 Posts
when I play from time to time I play on games1.pelitutka.fi:27910 which is pretty active. Called myself Xspyder when playing it, hi Saafen and xantir i remember you :D | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On May 15 2011 04:06 UniversalSnip wrote: that looks a lot better than urban terror I'm interested to read a comparison between the two games. Jumping seems quite different. No wall jump ? No power sliding ? | ||
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sllik
Canada21 Posts
On May 15 2011 04:29 Whalecore wrote: Pelitutka.fi servers, as they seem to have most players these days. http://www.pelitutka.fi/v4/index.php?id=9 Thanks! I didn't even know there were still active servers | ||
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SonuvBob
Aiur21549 Posts
On May 15 2011 04:43 Boblion wrote: I'm interested to read a comparison between the two games. Jumping seems quite different. No wall jump ? No power sliding ? I only played the q3 mod version of urban terror, but q2's physics always felt much much better. | ||
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neooffs
Brazil34 Posts
urban terror and aq2 also have a similar theme and are both fast-paced, aq2 being more | ||
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Whalecore
Norway1110 Posts
On May 15 2011 04:43 Boblion wrote: I'm interested to read a comparison between the two games. Jumping seems quite different. No wall jump ? No power sliding ? Aq2 jumping revolve mainly around 2 mechanics. - Strafe jumping to get higher speed which means you can fly farther. - "Crate jumping" / Double jumping. Double jumping at crates and ledges make you jump a lot higher. These jumps require no extra speed so you can abuse them all the time. In addition, you got the ability to drag your mouse sideways right before jumping in order to increase speed/jump velocity. It's what makes the Q2 engine so awesome and special. Q3 is similar, but not as awesome. The Action Quake remake for Q3 (Reaction?) was not as good because the movement physics didn't feel 100% right. Combine these mechanics with awesome maps, and you got a really dynamic and unique game with a high skill ceiling. As I said in an earlier post, it really makes the game more three-dimensional. You have to pay attention to the whole map, people can be almost anywhere. | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
One of the goals in my life is to play the best games of every genre, even oldies so i'm curious with all the praise about this one :p Thanks for the answers btw. | ||
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ZoRoXo
Norway268 Posts
 . The game has been 'dying' for so many years now, but there's still people playing on the finnish pelitutka servers, and some clans still seach for clanwars. Looking at http://www.z0r.nl/index.v3.php?link=stats&search=1 there's still people who are somewhat active (funny how I recognize pretty much every name on that list since no one new ever comes to this game and actually stays with it)What really killed the game for me was the fact that there was never a GOOD working anticheat, and some of the players who had been in the community forever got randomly busted. Every time we played some of the suspecious clans they would refuse to play on the norwegian server because of the anticheat requirement and apparantly it 'lagged' the game on finlands computers O_O EDIT: forgot serverlist - http://www.quakeservers.net/quake2/servers/t=aq2/so=8/ | ||
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m4cho
Norway29 Posts
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xarthaz
1704 Posts
On May 15 2011 02:18 floor exercise wrote: AQ2 was one of the first multiplayer games I seriously got into. It was such a sick game. Used to be able to all the trick jumps and destroy people with the HC. Real FPS games died with air accel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXR7VyHnUXA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3F3EHODuXA Uhh quake 2 doesnt have air accel.. QuakeWorld and CPMA are the classic games with air control/acceleration. Notice how the trickjumps in your links are mostly straight forward jumping with limited turning? Yeah, that because you cant change direction in air in that engine. For comparison, trick jumping with actual air acceleration is like this: On May 15 2011 05:15 Whalecore wrote: To be honest its hardly special - the strafe jumping mechanic is commonplace in fast paced shooters and is hardly a skill ceiling increaser. Quite the opposite in fact - Due to no air control in that sort of physics engine, movement along maps is quite hindered and complex acribatics limited to straight line movement.Aq2 jumping revolve mainly around 2 mechanics. - Strafe jumping to get higher speed which means you can fly farther. - "Crate jumping" / Double jumping. Double jumping at crates and ledges make you jump a lot higher. These jumps require no extra speed so you can abuse them all the time. In addition, you got the ability to drag your mouse sideways right before jumping in order to increase speed/jump velocity. It's what makes the Q2 engine so awesome and special. Q3 is similar, but not as awesome. The Action Quake remake for Q3 (Reaction?) was not as good because the movement physics didn't feel 100% right. Combine these mechanics with awesome maps, and you got a really dynamic and unique game with a high skill ceiling. As I said in an earlier post, it really makes the game more three-dimensional. You have to pay attention to the whole map, people can be almost anywhere. | ||
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muzzy
United States640 Posts
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sllik
Canada21 Posts
http://aq2.touchsimple.com/game/quake2.rar (~275MB) | ||
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
On May 15 2011 07:35 xarthaz wrote: Uhh quake 2 doesnt have air accel.. QuakeWorld and CPMA are the classic games with air control/acceleration. Notice how the trickjumps in your links are mostly straight forward jumping with limited turning? Yeah, that because you cant change direction in air in that engine. For comparison, trick jumping with actual air acceleration is like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ichrRqXfHrk#t=4m50s To be honest its hardly special - the strafe jumping mechanic is commonplace in fast paced shooters and is hardly a skill ceiling increaser. Quite the opposite in fact - Due to no air control in that sort of physics engine, movement along maps is quite hindered and complex acribatics limited to straight line movement. I'm not debating which game had more complex acceleration techniques at all, but why would you say that q2 doesn't have air acceleration when you can clearly accelerate your movement speed directly through strafe jumping? While the execution wasn't the hardest did require some in addition very good timing to make a lot of jumps. If you thought i meant it died with q2 I understand where you are coming from. I meant it died when pretty much every game post q3 has gone out of their way to kill bhop and every other interesting technique on the basis that not everyone could do it. | ||
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xarthaz
1704 Posts
On May 15 2011 08:49 floor exercise wrote: You can add the (tiny) sideways acceleration component to the (huge) forward movement so while you are gaining speed, the direction of movement stays virtually the same, meaning it is acceleration only in the meaning of change of speed(tangential acceleration), not in the meaning of change of direction(radial acceleration) like is the case with quakeworld and cpma. Hence ironically, the more "casual oriented" games like half life, counter strike, counter strike source, tf 2 whose physics engine is from quakeworld, have more air acceleration than the hardcore oriented quake 2/3 do.I'm not debating which game had more complex acceleration techniques at all, but why would you say that q2 doesn't have air acceleration when you can clearly accelerate your movement speed directly through strafe jumping? While the execution wasn't the hardest did require some in addition very good timing to make a lot of jumps. If you thought i meant it died with q2 I understand where you are coming from. I meant it died when pretty much every game post q3 has gone out of their way to kill bhop and every other interesting technique on the basis that not everyone could do it. | ||
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Zavior
Finland753 Posts
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Bwenjarin Raffrack
United States322 Posts
I remember, maybe 10 years ago, 25 people on a public server all floating around in the river on deepcanyon trying to slash each other's faces. Or getting glitched and stuck in the secret door on kumanru with my clanmate with shotguns, and shooting any noobs that walk by. Clan matches, sniping, jumping, handcannon slippers, CTB/F, getting owned on the Finnish servers. Playing it is the best multiplayer experience I've ever had. Jumping itself was really fun. Ramp, ladder, strafe, circle, and double jumping, and any combination of them with proper timing in one trick to reach a previously inaccessible area on the map, or to reach the opponent and overwhelm him with shock and awe. | ||
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spinal2k
Portugal148 Posts
my brother was actually in a popular clan playing that... one of the best team shooters i have played... thank you for posting this. | ||
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cyanidec
Australia1 Post
http://aq2pp.com its fresh, seems you guys arent the only ones who remember the godlike status of this game | ||
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cuppatea
United Kingdom1401 Posts
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Sqq
Norway2023 Posts
So been a long serving member of that community! Best game ever created Oh and R1CH i think created the anti cheat or something for it some time back. So I know he has some ties to the community. Oh, and hi Saafen & I remember the nick Xantir from years and years back. | ||
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Sqq
Norway2023 Posts
On May 15 2011 07:35 xarthaz wrote: To be honest its hardly special - the strafe jumping mechanic is commonplace in fast paced shooters and is hardly a skill ceiling increaser. Quite the opposite in fact - Due to no air control in that sort of physics engine, movement along maps is quite hindered and complex acribatics limited to straight line movement. You can't have played it at a very high level if you think the strafe jumping hindered the skill ceiling. Just the strategic movement of the fast paced jumping at the "Lights...camera..action" to position yourself would be a huge difference in the skill teams showed on maps. Being able to get fast pace quicker, know get away routes when you had to bandage or reload your sniper was not an easy feat. The players who had fantastic strafe jumps, quick minds and good aim where the kings of the AQ2 world. On the other hand you had clans that ruled the scene based around the movement of inbalanced speed jump maps (Mesto). They practiced it to death and won every clan match because they could out maneuver everyone on it. It was simply impossible to catch them. | ||
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xarthaz
1704 Posts
The difference is well presented here: | ||
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Clownz
Finland53 Posts
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Playguuu
United States926 Posts
Now if whomever can get around to finishing Science and Industry 2 Just installed to mess around in, there is almost no one playing though | ||
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xCenasfu
Finland143 Posts
Its also one of the only games to marry modern day weapons and fast paced movements into one game. I'd play quake live or one of these more modern versions like warsow/red eclipse etc but I hate weapons like grenades or rocket launchers.. they force the maps to be complete dungeons and corridors.. so boring. | ||
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EricaMarie2020
United States1 Post
http://tastyspleen.net/quake/downloads/mods/action_quake/ Also if you don't have quake 2 at all anymore you can download this: http://tastyspleen.tv/?page_id=744 its a completely legal download of quake 2, enough to get you playing online. Only thing it doesn't contain is a full pak0.pak so you can't play the single player. It's aprq2 one of the more popular clients, and its got anti-cheat right in the file. can also install r1q2 right in this folder which is another good client to play quake with, my personal favorite. There are still quite a few USA players that would love to give AQ2 a quick kick start back over here. Far chance, I know. If you wanna see what tastyspleen people are up to as far as aq2, alot of us are on IRC. We are on the globalgamers server in #tastycast. we even have weekly quake2 1v1 'tourneys' every friday night. not aq2, but cant pass up some good ole fun quake 2 ;p Also ive heard word of someone in the community bringing aq2world back up and the map depot. | ||
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Komentajaxo
Finland1 Post
We're about to put up national clan-ladder. Site-codeing is still in progress but we would like to knw, if we have enough clans to continue it. I would like to see some oldschool clans joining it or some old players putting up some clans for it. There are many fancy aq2 installers avaible. If you would like to know some more, just post here or connect me in quakenet. Komentaja is my nick. You'll find me at #clanstn Let's not let this game die. Installer: http://nne.fi/aq2/aq2installv2.exe Maps: http://www.lahtela.com/aq2suomi/maps/ 1by1 here or, http://hifi.iki.fi/quake2/action/install/mega_mappack_v1.zip full map pack from there. | ||
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darksaint
United States1 Post
So we've re-created http://aq2world.com so it's now the global hub of all Action Quake 2. We've already started a League, there's active development within the mod and with the Q2Pro client, mapping and accessorizing is continuing and we're looking to the future with more developments. Player and server counts have increased significantly in the past few months. We'd like to invite every ex-AQ2 player and every new player to the series to come to the site, chat with us at #aq2world on quakenet and play in our servers We have weekly events to get more people involved, learn new game modes (CTF, Espionage, etc.)Come help us rebuild one of the best games ever! | ||
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romul0
Brazil1 Post
I still playing, but in brazil has no many more players Finland does, still playing there sometimes. | ||
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Yurie
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
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Zavior
Finland753 Posts
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memphis-
United States1 Post
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SheLovesMe
11 Posts
A pretty sick movie to watch is . You can see sick frags + jumps as well. I still have some old trick jumping vids on my external HD, but I really can't be bothered finding it and uploading them to the net. I ended up stopping because the servers were just dying down, and fewer and fewer people played. It's sad because the younger generation of kids will never in my opinion experience gaming like this. Another mod for q2 that I played a heap was Q2Jump, if anyone remembers it :D | ||
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Nemireck
Canada1875 Posts
For those that are interested, I took out a couple of sounds from the game that we will all recognize, I use one as my text tone and one as my ringtone, you can check them here: Ringtone http://www.mobango.com/korso/?catid=3&cid=1164168 Text Msg Alert http://www.mobango.com/fpsheadshot/?catid=3&cid=1164169 | ||
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Ely51um
United States7 Posts
Follow this link for event details: http://forum.tastyspleen.net/quake/index.php?topic=21494.0 Don't have Quake 2? Get it here: http://q2s.tastyspleen.net | ||
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dnosrc
Germany454 Posts
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Deliant
Norway10 Posts
Ah the nostalgia... Downloaded the game last week, and its still hands down the best engine around still. If it got some player model refurbish with a similar engine it would become a new hit Lets not have this game die people! | ||
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Battery
Finland18 Posts
Easiest way to install and play aq2 nowdays -> http://q2online.net/action Some info about the game -> aq2world.com/ If your oldschool and want to modify your game you should check -> http://marlporo.pp.fi/aq2/ We are also planning new stuff to NA scene, so stay tuned. Any questions? Feel free to join #aq2world @quakenet.org | ||
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Deliant
Norway10 Posts
Come check this awesomeness of a game out, its hands down the best game ever created in the history of mankind (if you like fast-paced games with quick rounds) Graphics is meh, but gameplay > graphics! Go check out www.aq2world.com for an easy to install q2online client based on java! LESS QQ - MORE PEW PEW! | ||
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aval
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Hiisi
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Aq2 Records: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCQTUGuztduoGyevNHSbCyg Aq2suomi discord: https://discord.gg/ExbXEp8 | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28608 Posts
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Hiisi
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