Help plz!

[noobie67]

Hi i am new here, i just bought a copy of Q2 for Quake. i was wondering rather someone could tell me how to run these maps using winquake. (i know these questions are asked alot but it would really help me out! i am using windows xp) thankz

[foq]

Umm, by Q2 do you mean Quake 2? Quake 2 is a totally different game than Quake, you won't be running Quake 2 with a Quake 1 engine.

[noobie67]

nah i thinks its a add on.

Q2 for Quake for DOS - MobyGames

yeh i think they are a collection of solo and multiplayer maps. thankz for the reply though =]

[Mr.Burns]

Well assuming they are like normal quake custom levels they will usually be in .bsp format files which you will need to copy to your quake\id1\maps folder.

Once there start quake, although Winquake is perhaps not the best engine you could use.
Start a game, singleplayer/multiplayer depending on the type of map you are trying to load, and in console type

changelevel XXX

where XXX is trhe name of the .bsp file you want to load

At this point your map should be loaded in to quake and you're set to go and explore it.

Hope this helps

Monty

[noobie67]

Thankz that got it working! thankz for all your help everyone =]

[noobie67]

I am not sure if anyone else has a copy of this collection. but while playing these maps, i noticed that there are no level exits for any of the levels i have tried... hmmm if anyone knows why this might be that would help too and again thankz for your time

[Baker]

I am not sure if anyone else has a copy of this collection. but while playing these maps, i noticed that there are no level exits for any of the levels i have tried... hmmm if anyone knows why this might be that would help too and again thankz for your time

If there are monsters, my answer would be hmmmm?

If there aren't monsters, those would be deathmatch maps.

[noobie67]

Yeh there are monsters, i mean even when i kill them all there are no signs of an exit, and there are no secrets... unless its bad level design? i have played 3 of the 50 solo maps on this collection and i couldn't find an exit on either of em, and they all had monsters, but the maps themselves are fairly small. inside the game manual it states exclusively for Micro Star, and the maps were created by Underworld Software not sure if this infomation is relevant though...

[Mindf!3ldzX]

sound to me like you got ripped off. This pisses me.If there are no exit's or slipgates of single player maps,then YAH wtf.

Can you please give us a partial or list of the maps that was included in your purchase, and also, any other details and maybe even some screenshot's would be nice.There are some guru's of maps floating around and maybe can shed some light on whats going on here.


Between Valve's Steam and now this "CrystalVision" software company, it seems more more of the newcomers to the Q1 community are getting the short end of the stick,and that just isnt tolerable. My suspicions about this "Q2" stuff really stems from never hearing about it, its supposedly released in 2002. It's 2009 and this is the first im hearing about it? It's easy for me to proverbially be under a rock for 7 years, but an entire community?

[noobie67]

alight here are the names of the following maps i have played.

ALERT.BSP
BLACKROC.BSP
ARMY.BSP

here are some screenshots taken from moby games, so you can get a general idea of what the levels look like.

Q2 for Quake - DOS Screenshots - MobyGames

[metchsteekle]

those screenshots make me want to cry if you want good sp maps to play look into http://www.celephais.net/board/ where the expert mappers hang around

[noobie67]

Thankz metchsteekle i will check there. i have visited quaddicted and have downloaded the dig.bsp stuff, which is suppose to good. and i have abyss of pandemonium which i have heard realy good things about. =]

[noobie67]

Hey heres the some of the bsp.files for anyone interested. this is the first map ARMY.BSP

[noobie67]

hmmm maybe not lololol i don't know how to zip em properly don't try clicking on the Q2 zip... it can't find it... oh well

[noobie67]

Alright thankz everyone for all your help i got what i was looking for in the end =]. i greatly appreciated it thankz for all your time! i found that it was just a bootleg collection, and there are no level exits cause that what was intended lol again thank you all! (so i will just hang on to it, until some one else starts a thread about it lololol!!!)