3 hours of Quake Live

[ArrrCee]

Hah! I downloaded Quake Live on steam recently and played maybe a half hour. I started and got 2 rail gun frags, but then I was doing pretty terrible and everyone was trying to boot me. I'm glad you were rocking it though!

[wicked_lord]

Seriously? You're saying that the game-play is dark? How do you adjust your settings? Maybe I can find a solution for you... On a side-note, I always thought that Quake Live should have been an add-on for Quake 3 Arena. In my simple opinion, that would have been logical (and it would have saved idsoftware some money).

Yes its dark and i changed the brightness to high and it barely changed the lighting. Ive researched other commands and used some fullbright command and gamma, contrast and its not changing. Not sure whats up. However my laptop recently updated to 8.1 thanks to my wife for hitting the install buttom instead of the remind me later button so all my games are running in fullscreen but a small window. I cant figure out that issue either and you cant revert back from windows 8.1 to windows 8.... quake, q2, q3, urban terror, tf2, cstrike and qlive are all messed up resolution wise. According to windows its something to do with DPI settings which ive messed with and still cant fix the issue.

[RL Clown]

Every time I load it up I dont see many servers up and the ones that are always require me to download extra mods or are empty. I also cant get the game to brighten anymore then it is so the game play is dark.

Seriously? You're saying that the game-play is dark? How do you adjust your settings? Maybe I can find a solution for you... On a side-note, I always thought that Quake Live should have been an add-on for Quake 3 Arena. In my simple opinion, that would have been logical (and it would have saved idsoftware some money).

[wicked_lord]

Or just play Quake 3 arena.

Every time I load it up I dont see many servers up and the ones that are always require me to download extra mods or are empty. I also cant get the game to brighten anymore then it is so the game play is dark.

[wicked_lord]

they also have a free standing exe that doesnt require a browser.

Right this is what I have.

[xaGe]

Or just play Quake 3 arena.

[R00k]

they also have a free standing exe that doesnt require a browser.

[wicked_lord]

Now i suddenly feel like getting Quake Live on steam to see how bad it is.

No need to use steam. Just go to www.quakelive.come and setup an account and it will download it for you. Its browser based.

[Shambler234]

Now i suddenly feel like getting Quake Live on steam to see how bad it is.

[smokey]

nice wick add smokej as a fwiend if u wanna play ql sometime

[wicked_lord]

I always considered the LG in QL a wiggly worm when moving side to side aim.

wiggly worm? That thing is as straight as can be. Now the old Quake 3 LG was worse then quake especially if you had a high ping.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I always considered the LG in QL a wiggly worm when moving side to side aim.

[wicked_lord]

Qlive is fun tho, but I find it harder to aim in quake1 !

This is true. The Lightning Gun itself is harder to aim in Q1 so when playing Qlive which is a fixed line it is much easier to aim.

The SuperShot Gun blast is also wider in Qlive then it is in Q1.

[Polarite]

Qlive is fun tho, but I find it harder to aim in quake1 !

[golden_boy]

@Talisa, this is also one of the reasons why I don't play online. I don't need to play with a lot of foul mouthed kids staying up past bedtime. That and the lack of good matchmaking in most games; I usually just get stomped because I'm only a casual FPS player.

So I find games with good single player a lot more immersive: Stalker, Bioshock, Far Cry 2.

Plus, most shooters are pretty simplistic when it comes to core gameplay, so there isn't a lot of variation or strategy involved. Shooters don't catch my interest as much as more complex games do. Even though I sank an ungodly amount of hours into shooters.