quake co-op?

rooster · Jan 2006

I've been itching for a spot of the above since it was mentioned at halloween. anyone want to give it another go, at a UK friendly time?

MoP · Jan 2006

I'd give it a try if i could find my Quake CD again ... I think it's at home. I'm going home next weekend though, so maybe I can pick it up then, and you'll have to tell me all the stuff I need to install to get up to speed with it... I'm really behind on the online gaming scene at the moment

rooster · Jan 2006

ace- the quake files arent too big so if you can't find the cd I'll send em over. I'm away this weekend too, sometime next week then? I don't know the ins and outs of creating a server, so I'll look into it

Any other takers?

cep · Jan 2006

I'm in!

bearkub · Jan 2006

I can start up a server (I think it is still there...) on the Polycount dedicated server, if you guys want it. It's in the US, but it is on a nice fat pipe. Just let me know.

rooster · Jan 2006

that would be great bearkub thanks! we'll organise a time and get back to you, cheers

rooster · Feb 2006

bearkub says he'll try to get a server up for sunday afternoon GMT, aiming for 4 or 5ish. Much appreciate the help man! anyone who's interested take a short break from the war to telefrag shub's ass :]

rooster · Feb 2006

ok, bearkub did an excellent job of getting the pain-in-the-ass coop mode working, meet roughly 8pm gmt at nibbler.fastpc.com if your up for some quakeing!
edit: using darkplaces engine!

MoP · Feb 2006

got your message... anyway i was delayed on the drive home so i didn't get in till 8:30pm... we'll have to try some other time when everything's working properly

vahl · Feb 2006

I'd definitely be in, just pm or msn me !

MoP · Feb 2006

well for us euro people, although bearkub's server is very stable, Quake netcode means we get a lot of lag at 150 ping... makes it very hard to dodge ogre grenades and not get shot by the other players

i'll see if i can get a euro-co-op server set up later this week, then i shall surely drop you a PM vahl

Cubik · Feb 2006

Would definatly be fun to join in for a bit, haven't played Quake in too many years. Do I need to get the full version of Quake or can I run the Darkplaces mod stand-alone?

MoP · Feb 2006

no, you'd need the full version since we're playing the single-player levels.

rooster · Feb 2006

we didnt get on so well first attempt. bearkub did an excellent job setting up the server though, just wasnt to be

. I don't know what was wrong but when me and mop tried setting up a server our pcs just couldnt see eachother over the net

edit: if anyone has any info on what might be wrong please give us a shout. bearkub told me I needed to open port 26000 but I couldn't find options anywhere to do that in my router config, and mop thinks his hardware-firewall might have blocked his attempts

MoP · Feb 2006

No, it turns out I was an idiot (or more likely just never having used this particular router's config before) ... I defined port 26000 as the Quake port, but never actually opened it in the router settings - there was a separate screen for that... my router here has that all on one screen. Ah well.
I should be able to host on this computer, although I dunno how well it'd run a server, this connection is shared with 5 other people.

rooster · Feb 2006

I reckon give it a shot, I found a command in darkplaces to reduce jerkiness if you got great framerate but jerky movement

CheapAlert · Feb 2006

fteqw's finally gone stable btw, incase darkplaces ever fails again fteqw is a good engine to fall back to.
http://www.fteqw.com

bearkub · Feb 2006

Does it have something that makes it easier to config the server with?

CheapAlert · Feb 2006

Nope. All quake servers are manually configured (though fteqw is based on Quakeworld's network code and protocols which has some prediction in it)

though recent darkplaces releases have reduced some of the lag too

Take your pick (yes, fteqw servers require fteqw clients to join, same goes for darkplaces)

MoP · Feb 2006

Good game guys

Shub-niggurath didn't know what hit her! And neither did rooster those times I hit him with grenades, and vice-versa.

cep · Feb 2006

God damn I missed both games?

rooster · Feb 2006

yeah your rockets seemed to have strange homing-like abilities towards my forehead

really sorry cep didnt mean to miss you out

, we will probably have another blast with dm some other time, be sure to let you know!
edit: Crap we missed vahl too

er, next time will be better organised hopefully

cep · Feb 2006

No need for sorry's. I look forward to the next game.

CheapAlert · Mar 2006

A little bump, but the cvar cl_movement 1 helps smooth the lag out :P

bearkub · Mar 2006

For those of you wanting to try this again, I will try and set up the p-count server again so it is ready to kick off at any time.

Cheap: if you have a .cfg file, it would be appreciated.

vahl · Mar 2006

i'd love to...thanks bearkub

MoP, Rooster, Cep, Cheapy ???

cep · Apr 2006

I'm up for it.

rooster · Apr 2006

yeah me too, although me and mop were finding our connection a bit laggy. happy to give it another go

. I played kqp deathmatch with poop and mop and it was ace, what about trying some others? Painkeep was pretty good

CheapAlert · Apr 2006

haha kqp, classic

i'll only play painkeep if we play the prison level first

quake co-op?

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