Updating this blog as I no longer need answers to the general Quake game night questions.

I'm still on the hunt for this old school map called Rage Arena (made by Nacho|rage) that was often played on kitty1.stanford.edu and kitt2.stanford.edu west coast Quake servera. If you know of anyone who happened to know this person or can find it, please let me know. I can describe what it was like if that helps.

Now, on to some moments I recall from Game Night this last Wednesday.

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We found this 1 on 1 server called I am 12 's Jungle Gym, which had an arena style map. Oddly enough, when you joined the server, it had you select a side: Windows or Linux. Well, that's a team red and blue thing, so if you were using a PC with Windows or Linux, that didnt matter! That was confusing at first. Then, you had to select the class you were going to play, which was the Team Fortress mod classes! I know.... we thought it was crazy too.

After playing with scalper and realizing that the timer wasn't leading to a winner, and neither was the frags, we decided to change over to observe mode to let two other people play the map. So, Xenolair and visi0nz began playing one on one, and the game was pretty close too! Not long after that, deershadow started plarying and continued to play at least 4-5 other GameSpotters, almost like a marathon! We thought he was going to get worn out from playing so long, and he didnt. I finally joined to play him, and then we had an axe duel to the finish.

Aside from this 1 on 1 map excitement, we also played the TF mod on 2fort5, and DM3 FFA. The TF matches were entertaining 'cause, well, all I ever did in the day, and did this night, was frag the snipers on top. Catching the snipers by surprise has always been my evil delight, that I rarely ever paid attention to the objective at hand.

We also had some good 'ole times on DM3, but then scalper and I met this guy on the server and he asked if we were Quake newbs because this server had the game warped almost like a fish eye lens, so much that it changed the perception to look like we were super speed running around the map. Giancarlo was another staff member that had played that night and described the same concern with me. I asked this guy if he knew where we could play Slipgate complex, and being the old school Quake dude he was, he went and found us one. See, that's how my experiences were in Quake's community back in the day. It was like there were so many good moments and meeting other gamers that enjoyed playing, that the trolling was often wasn't like what you see in games today. Maybe it's the voice chat that changed people to be different? Who knows.

Aside from this guy being helpful, he asked if I used to play back in 1999, and I told him I did. Funny enough, he recalls my alias on the servers back then. So, some of us jumped on that server this guy recommended to find that the warped gameplay that made us feel like we were speed running wasn't on this server. We were on a traditional Quake server, that felt like NetQuake.

That night I started playing around 3ish and ended at almost 9pm. So, it was hours of awesome times in my opinion! SnakeBytes, SQUALL20XX, Serbine, Jerell_rast, Dan_Lero, -DaNuTz-, PvtCaboose23, Nerissa, Dirk13, and Darthkaiser also seemed to enjoy playing the game, depending on the servers they could get on as well. I was reminded of how rich this community was. I kind of want to get back into playing the game again.

We did try to find the X-Men: Ravages of Apocalypse demo, since not everyone had the full retail Quake version to install the Total Conversion, but the demo links found on numerous websites didn't work.a

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id Software also provided some Quake Live tokens to hand out to the top players that night. I already pm'd the rest of you who had showed good sportsmanship or skillz that night, and have 3 more tokens to hand out. The remainder tokens will be granted to the people who stand out in the Machinima activity we having. So, if you didn't get a chance to play during that game night for the Quake cake emblem, we are also having this video trivia activity.

I'd love to have another game night for Quake again, if we can get more people to get nQuake freeware (ezquake) working. I enjoyed the ingame browser a great deal. Let me know if you'd be interested in playing Quake 1 in another game night later this year!