Defence

Weapons you should have (all at max ammo) :
RL (basic weapon in almost all situations), SG (good at close battle), RG (good in long-range battle), Proxy Launcher ( to mine all possible ways to your home base), GL( useful while defending or checking from opponents or to stop a little bit your's opponent attack), PG( useful to stop a little bit yours opponent attack). Always shoot through doorways with PG and GL while having an attack. You may kill all your opponents bay this way. better to have this power-up: Guard, Armor Regen (Scout not useful while defending). As you know, while defending you must stay at your home base. Armor Regen helps a lot with armor (don't have to leave the home base for armor), Guard will keep you longer alive. Before checking the room, where is your opponent, shoots some grenades. It has quite big splash radius( 20 % bigger than RL). After an attack, your opponent may not have time to pick up armor or health, so by this way you can easily score a frag.

I think I had told you the basics of CTF. You can be more successful, if you'll be creative while playing. Creativity may help you to find out more strategies that should be useful.

Game Strategies: CA

Introduction

In this para I will talk about player's mistakes and advice them what to do in certain situations. I mean this are the basics of CA mode. You can always create something better.

There are CA and Large CA modes. Their only difference is that in Large CA mode there can play twice more players than in original CA. But today's maps are quite too small for Large CA, only Dredwerkez, Chemical Reaction and Demon Keep are quite large for Large CA. Why I started like this? Because Large CA's are too crowded. This means that you'll die faster if you get to your opponents. Better to start from normal CA's. To get better at CA mode, play in more challenging difficulty. Also to get better, try to have more than 30 percent accuracy with LG, RG and RL. But don't forget about movement. Rocket jumping, strafe and circle jumps are also very important. This are the basics.

Short-Term Strategy for The Game Type
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The starting the game: The starting game is hard to define in team play. It’s mostly a scramble when no one knows where their teammates or their opponents are. It’s very random.
Try to push your opponent by winning 4 or 5 rounds in a row. If someone of better players connects, you will have a lead, which is hard to chase. If you are losing, keep trying to win the second round to keep chances of chasing your opponent team.
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The middle of the game: Try to keep your lead as long as possible to win the game. Better to be close to your teammate(s). If someone is better than you, learn from him. Also try not to die. You'll help your teammate(s) as well. If your opponent team chases you,then try to win the second round. If you can't, try to understand, what's wrong. It can be your team, it can be that is your opponent team has too much good players than your team has. There are a lot of reasons. Just keep trying.

The end of the game: Try to keep your lead or try to chase your opponent if you're losing a few rounds. Don't die. If you're losing with the score of 8-0, the are no chances to win against a good player team. If the score is 8-8, try your best to win rounds and keep your lead to win.

Players' mistakes while playing

1) Don't ever stay at stairs in the Campgrounds map. You will be like a mouse, which is hiding from two cats. You will be an easy frag.
2) Always move thorough the map, don't stay at one place hiding and waiting for your opponent. You can do it if there left only one player from the enemy team.
3) Don't use only one weapon. Use weapon combinations. For example 3 rockets+LG to finish, 2-3 rails+LG or RL. Be creative at that part and careful at the same time because you can die when you are using wrong weapon.
4) Don't go to your opponent by predictable way. Also try to be with your teammate(s) at the begging of the round. Don't fight alone vs. opponent team. You will be an easy frag
5) Don't be too aggressive or too defensive. Try to be at middle. When you are at middle, you are more effective with this way. Also, don't change your opponents. You must see one with the lowest hp and take him down.

Advices

1) There are no useless weapon. All weapons are good at certain situations. RL, SG, LG and RG are good attacking weapons, while PG and GL normally are defending weapon. PG shoots quite a lot of shots and it's damage is quite big (20 per cell). GL has a bigger splash radius than RL, but does the same damage like RL.
2) Stay with your teammate(s) at the beginning of the round.
3) If you are the last in your team and opponent team has 2-3 players alive try to kill one or if there are no chances, then try to have a round draw. Round draw is effective, but it is hard to hide well until that time.
4) If there left only one man in the opponent team, try to kill him a fast as possible. Also be with your teammate(s) to kill your opponent faster or to help him (them) if something goes wrong.
5) Try to temporize at the last rounds and if there 1-2 minutes left.
6) Always help your teammate(s) if it's possible to save them and not to die. They will help you later.
7) Try to hear an upcoming opponent (predict him).
8 ) Have a back-up plan to run out from your opponent(s) or if you can't get to an opponent(s), because there are blocking the way.
9) Always be careful while using RG or LG. They are making sound so you can be predictable to good players. Also, RG reloads quite long, so don't forget about that.
You can always kill 2-3 players by your predicting if you try harder.


Game Strategies: FFA

Introduction

I think, the easiest mode in Quake (at low skill). Even a no0b can win a match shooting everywhere and getting frags. But I hadn't figured out more mistakes and advises. I think, it because of the mode. Well, a new guy just entered this mode, he will take a weapon and go for a kill. In FFA mode sometimes there are so many people, that it is useless to collect armor or mega, because you will still die. Actually, I like this gametype the most, because it simple, but it can learn a lot of things, which are important in other gametypes. So, a new guy should always begin from FFA. It's like a training before a competition.

Short-Term Strategy for The Game Type

The starting game: This is a mad rush for a weapon. If the game has few players, you may choose to get an armor or other valuable item before getting a weapon. The starting game in FFA is shortest when there are a lot of players in the game. It can even be as short as five seconds.

The middle game: Your aim is going f***ing wild, shooting people one right after the other in rapid succession. Too many people; only one crosshair. If there are more than about 8 people in the map, you may have to resort to just controlling the weapon closest to where you spawn. This can get very repetitious. If the map is crowded, hopefully you will be able to get 2 or 3 kills before you die each time. And hopefully you will chase a few people away from the weapon thus delaying them from getting frags. Check who the top few players are as the match progresses. Don’t give them any breaks.

The end game: This begins when the leader is slowing down and saving his energy for future games. To slow down properly emphasize item control over rapid frags. Let more people flee and don’t die for frags. If you can get valuable items on the map, you’re preventing other people from going on big streaks. Only do this if you have a very large lead.

Players' mistakes while playing

1) Having only one weapon. You should never have only on weapon in your arsenal, because even max ammo RL may be empty in 40 seconds. Also, don't focus on one weapon. Some times other weapons are more effective.
2) Don't be a frag. I mean, don't camp on one place, don't hide in one place only, don't run into a 10 people battle without armor and gun as well. Be fast, be mobile, be aggressive and always look at your hp, armor and ammo bars as well as timer.
3) Never begin a battle against a Quad damage carrier. Even if he's a no0b, he will kill you easily. Better run from that place, or to hide.
4) Try not to die. Always collect armor and health. If you'll can win a FFA match with 50 kill and 5 deaths, than you are FFA pro.
5) Panic when you are having a lead and someone is chasing you. Never panic, be calm ant try to kill someone to win.

Advices

1) Get the Quad damage first. The Quad damage always made games unstable. What I meant? If some one has 10 frags lead, you can easily chase him with Quad. Same goes when you are having a lead.
2) To be more successful, you should have a good aim.
3) Don't stay at one place. Be mobile.
4) Be accurate with weapons such as RL, PG, BFG and GL. You might kill yourself.


Game Strategies: TDM

Began to love this gametype. FFA and duel mix, but at high level. One of the most difficult one's. You need good skillz to play it, to win it.

Short-Term Strategy for The Game Type

The starting game: The starting game is hard to define in team play. It’s mostly a scramble when no one knows where their teammates or their opponents are. It’s very random.

The middle game: This is when everybody is concentrated and working hard. Usually the team who gets quad the most times wins. The ultimate battle in Quake occurs when quad spawns in team death match.

The end game: This is also defined by the beginning of stalling. This comes much later in team play than other modes of play. Usually there is no stalling unless the score is very close with only one minute left in play. Stalling in team death match is different from stalling in 1 on 1. Stalling in team death match almost always includes all the team members gathering together at a defensible place on the map.

Players' mistakes while playing

1) Getting one weapon an going to battle. As I had said earlier, you should have as 2 weapons as minimum to fight. Also, Try to get some armor too. BUT REMEMBER!!!!! In the TDM mode all the weapons are spawning slower than in other modes. So while waiting the weapon be careful, because your opponent can easily ambush you and score a kill.
2) Don't sit at one place, MOVE! In the TDM mode, staying as long alive as possible is important. It means that your opponent team firstly will have lower score, secondly, you will have a bit control of the map and the game as well. If you're alive, then you shouldn't collect the weapons, because you already have them, so just collect the ammo boxes. If the ammo boxes are out, then collect the weapons.
3) Don't be a loser, give a weapon to your recently respawned teammate.
4)Never stop playing, play to the end!!!

Advices

1)Stay alive! If you're alive, then you shouldn't collect the weapons, because you already have them all, so just collect the ammo boxes. If the ammo boxes are out, then collect the weapons. BE CAREFUL!! When you are not collecting the weapons, you just give them to your opponent, who really needs them.
2) Don't let your opponent collect the items. As long as you keep all important weapons (RL and LG) and armor in your team control, as long you're be winning.
3) Get the Quad first. You can really mess everything up to your opponent with Quad.


Game Strategies: Duel

In my opinion, this is the funniest, the most good skill requiring, most difficult and the most popular gametype ever. I really not good at this part, because I just f*ck up with timing the items. Then, my opponent takes the map control and I'm losing. I just can't calculate so fast and think about so many things at the same time while playing. My head blows up. I can't understand, how pro's are doing this? You should have a CPU (processor) in your head to do it. Maybe pro's aren't humans? Maybe they are robots? xDDDD

Short-Term Strategy for The Game Type

The starting game: Finding out where your opponent spawned is the highest priority at first. Go through your pre-planned route corresponding to your spawn point and your opponent’s spawn point. You want to have a plan for this part of the game depending on where both of you spawn. The starting game ends when all the valuable items on the map are taken once and you both have the most useful items for that map. The starting game can also end when all the valuable items are taken once and someone has gotten a kill. Keep your eyes open most at the start of the game. You may be able to gain a lot of leverage against even the best players at this time.

The middle game: This is where you both are put to the test. Work some magic.

The end game: This is defined by when stalling begins. This can happen as early as 5 minutes left in the game on certain stallable maps. Stalling patterns can be very complicated. It can include being chased in an endless loop. It can include waiting on one side of a teleporter until the opponent comes. It can include ambushing. It almost always includes waiting as long as possible to re-spawn after being killed.

Players' mistakes while playing

1) Not collecting the items. The items like red armor and mega health are important in the duels. If you haven't collected them both, then the map control goes to your opponent.
2) Having one weapon. As I had said earlier, you should always have almost all the weapons.
3) Playing without sound. When you play without sound, you are a no0b, because you can't predict, where is your opponent at the moment, so is much harder to play. Also, you can't hear the items respawning and you can't hear the weapons sounds, footsteps and jumps, which can help scoring a frag.
4) Not timing items.
5) Silly standing at one place and waiting for an enemy on open areas.

Advices

1) Get all valuable items on the map. Not letting your opponent having any armor and extra heath is the basic wining tactic. You see, when you have 190 HP and 190 armor, you will die only after 5 direct rockets or after 7 rocket shots, while your opponent may die after a rocket and a Shotgun shot. So who is a winner?
2) Be at those areas were yo can access all the items by the shortest way and see almost all the map, so you can control it.
3) Don't let your opponent collecting anything. Collect everything you see on your road such as weapons, armor shards and heath balls.
4) Timing!!! Never forget about armors and megas, always keep an eye on a timer.
5) Strafe jumps, Circle jumps and Circle-Strafe jumps. Never forget about movement training, it sometimes may help.

RESPOWN times:

Wanted to help to all those people, who can't time well.(Like me)

Red Armor Mega Health
(Yellow Armor)


First Second
half: half:

00:00 05:00 00:00 07:00
00:25 05:25 00:35 07:35
00:50 05:50 01:10 08:10
01:15 06:15 01:45 08:45
01:40 06:40 02:20 09:20
02:05 07:05 02:55 09:55
02:30 07:30 03:30
02:55 07:55 04:05
03:20 08:20 04:40
03:45 08:45 05:15
04:10 09:10 05:50
04:35 09:35 06:25

Other Stuff

How do I change certain settings in the console or in my permanent .cfg file?


To change any setting in Quake Live all you have to do is hit the `~ key which brings down what is called the console. The console will take up the entire top half of your screen. It’s a text-based interface that lets you either type in a command or change a variable. If you want to see what value a variable is set to without changing it simply type the name of the variable. It shows the current value and the default value. The console has a feature that lets you type the first letter few letters of any command or variable and automatically complete the command or variable’s name by hitting the TAB key. There are well over a hundred commands and variables so all of them are not listed. In fact most of them aren’t needed to be changed no matter how picky someone is – they were just made to ease the development of Quake Live by the programmers. A slash must precede anything typed in the console. Slashes are not necessary in .cfg files however. The only other difference between the format of a .cfg file and the console is that the word “set” must precede any variable.

PAGE UP- goes up one line in the console.

PAGE DOWN- goes down one line in the console.

CTRL-HOME- goes to the bottom of the console instantly.

CTRL-END- goes to the top of the console instantly.

UP- brings back the last entries you typed.

bind- this assigns an action to a key.

callvote kick- kicks a player of your choice.

callvote map- changes map to a map that you choose.

cg_drawgun - turn this off to get more frames per second and see more of your field of view. You can see the icon at the bottom of your screen to know which weapon you have selected so showing your weapon is not necessary.

cg_drawteamoverlay- this is a valuable command for team play. It doesn’t appear in any other mode of play except team death match and CTF. It give the location, health amount, armor amount, weapon being used, and amount of ammo for the weapon being used for every person on your team.

cg_drawtimer- this one is important for timing items. With this off it’s impossible to time items. You can also time a few other things with this like when a power up of an enemy will run out and exactly when a match is going to end.

cg_lagometer- This keeps a graph of your ping and your packet loss on screen. Can’t live without it.

exec- this is how you load a .cfg file. There is a limit to how long a .cfg file can be and still have Quake 3 read all the way to the end of it. To get around this problem you can exec a second .cfg file from inside the first one.

devmap- this enables cheat mode. It’s the alternative to the map command. If you load a map with this command you will be able to adjust things like timescale and do other things like enable moving thru walls and giving yourself items for free.

reconnect- typing this is faster than reconnecting to a server any other way.

record- enter the filename of a demo you want to record after this command. Recording demos reduces your frames per second a little bit so if you can, have a spectator record the demo through your point of view. You must set g_synchronousclients to 1 before recording and then set it back to zero immediately after starting the recording. This is a client variable. It doesn’t matter what the server has this set to.

sensitivity- keep it nice and low. If it’s too low, it’ll be obvious. I see 100 times more people with a sensitivity that is too high than too low.

timedemo- This is for testing how many frames per second you are getting. Some people just use the cg_drawfps command but it is not a reliable measure. Timedemo averages your frames from the cg_drawfps command over a long period of time for a standard demo. Either demo001 or demo002 are the two standard demos everyone uses to test their frames per second. If you get 70 frames per second or less, you seriously need to get a new computer. If you get under 100 frames per second, your computer is hurting your gameplay. The best computers and graphic cards nowadays get up easily to about 125 frames per second which is absolutely fantastic to see. Even when you’re up over 125 frames more is still better.

timescale- not only changes the speed of time on a server or single player game, it acts like slow motion and fast-forward while watching demos.

vid_restart- some video settings don’t take effect until you have done this command.

Why lower your video detail settings?


1) Less camouflage. It’ll be easier to recognize people.

2) More frames per second. This is the most important one. Not only will it be easier to see what’s going on, but you won’t have tiny pauses in action-packed battles.

3) Less clutter in between you and enemies. Weapons will create less screening effect.

Some maps to play against bots

http://markotorg.com/pubneab/Ugriumij/T … 13camp.zip
http://markotorg.com/pubneab/Ugriumij/T … f_beta.zip
http://markotorg.com/pubneab/Ugriumij/T … beta7b.zip


Team play Chat Binds

Quad carrier is dead.

Quad soon

I need the item.- If I need an item that is right next to them I will click my use item button quickly to let them know not to get it. This gives off an audible clicking sound.

Item available here!

Primary Yellow Armor, Secondary Yellow Armor, Red Armor, or Mega Health has just been taken.

Two or three enemies here!

Capture the Flag Chat Binds


Incoming enemy high

Incoming enemy low

Enemy flag carrier is here!

Attacking location X now.

I'm about to die with the flag.

Opponent is about to die with the flag.

Quad/a power-up soon

Base safe.

Base not safe.


Other Binds

quit- exits Quake instantly

vote yes

vote no

say Nice

say omg

say Thanks

say gg

say

say Yes

say No

Why some maps are not fun:


• Not enough health- you play perfectly yet you still die a lot.

• Not enough armor- you play perfectly yet you still die a lot.

• Includes the BFG.

• Too many power ups- zero through 4 is plenty.

• Too wide open- you don’t want to have to aim for the entire match without any rest, not to mention open maps are boring because there’s no geography to interact around. There is no personal style on wide open maps.

• Spawn points are too rich- you don’t want your opponent to spawn near rocket launcher and mega health three times in a row! You’re lucky you fragged them after those ridiculous spawns!

• Spawn points are too economically varied- one spawn point is near the red armor and rocket launcher while another is near two ammo packs and two shards.

• Too many teleporters- teleporters add randomness as well as camping.

• Too campable- never having to leave one place and still winning.

• Too stallable
• Poor use of jump pads- using jump pads makes you vulnerable, for example: if all the spawn points are on the bottom floor and all the weapons are on the top floor and there’s only jump pads to get you there the map sucks.

• Too few frames per second- some maps have way too much beauty in them to be playable.

Question Answers

Why is it preferred to have team damage on?


Having the ability to damage your own team members changes the way the game is played entirely. It reduces spam very much. It allows for more skill to develop. For people who don’t play for the love of competition team damage is best left off though. Especially on public servers where people don’t care as much about their teammates. With team damage left off the teammates get to hang around more closely to each other which is fun.


Why is Quad not liked in 1on1?


It puts too much emphasis on the time the quad spawns. The rest of the game isn't nearly as important. A four frag lead can be easy to get when you have quad and a four frag lead can be enough to stall for 10 minutes on some maps.


Why are no power-ups liked in 1on1?


The teleporter teleports you to a random location. The randomness is not desirable in competition. We want all that happens in the game to be able to be controlled by the players. They are too powerful for 1on1. People can stall for long periods in most 1on1 maps. So a lead in the beginning can mean certain win depending on how stallable the map is.


Why is the BFG hated?


It unbalances the game. It takes up way too much of the same. It is completely absent in all leagues, including CTF, Team Death Match, Free For All, and 1on1.


Future Quake Live Hopes


1) Better recording features. More settings like captured video and sound quality, videos adjusting and sharing with other QL players.
2) Multi-core processor support. Better performance
3) Nvidia 3D Vision support
4) Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFire support
5) More than default 125 FPS limit. Up to 200 FPS.
6) Old computer graphic feature or Play on a netbook graphic feature (VERY LOW settings, lower than usual)
7) Rocket Arena mode
8) Arena CTF mode. Mix of CA and CTF. The idea is to break the round limit. The round may be won only by a flag capture. Two ways to have a flag capture. First way – kill all players from your opponent team and make a flag capture or the second - sneak in the your opponent home base, capture the flag and go back to the home base at any moment of the round. The flag could only be kept for 1 minute.
9) Double Weapon mode. Holding two weapons instead of one, which are shooting at one place. Double damage as well.
10) InstaDuel mode. The same duel (armors and megas), but with one weapon.
11) Custom maps creating tools or feature. Also, Id, you could run a custom maps audition and the winner's map would go to the default QL maps list, while the winner would get a pro account for free.
12) More settings freedom in private servers. Like a timescale adjusting, changing respawn times, weapon reloads, weapon dps and damages, time and frag limits.
13) More character models. The old ones are a bit boring, add plz new.
14) 5.1 and 7.1 surround sounds support. Better sound and better prediction of the opponent.
15) Premium and Pro features for free xDDD
16) More training maps
17) Timing training mode
18) Bot race training mode. To train strafe jumps, wins that one, who has the highest speed after 8 jumps.
19) MORE KINDS OF WEAPONS. Add a Cement launcher. Add in a forked path gun. Add in a gun that shoots in a cast net path. Add in a gun that stays in someone for 3 seconds and then detonates and the whole time has a wire that is connected to you. Add in a gun with more than one crosshair that would shoot through all of them at the same time. Sticky trails like glue that slows people down. An option to shoot your gun in the opposite direction as your crosshair. i.e. behind you. But you wouldn’t have to look backward because the gun would be able to shoot out of both ends of it’s barrel. It could offer some very creative shots and a whole new skill to develop. A gun that's bad side is that it has a laser scope attached to it so everyone knows where you are pointing it. Air grenades to blow things around including yourself without making damage. Guns that destroy items on the map. Guns that grab items on the map. Gunfire that bounces off of walls, but always NORMAL to the surface! Gunfire that always slides along walls! Gunfire that leaves a floor or wall hot for 1 second so you can’t touch it.

20) Better bot AI. It’s so easy to make bots that time the items and strafe jump but only the mod makers do it. Why? If it takes up too much CPU power then make a dedicated bot client that can connect to your listen server over a network.

21) More kinds of items. A magnetic shoes power up so you can walk on walls and or ceilings like in Alien versus Predator. Maybe just a sticky shoes power up so you can walk on steeper slopes for a little while, not have as much inertia (dodge better), and not slip in oil. A rear view mirror key that places a little mirror on your screen. X-ray vision power up. Slick trails like oil that makes it hard for people to stop. An item called a camera that you can throw around corners to see what’s there. An item called a microphone that you can leave places and listen through.

22) More realistic physics would be nice but is as high on my list as all the other hopes.


Vocabulary

This vocabulary is intended to be light-hearted yet useful. The terms work like short hand so you can communicate with your friends quickly during a game or elsewhere without having to type a lot. They are perfect for someone writing commentary of important matches for websites. This list meant to be include names for all the main elements of strategy in Quake. If you’re concerned about these ideas while you play, you know you’re on the right track.

Aggressor’s advantage- fighting someone before they are ready to fight you. The advantage is also having more than 100 health and 100 armor because you haven’t waited for it to count down. This can be the advantage of surprise as well.

Aiming ahead of someone- aiming where you expect them to be (usually with the rail gun) and for consistency not moving your mouse and just clicking when they walk into your crosshair. This is not shooting ahead of them. It has nothing to do with leading or accounting for ping. This technique is not only for long range sniping! It is as useful at the closest ranges as it is from far away!

Ambushing- waiting quietly behind a corner for someone to come past the corner. You sacrifice item control for a little while to possibly get a surprise shot at an opponent’s back. In 1on1 this can slow the pace of the game down considerably if your opponent finds out you like to ambush.

The bait & switch- switching weapons to a machine gun, a gauntlet, an empty weapon, or a weapon the opponent has little use for right before being fragged. This is very hard to do since you have to leave enough time to get the next weapon out completely before dying. This is most useful in team death match, followed by 1 on 1, followed by FFA. It’s most easily done when you find yourself trapped behind a corner with very little health. This skill takes a long time to get good at, since not timing it right has some bad consequences.

Baiting- letting someone have the item so you can hit them when they get it. This is deliberately choosing to not pick up the item when you can and waiting for them to comeand get it.

Battle aka engagement- a close contact where there is a lot of quick interaction between2 or more players. Close contact is considered roughly within range of the lightning gun.

Being stacked- having nearly 200 health and nearly 200 armor. Stacked also refers to having nearly 100 health and 200 armor on maps that don't have a mega health.

Blocking- when you hear an enemy about to kill another person you can get in between them. This is done in BOTH team play mode and FFA mode. In FFA mode, it's done when you need kills badly and have a lot of health. If it is hard to find people to kill, you will find yourself needing to do this a lot. This blocks shots with your body, diverts the players attention onto you, and screen the two players from each other. Now you have the chance to get both kills if you have enough life and good weapons.

Bounce lead- aim rockets or grenades to miss intentionally a little to an opponent’s left or right so their aim is stunned in the opposite direction. This is done when you don't know exactly where they will be so you need to stun them quick to save your health and then go for more damage on the your next shot. It’s a shot you let off very quickly and don’t worry if it hits far from them because you know it will jolt their view anyway. Bounce leads are usually done when an opponent drops down on top of you and you don’t know which side of you they’re going to fall off onto. They are also done frequently in rocket versus rocket battles when you have been “out-synced.”

Butting heads- The battle that ensues when two people meet at one of the most valuable items on the map. This usually happens 1 to 5 seconds before the item spawns.

Catapulting- when a teammate shoots another teammate in the back to speed them up. This is only done when friendly fire is off.

Cess- concentrating on aiming the machine gun since it is the only weapon you have. The added concentration on aiming the machine gun makes it an effective weapon. This term is used mostly in team play when 2 or 3 people on the same team rush a single room with only machine guns. The term is also used when someone is reverse spawn fragged.

Cleaning up- switching to a weapon that is more reliable at taking off a little bit of health in order to take off just a little bit of health. The lightning gun is the best one of these. The rail gun is the worst one of these. The shotgun and machine gun are also popular clean up weapons.

Clogging their gun- when an opponent has a rocket launcher, grenade launcher, or BFG sacrificing yourself so when they shoot you they'll either have to take splash damage or have to switch to a less effective weapon. This is simply entails getting as close as you can to them.

Corner lead- shoot to one side of a person several times so that they will have to dodge in the opposite direction and corner themselves or be forced to eat the shots. For their best interest they should have eaten a shot instead. A more general term for this is herding.

Crossing the streams- two or more people shooting someone with the lightning gun just like in Ghostbusters.

Crucifying- holding the fire button down before the next rail shot is available to be shot and hitting the shot. This is done to get off the shot as soon as possible, saving every millisecond. This can be done in 3 circumstances: 1) right after a previous rail shot and the gun is reloading, 2) while switching weapons to the rail gun, or 3) before stepping on more rail slugs when you were out of them.

Dancing aka hanging around- staying in a battle for one of two reasons even though you will not win the battle in terms of damage inflicted. 1) wasting their ammo or 2) wasting their time so you can re-spawn and have some items to pick up or so that you can flee and get to an item that you are closer to when it spawns soon.

Denial- shooting yourself with splash damage so you can pick up more shards or healths to keep them from your opponent(s). This is actually a very good tactic to use most of the time.

Dogfight- a battle between two people while both are airborne.

Disabling- 99 percent exclusive to CTF mode, this is only taking some damage off an opponent and letting them proceed (into your own base 90 percent of the time). This way you don’t waste your time, ammo, and armor on killing them since you know they are not a threat. You get to continue onward with your own task.

Drawing a line on someone- the lightning gun never leaves the person. Especially on someone in the air. You’ll see a nice continuous line of red blood on them and they’ll lose a hell of a lot of health. This is a major complement to give someone. It takes incredible aim to do this.

Faking distraction- hurting yourself in FFA so someone will come closer to attack you. Done with plasma gun, rocket launcher, or grenade launcher. You can also miss shots as well to sound like being in a battle with someone else. The point is to sound occupied with someone else.

Far lead- aiming a rocket so as to bring an opponent closer to you or to bring them in past a narrow point on the map.

Firing blind- looking around a corner or below a ledge a second time and firing instantly at a place on the map without looking to see if they are where you are aiming or not. They may be completely gone, but you believe the benefits outweigh the costs. One thing that can be done to make this shot more reliable is to not move the mouse at all in between the first and second looks. Only the feet need to be moved sometimes.
Flick shot- hitting a rail or shotgun shot whereby you move your mouse from one place to their body instantly firing in the same motion.

Footwork aiming- using footwork to increase aiming accuracy. Works with any weapon but especially the rail and lightning gun. For rail and shotgun it adds consistency but decreases response time. For lightning gun, machine gun, and plasma gun it is different than for the other weapons. The way it works for these three weapons is you try to move in the same direction as the opponent is moving (left or right only). You assume they are moving circularly to you (perpendicular to the direction you would be aiming if you were pointing exactly at them) since this is the most common dodge tactic (called circle strafing). This allows your velocities to be identical and if you ARE aiming at them exactly, every shot hits its target one after the next in very rapid succession. This is so successful because it turns the tide of the battle more quickly than the loser can predict so they can't change to evasive tactics in time to save themselves. You’ll be missing entirely before your feet get your crosshair to the place you want to be aiming but as soon as you get there and walk in the correct direction they get hit with every lightning or plasma ammo in a row. That’s what turns the tide so quickly. That’s not the only advantage of this aiming though. It is also more accurate than not using your feet to aim. Normal aim works on a steadier, more average pace for lack of a better expression. If you only need to take off a very tiny bit of health, just move your crosshair all around them.

Forcing the issue aka pressuring someone- making a person rise to the occasion at your discretion. Trying to win by choosing the EXACT time of a key battle. This is the "aggressor's advantage." In games where there are many possible outcomes during the match that take effort to predict, the aggressor's advantage is best. It has become popular to continuously force the issue for an entire match to tire out an opponent. Regulation matches are always 15 or 20 minutes. That’s a long time to maintain intense concentration so some people try to pack as much action into the match as they can. This tactic is done by people who think they are the better player and don’t want the match to be a lucky upset.

Giving stilts- a double air rail from below with the first one contributing to the opponent’s hang time.

Glancing- using the edge of your field of view to look instead of moving your mouse more and disrupting your frame of reference for aiming.

Going kamikaze- being reckless due to having to claw your way back from a deficit in a short time. Sometimes one or more of your lives have to be sacrificed in order to create an opportunity for you to tie the game. Going kamikaze can be attacking so as to distract or hurt an enemy and being willing to die to do it. This is almost entirely done in CTF. But is also done in team death match to get quad and die so the other team can’t use it.

Grenade jab- using the grenade launcher instead of rocket spam in order to save on rockets. This is usually done when the opponent is expecting you to fire another rocket.

Hider's advantage- choosing the place of a key battle but not the time. The opponent doesn't have much certainty about where to find you. The hider relies on already having planned out their own actions in detail and well into the future. The aggressor can’t plan to such an extent since the location of the battle is not definite.

Hot potato- a direct grenade hit.

Keeping the upper hand- playing more defensively and not taking risks in order to use the pressure of having the lead in a match. This is not stalling, but is close. The difference in scores is typically small. Keeping the upper hand takes on added meaning in 1 on 1 play. It can be staying at one part of a map that has armor and ammo and not leaving; just defending when other valuable items aren’t spawning. If keeping the upper hand works for more than about a couple minutes, the map is considered stallable and therefore a poor choice for competitive matches.

Land mines- grenades laid where someone may teleport to.

Life- health and armor combined, except the armor that would be left on someone if they died. If you have 25 health and 125 armor, you don’t have 225 life. Instead you have 75 life because you’ll die with 50 armor left over.

Making someone dance- firing toward someone to disrupt their aim even though you know you probably won't hit a significant amount of the shots fired. It’s one thing to have to dodge and aim at the same time. It’s even harder though to have to dodge things that are already coming at you and aim at the same time.

Matrix dodging aka sucking in your gut- turning to face projectiles as they barely miss you to the left or right. This moves a corner of your hit box away from the shot. This tactic takes advantage of the cubic shape of your hit box. It is a rare spectacle.

Momentum jump- a strafe jump with extra velocity since it was done while hitting the ground after a fall.

Mugging- waiting around a corner with the gauntlet ready. This is usually done while fleeing from an opponent.

Near lead- aiming a rocket so as to bounce someone away from you.

Pacing one’s self- not forcing yourself to make difficult plays in quick succession. 1) Resting in between so that you can retain/regain your composure, or 2) Giving yourself time to preview by visualizing what winning the next battle will entail. This way you have a plan and maybe a contingency plan, and your opponent may not have had the time to prepare for the battle. Rest times may vary between 1 second and several minutes in the most extreme case. The median rest time is about 10 seconds. The time is lowest in FFA, higher in team play, highest in 1 on 1. With fewer people the time is higher. Pacing comes into play when you are exerting yourself absolutely as much as possible.

Patriot missile- a direct rocket hit on an airborne opponent.

Patriot potato- a direct grenade hit on an airborne opponent.

Peon- a person who just spawned. They are obviously weak and an easy frag to score. Peons are weaker in team play mode since the machine gun damage is reduced from seven to five.

Plasma climb- climbing walls with the plasma gun. It’s done by facing a wall and getting up against it. Then aiming down at where the wall meets the floor. If you press and hold the fire button down when you jump you’ll gradually climb the wall.

Playing possum- voluntarily taking some of the splash damage from an opponent’s spam rockets and grenades so that your opponent will think you have less life than you do and decide to attack you. The trick is to just barely get within the splash radius of these weapons so you only take about 5 health off. If they don’t see how far away you were when the shot explodes they will usually assume it hit closer to you than it really did.

Pre-spawn raping- firing at vacant spawn points in case someone spawns there.

Reactor's advantage- choosing the place of a key battle but not the time. Awareness must somehow remain heightened and fatigue dealt with. The opponent knows where you are. In games that are slower than Quake there is no disadvantage to being a reactor. The only challenge is to be calm and aware before every match.

Recon shot- a spam shot done to see if someone is there. The beep lets you know if they are there. These are most often long shots that you don’t watch and don’t even stay around for.

Reverse lead- to shoot where someone will be if they reverse their velocity. It's a counter move of a counter move. You look like a real dummy when you use this on someone who is playing Quake for the first time and never even thinks to dodge because then you completely miss. At long range you can clearly see when someone tries this tactic.

Reverse spawn frag- when a person frags another but doesn’t have much life left over there’s a chance for the loser of the battle to reverse spawn frag the winner. It’s completely random luck. The irony is that if the loser of the first battle kills the winner the lucky loser now has a head start on getting items. Reverse spawn frags are pretty rare, but the influence a peon has when he re-spawns after a close battle is not as rare. The person who got the frag first may have to give up control of the map in order to get health/armor even if he isn’t reverse spawn fragged. This is good reason for map authors to make spawn points that are all poor. Most battles occur near valuable items. Put the spawn points away from those items and there won’t be as many reverse spawn frags.Reverse spawn frags can really make people mad. They are frustrating and just plain wrong. But the first battle actually was close and the winner does have a better weapon so they can probably put some damage on the peon. Reverse spawn frags are more of an issue in 1 on 1 games, although they do matter in team death match and CTF as well. In 1 on 1 more attention paid to them will prevent a lot of them. In FFA they aren’t much of an issue because two people trading a kill both ways is still more productive than not scoring any frags at all in that time period. In crowded FFA games, people are always spawning near you anyways.

Road blocks- spam that is to block a passageway from being traversed.

Rocket running- rocket jumping at a low angle to the ground to gain speed not height. This is usually done with the battle suit on when you have rockets to spare.

Scanning- rushing into a room that has more than a screen’s worth of places where an opponent could be. The perfect example of this is coming out of a teleporter. A very quick look around the room is necessary. There are several ways to scan depending on the situation. You can do a quick flick to aim at the exact place where you think the opponent probably is. You can do a flick all the way to the right or left extreme where he could be to check the side you think they probably are. Follow this with a slide of your aim around to the other side. It’s tougher when you teleport into a room where someone could be anywhere around you, 360 degrees. Some people scan left then slide around to their right and then check their back third. Another option is to delay a millisecond and aim at the first sound you hear. People don’t scan only left or only right for a complete 360 degrees, since the sound of someone will be heard before a full 360 degrees can be looked at. You can note someone’s scanning pattern and adjust to it later in the game. Don’t rely on taking advantage of someone’s scanning pattern and don’t put much energy into it since it doesn’t always pay off. Just try to note it a few times in a row, and if they get really predictable with it, take advantage of it.

Scattering- rocket jumping to evade being hit. This is best done to get over the opponent’s head, to get behind an object quickly, or as a rocket run.

Screening- using the plasma gun, lightning gun, rocket launcher, or any other weapon more to reduce the opponents vision than to inflict damage.

Slash shooting- hitting a shotgun or rail shot whereby you move your mouse from one place to a place past their body in one motion and firing in between. It is sort of like a baseball swing.

Sneaker's advantage- walking instead of running when rounding corners that the opponent may be around so that you retain full aggressor's advantage. The difference is the lack of footstep sounds.

Spam- a general guess shot at an opponent that you can't see or just throwing extra ammo into high traffic areas of a map. People may be there or not, but the shooter doesn’t know. It's not aimed so much at people but at a place on the map.

Spawn raping- fragging a player who never had time to have any effect on the game in their short lifespan. Spawn raping is also a long-term strategy that is characterized by going to certain places on the map that are near many spawn points.

Splash damage- damage taken from a rocket, grenade, BFG round, or even a plasma ball when not directly contacted by the projectile.

Squaring off- facing someone during a battle to make yourself a smaller target. There are very few instances when matrix dodging is preferred over squaring off. This tactic takes advantage of the cubic shape of your hit box.

Stalling- wasting time when you have the lead. There are very complicated stalling techniques for each map and various situations on each map. Near the end of close matches, this is done frequently in 1 on 1 and occasionally done in team death match but never done in FFA. The most extreme form of stalling is not re-spawning until the game automatically forces you to. The default value for g_forcerespawn is 20 seconds. This value is commonly lessened in tournaments and leagues.

Standing someone up- intentionally waiting next to a spawned valuable item instead of picking it up so that you can pick it up later than your opponent thinks you will. This is done when the opponent is too far away to hear when you pick the item up. If your opponent tries to get the item next time around, they will have to wait at the item for the extra time that you delayed. This can give you time to spam grenades at them or walk to set up an ambush around a corner. They are pretty much in the hot seat while they are waiting for that item to spawn. You’ll be able to try to hit them with more shots while they dodge around the place where the item spawns.

Stealing frag(s)- in FFA mode, choosing to get into the battle only after the battle has already started between other people.

Stick & move- shoot a little and break off contact to go a different route without waiting at the place you shot them at all. They don't know if you stayed or left.

Suckering- using a less appropriate weapon to get the opponent to come to you. Maybe they don't know you have a better weapon. Maybe they know but don't think you can switch weapons fast enough.

Sucker punching- waiting on the outside of a teleporter with your gauntlet on. The opponent has absolutely no way to avoid the hit if he goes through.

Swerving- battling up close with an opponent and suddenly side-stepping to their left or right and then instantly shooting. This let’s you dodge an opponent and make him a bigger target since they aren’t pointing directly at you. This tactic takes advantage of the right angles on an opponent’s hit box.

Syncing items- delaying getting an item to sync it with the next spawn times of other items. Example: you don’t want to “rocket run” from one armor to another armor because you’ll have to “rocket run” the next time too. Another example: delaying an important item so it will spawn at the same time as another important item so your opponent will be forced to choose between which one he wants to get next time they spawn. This is a way to “keep the upper hand.” This latter example is called “un- syncing items” (even though you are actually giving the items the same future spawn time).

Syncing shots- timing your shots so that they are immediately before your opponent will shoot so they either miss their shot or have to delay their shot. Syncing shots can cause them to miss either because of the explosion moving their character perpendicular to the direction they are aiming (like a bounce lead does) or because of the artificial movement of their view programmed into Quake 3 when they are hit. The artificial movement portion doesn't actually move where they are really aiming but does move their crosshair and whole view. Good players deliberately ignore this artificial movement when they can foresee you are employing this tactic. They’ll shoot despite where their crosshair appears to be pointing. Syncing shots dramatically increases the chances of winning seemingly equal battles especially when the syncing person is using the rocket launcher. People who aren't experts don't know how you can win so many battles in a row and tend to complain that they are off their game when you do this to them a lot. This tactic is one of the major things that helps Quake continue to be a fun game and preserves Quake's uniqueness with respect to other games. Syncing shots deals both with reload times of weapons and with weapon switching times. Syncing not only deals with jolting the aim of the person but jolting their body's position so their aim is off target. For example, if you rail someone right before they shoot a rocket at your feet, their rocket will land in front of you by a little bit. The synchronizing has saved you some damage. On an extended note, the splash damage will move you away from your opponent making your rail gun a more appropriate weapon for the battle.

Tilting your head- turning your view horizontally solely for the purpose of hearing which side of you a person is on. This amplifies the difference of the stereo sound in your headphones. A special case is when someone is either directly behind you or in front of you. The sound is exactly the same so you must tilt your head to determine which side of you they are on.

Time giver- spam that an opponent will hear and have to refrain from coming through a narrow place on the map. This is usually done more to slow someone down rather than to stop them entirely.

Throw lead- aim rockets or grenades to miss intentionally a little bit so an opponent falls over a ledge.

Trading places- picking a fight when you probably will lose in terms of damage in order to flee toward a valuable item that will spawn soon. If you damage them more than you get hurt or even kill them that’s a bonus.

Tripping- finishing someone off with a rocket when they are so close they could clog your gun. This is a difficult technique that involves shooting to either side of them and a little bit behind them so that you don’t explode your rocket too close to you (or on their body which is too close to you). This is only done when they have very little life left. This is a risky maneuver, and it can really backfire on you if you miss. Remember that self splash damage is halved so your rocket can take off a maximum of 50 life from you.

Turtle- shoot a little and break off contact as if to go a different route but stay just out of view. The opponent doesn’t know if you stayed or left. One or two jumps can add to their indecision. Either that or some footstep sounds may help.

Using dominant position- picking to fight when the geometry of the map favors you. THIS DEPENDS ON THE WEAPON YOU AND YOUR OPPONENT HAVE SELECTED and even on the other weapons you and your opponent have in your arsenals as well. Your position is dominant typically when you have the higher ground, but this is the simplest case. If you have the machine gun and the other person has the lightning gun, you have dominant position when far away. Playing Rocket Arena really makes you good at using dominant position and knowing what positions are more dominant. This is one of the most complicated things in Quake.

Wall pin- aiming a rocket so as to bounce an opponent into a wall where they can't dodge in as many directions and you have a wall to splash damage them if you miss their body directly on the next shot.

Winning the station game- varying your location in rooms and near the outsides of teleporters. Rooms and the outside ends of teleporters I call stations. You don’t want to be found on the same side of the teleporter every time someone sees you. The goal is to locate yourself as randomly as possible. But also to pick where they won’t think you are. At the same time you must remember that going to a different position than last time they saw you at that station has an advantage: they haven’t responded to you in that place before so they will be less accurate because that response is not as “warmed up” for them. Scanning versus stationing is like a miniature game within Quake.


Commentary

There are no limits for an any player, just some players plays better than you. But some times you* will see, that it is to easy to kill even 4 people in CA mode, when your are the last in your team. It shows how far you got, what is your REAL skill level is when you try harder. If it happens 4 or 5 times in a week, better in a day, than your progress is really fast. It happens me about 6 times in two weeks, when I am fragin' like crazy. But it makes me a bit sad because when I play, no-one ever says nice or omg to me. While playing, just try to win the game and have more crazy moments xDDDD.

Conclusion

All these strategies merge together the more you play. Go through periods of trying too hard alternating with periods of not caring at all. Go through periods of trying so hard that it makes you lose games because you focused to much on one thing. Then go through games lazily just typing to people about whatever you want. Some time if you’re lucky you’ll get in a situation where you want to beat someone and then play aggressively and calmly at the same time. I thought Quake was really cool when I first got it, but knowing more about it has only added to my amazement and enjoyment of it.
Thank YOU for reading my guide. I guess, you should like it.