There's something about the pace of older FPSes that the new ones don't match. Plus, turns out realism isn't something I ever wanted in an FPS.
I still fire UT99 up and play a few bot matches once in a while.
Now I can do it in my browser?
I still fire UT99 up and play a few bot matches once in a while.
Now I can do it in my browser?
Part of the problem is many of the modern FPS games have adapted arena FPS features (even Halo now is much faster than it used to be) making it difficult for people to go back to them unless they were deep fans of arena FPS games in the first place.
Ultrakill is a great one for singleplayer though!
Anybody can download a version of this client along with a mostly playable version of quake [1] (that includes only the first chapter of the original maps like the shareware version but many or most popular multiplayer maps. And if you have the original you just need to place the pak1.pak inside the id1 directory and have access to everything)
There are many ongoing tournaments and QHLAN is about to be held in Sweden on November 17-20. You can find all about these in the quakeworld wiki [2]
To find the servers and games you can use one of two websites [3][4] or the in-game browser. The quakeworld EU and US communities are found on Discord. [5][6]
There is also an automated Twitch channel built by a community member that streams quakeworld 24/7 [7]
[0] https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source
[2] https://www.quakeworld.nu/wiki/Overview
[4] https://hub.quakeworld.nu/
[5] http://discord.quake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld EU Discord)
[6] http://discord.usquake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld US Discord)
if that were the only catch then people like myself and parent wouldn't return to these games simply to fight a bot match.
I have a hunch that most the people still hosting servers for games 20+ years later are very good at it. The noobs and casuals like myself moved on ages ago.
Being blown to bits before the whole spawn animation plays repeatedly is amusing for a while, but the charm wears off fast. I don’t have the time to dedicate to get good.
This was my Quake experience a couple years ago, at least.