Quake Live Open Beta Begins Feb. 24th 60
The Quake Live team has announced that the beta will open to the public on Tuesday, February 24th. On Monday, they will take the servers down, wipe all stats and prune inactive accounts, then re-open on the public site. Personal settings and current account info will be maintained for active accounts. They also said, "We're going to post some additional information in the Developer Notes about the opening of the game, what it means to leave the 'beta' tag on the site during this time, and discuss some features and functionality that we're planning for the next couple of months that we know you'll be interested in." GameSetWatch ran a story recently by a columnist who tried out the closed beta, and we discussed John Carmack's thoughts on the game a few months back.
Still win32-only? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's too bad considering that id is the stoutest friend of linux games.
Re:I played the closed beta... (Score:2, Insightful)
I have also tried it, and it went really smoothly. But I don't like the game very much.
You pretty much HAVE to have the patience to learn where every powerup is in all the maps you play, and try to beat people to them to be even marginally good at this game. I feel the default weapon is way too weak, and the armor is way too strong.
Re:Played a couple of times (Score:4, Insightful)
As more appropriately paced games have come out since the hay-day of Quake 3
but that's precisely why people to this day still love quake 3, there has not been a faster game since it, a lot of people enjoy the fast and arcade like factor.
Re:I played the closed beta... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:What's the point? (Score:3, Insightful)
and I think people who only play open source games are lame because they ignore the rich landscape of games in favour of their ideology.
You people are also really boring to talk to because as soon as you mention a proprietary game you have to negativity rant about how non-free it is, like how you're doing now.