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| Mar. 1, 1998 |
Steve Funkadooda has doped out some techniques for using Bryce to create Quake II environment maps, and has posted information on the subject on QuakeLab 2. Thanks Bluenews
Editors
The qED Prefab Park has been redone to cover QOOLE prefabs as too.
Ruination CTF Arena
The first beta of Ruination CTF
Arena has been released on the
Ruination page. Described as a combination of CTF
and Rocket Arena, Ruination CTF
Arena is a Quake II mod featuring two constantly moving (courtesy of a
flag carrier
for each team) flags, with each
player only gets one life per round. Thanks Bluenews
Level Contest
The Level Contest Is Officially
Over, The Levels Will Be Judged By March 5, 1998. The Awards and Prizes
Will Be
Given March 6-7. The Winner Gets
$15 and a T1 Server Will Run The Winner's Map. I Found A Person That Will
Run
The Winning Map. He Is On A T1
At Penn State. The Server Will Run From March 7-11.
| Feb 28, 1998 |
Today Is The Last Day To Submit
Levels For The Contest. The Already Submitted Levels Will Be Graded March
5, 1998
The Winner Will Be Announced March
6, 1998. Awards & Prizes Given March 7-9, 1998.
Creative Labs Voodoo 2 Reviews
Tom's Hardware has also reviewed the same card and includes benchmarks.
California Graphics Ultimate Wizard
This GameCenter article talks about California Graphics offering their upcoming 12M Voodoo 2 with TV-out for only $299 (same price as Creative's without TV-out). Thanks Redwood's
Search Engine
The Old News Section Will Be Changing,
It Will Be Organized In Blocks Of 7 Days To A Page. There Will Be A Search
Engine
On The Old News Main Page. Type
In The Info You Want To Search For, And A List Of Pages Will Come Up.
This Feature Should Be Added In
5-7 Days.
| Feb 27, 1998 |
I Created My First .plan File Today, With My First Entry, For Feb. 27,1 998.
Quake II Weapons Info Section
The Quake II Weapons Info Section
Is Now Complete Use The Link On The Left Under The Quake II Info Section
In The Links Frame On The Left.
There You Can Get Pictures, Info, and More On Your Favorite Weapons.
A Enemy & Items Info Section
Will Be Trailing Behind It Soon!!
So Keep On Checking Daily For Either
One.
Pure3D Contest
For those people hungry for 3Dfx,
there's a contest to win a Canopus Pure3D 3Dfx card over at . Pure3D Central
Thanks
Quake2.com
Quake2.com Server
Quake2.con now has a CTF server running at ctf.quake2.com:27920.
Level Contest
Today & Tommorow Are The Last
Before The Contest Ends. So Get Your Levels In.
Rules and
Details
Submit
Levels Here
Riot: Mobile Armor
Check Out Some Screenshots Of An
Awesome Mod That Is Coming Out For Quake II. http://riot.lith.com/shots/.
| Feb 26, 1998 |
Shaymon Has Submitted Another DM
Map Called "War" Get It At The Contest Entries
Page.
Rules and
Details
Submit
Levels Here
Quake2 Server List Updated
Deceide sent along this word about Quake Domain's Quake2 Server List:
Quake
Domain's Quake 2 server list now includes servers from id Software's Quake
2 master. Just set "public 1" and your server will automatically show up
in the server list at http://www.gameaholic.com/servers/quake2/,
as well as in all search engines on the site. Of course server ops should
still add their locations at http://www.gameaholic.com/q-adds.htm.
Thanks
Quake2.com
| Feb 25, 1998 |
I Picked This Up Off Of Quake2.com,
Quake II is now at 3.13 and this is an upgrade from 3.12 the pont release.
Quake2
v3.13 FULL DOWNLOAD (9.2 megs)
Get The 3.12-3.13 Upgrade In The
Files Section, Or Get The 3.13 Linux Upgrade In The Files Section Too.
Quake2 CTF v1.01
CTF for the new v3.13 was released. Direct Link To id's copy.
Qoole Q2 CTF Entities
A set of Quake II CTF entities for the Qoole level editor are up on Ingenuity.
Level Contest
Shay Mcarty Has Submitted Towers. Check Out Contest Entries Page To Download It.
South Park
A New TC Called South Park Is Being
Made, And There Are Some New Screen Shots Up. Check It Out At
South
Park TC Homepage.
| Feb 24, 1998 |
The Level Contest Is Almost Over,
So Get Your Maps In By March 1, 1998.
Go Here Rules
and Details For All The Rules And Details.
See All The Submitted Levels At
The: Contest Entries Page
Submit
Levels Here
64 Player Quake II DM Maps
New Mod
There is a new X-Man Mod out. Check
It Out Here At Ravages
of Apocalypse.
One Disadvantage is it doens't
work with Quake II 3.12
Most Mods Wont Work With 3.12 until
.ddl source is released.
Q2 DM Tips
Get Some Quake II DM Tips On ZDNet's Gamers Edge - Quake II.
64 Player Quake II DM Maps
id Software Has Released 3 new 64 player DM maps (7.0 MB) Or Get Them Off Their FTP Site.
The maps should be extracted to your \quake2\baseq2\maps directory and they are named as follows;
base64.bsp - Tim Willits
city64.bsp - Paul Jaquays
sewer64.bsp - Christian Antkow
You Need At Least 32 MB RAM To Play
These Maps.
Play Them On The 64 Player DM Server:
192.246.40.37:27913
Battle Of The Sexes
A New Mod, This Is The Clostest
Thing I Have Seen To TF Yet.
***Warning*** It Only Works With
Quake 2 3.10 Not 3.12.
Get The Mod, Maps, And Servers
There.
http://www.quake2.com/spinoza/
| Feb 23, 1998 |
The Contest Ends In 7 Days, The
Levels Will Be Judged On March 5, 1998.
The Awards Will Be Given March
6,7, or 8, 1998.
Quake 2 Servers
There Is A New Page With All The
Quake 2 Servers On It. It Is Updated Every 5 Minutes.
Check It Out.
http://inferno.idsoftware.com/q2servers/
Monster 3d II
There Is A Really Cool Preview Of
The Monster 3D II At MeccaWorld.
Check It Out Here:
http://www.meccaworld.com/gamesdb/hardware/3d_cards/monster_3d_2/
Vacation
I Have Been On Vacation Since Feb 16, 1998 And I Haven't Been Able To Update.