It’s that time again. Same time and place, 9AM central time. Large portal and all game types!

Please note: The game is Quake 3 and not a beta of Quake Live.

I feel I need to make it clear that ShackQuakeLive is not affiliated with iD software and we are in fact not playing QuakeLive nor testing it, etc. The site was created for the members of www.shacknews.com to play Quake 3 on so we can regain our lost (or in my case, total absence of) playing skills in anticipation of QuakeLive. So no, we are not playing QuakeLive and have no more information on it than anyone else out there.

So please stop pestering iD about it

Dust off the rocket launcher, it’s time to spill guts again!
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 9PM Central.

It’s the return of the giant portal of doom, multiple game types and maps.

Fayk has kindly pointed out that the current Threewave installer was an .exe file. He has unpacked and zipped the files so that Linux or Mac users using the ioQuake client can easily install the necessary files.

Threewave files for Mac and Linux

Let us try something a tad different, shall we? I’ve set up a 16 map DM only portal. Truth be told, I’ve always preferred the more open 16 map portal, I just wish it came in 24 map version..

Maps:
seta p_portalMap01 “q3dm19″
seta p_portalMap02 “q3dm2″
seta p_portalMap03 “q3dm17″
seta p_portalMap04 “q3dm18″
seta p_portalMap05 “q3dm5″
seta p_portalMap06 “q3dm6″
seta p_portalMap07 “q3dm7″
seta p_portalMap08 “q3dm8″
seta p_portalMap09 “q3dm9″
seta p_portalMap10 “q3dm10″
seta p_portalMap11 “q3dm11″
seta p_portalMap12 “q3dm12″
seta p_portalMap13 “q3dm13″
seta p_portalMap14 “q3dm14″
seta p_portalMap15 “q3dm15″
seta p_portalMap16 “q3dm16

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Join us on Thursday, March 27th at 9 Central for some hot, sweaty CTF and DM action!

The family is gorged on eggs and chocolate. Come blow off some steam by blowing the shit out of your siblings in frag!

At one time last night we had 18 people on the server, just shy of maxing it out! Much fun was had by all and a few things stood out that needed to be resolved.

I’ve set all the DM maps to be only playable in DM modes. This is the same thing I did for the CTF maps and I did it because people unfamiliar with some maps were still choosing DM maps for CTF and that didn’t work well.

DM gametype has been set back to NORMAL as opposed to Lithium.

The Random portal has been removed after causing some weird issues. Besides, it was lazy anyway.

Some people are talking about doing a different “theme” on certain nights instead of the Portal every night. So we might have a night dedicated to only DM with a set map rotation, etc. But I’m still thinking about it.

I’ve tweaked things so that teams are now balanced by skill ranking. This makes sure one team isn’t overloaded with talent while the other team suffers. At the end of each game, teams may be balanced by the individual players skill ranking.

Death Match gamers will have a surprise in store tonight as DM is now running in Lithium Mode. This might leave some people, especially those who time everything and like things in set places with no fluff,  discombobulated. It’s just for Friday night unless everyone wants to keep it, so don’t panic.