Archiving the history of the video game Quake 2: created by id Software; customized by the Quake 2 community.
Fiddling while Quake burns A recent plan update by Zoid commented on the growing use of client-side hacks by players in order to gain an advantage in DeathMatch. These tend to work by taking advantage of information that would not normally be useable by the human player although the client machine has gotten from the …
Future games Zigzagging and wall-hugging manage to break the physics of Quake, but what about the game that will be occupying the time of a great deal of many of us very soon, Quake2? Since these techniques are the result of engine bugs, we thought id ought to at least know about them, and sent …
Run always, don't "Always Run" The "run" key (by default, this is the shift key) is bound to the Quake movement command +speed. Pressing this control has a number of effects: the velocity that a client tries to move at in any particular direction is doubled; turning speed is increased by the value of cl_anglespeedkey; …
No pain, no gain I'm sure you know about rocket-jumping (although there may be some things you don't know yet.) These days, almost everyone knows you can do something similar with grenades too, or even combine the two explosives. But maybe if you know a little more about the physics underneath, you'll see that they …
Frames? No frames? Framerate means more than just how smooth your picture is - it can also have an effect on the precision of your controls, and in some circumstances, on the physics of the game. Here's how I understand things to work. Clients and servers One of the central features of the Quake engine …
Donde Quake 2? 