Cold Reality Heat

A promo video of a DarkPlaces-based mod in progress called Cold Heat Reality has been made; you can read more about the mod at Inside3D.

CA+ Update

Rapture has released an update of the CA+ mod, CA+ version 1.4. This is the mod that was the gold standard Clan Arena mod for many years at servers like Max and CAPLUS.

Linux ProQuake Server

Linux ProQuake 3.90 RC2 server is available (Download link). This server executable has anti-wallhack level 1 (players) and anti-wallhack level 2 (all entities) available, plus server-side ipmasking. The development thread is here. This is now running at quake.crmod.com.

Note: There are also updated Linux ProQuake clients in progress ... read more.

More News

Quake Brasil's website address has changed and is now http://www.quakebrasil.com.br/. Experimental betas of FitzQuake for Linux and Mac OSX users are available (and have been for a couple of months now).

Release of Spacewalk

Spacewalk has finally been released by CocoT. Spacewalk challenges players with increasingly difficult puzzles. The mod is "inspired by the Japanese freeware "stroke" and challenges you with levels of increasing difficulty in which you have to find your way to the exit while grabbing artifacts along the way and making sure you don't step on the same platforms twice".

SmashQuake at Whitehot

SmashQuake is running at whitehot.quakeone.com. SmashQuake is a king of the hill mod by Canadian*Sniper. "Using the same gameplay physics as Super Smash Brothers. The game is King of the Hill where you have to shoot your opponents off the stage to earn points. This is the only way you can KO someone. Your velocity when hurt is determined by how much damage you've accumulated."

StealthQuake

StealthQuake is a retelling of Quake if it were a stealth survival horror game. Adrenaline will affect your vision according to how often you get caught and how many monsters are near you.

Stealth plays a huge role in StealthQuake because you are no match for any of the Quake monsters that get in your way. You are given a lot of options towards getting through each map, such as throwing rocks or whistling to divert a monster's attention, backstabbing humanoid monsters, or not making any sound as you sneak by monsters. The visuals, sounds, and gameplay in this mod are breathtaking.

Qrack 1.85

Qrack 1.85 has been released with several important additions/features including new effects, extended mouse button support, ability to turn DirectInput and m_smooth on/off in-client, fast startup, an important internet connection code fix (particularly for DSL) and more.

Also notable: Qrack should run on all Intel display adapters. If you have not been able to run Qrack in the past due to an Intel display adapter, it will run now. (ProQuake will be getting this fix shortly).

MH's Blog

MH has a very informative blog where he is working on several ground-breaking ideas in his MHQuake engine.

Pictured to the right: the load/save game menu that previews the saved game while browsing them

CAx Updates

The Bomber server is running an updated version of CAx with several updates by Bam including map rotation based on the number of players, a Quake 3 style podium finish, measures to reduce grenade spam, and some consequences of friendly fire.

Gooland Returns

One of the oldest servers ever has returned. The ancient Gooland Artifact server, with the same data files as 9 years ago (?) is at gooland.gotdns.com.

Single Player Poll

Quaddicted has a vote for the best single player release in 2008. Travail is so far leading the poll, followed by WarpSpasm and Breakfast at Twilight. Not leading is a very great map released in December called The Hand That Feeds You that is one of the best standalone base maps, maybe ever.

Development and Extras

MH has a engine modification tutorial on improving skyboxes; he is the author of the MHQuake engine, that pioneered many different engine improvements. Slot Zero has released RuneQuake 1.3.

ProQuake 3.99g now has enhanced connectivity; no one should have to use the -ip parameter ... ever. Rook has taken the "anti-wallhack" code and improved it. Expect Qrack to connect to ProQuake's "cheat-free" mode within the next month.

Art, Sites Down and More

BuurVrouw has the graced the forums with her drawings and art. She has long been known in the European Quake community and has long made Quake related drawings.

Canadian Sniper reveals the truth behind gl_doubleeyes and the apparent lack of a modern day purpose for it.

MoonDrunk, the master of so many widely-used replacement graphics/textures, has upgraded his web site. It looks awesome.

QuakeSrc.org went down and has stayed down. The Quake Wiki went down with it. It is still available at an alternate location, almost by sheer coincidence. Quakeworld.nu went down for a couple of weeks but has returned.

Update: Latest version is 3.99q (download).

The first official update of ProQuake since 2002 has been released. ProQuake 3.95 is digitally signed for ProQuake cheat-free mode (like quake.crmod.com, etc.)

ProQuake 3.95 features in-game video mode changing, brightness adjustment, 8 button mouse support (with and without dinput), an advanced settings menu, automatically plays demos by clicking on them, easy demo to AVI capability, in-menu Quake name maker, demo rewind/fast forward using PGUP/PGDN and several other features and bug fixes.

Download: ProQuake 3.95 - 0.8 MB

There is also a Direct3D version, d3dpro.exe, that may work in situations where your video card or drivers cannot run glpro.

Source code is available; read more ...

Update: SlotZero implemented anti-wallhack on Shmack on January 2.

The Chicago CAx server, speaknow.quakeone.com, is now running the new ProQuake server with the anti-wallhack measures.

(Some of the credit should go to Rampage, who is very vocal about wanting this on servers.)

In addition, Slot Zero is considering the anti-wallhack modification at Shmack.

Anti-Wallhack Example Video

Phenom has made an illustrative video showing a demonstration of the anti-wallhack code at work using a pak2 model and transparent walls. Note that when the player should not be seen, the player is not seen.

E1M5 Winter Image by IEEE802.11

Anti-Wallhack Server

A great feature first introduced in DarkPlaces (*) has been ported to ProQuake server. The server simply does not send player information to connected clients that are not visible to that specific player.

Wallhacking and "pak2 cheat" models are rendered irrelevant.

Any client (Qrack, DarkPlaces, ProQuake, JoeQuake, etc.) can connect to a server running this, it is not restricted.

This server executable is currently running at Bomber (bomber.quakeone.com, NOT the same server as Rage) in the USA and Flanders DM in Europe.

ProQuake Server 3.91 Downloads:

Executable (Windows) 0.5 MB | Source Code

Additional capabilities include optional server side ip-masking, which is more effective than mod ip masking.

The anti-wallhacking measures are easy to implement into the source, for Linux see testing thread for details.

* Actual code ported from FTEQW implementation.