Author Topic: Q2 15th anniversary FFA event, Friday Dec 7th, 8PM Central (Read 4302 times)

quadz · « **on:** December 06, 2012, 04:04:44 PM »

Salutations!

sponge from id Software is organizing a Q2 FFA event for Q2's 15th anniversary, scheduled for tomorrow night, Friday Dec 7th, 8PM central time, on the TS500 server!

quake2://67.228.69.114:27999

Currently the plan is just a big FFA game. The DM maps are in the rotation by default, but if lots of folks show up we can switch to the *64 maps, or perhaps some of the more well-known single player maps.

Jay Dolan · « **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2012, 04:38:32 PM »

Fucking.

Awesome.

Also, it's crazy to realize that Quake2 has been a part of my life for roughly 50% of it. I was 17 when Q2 came out, and I remember shelling out every penny I had for a P2-300 and a Rendition Verite 4MB so that I could pwn the LAN games at UMass the following autumn. Man, those were the days.

haunted · « **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2012, 05:15:59 PM »

Awesome.. I'll be there.

claire · « **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2012, 05:17:07 PM »

sounds like fun

X7 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 07, 2012, 06:53:06 AM »

Happy 15th, QUAKE II!
http://www.bethblog.com/2012/12/06/happy-15th-quake-ii/

X7

M1SERY · « **Reply #5 on:** December 07, 2012, 09:37:59 AM »

Sounds like fun , be sure to stop by for some frags ! Long live Q2

The Happy Friar · « **Reply #6 on:** December 07, 2012, 09:41:30 AM »

FRIGGEN AWESOME!

But it has to happen on a night I'm working extra, eh?

ImperiusDamian · « **Reply #7 on:** December 07, 2012, 10:03:42 AM »

I hope I can be there!

I bought Q2 on release day... I still remember doing so! I was 19 and now I'm 34. Scary to think about that!

Sofiene · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2012, 10:36:58 AM »

see you there !

ImperiusDamian · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2012, 10:39:14 AM »

Quote from: Jay Dolan on December 06, 2012, 04:38:32 PM

Also, it's crazy to realize that Quake2 has been a part of my life for roughly 50% of it. I was 17 when Q2 came out, and I remember shelling out every penny I had for a P2-300 and a Rendition Verite 4MB so that I could pwn the LAN games at UMass the following autumn. Man, those were the days.

I remember first trying to run it on a Cyrix 6x86 with a 1meg video card and a 1gig hard drive. 320x240 software mode... how I do NOT miss thee.

themuffinman · « **Reply #10 on:** December 07, 2012, 10:40:33 AM »

At 4:00AM GMT+2? I'm there!

The Happy Friar · « **Reply #11 on:** December 07, 2012, 10:58:52 AM »

Quote from: ImperiusDamian on December 07, 2012, 10:39:14 AM

I remember first trying to run it on a Cyrix 6x86 with a 1meg video card and a 1gig hard drive. 320x240 software mode... how I do NOT miss thee.

I first played it on a PMMX 200 with a Trident video card in software mode. Ran like crap. I got a VooDoo 2 and WOW! It jumped up in framerates, there were COLORS!

In college I ran it on some of their P2-600's with software mode. I still got better framerates on my old PMMX 200 & VooDoo2.

Servers running off the dorm provided machine plus sharing the server folder so anyone in campus could play on the server if they wanted. Those were the Quake days.

ImperiusDamian · « **Reply #12 on:** December 07, 2012, 11:04:31 AM »

Quote from: The Happy Friar on December 07, 2012, 10:58:52 AM

I first played it on a PMMX 200 with a Trident video card in software mode. Ran like crap. I got a VooDoo 2 and WOW! It jumped up in framerates, there were COLORS!

In college I ran it on some of their P2-600's with software mode. I still got better framerates on my old PMMX 200 & VooDoo2.

I had a pair of 12meg Voodoo2's around 1999. Now that was sweet, especially once I put them in the 800MHz Duron box I replaced my Cyrix with. A thing of beauty seeing Q2 charge along on those!

Of course then along came AGP and before you know it, I'm running on a 1300MHz Athlon with 512 megs of RAM and a Geforce 5200... the glory days were over, really!

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Servers running off the dorm provided machine plus sharing the server folder so anyone in campus could play on the server if they wanted. Those were the Quake days.

Oh that's for sure! I don't miss the 400 pings of my dial-up days though!

MCS_FaderJok0 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 07, 2012, 11:43:37 AM »

Sounds like fun. I'll be there if I can.

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #14 on:** December 07, 2012, 03:02:08 PM »

I remember playing it on a coal powered abacus while riding on a wooly mammoth on my way to Fred Flintstone's house.

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