Q2 15th anniversary FFA event, Friday Dec 7th, 8PM Central

[quadz]

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]

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]

Awesome.. I'll be there.

[claire]

sounds like fun 

[X7]

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





 


X7 

[M1SERY]

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

[The Happy Friar]

FRIGGEN AWESOME!

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

[ImperiusDamian]

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]

see you there !   

[ImperiusDamian]

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]

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

[The Happy Friar]

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]

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!

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!

[fdrjk]

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

[|iR|Focalor]

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