A Hootenanny for quadz's Birthday

[RailWolf]

Greetings!

Come join us on Aug 18th for Bill's Brobdingnagian Birthday Shivoo on the mutant server.
 
Bill "quadz" Kelly was born on August 18th, 1971 and passed away on July 4th, 2021. He would be turning 51 years old this month.
Bill was an outstanding person who was greatly loved by the community, his friends, his coworkers, and his family. He is sorely missed by all.
Let's celebrate his birthday by remembering the good times we had with him, and of course, get some fragging in!

Several admins from tastyspleen's history will be there. If you haven't had a chance to meet the team, come say hello!

Expect some goofy surprises from a new feature that might knock you off your feet, plus WallFly[BZZZ] has some tricks up his wings

The action should pick up in the evening as people start to get off work.

Update:
Stream is at 5:30pm Pacific
tastyspleentv

[Sgt. Dick]

I haven't played in months, but I think that this is a great way to show appreciation for a guy who did so much for this community.

Life is hectic right now, but I will try to be there. 

[Shloo]

<3

[|iR|Focalor]

The action should pick up in the evening as people start to get off work.

August 18th. Any kind of official-ish time for this? To me that sounds about like 6pm pacific, 9pm east, "mas o menos"?

[bvughtoonice]

The action should pick up in the evening as people start to get off work.

August 18th. Any kind of official-ish time for this? To me that sounds about like 6pm pacific, 9pm east, "mas o menos"?

9pm East? 8pm Texas time that seems like reasonable time to try to make some games fun for everyone, I’m so poor right now and gotta work too much but I’ll try to remember to stop by if I have the energy. Hope a lot of people can show up! Awesome way to honor quadz the great!

[|iR|Focalor]

 

Dunno if I can play. I tried getting on my old PC yesterday for the first time in several weeks, and about 5 minutes into using it, suddenly the screen went bonkers, torn in half with the left half of the desktop on the right side and the right side of the desktop on the left side of the screen. I guess the video card is failing. The fan on it has been making terrible noise for months. I bought a 6gb MSI 1660 Super to upgrade my new machine to a 1080p gamer, so I still have the 2gb GT 730 card that it replaced. I'll try sticking that in there before Thurs night if I can.

[Bibi]

Greetings!

Come join us on Aug 18th for Bill's Brobdingnagian Birthday Shivoo on the mutant server.
 
Bill "quadz" Kelly was born on August 18th, 1971 and passed away on July 4th, 2021. He would be turning 51 years old this month.
Bill was an outstanding person who was greatly loved by the community, his friends, his coworkers, and his family. He is sorely missed by all.
Let's celebrate his birthday by remembering the good times we had with him, and of course, get some fragging in!

Several admins from tastyspleen's history will be there. If you haven't had a chance to meet the team, come say hello!


Does anything special need to be downloaded to play on the mutant server?  I primarily play on the dm server so if I need to download anything, I will do it ahead of time.

Expect some goofy surprises from a new feature that might knock you off your feet, plus WallFly[BZZZ] has some tricks up his wings

The action should pick up in the evening as people start to get off work. If there is a stream we will post the time of the stream.

[|iR|Focalor]

I think this was your text...

Does anything special need to be downloaded to play on the mutant server?  I primarily play on the dm server so if I need to download anything, I will do it ahead of time.

Looks like you quote-sharted. It's okay, happens when you get old.

Well... you see, what the Mutant server is... is pretty much EVERY SINGLE little bitty teeny weeny largey margie Q2 map in the universe... or at least every map in the ALLMAPS.ZIP.

http://tastyspleen.net/quake/downloads/

Depends on how much disk space you wanna devote to Quake2. If you download the all-maps.zip, it's 1.6 gigs. Then you also need to download the all-env.zip, the all-sound.zip, and the all-textures.zip. That's another probably 1.8 gigs, plus the 1.6 for the maps. So if disk space is limited, maybe just download the maps from the server while playing.

I dunno that I'd recommend downloading the all-players.zip. That's all the player models. I tried using them all once, and I was browsing through them in the multiplayer setup. They're obviously in there in alphabetical order, and theres VERY MANY MUCHES of them. I think I got to somewhere around the L's or the M's when the client crashed because it was using too much memory to load all the models.

[Bibi]

I think this was your text...

Does anything special need to be downloaded to play on the mutant server?  I primarily play on the dm server so if I need to download anything, I will do it ahead of time.

Looks like you quote-sharted. It's okay, happens when you get old.

Well... you see, what the Mutant server is... is pretty much EVERY SINGLE little bitty teeny weeny largey margie Q2 map in the universe... or at least every map in the ALLMAPS.ZIP.

http://tastyspleen.net/quake/downloads/

Depends on how much disk space you wanna devote to Quake2. If you download the all-maps.zip, it's 1.6 gigs. Then you also need to download the all-env.zip, the all-sound.zip, and the all-textures.zip. That's another probably 1.8 gigs, plus the 1.6 for the maps. So if disk space is limited, maybe just download the maps from the server while playing.

I dunno that I'd recommend downloading the all-players.zip. That's all the player models. I tried using them all once, and I was browsing through them in the multiplayer setup. They're obviously in there in alphabetical order, and theres VERY MANY MUCHES of them. I think I got to somewhere around the L's or the M's when the client crashed because it was using too much memory to load all the models.

I'll look into that. Thanks!

[RailWolf]

Greetings,

We will be joining the voice channel #hootenanny on tastyspleen.tv discord.
https://discord.gg/yWZsf3hzfQ

You'll likely want to enable downloads so you can pull down any custom maps that you don't have.
Try these settings.

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set allow_download "1"
set allow_download_maps "1"
set allow_download_sounds "1"
set allow_download_textures "1"
set allow_download_others "1"
set allow_download_pics "1"
I would say 4pm pacific is a good time for things to pick up.

[Bibi]

Greetings,

We will be joining the voice channel #hootenanny on tastyspleen.tv discord.
https://discord.gg/yWZsf3hzfQ

You'll likely want to enable downloads so you can pull down any custom maps that you don't have.
Try these settings.

Code: [Select]

set allow_download "1"
set allow_download_maps "1"
set allow_download_sounds "1"
set allow_download_textures "1"
set allow_download_others "1"
set allow_download_pics "1"
I would say 4pm pacific is a good time for things to pick up.

Thanks.  I will make sure I have those set.

[RailWolf]

Stream is at 5:30pm Pacific
tastyspleentv

[|iR|Focalor]

GG's all. Thanks to Railwolf and Jehar and anybody else I missed involved in organizing it.  Was fun!

[rikwad]

Ditto! It was pretty cool, have not seen that many players on mutant for years.