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New GTKRadiant

Oct 02, 2001 9:05am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
RC3 of GtkRadiant 1.1.1 is now available, offering even more improvements for this Q3 level editor. Thanks Roger.

Navy Seals Update

Oct 01, 2001 8:30am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
The Navy Seals Q3 website has been updated with some screenshots from new tango and seals player heads. There's also an AVI available showing new tango animations.

Custom Q3 Release

Sep 30, 2001 11:04am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
PlanetQuake3.net is hosting a new 30mb mod for Quake3, Custom Q3. "The concept behind CQ3 is to bring all the fun of Doom, Quake1 and Quake2 to the Q3A engine".

Mac Quake 3 1.30 Out

Sep 28, 2001 3:23pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
id's Graeme Devine updated his .plan file with the news that a Mac Classic build of Quake 3 1.30 has now been released. You can grab the 26mb file from the id FTP.

Quake3 v1.30 Released!

Sep 27, 2001 4:07pm CST tags: id Software, Quake 3 Arena, E3
Earlier this morning I witnessed a pig flying and Maarten saving the last pop tart for me. I was confused... disoriented.. but I just figured it all out! Quake3 v1.30 the "point release" or final build of all those v1.29 series patches is being released! Quake3 v1.30 is set to be made available at 5:30pm CST today. If you're running the 1.29 versions you should be able to get it via the auto-update utility, otherwise we'll have some FTP links here. Here are the details.

\cg_oldRail 0 (enables the new rail effect)   \cg_oldRocket 0 (enables the new rocket effect)  \cg_oldPlasma 0 (enables the new plasma effect)  \cg_trueLightning 0.5 (enables the new lightning gun effect)
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NEW CHEATING COUNTER MEASURES - There has been quite a bit of new code added to make it much more difficult to cheat and hack the game. We'd tell you more, but that would be defeating the purpose... Rest assured that it will be harder to cheat than ever before. [...]

update: It's now available via auto-update, the id Software FTP, 3DG, Blues, FilePlanet, and XGR

update 2: The Linux patch has now been released as well.

ThreeWave Update

Sep 20, 2001 12:32pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
A few new shots of the Threewave maps have been leaked out over at Q3W. You can check the screenshots and a little commentary by Dekard who says it's "not too far off, really it's not damn it!"

Art of War Update

Sep 20, 2001 8:30am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
The Art of War page has been updated with some new screenshots from this Quake3 mod. The shots show some of the new classes.

UT 2 Q3 Update

Sep 16, 2001 9:46am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
Kiltron from Mean Arena sent over an email saying he has posted some new screenshots from the Unreal Tournament to Quake3 partial convertion. Kiltron also mentions a version of the mod compatible with current Quake 3 patch is due out soon.

New PainKeep Arena

Sep 05, 2001 6:12pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
Version 2.8 of the PainKeep Arena mod for Quake III Arena is now available (thanks Blue's News). This 10 MB update contains a few miscellaneous changes and improvements, including an "infinite ammo" bug.

Head Hunters 3 Released

Sep 03, 2001 1:09pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
The Head Hunters 3 page has been updated with news of the release of this Quake 3 mod. Client and server release, with a patch for the server release already too.

New Q3 Coliseum

Sep 02, 2001 12:20pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
Over at Greenhouse EFX you can download the latest release of the Q3 Coliseum mod. It fixes "Fixed Quake2 style Weapon Stay to not give max ammo when picking up a dropped weapon" and "Added error check to not read in Enhanced MOTD file "0" (default value for no MOTD file). ".

Urban Terror Update

Aug 31, 2001 12:55pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
The Urban Terror site has been updated, with some screenshots showing updated skins for the players models in this Quake 3 mod. Saw that on Stomped.

New Q3 Rally SDK

Aug 31, 2001 8:31am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
A new version of the Quake Rally SDK has been released. The new SDK includes 3 new cars, several new skins, a new map to race on, scripted entities, a new UI and more. The actual game mod still hasn't been released but at least you can play around with this.

Alliance Shots

Aug 28, 2001 7:55am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
Over at XGR are a dozen new screenshots taken from levels appearing in the upcoming Alliance CTF map pack.

QuakeCon Models Released

Aug 27, 2001 8:34am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena, QuakeCon
As promised, the map models submitted for the QuakeCon 2001 Map Model Contest have been released over at Polycount. You can use these in your maps.

Navy Seals Update

Aug 27, 2001 8:24am CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
The Navy Seals Q3 mod site has been updated, with pictures of the new M4 model and new pics from the warehouse level. Saw that on Stomped.

Q3 Patch Update

Aug 26, 2001 5:11pm CST tags: Activision, Quake 3 Arena
There is an update on the next Quake3 point release on Stomped. According to id's Robert Duffy it should be released in the near future, it's being tested at Activision right now. Not much changed since 1.29H though.

Alliance Update

Aug 26, 2001 1:07pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
The Alliance site has been updated with the news of 2 new members joining the Q3 mod team. There's also some info on the bot code and what else they have been working on, which is mostly bug fixing.

WFA 3.0B Released

Aug 20, 2001 3:58pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
There's a new version of the Weapons Factory Arena mod out. The new 3.0B version includes Quake3 1.29h compatability and a few game tweaks. It's a 15mb upgrade from 3.0A or a 25mb full download. Saw that on Stomped.

New Superheroes Q3A

Aug 17, 2001 1:00pm CST tags: Quake 3 Arena
Version 1.04b of the Superheroes III mod for Quake III Arena has been released. The mod is only available as a 25 MB download, so even those with older versions will have to download the full mod.