The young lad next door wants to play Quake 3 Arena online with me. I haven't a clue how to set something like this up. Or if it's even possible. It used to be possible to play it online aginst other people around the world via some sort of server but it's a mystery to me how all this works. Any suggestions?
Hi agent-k, These online games have a 'browser' that will scan the internet for game servers, then rank them by ping-time. When you host a game, you can choose to host either public or private - the private one won't be advertised on the www to others. If you start a private game, and then telephone your buddies and give 'em your IP address, they can join up. Don't worry it's easy Click - click - click. With Doom2 in the early 90's you had to know DOS commands and actually type with your keyboard, LoL Those were the days... giant Duke Nukem tournaments on my LAN, 10 megabit ISA NICs, iP166MMXs, DOS all the way ;-)Quake 3 Arena is still an institution on the INet, it's been huge for years! http://www.interscope.com/quake/ Make sure you grab this Level if you're gonna play. It is excellent (even if not your favourite music...) Let us know how you get along, Regards _X_X_X_X_X_[small] Keep 'em running good! PCs run the marathon, not a sprint... ABIT AN7 nForce2 Ultra 400 XP2500+ Barton @ 3200+ 2 x 512MB PC3200[/small]
Thanks The_OGS, So I start a game, I give my mate my IP address, he enters it in and that will let him join my game. Is that correct?
Not having much luck with it. I set my system up as a server just like it said but whenever my mate tries to connect it just says, 'Start TA Directly' How do I do that?
It's ok I sorted it now. Windows xp firewall was preventing my mate accessing my server and I had re-booted my system, so my i.p. address had changed. He thrashed me in every game so I won't be playing again anyway. Bloody kids.
Can't do that, his dad is waay bigger than me. Being a school kid he can't afford to hire dvds so I let him borrow mine, but that's going to stop unless he let's me beat him.
