Capture the Flag Quake on dialup (years ago)

waynesalmon · 2 Jan 2013 at 08:46

Anyone out there remember playing this against a team called the Fremen ? Would like to create an article/archive based on the old teams . Any information gratefully received . Experiences challenges memories (screenies would be great) ....

HangTime · 3 Jan 2013 at 01:07

There's some old QW CTF news on this site if you scroll down: http://www.cix.co.uk/~broadway/necro/news.html
Some clan stuff here: http://www.cix.co.uk/~broadway/lair/clan.html

I never played CTF, just TDM.

Pookie Bear · 3 Jan 2013 at 09:00

The Fremen! Yeah, I remember them. From Wireplay! I know Rikk is on here - although I can't recall his [FRE] nick. There was also [CoG], [TkD], [HooD]....hehe, I remember playing them all. Back in those days I actually had reactions. Now I'm an old man

Are you the Wayne who was in Nottingham for a giant booze-up all those years ago?

Rikk · 3 Jan 2013 at 11:04

[FRE] Glaive was my tag.

Ahh good times loved CTF, and was it rocket arena where it was 1v1 all weapons enabled?

Pookie Bear · 3 Jan 2013 at 11:17

There he is! The slacker.

Rocket Arena could be 1v1, but usually it was team vs team. I enjoyed a bit of RA3

Rikk · 3 Jan 2013 at 12:00

Have a google, there's even some videos of the old CTF/TDM matches out there. When BT finally finish getting my BB back up I'll have a watch myself

Vtec9k · 3 Jan 2013 at 12:50

[ASQ]highlander checking in, that was a long time ago! UKCTF champions back in the day, shame there was no progamers, sponsorships or $100k/year contracts!

It used to be FreddiesWorld server i'd play on a lot. Some good threads there reminiscing

http://forums.freddyshouse.com/threads/uk-qw-ctf-nostalgia.143/
http://forums.freddyshouse.com/threads/pre-qw-quake-life.146364/

1ofaKind · 3 Jan 2013 at 12:54

I remember fondly playing Quake on dialup and then isdn/cable - myself and my friends all mainly played CTF. I remember the ASQ guys (pretty sure the 1st league I played in they won the league that year). USA players coming on as they were LPB's and still had better ping that us on a spiffy Pipex accounts with 33.6k (flashed woohoo) modems

Penfold99 · 3 Jan 2013 at 13:17

Pookie Bear said:
The Fremen! Yeah, I remember them. From Wireplay! I know Rikk is on here - although I can't recall his [FRE] nick. There was also [CoG], [TkD], [HooD]....hehe, I remember playing them all. Back in those days I actually had reactions. Now I'm an old man

Are you the Wayne who was in Nottingham for a giant booze-up all those years ago?

I can remember some of these was in -DW- for CTF

Pookie Bear · 3 Jan 2013 at 13:45

Penfold99 said:
I can remember some of these was in -DW- for CTF

[CoG] didn't really play much CTF in the days I was a part of it - just now and then for laughs. More of a TDM kinda clan. Not sure what happened afterwards - I got sucked into EQ. A good number of the WP Q2 folk moved to EQ and I still keep in touch with some of them. Still have plenty of good memories from those days, but no videos, sadly.

Hades · 3 Jan 2013 at 13:51

I remember FRE, TKD and of course Hood. I'm sure we had many matches against them. I was an avid player in Revenge [Rv]Hades on Wireplay with Melkior, CJM, Atomic Jam, Vorv, Sid and Q50. I also played in CoC (cult of chaos) fairly briefly and then in rG (revenge of gaia) which was a combination of Rv and CoG CTF teams.

I played through the dial up days from 1997 and then suffered abuse as an LPB when I got IDSN very early on

There were two distinct communities back then; those that played on Wireplay through their bespoke game browser and those that played on Barrysworld through a third party app such as ASE (All Seeing Eye).

God I miss those days. So much more fun.

I used to have a video of an extremely early DM match between Rv and another clan (can't remember the name). It was so early no-one knew how to play. It is laughable now. Unfortunately that vid has probably been deleted many years ago but I'll try sifting through some old CD's and old drives.

Wizzfizz · 3 Jan 2013 at 13:54

You're right, CoG didn't play CTF at all, mainly just TDM. Rv though played pretty much every mod for the laughs, even various german leagues and what not (200+pings) good times

Hades · 3 Jan 2013 at 14:02

Haha yeah I remember playing a few German matches and even a Japanese TV league. I was an admin for one of the UK leagues for a short time too. It's all starting to come back to me

I MISS MY RAILGUN!!! The Q2 railgun was simply the best ever weapon in any game, ever invented. Ever. Even at close range

Anyone else remember that kind of grapple run thing you could do to run faster?

pingu666 · 3 Jan 2013 at 14:24

I had a mate who was addicted to it, and was in. [bbc]

1ofaKind · 3 Jan 2013 at 14:31

Hades - you mean bunny hopping style where you fire the grapple at the floor a bit in front and then jump and fire to pull you. Let you speed around like a loon

Hades · 3 Jan 2013 at 14:42

Yep that's the one. Running around in DM without a grapple was so frustrating after learning that.

EDIT: Oh another one; hook up to a ledge in just the right way and the momentum could flip you up and over the top of it to get up the top without being seen/shot.

Found this on youtube:

Pookie Bear · 3 Jan 2013 at 15:43

Ahhh, CoG was my home for a long time. I still remember the day we formed....it would almost bring a tear to the eye if I wasn't so old and grumpy

I remember Rv too - had a cracking 2v2 in the final at the second Insomnia LAN in 98 maybe... Atomic Jam and for the life of me I can't remember the name of the other lad - young guy, far too good a shot for my liking

Was me and Mist - we got pannelled on Q2DM8

I even spent a few months in the reformed AbFab with Scooby when I fancied playing on Barrysworld instead of Wireplay. I spent far too much time playing Q2!

As for the grappling hook, wasn't that the lithium mod?

Hades · 3 Jan 2013 at 16:12

Ah that second player will be Vorvavoo, or Vorv. He always used to play 2v2 with AJ.

I'm pretty sure the first Insomnia was in 1999? - Insomnia 99 it was called. I also recall Rv nearly getting kicked out of one of the Insomnia events for coming back from a night out clubbing and finding a porn channel on the TV in the hall where everyone was sleeping

dazza13 · 3 Jan 2013 at 16:19

Rikk said:
[FRE] Glaive was my tag.

Ahh good times loved CTF, and was it rocket arena where it was 1v1 all weapons enabled?

Rikk you saggy arse'd noob get on steam more often

CTF was also my favorite, but i payed more UT than Q2.

Bigbud · 3 Jan 2013 at 16:20

used to play a lot of instagib, played in a few clans but nothing really hardcore