The new colleagues brought an after-work tradition of of playing the Quake 3 multiplayer first-person shooter computer game.
Unfortunately I sucked at first. Main problems:
- Visibility: can't see through the gibs and shells. It felt like I was playing paintball.
- Mouse sensitivity: 8 times the default, jumping all over the place.
- Keybindings: annoying trying to change weapons or zoom.
- Camouflage: The blue "team" model really stands out. Switched to small brown player models like 'bones/bones'/
- Technique: had rocket and railgun wrong, didn't traverse the map properly or look around properly with the mouse.
My Quake 3 autoexec.cfg has the following tweaks:
- turns off muzzle flash, shells, gun model, gibs/blood for visibility.
- turns off level music to hear the other players.
- sets toggles for gun model and HUD to clear distractions.
- tunes mouse sensitivity just high enough to allow 180-degree flick
- set up multiple zoom levels
- turned off bob/roll for slightly steadier crosshair
- selected the circle + dot crosshair (cross-style can obscure small targets)
- allow both keyboard and mouse weapon cycling
3 comments:
Hey. Old post I know, but I have some suggestions for you:
1. r_drawSun doesn't give much visual benefit because most maps don't have a sun, yet the option sucks a bit of performance. Setting to zero should improve performance.
2. r_fastsky is disabled? It's another option with very little visual benefit, but sucks some performance when disabled.
3. r_finish is enabled, but this is only needed if vsync is enabled and you're experiencing input lag. I've never found a need for it, and if triple buffering is disabled, vsync should be off anyway...
4. If you set r_picmip to zero you can get highest texture quality with small performance penalty.
5. cg_drawAttacker consumes some power, and I find it useless. You might prefer disabling it and enabling cg_drawCrosshairNames instead.
6. If you use the default cg_fov of 90, I recommend increasing it. I used to use 90 in the days of 17" CRTs, but with today's large LCDs, I find it much too small. I recommend 100 or higher. :)
7. If your mouse has adjustable resolution, use it. Sensitivity of 3 is quite high. I set my mouse to 2000 dpi and run sensitivity 1. It is much smoother.
Hope these are helpful. Do you ever play online?
wow..great tips..i will try the 2000 dpi sensitivity of 1.. i run 1000 dpi sen of 1.8
is there a way to set up triple buffering in Quake or is that an video driver set up?
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