Actually, it works great now. I was in the queue at 5000. Gave up, tried again a few minutes later, was in the queue at 80. Then it only took a minute or so, downloaded the thing, had to re-queue, this time at 60, and was in the trial right away. Good stuff actually.

Now the only problem is that I can't even imagine how I used to play Q3. I used to be able to be able to land almost every plasma bolt on a target while flying through the air across the level. Now I can barely hit a stationary target while circle strafing on a flat plane.

I guess I'm just getting old maybe. It might just be too quick for me now. Maybe tomorrow on a couple cups of coffee I'll have another go. Maybe just need some practice... I don't remember that zoom thing though. Is that new?

Hmm, id may need a server farm for this thing. Looks like it's going to be popular.

edit - apparently they already added a bunch of servers tonight and it's still packed. 113,000 accounts so far.

This comment was edited on Feb 25, 2009, 01:22.

the closed beta did not have a queue. I'm 1200 in line.

on a side note...

On the last min. of the day a bit of trivia. The first public test of Quake, known as QTEST was held 13 years ago to this day.
less than 10 seconds ago from web

http://twitter.com/quakelive

Is it always going to be like this or what? Am I going to have to spend fifteen minutes in the 'queue' whenever I want to play? That almost defeats the purpose of the whole thing. I thought the point of these web based jobs was that it's easy to just jump in and play whenever you have twenty minutes free.

I suppose it just opened though. It will probably calm down.

upd: So far it's taking about 10 minutes per thousand slots. I ought to be in in an hour then. Have mercy. I'm a patient man though.

This comment was edited on Feb 25, 2009, 00:29.

Man oh man good times...Playing full screen Looks awesome. No AA of course. But it plays buttery smoothe, and I am going to have fun keeping track of stats and such from this age old classic!

Just played the practice match and got my rating. Very fun, very impressed.

You can play online or off, clan arena, CTF or FFA, or duel. The whole thing loads in a browser and runs butter-smooth on my 2yr old laptop (GF7900).

Really nice.

Yeah, looks like the servers are pulling a goatse. A little overwhelmed.

I just checked the site since I've been following this for a while, and noticed it was up. Was about to email Blue to let him know, but the entire board apparently beat me to it.

This should be fun, glad they made the effort. Props to id software.

what are the advantages to the new Quake Live?

Better matchmaking system, a friends system, leaderboards, etc. And you don't need to have some disc with you constantly to install it on any computer you might be using. Just go to the website and play. I imagine the available player base will be much, much larger as well.

Looks like all of their servers fell down.

Quake Live and TF2 scout updates on the same day..... arggggggghhhhhh!

I'm must be missing something, so excuse me if I don't get it exactly. But, if I want to play Q3 or Q3TA I would much rather just dig out my cd's and reinstall the game, what are the advantages to the new Quake Live?

closed beta did

Supposedly this includes Team Arena, and that was the most fun I had online until TF2 came out. I'm glad everybody will finally get to see how much fun that game is.

The first thing I will do is join team vs team death match and shoot my team mates in the head. OH GOD YA! DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I was following this all day and forgot at the last moment! I'm in position 13,654.

I registered, saw the queue (I was at 1200) and figured it would take way too long so I bailed. Heh, maybe I should've stayed in it. Ah well, I'll fire it up this weekend for a go.

32,991

Hmm, I'll give it a try hope it supports FF.

WOOT I'm number 33,629 in the queue...Should be playing in a few days..lol

This comment was edited on Feb 24, 2009, 20:25.