Quake Live has only gone into open beta a week ago, but even now it’s already one of the most played shooters on the internet. Still, despite the excellent matchmaking system, some of you might struggle fighting back against more skilled players in the various public servers you join.
Others amongst you might be trying to regain some of the skill they’ve lost over the years. Whatever your story is, I’m here to help with a collection of useful tips to get you back on track. It will take a little effort on your part, but you’ll be able to become one of those players who tears through a Free For All server with next to no deaths!
If you’ve come here looking for ways to improve your Quake game – then you’ve come to the right place. Do keep in mind that the following tips will not make you an expert overnight, but combine them with dedication and practice and you’ll soon see significant changes in your performance. And if even that is not quite good enough for you, then you can always ask for some more specific help by leaving a comment.
The following list of hints, tactics and training methods are techniques I have uncovered after years of playing shooters competitively. Contrary to some of the other stuff you’ll find out there, these are tried and true tips and strategies to improve your play, specifically geared towards beginning Quake Live players.
1. Study your environment
It is important to know the map you’re playing on. It’s advisable to start practicing a single game mode, prefferably FFA or TDM. Once you’ve decided your main game mode then focus on the maps available in that game mode and walk through them in practice mode.
Learn where the weapons, armour and health pickups are located. Also take note of possible powerups on the map and any possible height advantage you can derive from the map. It’s also a good idea to give it a few runs ‘as if’ you were playing, to get a feel for how to best move across the map.
These are the absolute essentials if you want to compete. You will learn them just by playing ordinarily, but it’ll be a much slower process and this sort of thing can really boost your level of play early on.
Take note of your surroundings
2. Learn to move
Quake Live is as much about movement as it is about accuracy.
The most basic method for moving about maps is called strafejumping. This technique allows you to quickly build up speed by holding down the forward key and tapping a directional key and jump at the same time. Throwing your mouse slightly (roughly 45 degrees) in the direction you’re strafing and alternating direction on each jump helps build speed even faster.
You can try to learn cirlejumping after that, which is a more advanced technique that is not nearly as easily mastered. It’s commonly used for a massive boost at the start of a strafejumping run. You accomplish this by starting out at a 90 degree angle to where you wish to go. Then flick your mouse and jump 135 degrees in the direction you wish to go and strafejump from there on out. It’s very difficult to learn, but very useful as well.
There are other methods of movement in Quake Live as well. You can rocketjump by planting a rocket behind/below you as you jump – this gives a massive forward/upward boost. It’s also a required technique to reach Advanced level in the Quake Live training. Plasma bolts can also be used to climb straight walls, which involves jumping and then blasting plasma below you at the wall. Both of these techniques cost you health so use them wisely.
3. Make good use of key bindings
Default controls involve tapping the 0-10 keys or scrolling your mousewheel to access weapons. This is not a good idea.
If you really want to have an optimal setup for taking down enemies quick, then you want to be able to switch weapons quick. To do this you bind all available weapons around your movement keys. As an example, here’s my keybind config:
E, S, D, F for movement. Q for Chaingun, W for Plasma Gun, R for Railgun and A for Gauntlet. 2 for Machine Gun, 3 for Shotgun, 4 for Grenade Launcher. Scroll up for Lightning Gun, scroll down for Rocket Launcher.
This setup allows me to access all important weapons instantly, without swapping between weapons or searching for the appropriate key. It takes time and practice to get used to a hardcore keybind setup like this, but it is oh-so worth it.
4. Tweak in-game settings to suit your needs
A nice trick to try is turning up your field of view setting (Game Settings – Advanced). This results in a slightly warped game view that might be a little disorienting at first, but often – not always - results in much better play. It makes speedy strafejumping a lot easier, but also gives you a more focused view of the game and allows for better accuracy.
Another useful trick for getting an edge up on your opponent is turning down your visual settings. With lower visual settings the environments become bland and characters stand out more, making them easier to spot. It might not look as good, but it’ll help you score frags more easily.
You can also try your hand at modifying your cfg files. Make all enemy characters use the same model and skin with cg_forceEnemyModel “keel/sport” (or another value for a different model/skin) so that you don’t suffer any disadvantages from poorly visible skins.
You can also browse through a list of useful commands here to search for any other values you might want to change. You can find both config files in the \Documents and Settings\%userprofile%\Application Data\id Software\quakelive\home\baseq3 folder or for Windows Vista users: %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\id Software\quakelive\home\baseq3.
Slim characters can appear to be more difficult to hit, so make them all wear the same skin!
5. Follow the leader
The best way to learn how to play is to imitate someone who is good at the game.
So join a game, prefferably with an average skill level higher than yours, and spectate it. Just watch what the best players do and take notes – study their map routes and tricks they display (useful jumps, movement in combat, etc). Then add what you’ve learned to your own game and adjust it to suit your playstyle.
It’s not as hands-on as any of the other methods, but you can learn a lot just by following a good player around. You can also opt to simply join the team of a skilled player and physically follow him/her around the map – you won’t catch as many of their techniques, but you’ll improve nonetheless.
6. Determine and improve your weapon skills
Contrary to more accessible shooters, Quake Live features various forms of aiming and a collection of completely different weapons. This makes it a more varied game, but also makes it more difficult to master.
You can use this to your advantage! One of the easiest methods of making quick improvements to your play in these sorts of games is by analyzing your weapon capabilities. Determine which weapons you suck at and then use those weapons exclusively for the next couple of days. You’ll notice a marked improvement relatively quickly, as you become more accustomed to utilizing these weapons.
In Quake Live it’s of vital importance to be proficient with all weapons.
Improve your skills with all weapons in the game
7. Appropriate movement will save your life
The way you move isn’t just determined by your skills and preferences, but also by the weapons you’re facing. There are good and bad ways to face off against the various weapons in Quake Live and it’s important to get the good ways down fast.
If you’re up against a player wielding a rocket launcher then you’re best off taking them on from a distance while strafing, not jumping! Railguns and Lightning Guns are best dealt with by strafing erraticaly and avoiding jumping as much as possible. Plasma Guns and Chainguns are best taken on by jumping about randomly. And so on…
Also make use of your environment! Turn around corners to blast rockets into the face of anyone following you. And don’t jump up a jumppad when you know someone is waiting for you to do exactly that.
8. Use your head
Don’t bother taking on someone who’s just taken a Red Armour or MegaHealth when all you’ve got is a machinegun. It’s often a better idea to run away than to engage your nearest opponent.
Likewise you want to run away from a fight you’re losing. Stock up on health and guns and fight back once you know you’re up for it. Not all fights are to the death!
Battles in Quake Live are about more than movement and accuracy – they also require intelligence. If you want to win then you want to out-think your opponent. Always consider your environment while fighting: don’t use shotguns on wide open ground, don’t use railguns in tight areas, and so on. Obviously these are tips, not laws. You can use railguns in tight areas and shotguns in wide-open areas, as long as you know what you’re doing. And some players are really good at it. But as a Quake beginner – it’s probably not such a good idea just yet.
Lure opponents to more favourable terrain or use fresh powerup spawns to bait your enemy. And if you can – try to get a height advantage. If you can come down on an enemy from up top, then there’s little chance that he’ll manage to take you out.
Height matters...
9. Objectives > Frags
If you’re playing CTF then keep in mind that the objective is capturing and defending flags, not fragging. Don’t play like it’s DeathMatch!
Keep the base secure if you don’t know the map or try to capture their flag if you’re more offensively minded. Support your flagcarrier and don’t grab a flag when you know a better runner of your team is nearby!
If you’re playing Team DeathMatch then keep in mind that having your teammates survive is equally important as fragging your opponents! Share guns (bind your drop weapon key) and leave health or armour pickups if a teammate needs it more than you.
10. Fun trumps victory
As a beginner you shouldn’t be playing to top servers and dominate other players. The likelyhood of success, even with all the tips in the world, is extremely slim. So don’t bother to play to win, instead play to have fun!
It’s no good to be frustrated over little things like dieing in a video game, especially when you still suck at it anyway. I’ve also found that playing with a more carefree attitude tends to help you improve your game faster.
11. Keep at it
Don’t just give these tips a try and quit after a few days of play and little in the way of results. A couple of days of play is not enough to become a good player, especially not in this game.
Quake Live features a wealth of extremely experienced players. People who have essentially played it since 1999 (Quake 3 Arena) and have a massive advantage in the way of experience. Don’t expect to be taking down the elite anytime soon.
But stick with it and eventually you just might rise to those heights as well. Simple training and frequent play can do a lot for your skills – and can overcome any experience gap as long as you excercise some patience and celebrate the small victories. Like awesome shots you made, or beating a player you couldn’t beat before.
Don't give up! Keep practicing!
12. Join a clan
A clan is a team of gamers which competes with other teams. The static nature of these teams means you’ll frequently be playing with the same guys and girls in an organised fashion. Not only is this frequently more enjoyable than playing with random people, but you can help improve one another by sharing tips and practicing together.
The main benefit of this comes in the form of competition against other clans. These kinds of organised matches will mean much more for your skills than ordinary public games. You’ll be taking on people who know what they’re doing and are working as a team… this kind of challenging situation requires your very best to overcome.
13. Mouse settings
You can turn off mouse acceleration in your mouse drivers and in Windows. Many beginners play better with this ‘feature’ turned off, because mouse acceleration takes some time to get used to, but some do prefer to have this setting remain turned on. If you’re not experiencing any clear issues like consistently overshooting targets then you probably don’t want to turn it off.
As for mouse sensitivity. The common way to calculate your sensitivity is by determining how many centimeters you need to move for a 360 degree turn in-game. For many pro players this is roughly 24 cm on average, which is low sensitivity.
Does that mean you should use low sens too? No, it doesn’t! If you want to be good then use the sensitivity that suits you best. Low sens does not work for everyone and many people do play better with high sens. I’m an ultra-high sens player at 6cm/360 and it works much better for me than low sens, which I’ve tried to get used to on multiple occassions. Don’t stick with a setting that doesn’t work for you!
14. Timing is key
Once you start to get to grips with all of the above, it may be time to start to time item spawns.
This involves looking at the in-game clock and determining when an item will next spawn after it’s been picked up. For health items (e.g.: MegaHealth) this is generally 35 seconds, whereas armour and weapons take 25 seconds.
The easiest way to get used to this is by starting to time a single item on a map… once you think you have this down, you start to time two, then three, and so on. In general the most important items to time are Red Armour, MegaHealth and Yellow Armour in that order.
Against certain opponents it may be important to time items to keep them away from it (e.g.: railgun against skilled rail players). An easy way to get used to it is to assign one item each to a clanmember during clan matches so you can correct each other when timings are off.
Control pickups like the Yellow Armour
15. Different game modes for practice
Each game mode is different and some are better for certain practice routines. You should keep this in mind when training yourself to become a better player.
Play some Clan Arena to improve your accuracy and dodging in a relatively simple game. No need to worry about pickups, just run and gun with all weapons at your disposal. Ideal for improving with a specific weapon or getting used to new keybinds or mouse sensitivity settings. Instagib is similarly suitable for getting accustomed to new keybinds and sensitivity settings.
Free For All and Team DeathMatch are better for getting your tactical game up to scratch. Time item spawns and learn to remove yourself from losing battles.
16. The importance of sound
In a game of Quake next to nothing is as important as sound, especially in duels.
You can use sound to locate your opponent. Not only by footsteps, but also by pickups (armour shards, health bubbles, weapons). You can use this to avoid them, set up a trap, or even just fire off a shot in their direction which could well hit them in the face.
Also important is that certain spawns play their own sounds, such as the MegaHealth and Quad damage powerups. Additionally you can sometimes hear which weapon an opponent has deployed, by the buzzing noise of the Lightning Gun or Railgun for example.
Hopefully this lengthy list of tips and tactics will guide you in the right direction and have you fragging more people, dieing less and overall just enjoying the game more. If you have anything to add, any lingering questions or just want to comment – feel free to do so below!
Another site you might consider for a few helpful guides to Quake Live is Holysh1t.net. They have a number of guides, config editing tips and a config generator which are particularly helpful when you’re just starting out.
Good luck, have fun – and see you in-game!
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Really great tips you got here aimed specifically for the beginner players, of which there are obviously loads now =)
Yeah, there are a lot of beginning players now that the QL beta has gone public. I hope they’ll stick around too – more Quake players equals more fun! (and more targets) :)
More experienced players might not get much (if anything) out of this post. But my hope is that it’ll help a few of those many beginners to move up from newbie league and into more skilled territories. It’s definitely not the be all, end all guide to becoming the next Fatal1ty, but I doubt one could actually write such a monstrosity anyway.
Nice site btw. You’ve got some useful Quake Live tips there, so I’ve added a link to it.
The tutorial is great. Actually I set the field of view in 105 degrees, what do you think about it?, it’s a good number?
Higher FOV you got, the better it is, actually 130 is perfect.
Good Tutorial ;)
Your sens is sick :)
I’m using a fov of 119 degrees, is it too high in yout opinion?
Your optimal field of view depends largely on personal preference. Some people play better with default settings, others prefer to have it set a bit higher than that.
Most new players I’ve introduced to Quake (3, 4 and Live) tended to prefer fov settings between 100 and 110. Higher than that is fairly rare.
If you don’t almost immediately notice a clear improvement in your play (easier to build up speed, make difficult jumps, shoot more accurately) then it’s likely not a good fov setting for you. It’s something that greatly influences how you view the game world and should have an immediate and distinct effect on your play.
Just because some player is great at fov 110 or another at 120, doesn’t mean you need to use those settings. In all likelihood, they won’t work quite as well for you. So experiment with different values, playing with one value several matches before moving on to another. And see which fov suits your play best.
PS: No, I don’t think 119 is too high. My own fov right now is 120 :) There really isn’t any such thing as too high or too low, except for some values the game won’t accept (see slider range in-game).
Thanks for respost. I have other question:
In most cases I note that players who have low pings wins the match. I think that is not fair that players with ping 30 plays with 80 ping players. My ping is 60-80, I’m from spain and I play in france and Holand servers on quakelive. How is important the ping playing quake?. Can I modify quakelive settings to get a low ping?
Thanx for all and sorry for my english…
hehe really nice tutorial, thx! Ive played little q3 before. But started really more now with ql :D.
And thx for tutorial, really great! :D
@ShootingSTAR: i think you need to adapt to your ping.
Really the only things is that you would have a really slight delay in your shots.
I think that to a good player doesnt matter alot, as long as it is below 90-80 without packet loss.
Sadly i dont know any settings to get a better ping besides al the windows crap.
Anyone else knows a good config adjustment for this ?
I truly think that have a low ping gives a lot of advantage to the player, I note this when I play with friends and I’m the server or when I’m playing quakelive and almost always win players with low ping..
I read some time ago some comands to give a lower ping.
These are the variables: (but I don’t rememer the commands)
* Rate.
* cl_Maxpackets.
* cl_packetup.
* Snaps.
* cl_timenudge.
If anybody knows more about the low ping advantage and how have a lower ping I’m all ears
Thanks to respost Martino
ShootingSTAR: Yes, low ping can help quite a bit. There isn’t as much delay between you and the server, so your shots are registered more accurately by the server (amongst other things). Basically, better ping gives you an advantage.
Try to set rate to 25000 and cl_maxpackets to 125 – and see if that helps. (in autoexec.cfg)
You can also check this topic on the Quake Live forum for some further tips on improving play with high pings: http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13977
Of course the best way to improve your ping-situation is to get a better internet connection or playing on servers closer to you, prefferably in Spain or France.
hey dude!
great great tutorial at least you made me play quakelive again after i gave up in the close beta due to lack of skill.
anyways i got the problem that i couldnt choose my weapons fast enough, so i changed to your keybindings but i got a problem!
if i press e+f and space(jump) it doesnt work( he doesnt jump)
any idea what i could do? =(
when i change the jump key to something else it works…
but i need jumo on space anything else wont be playable for me :)
Hi, I tried to set my cfg files to:
ADSL / Cable / Wireless **
seta cl_maxpackets “100″
seta cl_packetdup “1″
* seta snaps “40″
seta rate “25000″
And my ping was the same. This don’t work for my shit conection. Actually i have 6megas/300kb…In Spain the connections are rubbish..
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I have a similar problem than Columan, if i’m pressing E+S i cant change the weapon to railgun presing R (R=railgun).
See you in Quakelive
Not being able to press two movement keys and switching weapon/jumping is a hardware issue. Most keyboards can’t handle this much input, so they lock out your final command beyond what it can cope with.
The only solution is getting a better keyboard that has anti-ghosting capability. (ghosting is when you press too many keys and your keyboard craps out)
These are a couple of anti-ghosting keyboards:
Razer Tarantula
Ideazon MERC
Steelseries 7G
Partial anti-ghosting keyboards (only on WASD keys) :
Logitech G11/G15
Razer Lycosa/Arctosa
I currently use a G15 and haven’t had any ghosting issues yet. I can press E/F + space and swap weapons while doing it. But it doesn’t have flawless anti-ghosting capability, so if you get any crazier than that it will probably bork up your commands.
i solved the problem by playing wasdf ;-)
anyway i got another question:
why are most of the progamer play lowsense?
i dont get it.
when i heard 24 cm/360degree of cypher i tested mine and its like 4-7 cm XD
i mean playing such a lowsense means that you have to move your mouse all the time and you cant turn around as fast as you can with highsense
ps: ill continue playing hishsense but i do not realy get the advantage of usuing lowsense 8[
The advantage of low sens is accuracy, whereas the advantage of high sens is speed. With lower sens you may not be able to turn as quickly, but because you have more distance to cover you can also aim more accurately. You won’t screw up a long distance rail as easily.
That’s the theory anyway. In practice it depends on the player and there are obviously exceptions to these ‘rules’. Plenty of low sens players can’t aim for shit – and a number of high sens players can aim incredibly well.
strange.. I’ve got the same keyboard issue as well.. but the strange aspect about it is, that the strafe jump to the right would only work for me on a wasd setup.. no esdf, rdfg, tfgh, etc :S
Must be something about the button plates on my cheapo logitech keyboard.. always thought, it could work on rdfg though :<
It might be that your keyboard features anti-ghosting on only the WASD keys. If that’s the case then it could handle W+D+space, but not E+F+space or R+G+space.
My G15 is technically WASD anti-ghosting only as well, but it seems to handle E+F+space just fine. Strafejumping to the right works flawlessly.
One question for you: do you have a PS/2 keyboard or USB?
Just want to contribute really, really old sensitivity trick. But this one requires totally new of playing the game and old WASD or ESDF doesn’t work :)
Set your sensitivity really low so that you have good accuracy and then bind two extra turning buttons that actually rotate player around. Now when you want to rotate faster you press buttons like Q and E when using WASD.
Requires lots of practice, but makes you a excelent railgun player. If that sounds crazy: I had one old quaker friend who had mouse1 bind to move forward and mouse2 move backwards and he was the one of the most insane instantgib players i’ve ever seen…
haha, i played instagib almost exclusively back in 2001 and that’s exactly what i did too! i bound forward and back to my mouse buttons and i bound shoot to my S key on a WASD setup. i found that i had a lesser chance of messing up a shot this way. i’m just now getting back to it (thanks quake live!) and i’m really really rusty, haha.
That takes me back to the early days of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. There was one clan that dominated all others (in terms of accuracy anyway) called Gunslingers. They had plenty of capable opponents (DSky amongst others), but none came close in terms of pure aiming capacity.
Yet (most of) these guys were using an inverted mouse to aim and had forward and backward movement bound to mouse keys 1 and 2. It doesn’t get a whole lot more unorthodox than that. Yet they were widely known to be, by far, the best aimers in the game, at the time.
Obviously the way you set up your keys doesn’t really matter. What matters is that you play in the way you feel is right. If you try turning off mouse acceleration and notice an improvement: don’t turn it back on. If you swap from wasd to esdf and find your play deteriorating: switch back.
There are many ways to play these games, but there is no such thing as a ‘correct setup’.
how do u know which tier are u in?
some matches says – ur skils are high while other says – more challening?
Hey…thnx for the nice tutorial :)
i used to play q3arena freezerail in clanbase and i was in top10 in 2n2 … but now as i play allweapon i suck as hell :D
i dunno i often make duels and try to be a challanging opponent but it does not work out.. they bang me away with rocket launcher from any position allthough i choose an enemy which is on my skill lvl – well… quakelive is saying that but it isnt true :D – anways:
i wanted to tweak my cfg but i cant find any id software folders or quakelive so there isnt any cfg file for me to configurate :/ im using windows vista ( DAMN IT SUCKS I KNOW ) but i really dunt find anyfing :(
In Vista you should be able to find it in: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\id Software\quakelive\home\baseq3
Substitute USERNAME for the login name you use for Vista. You might need to set hidden files and folders to visible in folder options to get there.
to find out which tier u are in .. use the grease monkey script in firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
then install the script – Tierviewer
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/45432
Those are great tips and well written for the beginner. I’m an old Quake player and probably rusty but reading the tutorial…guess it’s like riding a bike.
@Railu,Hanz: I’m off to practise.
hey i have a problem trying to copy your key bindings. i cant input mousewheel up or down as a keybinding. it just doesnt register it
You might have to hold down middle mouse button while scrolling for it to register. I know Quake 3 requires you to hold down the middle mouse button during gameplay for it to register scrolling, it might be the same in Quake Live. Otherwise: try another mouse and see if it has the same issue. Scrolling works fine in QL on this end.
sup there :) i started playing q3a in 2001. this was our no.1 favourite Game on our local partys :D cuz it Works on nearly everyones machine and you got no Network issues.. finally they restart quake 3 :)
there is One Thing i Miss/hate that if you Jump over an item you doesnt Collect it .. we played later much cpma where you can Jump over an item and collect it.. and i think the cpma Movement was slighty different..
your Tipps are good for all who really want to get in the Game :)
i also want add that if you Play against a human its something another than à practise Match against a bot.. its like à Crystal sphere you are watching in :D you have to know especially in à Duell Match what steps your Opponent do .. i try to Thing were He gonna Run .. the most Orten used Runs are red Armor / Mega Health and the favourite weapon. try to eat Away the Importanz items (don’t Camp them) and try to Rule the Map.. well i am Not the hardest Player but do my Best :>
Cu @ quakelive
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this tips are very nice,but u must tell some commands ,like cg_fov 110.some commands are very helpful and help to the movement and maybe at the aim
*sorry about my English:D
Nice tips!
I personnaly use the Shotgun and sniper (forgot name).
the shotgun i use in close around-the-corner confrontations… and in hallways, and in small spaces, if by miracle theyre stuffed in, i love shooting like a manic! 4 frags in 2 sec man!
PS: im a huge beginner does anyone have a recruiting clan? My user is SoulStorm.
Hey man I was just reading this I’ve been looking at this for a few days now and its helped my game a lot . Btw my fov is 130 (the maximum) and my sens is 30 (the maximum). If you’re ever on look me up my name is motherf0cker.
And yes soulstorm I’m in a clan called nfa we r recruiting atm the website is clannfa.com I’m an admin so I will get u in to ebery thing but ull need 2 post on the forums
Awesome tips,They helped me alot :D
Im DT3cpvids on QL do u mind if i add u there?
Yeah man you can add me
Hey there. Have you got any tips on playing on servers with high ping? My ping is usually 156+… I’m from Singapore and the closest servers I can connect to are the Australian servers. Any further and my ping would be 200+… The problem is, there are no Singaporean servers to play on. So I have to join laggy servers where I have the least fun, if not the worst headache. My kill death ratio is something like 1-8. Rockets seem to have no effect. I was just wondering whether you could tell me any tips on how to improve my gameplay online :)
There really is no way to compete with pings like that in Quake Live. You might want to try to use weapons like the Grenade Launcher, Plasma Gun and Chaingun more, but I suspect that even switching to these more indirect weapons you’d still be looking at negative kill/death ratios.
I take it you’ve already tried the numerous Korean and Japanese servers as well? These may be further away geographically, but it’s possible that you might have a better connection to these servers regardless.
It may also be possible to host matches in the Singapore region, because it is listed on the Quake Live browser. But that does require a Pro subscription and you’d have to wait for people to actually bother to join…
I think I’ve also got problems with my pings (around 400ms) and I’m always getting hammered.
Hi!
I have a question about mouseAccel. What I have understand is that the most players have mouseAccel turned on. And I can’t understand why its better? It must be much harder to learn the sens to the max. So you can make fast moves and shot exactly were you thinking. Can anyone explane why its better to have it on?
/Rickard
It can be a good idea to turn on mouse acceleration if you’re using low mouse sensitivity settings. The mouse acceleration then partially compensates for the lack of turning speed in a low-sens (e.g.: 24cm/360) setup. This makes you quite accurate in long range fights, while still having the turning speed to almost keep up with high sens players in close range fights. I also suspect that mouse acceleration helps make strafejumping a tad easier with low-sens setups.
And it’s the most all-round setup that you can get, so it shouldn’t be surprising that it’s quite popular. That doesn’t make it ‘superior’ to any other setup, but it’s certainly worth looking into if you think that you haven’t quite found your optimal mouse settings yet.
Too bad cheaters ruin the game.
I see people with impossible amount of health-points and their stats confirm that they cheat.
PunkBuster can’t help you there because the game is not server-side oriented.
You have to be deaf, blind and severely retarded to decide to pay for premium/pro account.
Do you have any advice on my mouse not working right. I can shoot but I can’t turn. I currently run a razer deathadder on 1800dpi with all of the current drivers installed on windows 7
According to a thread on the Quake Live forums there are several possible fixes. The one most people report as working for them is:
Press ~ to open console in-game (make sure to enable console in game options first).
Input this command: in_nograb 0
Alternatively this series of console commands also works for some:
in_mouse -1
in_restart
in_mouse 1
See the full forum thread for more information: http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?133-The-Mouse-Fix
thank you man! very cool tips, nice job :)