Comments on: 16 Tips for Quake Live Beginners!

By: somebody

somebody — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:10:41 +0000

thank you man! very cool tips, nice job :)

By: Droniac

Droniac — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:20:10 +0000

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

By: David

David — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:45:16 +0000

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

By: Droniac

Droniac — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:33:36 +0000

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.

By: T800

T800 — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:56:54 +0000

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.

By: Rickard

Rickard — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:57:47 +0000

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

By: SymS

SymS — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:58:14 +0000

I think I’ve also got problems with my pings (around 400ms) and I’m always getting hammered.

By: Droniac

Droniac — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:17:40 +0000

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…

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:52:00 +0000

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 :)

By: t0rtu3

t0rtu3 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:31:53 +0000

Higher FOV you got, the better it is, actually 130 is perfect.