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Quake III Arena is a 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter developed by id Software.

Notable features of Quake III Arena include a minimalist design, very extensively customizable settings such as field of view, texture detail and enemy model; and advanced movement features such as strafe-jumping and rocket-jumping.

Quake III Arena comes with several gameplay modes: Free for All (FFA), a classic deathmatch, where each player competes against the rest for the highest score, Team Deathmatch (TDM), where usually two teams of four compete for the highest team frag (kill) total, Tournament (1v1), a deathmatch between two players, usually ending after a set time and Capture the Flag, which is played on symmetrical maps where teams have to recover the enemy flag from the opponents' base while retaining their own.

 

 

Installing Quake 3 Team Arena :

 

Under Linux :

Download Quake 3 Arena - Linux and Quake 3 Team Arena - Linux

In the terminal, cd to the directory where the deb file has been downloaded.

sudo dpkg -i quake3-data.deb quake3-team-arena-data.deb

sudo apt install quake3

Go to your apps menu, look for "Quake 3 Arena" and click it to launch it.

 

Re-install Quake 3 Arena:
Before any new installation, do: sudo apt remove --purge quake3 quake3-data quake3-team-arena-data.deb

 

 

Under Windows :

Download the game here : Quake 3 Team Arena - Windows

Extract the Quake_3_Team_Arena_Windows.zip where you whant it to be installed

Inside Quake 3 Arena folder, launch ioquake3.x86_64.exe

 

Under macOS :

Download the game here : Quake 3 Team Arena - macOS

Extract Quake 3 Team Arena - macOS x86-64 + ARM64.zip in /Application folder

Launch ioquake3.app from the Finder in your ioquake3 folder

 

Launching the game :

After launching the game, when the screen shows "PLEASE ENTER YOUR CD KEY" just press Enter and click "ACCEPT" (bottom right).

 

To join a specific game :

 Go to Multiplayer > Specify (bottom left) > Address.

 Then type: metanef.org

 Then click "FIGHT" to join the game!

 

 

Additional informations :

 

Displaying the console :

Press the Shift and Escape keys at the same time, this will bring down the console on any system.

 

Vote for a new map :

/callvote map map_name

example: /callvote map q3dm1

 

Map names :

q3dm[1-16]

 

Vote :

YES: F1

NO: F2

 

 

How do I change the Field of View or FOV?
Bring down the console with the key to the left of the 1 on your keyboard. On US ANSI keyboards it is the ` key or you can always press the Shift and Escape keys at the same time. Then type /cg_fov 90 or replace 90 with the FOV you would like.

HD/High Resolutions
Not only do we have instructions for setting a non-standard resolution, but in widescreen modes we will display Quake 3 more properly than id’s last version. For a 1080p HD screen, I’d use these commands in the console:

/r_mode -1

/r_customheight 1080

/r_customwidth 1920

then if I’m in-game I would use /vid_restart to restart ioquake3’s video system with the new display resolution. If you want the game to be fullscreen you can use the /r_fullscreen 1 command. To set it back to windowed mode you can change the 1 to a 0 /r_fullscreen 0.

The in-game video preferences will not list your new resolution

 

Official manual :

Supplementary information: Complete game documentation