Quake 3's Tips & Hints
Looking for some tips or hints for Quake 3? Then read on! Here you can find out how to improve your skills or many other things.
The Quake3 .pk3 files can be viewed and extracted with Winzip! Just rename the .pk3 to .zip and then open it with
WinZip.
Type "model sarge" (without the quotes) into the console to play as a whole new character with new sounds and animations!
If you have downloaded a number of maps but don't know which one to play, open the console and type exec maps.cfg. Hit [Enter], then type maplist. The console will display the names of all of the maps that you've installed, including the .pk3's in your baseq3 folder. To play one of the listed maps, simply type map [mapname].
Mikel Blanchard of Blues News points out that you can check out the current effects and sounds of the Q3ATest grappling hook and the weapons not included in the current maps, simply by enabling the cheats. Start a map from the console using the "devmap" command (e.g., "devmap q3test1") and then grabbing the items using the command "give all," (or "give hook" for just the grapple) to check them out.
Wonder how all those players have managed to create those multicolored player names? I bet you want one. Pop over to the
Files section, where you can download it! It allows you to create player names using a choice of different colors or fonts and saves your new player name to your Q3 config file. Nice!
A number of people have asked how to do a backflip. It's quite easy, actually...Simply jump while moving backwards. While you won't see yourself doing it, other players watching you will.
