QL update: Finnegan’s and other stuff!

Not too long ago – September 28th: content and skill matching – Quake Live got it’s 1st content update pack with 4 additional maps. Alas, no CTF map present there, but rejoice as Finnegan’s has made the cut. Besides Finnegan’s – better known to old-school Quake players as W3 – 3 other maps and a series of game changes are live since today’s update.

So let’s go over the worth-mentioning things in the October update:

Maps:

Finnegan’s (CTF) Old-school but awesome addition to Quake Live which can be immediately added to the competitive map pool if I had anything to say about it. Medium-Big map with loads of heavy base items (ra-mh) and strong focus on power-up play (each base has a regen, and haste in the middle). If you need to remember anything from this update, imo this is it :p	Gothic Rage (Duel) 3 Stories high, teleport surprises, no rail! Up close and personal or prediction spam, your choice!
Solid (2vs2 TDM) Simple, industrial looking map, no rail, could perhaps be used for duel as well as it’s not that big. Originally made by swelt for CPMA.	Window Pain (Small CA) Coming from RA3, this is a super tiny map that gets even smaller if someone opens the windows in between both areas.

Some other minor changes were made to several maps, check them out in the news post.

Game play:

• Chat tokens! Not immediately those I’d expected like #l (player’s current location) or #i (location of the item near to you, which is very handy for available-binds), but it’s a start!
• Quad goes from 4x to 3x
• Step height increased from 18 to 22. This doesn’t mean you can jump higher, just means it’s simpler to walk up on stairs that have higher steps or avoid bumping into edges that to the eye seem like a reachable place without jumping.
• Chain Jumping: to get a bit of extra acceleration when bumping/jumping on a step and jumping again or in combination with exiting a teleporter and immediately jumping again for instant acceleration. Here’s a video of someone demonstrating some chain jumps.
  httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgA_Q0VlkiE

Additional stuff in the news post.

Enjoy Finnegan’s! 😀

More info:

• October 26th, 2010 newspost
• Quake Live on IRC in #quakelive and #quakelive.support (Quakenet)

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