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Quake Live Open Beta Goes Live
Nick Breckon
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After an extensive closed beta period, id's free-to-play version of Quake III, Quake Live, has now entered open beta testing.

The web-based title boasts 40 arenas and 5 game modes, in addition to copious amounts of late 90s nostalgia.

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  • Johnnsen legacy 10 years
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    February 24, 2009 5:22 PM

    One of my names was already taken.


    Well I am in Position in queue: 33694 because my browser crashed.

    What will you have to download?

    • casteevo legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      February 24, 2009 5:24 PM

      it installs a plugin for whichever browser you're using. Then while you're setting things up it d/l's the content.

      • Johnnsen legacy 10 years
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        February 24, 2009 5:34 PM

        How big is it?

        • TheIneffableBob legacy 10 years
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          February 24, 2009 5:36 PM

          The plug-in is around 2 MB. The game files took me a couple minutes to download, so I'd say maybe like 50 MB?

          • idolminds legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            February 24, 2009 6:02 PM

            Total download is around 260MB.

            • TheIneffableBob legacy 10 years
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              February 24, 2009 6:34 PM

              That's a lot bigger than I thought. Seemed to download pretty quick for me, though.

            • Jobos legacy 10 years
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              February 24, 2009 7:09 PM

              Is that was this Queueue stuff is about?

            • MuzixMon legacy 10 years
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              February 24, 2009 7:31 PM

              Wow 260 meg! I thought this was designed to be played in a browser? That's half the size for the original Q3 release. I thought you'd have to get a few plug ins and you are in, kind of like this Q3 Flash game that has been out for awhile:
              http://necromanthus.com/Games/ShockWave/quake3.html

              • deculture legacy 10 years
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                February 24, 2009 8:38 PM

                You don't need all that at once though. Like they've said it streams the stuff to you as you play. If you still haven't downloaded the particular map you need it'll download it right away, though.

    • sanewave legacy 10 years
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      February 24, 2009 8:39 PM

      i logged in que 10

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