Sunday, April 9, 2000

Q3A Jailbreak Beta -- 10:01 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

A beta version of the new Quake III Arena mod, Jailbreak, has been released. You can download it from the Jailbreak homepage. It's a 38M download, but they also have it divided up into four ~10M chunks for modemers. When you frag someone on the opposing team, they go to jail. Once everyone on a team is in jail, the whole team is executed (the goal of the game). Players who are still free can throw a switch to release their imprisoned teammates.

I played it a little bit (3v3 with five bots). The bots understand shooting well enough, but won't throw the switch to release you (or help you escape when imprisoned). It looks like it would be a fun team-based mod without all the complexities of Team-Fortress-esque mods.

One level I played, q3jbsul3 "Neighbourhate", is that most rare of levels that makes me want to rush right out and kill myself. Why?

• The bases are two tall towers. You need to run up a zillion flights of stairs in the dark to rescue your teammates.
• They use that "shiny metal" shader all over the place.
• Some of the doors aren't really doors. They are teleporters that zap you to God only knows where.

The other two maps I played were pretty nice. That "Neighbourhate" one made me want to smash my head through my monitor. Or listen to Kid Rock. Same effect.

News for 04/09/2000

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