Saturday, September 23, 2000

Q3A 1.25 Patch Released -- 12:06 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Of course, the night when I take my wife out for her birthday and The Master's computer freaks out something like this happens. id's Graeme Devine updated his .plan with word that the 1.25 patch for Quake III Arena has been released. Here's a partial list of changes from his .plan:

- global rankings support from www.globalrankings.com
- new awards
- new pure server support
- new protocol 45
- score plumes (these are cool)
- headmodel/model/team_model/team_headmodel support (orbbs head on sarge is funny)
- banning of weapons on servers
- dropped sound fixes
- new announcer sounds
- new smoothed client support for modem users
- MD4 skeletal model support
- new encryption
- new botlib version and area files
- and much much more (hint: read the readme this time)

From checking the readme, this patch also removed the CD check (thank heavens). You will need to have Q3A patched to 1.17 before patching to 1.25. You can download this new patch (17.3M--only Win32 right now) from id's FTP site, Blue's News (he also lists several other mirror sites), FilePlanet, Shugashack, and no doubt many other places.

UPDATE! The "dropped sound fixes" is a big one IMO. Now I hear the proper sound when I pick up a plasma gun as well as all the possible death sounds for a model. I've been using the Boba Fett model for the better part of six months and this is the first time I heard one particular death sound. Now to get those mods updated . . .

News for 09/23/2000

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