Quake Live strafe jumping basics
In my opinion, one of the most difficult skills to master in Quake Live is strafe jumping. It looks very simple but it's not that easy if you want to do it correctly. It is often an undervalued skill of gaming. When you have got good movement skills you will be able to move faster to your objectives and even more importantly, you will be harder to hit.
Strafe Jumping step by step
- Press forward
- While keeping the forward key pressed, press jump and press the move left or move right key. It is important to note that the move left/move right key and jump key are pressed at the same time.
- To gain extra speed, you should move your mouse smoothly to around a 45 degree in the direction of the strafe.
- For consecutive strafejumps, you should jump again immediately after landing, changing the direction of strafe as well as mouse motion.
Steve's Quake Strafejumping Video Tutorial
Don't freak out if it doesn't work the first few times. Mastering the Quake Live movement takes time and practice. 
What FPS games will Quake Live have to compete with in 2009?
After reading this interesting article "2009 is looking dry" by Peter Molyneux, head of Lionhead Studios, I wondered what games could be Quake Live's rivals in 2009.
Any interesting games recently?
Honestly there haven't been any good sci-fi first person shooters for ages. I might be exaggerating but actually there hasn't been any good one since Quake III Arena back in 1999. Well, actually I enjoyed one FPS game, namely PainKiller. The game was really bad out-of-the box but when it was elected as the 2005 CPL worldtour game it had the support it needed to become a good game.
Other FPS games like Doom 3, Quake 4, Unreal Tournament 3 ... never really broke through. Those games were all made very well but they missed too many features to remain interesting on the long run.
The real success games in the last few years were all realistic shooters like Mohaa, CS, COD1-5, battlefield, ...
Quake Live configs for download
If you want to try Quake Live config files of other players, this is your chance. In this post we want to give you the opportunity to compare other player's config with your own.
No example screenshots have been added yet. Quake Live is still in a closed beta fase and publishing screenshots would break the Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
Configs from the professionals
It is a pretty standard Quake Live config but all the important commands are there.
On stermy.com, the most known Italian quaker is sharing his Quake Live config. This config is what you would expect from an experienced player like stermy. It has all the right settings for optimal gameplay at the expense of the graphics, of course. Definitely worth a try if you don't care about the graphics.
Configs from the community
This is a very well documented config which makes it easily customizable. The resolution is set to 1920*1200 but this can of course be changed: r_mode in console or config file or via the game menu.
This config has 3 scripts, i.e. a volume-, a demo- and a zoomscript (you will have to write +zoom when joining a new server). Maximum FPS has been set to 75, this makes the game more smooth on a TFT screen. A thin lightning gun beam and small rail trail might be cool extras to make this config worthwile to try.
If you're looking for nice graphics, don't try this config. If your computer can't keep up with Quake Live on high detail, you might give this config a try. Almost all graphics have been removed. Not only to improve FPS but more importantly to improve the gameplay.
If you wish to see your config in the list, please post a link to your config in the commentbox below with some information.
The financial crisis hits eSports … and Quake Live?
The whole world is suffering from the financial crisis. To give you an idea: since the start of the recession, the number of unemployed persons has grown by 3,6 million in the US.
Company Cutbacks
Companies start cutting on their expenses to cope with this financial crisis. The same goes for the computer business and gaming industries who are making decisions to deal with this extraordinary situation.
First there was the news that EA closes Black Box and they plan to reduce their worldwide work force by approximately 10 per cent or 1.000 people. Then I found the news that Microsoft plans to cut up to 15.000 jobs worldwide.
Can you play Quake Live on linux or mac?
Yes you can! Just visit the Quake Live website and follow the on screen instructions!
As tested with timedemos on dualboot machines it is actually proven that the Linux version is faster than the Windows version!
So if you are using Apple MacOS or GNU/Linux, visit the site and join in on the fragging mayhem!
Quake.cz TDM Euro Open Cup
Quake.cz's TDM Euro Open cup has started a while ago and quite a few matches have been played already.
24 teams, like 
Satan's Proxies, 
team k1ck, 
Elite Squad, MiEL GAMiNG, have signed up to compete in this Quake Live Euro Open cup.
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