Quake Live for Mac Tuesday

[Richdmoore]

Quake Live (free version of Quake 3) is going to have a Mac version. Id Software at this years Quakecon said it will be released Tuesday.
:D:D:apple::D

[Miharu]

Well, about time ;) The main page has said "Mac and Linux versions soon" since January.

[imassents]

Well, about time ;) The main page has said "Mac and Linux versions soon" since January.Taking a hint from Blizzard I see
http://www.wowwiki.com/Soon

=)

[Sambo110]

I might have to play this. Downloaded it in Boot Camp but only played it once, but now it is another native Mac game I can see myself playing it more, I hope.

[Sambo110]

Oh, Tuesday, I thought it was Monday so I was expecting it any minute now. So will it be out tomorrow or Wednesday? For us Aussies I mean.

[tominated]

Oh, Tuesday, I thought it was Monday so I was expecting it any minute now. So will it be out tomorrow or Wednesday? For us Aussies I mean.

either late night tomorrow, or early morning on wednesday. bout time they got mac support. they didn't have it when all my friends played which sucked. i had to use my POS windows laptop

[mongorama]

tangent: Is id planning on a Mac version of the new Wolfenstein?

I don't know that it looks "must have," but it looks like an enjoyable diversion. As such, I could see myself playing an OS X version much more than I could see myself restarting into Windows, playing, restarting in OS X, and doing more work.

[iRaptor]

It says that the Mac version is coming soon. If this is a PC game, played with boot camp, thats not really a mac version.

Did I miss something? If they have a Mac version I would love to try it out!:confused:

[redking31591]

I think it will be going live soon because quakelive.com has gone down.

[redking31591]

Its live

[N10248]

Yep its up and i'm downloading the game files now

in case anyone wonders where the plugin gets saved (if it causes problems) its in the Macintosh HD/library/internet plugin folder and the big files it downloads are kept your accounts "Application support" folder

[BradenG]

Cool, gonna check this out :)

[N10248]

I spoke too soon..

Safari crashed just as the game window appeared and its downloading it all again now

[redking31591]

I played the tutorial round it is really fun. The controls are really customizable and the game looks great. If you like FPS this is a no-brainer.

[Nermal]

I just tried it and got "Support for Mac & Linux, along with alternative browsers is under development."

Is there something special that you need to do?

[MattZani]

Wouldnt work with FF3.5, but works with Safari :/

[N10248]

I just tried it and got "Support for Mac & Linux, along with alternative browsers is under development."

Is there something special that you need to do?

try reloading the page a few times

I got it working now, runs really fast, but not as fun as Urban Terror though

[Tom B.]

Safari 'unexpectedly quits' every time I exit a match...

This is on Mac OS X 10.5.8 with Safari 4.0.3.

Anyone else having the same issue?

[Sambo110]

Downloading it now. I wish I could delete my account or reset my account, because I played a few games in Windows. But doesn't matter, I'll just do training again.

[Sambo110]

Safari 'unexpectedly quits' every time I exit a match...

This is on Mac OS X 10.5.8 with Safari 4.0.3.

Anyone else having the same issue?

Yes, that happened to me too. That sucks, hopefully they fix it.

[gman901]

This plays great on the Rev C Air! I am playing at the full resolution with a full screen, and no hiccups! I can't seem to load the next level after the tutorial, but I love what I am seeing here!:D

[Koronis]

Yes, that happened to me too. That sucks, hopefully they fix it.

Happened to me as well, it would be nice if they fix that bug, although today is the first day its been out

[beg_ne]

Quake Live is really crashtastic, it almost always crashes Safari. But DAMN is it fun!!!

I forgot what a blast that game is to play.

[PowerGamerX]

Can't launch it even though its Universal Binary. Oh well, back to ET: Wolfenstein

[kkat69]

Can't run in FF 3.5.2 but runs great in Safari.

[Richdmoore]

I'm having trouble downloading this, but that's probably because I'm on the free PDX airport wifi while I am waiting on my airline flight. All those weird firewalls and such are getting in the way of downloading all the needed components. (I am also using a Mini 9 hackintosh.)

I shouldn't have these issues on my real macbook, the original game (Quake 3 & Quake 3 team arena) played great on my GMA950 machine, so I would suspect this web port will work great as well.

To those who have tried it, have they added headset support? After using my xbox 360, stopping to type is a major distraction.

Oh, and they are porting this to the xbox arcade, it is called Quake Arena, but no word if they will allow pc/xbox cross platform play. Back in the day they allowed pc & dreamcast players to play together, it was great fun. I hope they institute some kind of crossplatform play for these games as well.

[iAlexG]

I played the Quake Live tutorial yesturday but when i played again later that night the sound was really fast :confused: Like squeaky and really fast? its odd. Also i couldnt get Wolfenstein: ET to work. It kept saying that i couldnt join the game because PunkBuster is not enabled? but when i enable punkbuster it does nothing?

[brendon2020]

this really does crash a lot with safari, especially when you're changing video/sound settings. The mouse accel is wierd to, but there was an app i found on the quakelive forums to disable it. Hopefully we'll see the ff version soon.

[Mac1212]

i am downloading the game now.