I've spent over half an hour fruitlessly looking for a place to download an official release of quake wars so that I could play it. I have the 1.5 updater but it can't install anything because I don't have 1.0. HELP!!!
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how do I get quake wars on my mac?!?!
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atszyman
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If you're trying to obtain a "free" copy of Quake Wars you won't find much help here. Talk of piracy is strictly forbidden on MacRumors.
Otherwise if you're interested in purchasing a copy you can go to id's website.
Otherwise if you're interested in purchasing a copy you can go to id's website.
sorry my bad 🙄
Guess I'll have to wait then... thanks for your help!
Just curious though in case you know... if it isn't out yet for macs why is there a 1.5 mac update?
Guess I'll have to wait then... thanks for your help!
Just curious though in case you know... if it isn't out yet for macs why is there a 1.5 mac update?
nagromme
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It IS out for Macs, and it's great 🙂 I never tried a class-based shooter before but I'm hooked.
The patch is for the FULL game, not for the demo. (Which, as stated above, doesn't exist--at least not yet.)
If you want to try it before buying you'll have to wait for a demo. But you can BUY it now. Amazon has it, for instance.
As a general performance test, the Quake 4 demo (see macgamefiles.com) performs generally similar in terms of framerates. It uses a similar engine. But the gameplay of Quake 4 is a linear one-player "quest" nothing to do with the team-oriented Quake Wars.
The patch is for the FULL game, not for the demo. (Which, as stated above, doesn't exist--at least not yet.)
If you want to try it before buying you'll have to wait for a demo. But you can BUY it now. Amazon has it, for instance.
As a general performance test, the Quake 4 demo (see macgamefiles.com) performs generally similar in terms of framerates. It uses a similar engine. But the gameplay of Quake 4 is a linear one-player "quest" nothing to do with the team-oriented Quake Wars.
The update is for the full game, not the demo. The PC demo at any rate only goes to 1.4. Personally I'd be surprised if a Mac demo appears at all.
I highly doubt I'm buying it no matter how good it is... but I do want to at least try it. Thanks for your help guys!