[markandrewj]

The net code for the original Q3A client worked well for lan, but was sensitive to latency for remote play. One of the exciting changes to Quake Live was the updated net code for better remote play. Internet connections also got better in general with the time.

[testfrequency]

Eh. While not great given bandwidth availability at the time, most Quake hosted servers has excellent ping and latency for most people domestically. The main issues were honestly people hosting from their local machines across the world, which obviously had very poor results.

I am a former Quake 3 champion, have a lot of experience dealing with Quake 3 servers :)

[lewurm]

What is a former q3 champion doing these days? I'm genuinely curious. Since you are on hacker news I assume you do something with software. Any skills that you picked up back then that are useful today?

[markandrewj]

I have been playing Quake since Quake World and dial up. For Quake Live I was ranked highly for a while in RA. It's true that if you were close enough to the server you could get a better experience, but in western Canada servers were limited. In the past though, even with a good ping, rails were much more likely to hit on LAN. The changes to the net code in Quake Live were a welcomed change for myself.

As a note, I recently played for the first time in over 10 years. I got banned until 2029 from the main RA3 sever most people play on because I achieved 60%+ accuracy in a match and people thought I was cheating.

I also got the aim bot achievement from Steam as a result, which only 3.6% of other players have.

Back in the day I had a very tiny sponsorship with HyperGlide where I tested their products before the launch. They are credited for making the first hard surface mouse pad. I only received mouse pads, but I was happy to receive this.

https://www.hyperglide.net/

[mentos]

What’s the story around the Unlagged mod was that a mod you remember? It was mentioned in the blog post curious if it was popular and if it eventually got iD's attention to implement something similar officially?