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Title: Compatible with Quake III Arena
Post by: jayasuriya on August 19, 2008, 07:28:36 PM
Hi guys.

Can I use OpenArena to connect to Quake III Arena servers to play? Or does it HAVE to be OpenArena specific servers? Thanks.


Title: Re: Compatible with Quake III Arena
Post by: Fitacus on August 20, 2008, 05:02:12 AM
Any unpure server can be connected by OA players afaik.


Title: Re: Compatible with Quake III Arena
Post by: sago007 on August 20, 2008, 06:13:17 AM
It is not possible.

before 0.7.7 it was possible to join a quake 3 server if it was unpure, had punkpuster disabled, auth disabled and did not use any of the official quake 3 maps (and 0.7.6 also required that it was running a mod). It was also possible for Quake 3 players to join Open Arena servers and here the auth disabled was automatically fulfilled.

From 0.7.7 OA started to use a different protocol number between incompatible versions. This has annoyed many defrag players as defrag was one of the few mods that fulfilled all the above requirements.


Title: Re: Compatible with Quake III Arena
Post by: jayasuriya on August 20, 2008, 06:40:01 AM
Thanks guys.

Too bad.