The new mode is the real game. ID has decided that this is the direction they want to take with their game. Don't like it? Stick to classic or don't play. People just need to realize that the 'real game' has changed. Now, this might be an even worse change than the sticky nerf coming from the quake players perspective, but as I see it making the game more accessible is a much much needed change for quake.

You can't dismiss the other side by saying 'Don't like it don't play it.' Small games like Quake thrive on their community and this just cuts it right down the middle.

I'm having a blast with these new updates. Makes pubbing more fun

its pretty sick tbh

There's just no excuse for any FPS developed by a professional team in the last 5 years to not have some form of intuitive matchmaking available. Even a ladder system based on ELO would be a huge boon to duelers. Quake Live has been handled so poorly over the years it still blows my mind how hard id has dropped the ball.

Let's see:

• terrible infrastructure and design of the QL backend (2000-3000 concurrent users lags entire website)
  
• over 70 ping? Good luck hitting half your shots with our revolutionary netcode
  
• bad routing to QL servers for certain ISP users for 90% of QL's existence
  
• oh did you want to 1v1 aerowalk? pay premium you little fuck or I'm going to force the server to a map the size of one out of Battlefield

Id sucks

played some QL last night.

Honestly was the most fun i've ever had playing quake. I might be a casual.

obviously it wasn't thriving if id felt it necessary to completely change the game you ponce schoolboy

i was losing CA 1v1s to someone when i was htiting 51% lg cause that new machine gun is mega broken

How? It has a 96 DPS compared to LG's 120.