Quake 3 Tweak Arena - Interesting Quake 3 Suggestions

� There are a few more interesting things you can do with Quake 3. Did you know that there is in fact a secret development level hidden in Quake 3? Granted, it is crap beyond belief (all it is is a little box with no weapon pick ups - all you have is a guantlet and machine gun) but is was only used for testing anyway. To enable this level (?) just type "map test_bigbox" (minus the quotes) into the console. Joy.

� The next tip is far better. Remember when you fought Anarki and saw his name in different colours? Well it is also possible for your name to have the same. To enable this, open your Quake 3 config (in the baseq3 folder - use wordpad) and find the line "seta name". Right, before your name type ^x where x is a number between 1 and 10. For example, type: ^4Brisk to get Brisk displayed in a blue font. You can also do this for every letter (eg. ^4B^2R^7I^5S^1K) to get multi colured text - It may not make you a better player but it sure does look nice!!! Save your changes and enjoy. If you don't like the colours you picked then you can simply change them in the PLAYER section of the SETUP setting.

� There are many self made macros around the internet (such as the ability to make your own zoom scale), but I think that the replay editor is the best. This macro allows you to speed up, slow down, and pause your demos or replays for hours of fun! To do this, you will need to add the following commands into your autoexec.cfg:

set demfastf "timescale 1.8;echo Fast-Forward"
set demsuperff "timescale 3;echo Super-Fast-Forward"
set demslowmo "timescale .5;echo Slow-Mo"
set dempause "timescale .000000000000000001;echo Pause"
set demnormal "timescale 1;echo Normal"
bind kp_leftarrow "vstr demfastf"
bind kp_pgup "vstr demslowmo"
bind kp_home "vstr dempause"
bind kp_uparrow "vstr demnormal"
bind kp_rightarrow "vstr demsuperff"
timescale 1

� Once you get used to managing macros, you can change which bind you want for the relevent command. These are the arangements which I find the easiest to use for me, but don't forget to change them if the bind is already taken by another function (such as zooming in for example) Happy editing!