client-linux VS vkQuake

www.nquake.com

QuakeWorld (the "Internet" version of quake 1) is still very active. The source code was open-sourced by Carmack many years ago and the community has been evolving the clients ever since. Today the most popular one - ezquake [0] - features many improvements in performance, networking and teamplay features.

Anybody can download a version of this client along with a mostly playable version of quake [1] (that includes only the first chapter of the original maps like the shareware version but many or most popular multiplayer maps. And if you have the original you just need to place the pak1.pak inside the id1 directory and have access to everything)

There are many ongoing tournaments and QHLAN is about to be held in Sweden on November 17-20. You can find all about these in the quakeworld wiki [2]

To find the servers and games you can use one of two websites [3][4] or the in-game browser. The quakeworld EU and US communities are found on Discord. [5][6]

There is also an automated Twitch channel built by a community member that streams quakeworld 24/7 [6]

[0] https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source

[1] https://www.nquake.com/

[2] https://www.quakeworld.nu/wiki/Overview

[2] https://badplace.eu/

[3] https://hub.quakeworld.nu/

[4] http://discord.quake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld EU Discord)

[5] http://discord.usquake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld US Discord)

[6] https://www.twitch.tv/QuakeWorld

www.nquake.com if one wants to download a package containing ezQuake (a QuakeWorld client with lots of community developed enhancements), the Quake shareware and other goodies.

I'd go with Quakeworld. The weapons are very strong, so it's easy to get frags even for beginners, even if you're playing against experienced players. On that same note, you'll also die a lot lol.

Quakeworld. You die a lot and quick, but you get a lot of kills too more easily than in other AFPS.

Quakespasm doesnt really have the best netcode tho, if you're trying to play coop id probably just recommend the new rerelease of the game, if its something competitive you should use quakeworld.

Download free https://www.nquake.com/

> Personally, I prefer https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake because it allows disabling texture smoothing.

All hardware-accelerated Quake source ports that I'm aware of allow you to disable texture smoothing, going all the way back to the original GL Quake (if not earlier).

It was historically set through the console (rather than through a graphical menu), via the `gl_texturemode_ command

On modern hardware capable of trilinear filtering, the appropriate texturemode to disable texture smoothing (which keeping the other niceties of hardware acceleration was

gl_texturemode "GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR"

For the Ironwail engine, which is the currently preferred Quake source port for modern 3D hardware, options on whether or not to use texture smoothing (and other "retro" aesthetics like whether to use square or circular particles) are things that can be toggled in the video configuration menu.

vkQuake https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake (Yes I know the author just dropped support but I suspect it'll be picked back up)

Annnnnd 1.30.1 is already out with a few small fixes: https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake/releases

That last one is an open source engine for a trio of existing free games, but if we count open source engines for commercial games the amount of famous examples grows exponentially. All id Software games up to Doom 3 have had their engines made open source and have a huge number of modern versions available for all of them. So Arcane Dimensions, the greatest by a mile Quake campaign ever made, was completed just three years ago and you need a modern open source engine like vkQuake to play it - even the Quake Remastered engine can't handle the huge AD maps. There's also an open source Morrowind engine, an open source Freespace 1/2 engine (Diaspora above actually runs on this), an open source point and click engine called ScummVM that runs so many old adventure games it's almost an emulator...

You can get the packages to build from vkQuake: https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake

A better solution - and one that lets you run the game at any arbitrary framerate you want - is to switch to a fork of quakespasm with framerate independent physics. I'd strongly recommend playing with Ironwail, but vkQuake is also a great option. Both of these ports offer significant performance improvements over vanilla quakespasm and some other nice rendering features.

If you plan on playing Arcane Dimensions with all features like custom HUD and particles then the best choice is VkQuake. It is also able to play the big and complex maps at very high FPS, which most other source port struggle with.