Feed: sizeof(cat)
Title: Café Weekend - Round 1: Quake 2
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:50:04 +0000
Link: http://sizeof.cat/post/cafe-weekend-round-1-quake2/
 
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The first event organized by the Café members after almost a month since launch 
of The Café[2], completed successfully! We launched our own Quake 2 server, 
everybody was invited to have fun on it[3], and on September 27, 20:00 UTC time 
we all got online to eat pizza (like there was time for that, lol), drink 
beverages, have fun, and definitely make a mess. Literally, I logged in hours 
after the event ended and I was greeted by the corpses and limbs of everybody 
who had the misfortune of being on the receiving end of a rocket launcher. We 
played the q2dm1 map for almost two hours, using various Yamagi Q2 clients, 
Fruitz of Dojo, GoG and Steam releases, etc, on both modern and retro hardware 
(I heard there were people playing on PowerPC machines, but their secret is safe
with me).
 
To be honest I was expecting about 5 people on it (do people really know what 
Quake is nowadays?), but I was blown away by the participation, 28 people came 
online at various times during the deathmatch, to say hi and frag with us, with 
a peak of 21 people online at one time. We even managed to crash the server 
twice, once after about an hour of carnage and mayhem and another time near the 
end of the deathmatch.
 
I hope everybody had fun, including the beginners, who did an EXCELLENT job of 
holding out against way more experienced players and their fancy rocket jumps 
and railgunning.
 
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The winner and all the Café participants got their new and shiny badges to 
certify their accomplishments, and hopefully a night to remember. And thank you 
Andrei[5] for the excellent promo image and the badge design!
 
[image 6]First 12 players on the scoreboard.
 
We have plans for doing this Café event monthly (with different games, as long 
as they are multiplayer) and we’re gathering suggestions for the next game. If 
you’re not already a member of The Café[2], you don’t even know what you’re 
losing.
 
I’ll end this article with one of the speeches from Babylon 5, the Battle of the
Line[7] speech. Fans will know.
 
  We continue to broadcast our surrender and a plea for mercy. They have not 
  responded. We can therefore only conclude that we stand at the twilight of the
  human race.
 
  In order to buy more time for our evacuation transports to leave Earth, we ask
  for the support of every ship capable of fighting to take part in a last 
  defense of our homeworld. We will not lie to you. We do not believe that 
  survival is a possibility. We believe that anyone who joins this battle, will 
  never come home. But, for every ten minutes, we can delay the military 
  advance, several hundred more civilians may have a chance to escape to neutral
  territory. Though Earth may fall, the human race must have a chance to 
  continue elsewhere.
 
  No greater sacrifice has ever been asked of people but I ask you now, to step 
  forward one last time, one last battle to hold the line against the night.
 
  May God go with you all.
 
Thank you everybody, and see you next game!
 
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[2]: http://sizeof.cat/cafe/ (link)
[3]: http://sizeof.cat/post/the-quake-2-thunderdome/ (link)
[4]: http://sizeof.cat/post/cafe-weekend-round-1-quake2/img/badges.png (image)
[5]: http://andrei.xyz/ (link)
[6]: http://sizeof.cat/post/cafe-weekend-round-1-quake2/img/score.jpg (image)
[7]: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=NzJaQtZty5M (link)
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