The primary modes are Duel, in which 2 players face off until one is defeated, and Clan Arena, in which teams of players face off until a team is defeated.

Players spawn in a lobby area, and must choose an arena upon joining the game, which are small maps within a larger map, and can contain their own rule set. The focus is on pure combat rather than map control. The premise behind Rocket Arena 3 is that players start with all weapons, and lots of ammo, but are unable to collect items, and respawn. Like CPMA, it too offers the competitive features that have become standard, along with additional gameplay modes such as instagib, and Clan Arena. Many still prefer this version over CPMA, as CPMA fixes the 125 fps 'bug' making the movement feel different in the vanilla game. OSP is no longer being updated, and has been merged with CPMA. Also includes 'promode' that changes the physics, weapons, and armor system. CPMA and OSP are pretty much standard now days, so it's recommended that you at least download those.ĬPMA Adds competitive features, gamemodes, maps, and bug fixes to the standard Quake 3 in 'vanilla' mode. Here is a small sample of the more popular q3 mods. Step 3: Get some mods! Modifications must be unzipped to your Quake III Arena folder.

Some of the popular ones are The All-Seeing Eye and Qtracker Step 2: Download a 3rd party server browser to find and join games. 1.32c is a small security patch that is not required, but recommended. Step 1: Download the latest game update: Point Release 1.32 and 1.32c.

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