The Q3F Community

Community

Though there's nothing to stop you from just joining a Q3F server and playing right away, if you'd like to get more involved with the community side of Q3F, including news, clans, guilds, tactics, player skills or even making your own map, the following resources should prove useful to you:

The Q3F Website

The first place to stop for all the latest Q3F specific news and content is our web site at http://www.q3f.com - all official announcements (such as new Q3F releases) will be made there.

Forums

We also host several online forums for clan announcements, editing and the general community. You can access all of these by clicking the 'Forums' link on the left-hand console at our web-site.

The Mapmaking Community

If you're interested in making maps for Q3F then clicking the 'Editing' link on the left hand console of the site is the best place to start - it currently includes our complete Q3F Entity Documentation, a .DEF file for Q3Radiant and several tutorials on implementing Q3F entities in your maps.

IRC

For IRC fans (like us), we've set up a channel that you'll often find packed with members of the Q3F team and community. The channel is present on several networks, so connect to a network that's closest to you:

These channels are linked globally by a channel bot called L^, and when it's working you'll be able to chat to fellow-Q3F players from all three networks simultaneously.

If you're not familiar with IRC, great places to start are probably http://www.gamesnet.net and http://www.quakenet.eu.org.

Clans

When you've played on public servers for a while, you might start to wish that you were part of a group who were more focussed on team play, or perhaps had regular matches against other similar groups.

This is where clans come in, and the team-play MOD scene is absolutely full of them. Everything from newbie-training schools (without any goals, save having fun) through to commercially sponsored teams (who get flown around the world to play in tournaments) exist online. For your first clan, there's nothing wrong at all with just asking on a public server if there's anyone recruiting, or asking the same of people in the #Q3F IRC channels and forums.

Remember that a lot of people who play team-based MODS do so because they are more interested in team-play, than that whole free-for-all, deathmatch l33t individual skills thing :) In the main, MOD clans are considerably friendlier and a lot more likely to help you out while you're new. Don't worry though, the minute you get any good you'll have plenty of people out for your blood, or to join their clan :)

News Sites

There are now several news sites catering purely to Q3F fans. Many include columns, map reviews, advice on scripting as well as reporting on leagues, release and the community. the first of these to start was PlanetQ3F. For a complete list of sites, visit the 'Links' section at http://www.q3f.com.