Quake - The Good Ol Days :)

[SangrelX]

hrm - these guys are a very professional team of Security Advisors - about 3 years back I did some work in game security, patching flaws, vulnerabilities, etc.. mainly for the Quake3 Engine - thats a large part of the reason this article appealed to me - its the same line of work ive been doing for ohh ever

[Rackat]

Originally Posted by SangrelX

hrm - these guys are a very professional team of Security Advisors - about 3 years back I did some work in game security, patching flaws, vulnerabilities, etc.. mainly for the Quake3 Engine - thats a large part of the reason this article appealed to me - its the same line of work ive been doing for ohh ever

OK, now you've got my interest piqued! I used to be a Q3 junkie. I played CTF competitively with a clan (not very good, but we tried) and I still log in to play on an all Rail server. What was it that you worked on withthe Q3 engine? Carmack & Hollingshead are still two of my favorite people because of the Quake series, but in particular Q3.

[SangrelX]

LOL Rackat

The Quake3 Engine had a lot of vulnerabilities that allowed for buffer overflows and Command Overflows thus causing the servers to totally crash out and kick everyone

we had done some patch work on our own servers that stopped such attacks and used them on our customers games as well to prevent our customers from being attacked

it was simple holes being patched really but i know the entire quake3 engine nearly inside and out as well as mapping and map scripting etc..

I didnt play much of the actual quake Games - but other games on its engine ET, RTCW, JKA, JKO, etc.

To Clarify by Customers - I Spent roughly 7 years as CTO of a company that I actually Sold my own company to LOL so by customers I mean my Customers - I had to research and understand how all this worked in order to secure their servers - ohh and dont even get me started on TeamSpeak Servers or Ventrilo Sheeesh talk about open

[Rackat]

ET and RTCW are still on my old PC. Q3 is the only one I keep up on my newer PC. Well, that and the auto-updates from POTCO, lol. Did you work with any of the people at OrangeSmoothie?

[Maximvs]

Well they may not be that old... but - since Rackat's and SangrelX's posts are about Q3 (and not about the findings of GM's findings) instead of deleting them I thought I'd move them here to Land Lubbers so the discussion could continue (of course keeping within POF's Policies )

Carry On Gents

[SangrelX]

OSP - LOL havent heard that in a long time
I dont recall if I did much with Orange - I think minor suggestions was about it

But I havent heard OSP in ages now Shrub on the other hand I made Massive changes to shrub mod for my own customers and such etc..

even had my own lil mod that id toy with from time to time with jetpacks, sticky nades, anti-gravity boots, etc..

LOL thats the OLD OLD Days

[Swash]

May I ask What Quake is.

[SangrelX]

Quake was a Very aged First Person Shooter

Fast Paced Kill or Be Killed game play
and boy i do remember some of the old quake it was fun at the time but I didnt get too heavy into it

[Rackat]

SX - we had some great level designers in our Quake community. I still keep up with the new maps that are put out at Tigger's site. OSP was a pretty good group. They did a lot for the community.


Swash - The Quake series from id software has four installments. Quake 1, 2, and 4 had 'story' lines in the game play, but Quake 3 was built specifically for Arena style play and more specifically for online play against others.

Rather than a story line, Quake 3 had a series of Tiers each comprised of seperate arenas with harder and harder NPC's that you had to defeat. The player with the most kills (score) at the end of the time limit was the winner of that Arena.

If you are a strictly RPG gamer, the fast pace and kill or be killed aspect of an FPS would probably not interest you.

id has some good stuff.

[SangrelX]

old days

man anyone remember Apogee ? 3d Realms owns them now
They had Games Like
Crystal Caves
Commander Keen
Duke Nukem
Wolfenstein 3d
Whacky Wheels
Paganitzu
Secret Agent
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures
Balls of steel
Beyond the Titanic
Major Stryker
Secret Agent

And i played em ALL!!!! LOL

in fact you can get almost all of em for free now from 3dRealms

anyways LOL the Good OLD Days

[Rackat]

Wolfenstein 3d, Commander Keen & Duke Nukem! I think I may be making a trip to 3drealms.

[SangrelX]

they are only letting you download the really really old ones for free right now

[Maximvs]

Originally Posted by Rackat

Wolfenstein 3d, Commander Keen & Duke Nukem! I think I may be making a trip to 3drealms.

I cheeck in with 3dRealms about once every 3-6 months - just to see if Duke Nukem' 4 Ever will EVER come out (what it been - 10 years? LOL )

Let me know if they have anything posted on DN4

[Dr. Zeppers]

My OFx (Old Farts Extreme) game clan, started over 9 years ago playing DukeNukem 3d online at a place called.. HEAT
They let us voice chat and launch our own servers for Duke, Q,Q2,Q3
They eventually sold out to Gamespy, and we moved to "MPlayer" which soon got bought out by Gamespy also. <sigh> Not very found of Gamespy..

Listening to you guys brings back memories. We did the OSP thing for awhile (orangesmoothie), one of our old time favorites on Q3 ended up being Freeze Tag.

I finally killed our Q3 server, needed the server space on our server box, and noone was playing it. Got a CSS server up now, but we dont play much of that anymore either.

Now I be playing PIRATes... Arrrrrr

[SangrelX]

Zepper LOL

- I remember Freeze Tag on Quake but wasnt fond of it
I got heavy into RTCW and ET

CSS I have a copy installed right now i just dont play it
my buddy is in some clan called ompf or oompf or something like that i got him hooked on CSS

the old days i call it - cuz I sure do miss the old days of ET and RTCW I had a few servers that sat number 1 on RTCW and ET for a long time