What is q3schools?  Well its an experiment of sorts.  My goal is to provide my readers with a reliable resource for quake based strategies and tricks made easy.  Sure its all been done before.  Sure its all easier in Quake Live.  But i believe that I can show new and old players alike something that will increase his/her game play.  I watch people play all the time and I see something I could show that player that would give him/her that fine tuning they are striving for.  Now every gamer knows that skill comes with practice.  Hours and hours of nothing but one game after the other.  But, if you don’t make the right changes then no matter how much you play, you will only get as good as your current techniques will allow.  Sometimes something as small as adjusting your sensitivity by half a value (0.5) or raising your horizon by a mere fraction of an inch can make a players overall accuracy improve by 15%.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that 15% can go as far as move you up a tier or even possibly get you a spot on that amateur team you love to watch play on QLTV.

But there is more to it then just your accuracy.  The easier you can move around and the better you know the arena; the harder you are to hit, and the longer you stay alive.  I myself am not the most accurate player in the game by any means.  That would require me to play the game for more then 30 minutes at a time once a week.  Now, if I’m in a game and I’m chasing, or running from my attacker, there is a pretty high chance I can reach my current goal.  Why? Because its very seldom that my opponents can make the jumps i make in game without assistance, and boy how I love it when they get desperate and do rocket jump to catch me only to find me coming back at them with a gauntlet.  And believe it or not there is an easy way and a hard way to do everything.  In most cases I know the easy ways to accomplish the tricks used in Quake.  And after 9 years of playing the game, I’ve decided its time for me to start sharing my knowledge of this game.

So who is Newbi anyway?  Well, you have to be a old school quaker to have heard of me.  In the early days of Quake 3 Arena, I found a demo on some forum that was done by Polosaty.  It was tips and tricks for most of the maps in quake3.  To this day I’m not sure how he did it, but the demo was a bunch of demos edited and linked together, so it would do 1 trick at a time, and after each trick, either the same map would reload as he moved his location, or it would change to a new map.  I am guilty of having watched that demo probably 200 times.  I analyzed everything he did in that demo.  And it all began there.  The matrix had been out for a few years at this time, and was in everything.  So like Morpheus said in the matrix, “its a computer generated dreamworld, with the rules of a computer system” and following Polosaty’s lead, I began to see what other ways could be found to bend or break the rules in the game.  It wasn’t long before I met a US player who went by “DRPD (Dr. Pimp Daddy)”.  This meeting eventually lead to the introduction of “sit“, “b3nt“, “CapingGaz“, “Michael Flatley“, and the rest of the OverdrivePC crew.  The rest is history until my brothers talked me into trying Quake Live.  You could say that lit the old spark in me for my love of the game.  Except this time, I can’t play with my friends and family when I want to unless I cheat the tier system.  So, I spend most of my time playing around and looking for new strategies and new tricks to show the rest of the Quake world.  Which has brought you here now reading this about page.

So, if what your after isn’t posted then go to the comments page and ask me to post it.  If it is posted then go learn from my example.  The key is to always be open to change, and don’t be afraid to let that change mold your playing style into its new form.