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Unlike a large number of the Quake 3: Arena mods released and in development, SpeedQuake was not created to fundamentally change the gameplay of Quake 3: Arena. In fact, at every available opportunity, we tried to stay faithful to the awesome gameplay of the original, just with a little twist.
And the twist is simple: You have haste, all the time, the haste items in the maps have been replaced with a new powerup, and you are highly rewarded for making full use of your new found speed.
The New Powerup. As the mod was being developed, the authors made a very elementary (but profound) realization: Quake == Crack. That's right, Quake is crack. Mirroring that realization, you can now take crack, in SpeedQuake.
Where the haste, the battle suit, the regeneration, and the flight originally spawned in all maps, you will now find the Crack Syringe. A lot like the Medkit, but now blue in color, you can pick up the Crack Syringe and hold it as you would the Medkit or Personal Teleporter. When you feel that urge coming on, use the Crack Syringe to shoot up and initiate your trip.
While tripping on SpeedQuake Crack you will incur the following benefits:
1. You will become even faster.
2. And all damage "felt" while tripping will be halved.
But everything comes with a price... All damage "not felt" will be incurred when the trip ends!
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Reviewer : Cobra
Mod : Speed Quake
Author : Frag Bait Studios
Website : Frag Bait Studios
Well this mod is pretty much what the title says, It's Quake and its Quick and that gives us Speed Quake. Now to be honest there is not a great deal to this mod. Other than the speed at which the game plays. However during the game you can get power ups. What sort of power ups? I hear you shout. Well to be totally blunt, crack. Yes you heard correctly, crack. During the game you have the chance to pick up a crack syringe, which doubles the amount of damage you can endure & your speed will double. Also the addition of a different scoring system is on offer, Now I aint gunna go into detail on how this scoring system works, because quiet frankly I would boggle your brain and my own.
So to give you a 'in a nutshell' idea, If you frag someone that is worth 1 frag, if you then frag someone within 2 seconds that is a speedfrag, and you get 2frags, If you frag another person within 2seconds again. That is then 4frags, and so on and so forth.
Well I hate to end it there, but that is pretty much it. Short and sweet. Overall opinions on it? Well it is good fun for about 2 minutes until you get dizzy. Unfortunately I can see gamers playing this for a few minutes and tossing it in there collection. Frag Bait Studios will have to bring in some new features for future releases to keep the serious fraggers keen.
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