Scarlet

A Quake mod for the multiplayer enthusiast. Sate your bloodlust with heart-pumping multiplayer games on demand.

Scarlet mod is a utility mod that unlocks the game by making everything customizable. It includes multiplayer bots, gore settings, weapons balance, glory kills, and more -- all of it defined by config variables that you control. And it comes packaged with all the best multiplayer maps.

About

Stay awhile and listen.

Vision & Goals

This is an attempt to preserve an FPS classic. In a world where real-life players have moved on, I wanted to capture and keep the multiplayer experience of the past.

— Will Scarlet

  • Multiplayer — Preserve the deathmatch experience of the past
  • Blood & Gore — Dial up the gore to gratify my thirst for blood and violence
  • Fixes & Tweaks — Fix all the little broken things that bothered me
  • Weapons Balance — Improve combat w/ weapon damage and pacing
  • Fun Factor — Add melee attack, grenades, glory kills, and randomness
  • Customization — Unlock the game w/ extensive console variables

Features

Every feature is optional.

Multiplayer Bots

Add robot players to deathmatch, teamplay, and coop games

Blood & Gore

Bathe in the blood of your enemies w/ scalable gore setting

Copper Tweaks

All the vanilla improvements from Copper mod (v1.20)

Perfect Balance

Find the perfect balance w/ configurable weapons

Item Resupply

Force items to respawn in singleplayer and coop games

Name Tags

See other player names Halo-style when aiming at them

Foot Steps

Hear your boots touch the ground as you stalk your prey

Score Keeper

Make teamplay games combine scores to achieve fraglimit

Persistent Corpses

Player corpses stick around for a bit before disappearing

No Autoswitch

Picking up new weapons won't autoswitch anymore

Visible Weapons

Force weapons to drop visibly outside the backpack

Nail Speed

Make nails travel instantly, like a gun instead of a water hose

Custom Loadouts

Replace every weapon and ammo crate in the game w/ what you want

Kill Streaks

Game announces when you're on a killstreak and when it ends

Glory Kills

Melee attacks and killstreaks grant extra stimpack rewards

Highlander Games

Higher their killstreak, greater the reward for taking their head

Random Powerups

Every kill has a chance to drop a random powerup

Blessed Armor

New tech enables armor to self-repair over time, if you survive

Melee Attacks

Perform a melee attack w/out switching weapons

Hand Grenades

Toss a hand grenade down the hall w/out switching weapons

Death Tracker

You think you're good, but how good are you really?

Maps

Choose your arena.

Aerowalk

Preacher 1998 aerowalk

Powder Keg

Fribbles 1998 fribdev1_2

Malevolent Marmalade

Molevola 2006 maldm6

Nova

Alice 2022 nova

Spine

Headshot 1998 spinev2

Ultra Violence

Escher 1997 ultrav

Doomed

Zaka 2009 doomed

Quake Addiction

Peej 1999 strafin6

Shine

Zxc 2001 zxcdm1

Skull

Zaka 2003 skull

For an exhaustive list of great multiplayer maps, tested by yours truly and ranked by tier, checkout my Quake directory page.

Download

How to install the mod.

Resources

If you want to play the game exactly as I have it, you need to download my Quake Directory and follow the instructions.

  • QSS-M Engine
    Scarlet mod is designed to work only with the QSS-M game client.
  • Scarlet Mod GitHub
    This is the actual mod by itself w/out any maps or waypoints to play with.
  • Quake Directory GitHub
    This is my game directory, which includes all my mods, maps, and waypoints.

Credits

Their deeds of valor will be remembered.

Scarlet was only made possible thanks to a modding community whose exhaustive efforts, and notes from long ago, paved the way.