A Quake mod for adding bots, blood, guts, and gore to the game. Designed for the multiplayer enthusiast, sate your bloodlust with heart-pumping multiplayer games on demand.
A Quake mod for adding bots, blood, guts, and gore to the game. Designed for the multiplayer enthusiast, sate your bloodlust with heart-pumping multiplayer games on demand.
Stay awhile and listen.
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.
What Brutal is for singleplayer Doom, I want Scarlet to be for multiplayer Quake. More blood, more gore, more guts, and maybe a little more glory than it had before.
Every feature is optional and configurable.
Add robot players to deathmatch, teamplay, and coop games
Bathe in the blood of your enemies w/ scalable gore setting
Find the perfect balance w/ configurable weapons
Force items to respawn in singleplayer and coop games
See other player names Halo-style when aiming at them
Hear your boots touch the ground as you stalk your prey
Make teamplay games combine scores to achieve fraglimit
Player corpses stick around for a bit before disappearing
Picking up new weapons won't autoswitch anymore
Force weapons to drop visibly outside the backpack
Make nails travel instantly, like a gun instead of a water hose
Replace every weapon and ammo crate in the game w/ what you want
Game announces when you're on a killstreak and when it ends
Melee attacks and killstreaks grant extra stimpack rewards
Higher their killstreak, greater the reward for taking their head
Every kill has a chance to drop a random powerup
New tech enables armor to self-repair over time, if you survive
Perform a melee attack w/out switching weapons
Toss a hand grenade down the hall w/out switching weapons
You think you're good, but how good are you really?
Choose your arena.
Preacher 1998 aerowalk
Fribbles 1998 fribdev1_2
Molevola 2006 maldm6
Alice 2022 nova
Headshot 1998 spinev2
Escher 1997 ultrav
Zaka 2009 doomed
Peej 1999 strafin6
Zxc 2001 zxcdm1
Zaka 2003 skull
For an exhaustive list of great multiplayer maps, tested by yours truly and ranked by tier, checkout my Quake directory page.
This looks pretty complicated!
Some links to the various resources involved in this project, including my game directory, and other files you may need.
Understand some basics about how this works. You're just a few steps away from being knee deep in dead.
pak0.pak fileIf you already have Quake installed and you want to have control over how you integrate your mods, this is the way for you.
This option requires you to familiarize yourself with all the Scarlet settings and manually activate the settings you want to have.
/path/to/quake/scarlet//path/to/quake/id1/maps/ folder has all your map files/path/to/quake/id1/maps/ folder has all your waypoint files-game scarlet -particles 99999 -listen 16 -condebug to your game shortcutautoexec.cfg file to activate the Scarlet settings you want to useIf you want to play exactly the way I play then you should use my Quake directory, which I have uploaded in full.
This includes all my other mods, maps, waypoints, and custom settings to create the optimal experience.
/path/to/quake//path/to/quake/id1/ directory/path/to/quake/id1/music/ directory-game scarlet -particles 99999 -listen 16/path/to/quake/scarlet/autoexec.cfg to customize your keybindsThis is the same outcome as method #2, but elite. Uses GIT to update any new maps or mod changes that I make, which is often.
$ cd /path/to/games/
$ git clone https://github.com/whipowill/quake-dir.git Quake
/path/to/quake/id1/ directory/path/to/quake/id1/music/ directory-game scarlet -particles 99999 -listen 16settings.cfg file to overwrite my autoexec.cfg file$ cd /path/to/games/Quake/scarlet/
$ touch settings.cfg
$ vim settings.cfg
$ cd /path/to/games/Quake
$ git pull origin master
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.