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Q3Rally – It's damn fast, baby!

Q3Rally is a free, standalone car combat and racing game built on the ioquake3 engine. You can do clean lap racing, armed races, demolition derbies, and team modes like Capture the Flag, King of the Hill and car football (Autoball 🧪), all behind the wheel.

This wiki covers the current release, v0.7d. Features marked 🧪 Development build already exist in the master branch but are not part of a release yet.

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🏁 For Players

Page	What you'll find
Installation	Download, system requirements, where your settings and ghosts are stored
Controls	Default key bindings and what every action does
Game Modes	Every game mode and how scoring works
Autoball 🧪	Car football: rules, points, tips, mutators
Vehicles	The 13 cars and what they're good at
Weapons and Powerups	Front weapons, rear weapons, secondary fire, powerups
Maps	Race tracks and combat arenas that ship with the game
Ghosts and Ghost Race	Racing against recorded laps, ghost files, ladder ghosts
Ladder for Players	Online rankings, your profile, offline registration
Client Settings	Useful console variables for your own game
Troubleshooting	Common problems and how to fix them

🖥️ For Server Admins

Page	What you'll find
Dedicated Server	Starting a server, example configs, map rotations, Docker
Server Configuration	Server cvar reference: racing, derby, domination, KOTH, Autoball, weather, physics
Ladder Server Setup	Reporting match results to the Q3Rally Ladder

🛠️ For Mappers & Modders

Page	What you'll find
Mapping: Getting Started	Q3RallyRadiant, the gamepack, compiling, file layout
Arena Files	Registering your map and its supported game modes
Race Track Entities	Start/finish, checkpoints, sprint tracks, track variants, worldspawn keys
Game Mode Entities	CTF, CTF4, Domination, King of the Hill and Autoball setup
Surfaces and Shaders	Surface types for grip, skidmarks and particles
Weather	Rain and snow volumes, dynamic weather
Physics Props	Movable and destructible objects with rally_scripted_object
Bot Navigation	bot_path_node routes and the ghost fallback
Intro Camera Routes	Pre-race camera flights
Music and Jukebox	Adding menu music and jukebox tracks

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🔗 Links

• 🌐 Website: q3rally.com
• 🏆 Ladder: ladder.q3rally.com
• 💬 Discord: discord.gg/rX8Sxmh
• 📦 ModDB: moddb.com/games/q3rally
• 💻 Source code: github.com/Q3Rally-Team/q3rally

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