QECTF

Quake Enhanced Capture the Flag

This is a multiplayer deathmatch mod for Quake Enhanced that adds capture the flag gamemodes. Only selected maps are supported. There is partial bot support. There is currently 2 gamemodes available: Default and Area Capture.

Default: The vanilla CTF. 1 flag on each base, get the enemy flag and capture it on your own flag at your base.

Area Capture: plays like Canalzone from Team Fortress. Each team has flags that they must take to capture areas around the map. When a team captures all the areas, they win the round.

Download

• QEThings MPMods - Automatic install, however only 'id1' is supported.
• Github Release - Manual install, 'rogue' and 'mg1' supported.

Information

How to manually install

1. Go to your 'Saved games' quake folder, NOT THE STEAM FOLDER. You can go to it by pressing Windows+R and typing: %userprofile%\Saved Games\Nightdive Studios\Quake
2. If a folder called 'id1' already exists, delete it.
3. Extract zip into the 'Saved games' folder.
4. Verify that id1 and mpmod folder are now inside 'Saved games'.

How to install support for non-id1

1. Install manually first (previous section), if you've done that before, move to step 2.
2. Verify that you have id1, rogue, mg1 folders.
3. Run Install Mod Links.bat as administrator. Follow instructions.
4. Done!

How to run the mod

NOTE: If you're using QEThings MPMods, follow the instructions for it instead.

1. Open console and type game mpmod
2. Start a multiplayer game

Changing teams

When you die, you can change teams via console by typing:

• color 3 for red team
• color 13 for blue team

Bot support

Bots are supported in both CTF and Area Capture gamemodes. HOWEVER, READ BELOW:

• Due to a bug in the engine, to get bots to work in team deathmatch mode you need to start the game with teamplay already enabled:
  • If you're starting a local game from console: Set teamplay 1 before calling map
  • If you're starting a game from multiplayer menu: Make sure you have QuakePatches Don't go back to the lobby patch installed. After starting the game, execute changelevel <map> in the console.
• Another limitation at the moment is that bots are unable to use team-specific teleporters.

How to set gamemode variants

1. Open console and set the variable saved1 to the value you want. Example: saved1 4
2. Restart map

Gamemode variants

1: Override map hook/translocator

Overrides the map hook/translocator flags, clearing them

2: Hook available

Adds hook to the map, needs gamemode 1 as well.

4: Translocator available

Adds translocator to the map, needs gamemode 1 as well.

Supported maps

ID	Name	Gamemode	Addon
1	dm3	Default
2	dm6	Default
3	dm7	Default
4	e1m2	Area Capture
5	e1m7	Default
6	e3m6	Default
7	test/mals_combatbox	Default
8	ctf1	Default	Dissolution of Etenity (rogue)
9	mgdm3	Default	Dimension of the Machine (mg1)

Hosting features

Hosting mode

This mod features a hosting mode, in which the host does not play. To enable this mode, set saved2 1.

• The game host will be placed in a white-team, be granted noclip and remain invisible to other players.
• Intermissions will continue automatically.

This mode is ideally to be used with lobby cycler or 'Do not go back to lobby' patch.

Map configs

When the game starts, the game will execute exec qectf.cfg and exec qectf_<mapname>.cfg. Use this to set any variables you wish to customize the game.

Automatic map cycling

This functionality will not work without 'Do not go back to lobby' patch.

Use the map configs feature above to set the cvar temp5 to specify what the next map should be, using the id from supported maps table.

Example: To specify e1m7 as the next map, set temp5 5

Adding map support

You can do this by doing simple entity replacements in the maps, or coding it directly into the code. The latter is how the supported maps were added.

Only one new entity is available:

• ctf_flag

Specify the "team" keyvalue on items, armor, spawns and flags to specify which team they belong to. trigger_teleport also supports it. Currently it's not possible to create an Area Capture map via entity replacement.

Team IDs

• Red: 5
• Blue: 14

Credits

JPiolho: Author

Ceekay: e1m7, mgdm3 and code contributions

License

This code is released under the GPLv2 license. See COPYING.txt for more details.