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Quake 3 Network Protocol

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Quake III Arena is a networked multiplayer first-person shooter developed by id Software and released in December 1999. The game’s source code was released under the terms of GNU General Public License in August 2005.

Quake 3 Network Protocol Quake 3 Network Protocol Jacek Fedoryński jfedor@jfedor.org January 2020 Quake III Arena is a networked multiplayer first-person shooter developed by id Software and released in December 1999. The game’s source code was released under the terms of GNU General Public License in August 2005. We go over the network component of the game’s engine, from the general principles of operation down to the actual bits of the on-the-wire protocol. Along the way we describe some elegant features of the engine, like the event system and the separation of the engine code from the gam

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