Quake III Arena mod test: Tried to run a game with 60 bots. Accidentally recreated the intro scene. 

As far as i know, there already is a mod that gives quake 3 some singleplayer campaign functions and capability...i think it's the Entity+ mod. Though what i also know, is that E+ requires maps specifically created for it. You cannot play it with VQ3A maps "out of the box" My aim with my mod is a sandbox, horde-mode arena style of game. The joy of just running around, killing lots of targets. And have it so that you can play it on most VQ3A compatible maps(mostly doesn't work with CTF maps though)

This is AWESOME. We''re one step closer to a proper Quake 3 mission-based singleplayer campaign!

"-there was definitely something in the official game ship that couldn't handle the load." From what I know, there's two "safety-measures"; First off is the cvars, com_hunkemegs/zonemegs, the game will only use the amount of hunk and zone megs of RAM specified. The second one is coded in the QVM files. How it divvies and allocate a given memory is there, and more importantly, there's a hard set limit written. Meaning, even if you invoke on the cvars to use, like, 512mb of you memory, it will only use a fraction of that. So despite higher ram on modern systems, you will encounter a soft crash due to 'memory limitations'. Now, I did hacked that on my mod, pretty much removing the memory alloc limits. But I think, the problem then is that, since the original quake3 executable was built and used to run on 32bit systems, it cannot actually use alot more RAM that I actually have. So I'd stumble onto malloc errors at best, or get into horrible buffer overflow at worst. Now, the modernised sourceport that I'm using(and HIGHLY recommend) is Quake3e. It's dynamic memory handling and allocation are an absolute godsend for me.

Tried it, tested by setting 'maxclients' to 128. But discovered that there's a hardcoded max limit of 64 players.

@@CatsOverdrive Makes sense, that was the largest amount of players that Quake II could handle. Though, theoretically according to Carmack, Q2 could potentially handle 150 players with the right kind of map design.

Hmmm...will check that out.

​@@CatsOverdrivei ported quake sandbox to mobile

This is AWESOME. We''re one step closer to a proper Quake 3 mission-based singleplayer campaign!

@@MasterMind13367 here's the mod: www.moddb.com/mods/cz45modbundle/downloads/cz45q3uacm-2023release Then here's the patch: www.moddb.com/mods/cz45modbundle/downloads/cz45q3uacm-2024patch I very much recommend perusing through the included readme and other text files for installation, info, and playing the mod proper.

@@CatsOverdrive thank you so much!!!

@@MasterMind13367 thank you for having interest in my mod. Stay tuned as i'm developing an update for it. :)

Actually intentionally scripted them to act like so, as they're the most basic enemy archetype you can spawn in the map. There are other enemy types you can spawn, like an aggressive melee-only that always chase after you, or a boss-ish type demon enemy that has alot of health, and moves and fights just like a high tier Q3A bot. And others.

@@chpsilva as i stated on another similar comment, those bot spawns are specifically scripted to act like so, since they're the most basic enemy types you can spawn in my mod. There are other enemy types available to fight in that mod, and most of them are more proactive in moving closer towards you.

I don't have the Team Arena expansion(nor the interest in getting it), so i can't really test it. But i think. The crash happens, regardless of source ports used, because TA's qvms have hardcoded memory allocs set, as a failsafe measure. I simply copied a line of code i got from some surviving slav quake 3 modding forum, that allowed me to spawn more bots without crashing. But i did once tripped on a buffer overflow which caused player hit detection go absolutely bonkers. I have yet to replicate that glitch though.