Quake Live Tutorial: The very basics of dueling and item control 

just a little heads up for those of you who have learned to time mega health. i'm pretty experienced, if not pretty good considering i am only a few years into the game so far. i wanted to let any of you who still are looking to get into duel that after you master timing to the second for mega health at least. you need to make sure that if you ever pick up the mega health before the red that you don't pick up the red close to 10 seconds afterwards. You have to either pick up the red 5 or less seconds later or 15+ seconds later or they will both respawn practically at the same time on the next spawn rotation. The reason being is that the red respawns every 25 seconds, and the mega health respawns every 35 seconds. SO if you wait 10 seconds before getting the red after taking the mega health, it is like saying 10 + 25 = 35, so you've basically made them both show up at once. There is another way to avoid this entirely, and that is to go to mega first, clear the area and then attack the red and flush your opponent out from there and steal it. This will give you plenty of time to kill him or make him run, and then make sure the items don't sync at all. Now say you were out of control, it is perhaps advantageous to try and make your opponent take the red armor 10 seconds after the mega health, or at least close to that. you want to keep timing until you notice the RA being taken 10 seconds after the Mega Health because then you'll have a chance to steal one of those items. Just focus on positioning to get one of the two items, typically place yourself somewhere between them. Wait for your opponent to take one of them first so he can't get the other one before you can.

My last exp of quake 3 is 12 years ago and man i dont thought it has that science behind it. And now i just want to play it and practice the timing. Such a great video.

Cool stuff man! Thank you! Nice help out there!

Tnx Lepharia, the Iten Control tip helped me alot, now I am winning more matches. +1 like +1 sub

I can't even say how helpful your outloud thinking was xD I'm pretty good at the game (Tier 4 CA) but gawd awful at Dueling so this is very helpful Thanks :D

Hey, really enjoy your Quake videos as I'm a steam nub and they really helped me getting started. Can you tell me how to achieve this 2D-Style of the power-ups on the map? I also saw it in some pro matches but I couldn't find an answer through google for the hell of it.

Hey man, I've been really needing to put some short phrases to some of my keys, but I really want colour. I was just wondering if you knew or have a link to somewhere where it tells me how to add colour to letters while binding in console? Thanks bro

man thank you for this guide. You dont streaming somewhere? I will be follow if yes

Lepharia what kind of computer do you have? What are the specs?

Sure, you messed up that yellow armor a few times, but you will not believe the amount of times I've fucked up the Railgun jump on this map

What HUD do you use ? :)

Where are you from with that accent? Your not from the usa are you? Where do people speake english like you do?

Quake was about math, then.