QUAKE - Hints, Tips and Secrets
Compiled by Stuart Painting.
Last updated: 30 April 2006
Legal preamble
Quake is a trademark of id Software.
All other trademarks acknowledged.
None of what follows is approved by id themselves, and if you use any of it and
mess up your game, your computer or your life, that's YOUR problem, not mine.
Real preamble
What follows is intended as an aid to playing the game. The design of
Quake is such that it is very easy to to add extra facilities by using the
"QuakeC" compiler and the various level-editing utilities (available in the
public domain) but I felt that further discussion of those utilities was
outside the scope of this document (see section 6 for
where else to look for further information, should you need it).
Please note that the "last updated" date given above is
something of a misnomer: much of the information contained in these
pages dates from 1997. If you are looking for information about
later games (Q2, Q3 Arena), you are advised to visit one of the sites
mentioned in section 6.
A note about "spoilers"
I have grouped all of the cheats and secrets in sections 3 and 4 below.
If you don't want to see any of them, avoid the links marked with the
[SPOILER] message.
Contents
- Additions to the user manual etc.
(Control keys, Files etc., Hardware issues, Multiplayer games)
- Playing tips
- Console mode commands (including cheat codes) [SPOILER]
- The secrets list! [SPOILER]
- Differences between the various Quake releases
- Where to go for further information about Quake
DOWNLOAD these hints as a single textfile.
Acknowledgements
This document contains items retrieved from a variety of sources. I can only
hope that the following people are not too annoyed I've collected
their work together:
James Ariz,
Bowfonz,
Brandon Fish,
Jordan Gratrix,
Kyle R Hofmann,
Mark Hughes,
Greg Kopff
Niklata,
Hamish Rodda,
Mackey McCandlish,
Mike Strong,
Jeremy Thom,
Justin Ward
plus the following CIXen:
albert, andrew_mcp, ccomley, cjamesb, gazzle, glordos, hgyton, horton,
ids, ivorb, jimhearne, jpchase, libra, magsys, nmiddleton, paul_w,
pholden, sleee, swittams, tstark, xix.
A special mention for Ivor B and his "Ridiculous Things To Do In
Quake" compilation.
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