QUAKE2-SERVER(6)

💥 QUAKE2-SERVER 💥

okay so bestie, welcome to the Games Manual page for quake2-server — yes it's section 6, yes that's the games section, and yes we're about to have a whole moment about it. 🎮✨

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✨ NAME ✨

quake2-server — classic first person shooter (dedicated server) 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

quake2-server [WRAPPER-OPTIONS] [ENGINE-OPTIONS] [ENGINE-COMMANDS]...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this manual page is here to document, briefly, the quake2-server command. that's it, that's the assignment. 💅

Quake II is a popular first-person shooter game, released in 1997 by iD Software. iconic. legendary. the blueprint. 👑

This wrapper script will launch the Quake II engine. ⚙️

ngl the important part: the game data needs to be installed independently using the game-data-packager program. by default it will be looked for at /usr/share/games/quake2 and /usr/share/games/quake2-demo. 📁✨

This wrapper script accepts a few GNU-style options. Any further arguments are passed to the engine unmodified — no touching, no editing, straight through, periodt. 🫶

Consult the engine documentation for full details, but most engines support a syntax where you can give console commands by prefixing with a plus sign (+). iykyk. 😌

In addition to any arguments on the command line, the quake2-server script automatically passes the arguments +set dedicated 1 to the engine. no cap, it just does that on its own. 🤖💫

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

These options are accepted for WRAPPER-OPTIONS in the synopsis. look at them, they're little. they're perfect. 🍓

• -h, --help — Show summary of options. very demure, very mindful. 🙈
• -v, --version — Show version of program. the receipts, bestie. 🧾
• --engine=ENGINE — Select a non-default Quake II engine binary. you're picking the engine yourself, main character energy. 👑
• --demo — Use the demo data, even if you have both the demo and the full version installed. yes, even then. it doesn't care. 💀

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Run a server to play the demo in cooperative mode:

quake2-server --demo +map demo1 +set coop 1

Run a deathmatch server:

quake2-server +map q2dm1 +set deathmatch 1

Use the default server configuration in /etc/quake2-server/debian_server.cfg:

quake2-server +exec debian_server.cfg

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• quake2(6)
• game-data-packager(6)

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

This manual page, and the quake2-server wrapper script, were written by Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). They are based on the Quake packaging by David Banks and Simon McVittie. absolute icons, every single one of them. 🫶👑

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bestie reminder: quake2-server is a section 6 page, and the game data is NOT included — go get it with game-data-packager first. 💖

and that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs. this version is dated 2013-09-26 and it belongs to the QUAKE2-SERVER(6) family of things — mwah, love that for us. 🎀✨🦋