QUAKE3-SERVER(6)

✨ QUAKE3-SERVER — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, you found the manual page for quake3-server, part of the Games Manual section (section 6, we love a section 6 moment). it's the Quake III Arena dedicated server. yes THAT Quake III Arena. the one that raised us. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

quake3-server — Quake III Arena dedicated server. that's it, that's the name, iconic behavior fr fr 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

quake3-server [-h|--help] [-q|--quiet] [+set option value]...

look at her. simple. elegant. ready to frag. 💅

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

quake3-server is the dedicated server for Quake III Arena, which is a multiplayer network game. so like, it's the thing that hosts the lobby so everyone else can join and scream. no cap. 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

so the wrapper script that Debian uses for Quake III Arena accepts these options, bestie, take notes 📝:

• -h, --help — shows you a short help summary. a lil cheat sheet. a snack. 🍓
• -q, --quiet — disables all output. absolute silence. not a single peep. it's giving stealth mode 🙈

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💜 console commands as options 💜

okay this is the fun part. literally any console command can be prefixed with + and used as a command-line option — you just gotta run the server in a terminal to actually use the console. and the +set command is generally the most useful one to slap on the command line. that's the go-to, iykyk. 💫

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🧚 options you can set with +set 🧚

heads up bestie: this is not a full list! there's more, this is just the vibe sampler 🫶

• capturelimit <value>
• dedicated <bool>
• fraglimit <value>
• fs_basepath <string>
• fs_game <value>
• g_allowVote <bool>
• g_banIPs <IP address>
• g_doWarmup <bool>
• g_friendlyFire <bool>
• g_gametype <bool>
• g_gravity <value>
• g_inactivity <value>
• g_maxGameClients <value>
• g_motd <string>
• g_needpass <bool>
• g_password <string>
• g_quadfactor <value>
• g_weaponrespawn <value>
• net_ip <IP adress>
• net_port <value>
• net_qport <value>
• nextmap <string>
• sv_allowDownload <bool>
• sv_floodProtect <bool>
• sv_fps <value>
• sv_hostname <string>
• sv_maxclients <value>
• sv_maxPing <value> (Measurd in milliseconds)
• sv_minPing <value> (Measurd in milliseconds)
• sv_pure <bool>
• timelimit <value> (Measured in minutes)

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• ~/.q3a/baseq3 — configuration and state for Quake III Arena 🏠
• ~/.q3a/missionpack — configuration and state for Quake III: Team Arena, if you installed it 💖

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🫶 ENVIRONMENT 🫶

the wrapper script that launches Quake III Arena lets you debug it by setting environment variables. very demure, very mindful, very debuggy. 🐛

• QUAKE3_DEBUGGER=command — a debugger or other prefix to prepend to the Quake III command line, like strace. note that this gets overridden by QUAKE3_BACKTRACE ⚠️
• QUAKE3_BACKTRACE=1 — uses gdb(1) to grab a backtrace if Quake III crashes. the gdb package must be installed for this to work, so go install it first bestie 📦

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• quake3(6)
• ioq3ded(6)

go read those too, they're in the family 💜

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

the Quake III server binary used here is a modified ioQuake3; originally created by Id Software, and now maintained by the ioQuake3 community. legends only, honestly 🙌

this manual page was written by Jack "jscinoz" Coulter <jscinoz@gmail.com>, Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert <fuddl@gmx.de> and Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the Debian project (but it may be used by others). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2, or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜✨

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

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and that's the whole page babes 💅 this version is dated 2010-10-15 and lives under QUAKE3-SERVER(6) in the Games Manual — go forth, host a server, and slay 💖🌈🎀