True Combat
Quake III Arena
- Multiplayer First Person Shooter
Quake III Arena
id Software, Activision | Released Dec 3, 1999
Welcome to the Arena, where high-ranking warriors are transformed into spineless mush. Abandoning every ounce of common sense and any trace of doubt, you lunge onto a stage of harrowing landscapes and veiled abysses. Your new environment rejects you with lava pits and atmospheric hazards as legions of foes surround you, testing the gut reaction that brought you here in the first place. Your new mantra: Fight or be finished.
True Combat Review
Ready for a fun mod for Quake 3? A quake 3 mod that is realistic, but yet fun at the same time? True Combat is the newest mod to be released on the block and its Great!
Posted by MasterChopChop on Jun 15th, 2003 digg this super bookmark
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Introduction
Ever imagined a mod to be almost as realistic as the Rainbow Six games, but more fun? Well there is one mod here that was just released last Friday, the thirteenth, made for Quake III. The mod title is True Combat, and it really does bring you true combat. Version 1.0 includes a variety of features, such as highly detailed levels and weapons and amazing, and when I say amazing, I mean amazing, gameplay.
Gameplay
So lets start with the gameplay, since that’s the biggest thing about the mod. There are two teams, red and blue, pretty simple huh? Both teams have the same variety of weapons, but each team has their own separate objectives. There are regular game types such as Capture the Flag, Team Deathmatch, and other basic types. The type you probably wanna play most is their “Mission” mode. The mission mode requires each team to play a role such as planting the bomb, or defending the base. Each player also has lives in mission mode. How many lives do you get? That depends what map your playing. The server admin can override the amount of lives on each map though. You’ve seen a mission mode played in other mods but this one is special. True Combat almost requires full on teamwork.
Basically, if you’re out to plant the bomb on your own, you’re screwed. You might want to try planning it out with your teammates, or follow others if you’re new. Another big thing about this mod is that it doesn’t use the hip shooting technique. To be accurate to real life, in order to aim correctly, you’re going to have to look through the gun’s iron sight. The iron sight is the crosshair that’s on the gun. Some of you may think, “awww god, ironsights, I don’t want to look through the crosshair of the gun” but its actually quite fun. It gives me a better feel to the mod, and it makes it different from other ordinary first person shooters. You can shoot while having the gun by your hip, but there is no crosshair there at all, so it’s basically pointless.
Arsenal
The arsenal doesn’t have a wide variety of weapons, but it does have good weapons, along with many other attachments. True Combat has four sidearms, four secondary sub machine guns, and six primary rifles. Each gun has it’s own specialties, and equipment. My favorite gun in the game is the M4a1 assault rifle. The m4a1 is accurate, and can have a scope attachment to it. Speaking of scopes, when zooming in, you can see the glare from the scope, its very impressive. Each gun has it’s own different animations, which are done very nicely by Team Terminator. There is one thing I’m forgetting, oh yes, grenades. You have the choice of a regular hand grenade or you can have the smoke grenade. The hand grenade is very effective and like real grenades, it doesn’t make a giant explosion. The smoke grenade creates a large smoke effect and can be very useful at some areas in levels. In version 1.0, flashbangs are much more useful. It not only blinds you but it also deafens you for a certain amount of time. Well now that we are done with the gameplay and the arsenal, lets move on to the levels, and the visuals.
Levels
Like I said earlier, there are a wide variety of levels. Each level also has its own background, and can relate to modern terrorism. There are levels that take place in an industrial area, a nuclear base, a harbor, and a lot more! Each level is very detailed, and professionally done, some levels look even better than levels that are in Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield. The levels are made to be realistic, and fun at the same time, I spent over an hour playing one level called Close Combat. That’s a wrap up for the levels, now I will go into the special effects coded into this mod.
Visuals
True Combat has to offer not just extraordinary gameplay, arsenal, and levels, but it also offers visual delight. I mentioned earlier, that there are glare effects, but that’s not it. There are also lens flare, and flash blend effects, which impressed me while playing the game. I haven’t seen a professionally done mod like this in quite a while. One great thing about this mod, visually, is that you can change the HUD (heads up display).
There are four different huds you can change it to, so you can make it easier for you to see your health and ammo clips. True Combat also offers realistic environment and weapon sounds, and great voice acting.
Conclusion
This mod is truly a great and realistic combat mod that has been released. It brings you a better multiplayer version of Rainbow Six. There is more I haven’t covered in this review, which you can try out for yourself, and be impressed with; I don’t want to spoil everything! If you have the Quake III disc just laying around, be sure to install it again and download true combat, its worth it! True Combat is the best Quake III mod I have played and I hope you enjoy it.
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kick ass man 1.0 rocks!
Awesome gameplay, features and beautiful eyecandy, what a great game !!!
Once more ppl, especially the Urban Terror players try this mod, the bigger its going to get. Its by far the best q3 mod to date by a long shot!
It´s already great and it´s only Version 1.0 :)
I can promise you in the future:
More Weapons
More Maps
More Addons
So come and join the fun ;)
Law
Team Terminator
but people are so stupid and dumb they still play that awful urban terror oh well
I am a long time truecombat player,
And must tell you?
The new version is simply so good.
I would not have thought it could get this much better.
Bt I was wrong .
This version
1.0 is a must have.
Get it
Play it .
Its not a simple game to learn.
But after you get some of the finer points down.
You will not go looking for something other to play
for a long long time.
I give it 10 on a scale of 1 to 10
10 being the best,
Redrum
Well .45 rocked. But this new version owns ya. This is profesional stuff from maps to weapons damage to Q3map2 features..they really topok Q3 engine to teh extreme.
Team terminator..thanks!!!!!
Funny you should pick this mod for mod of the month since we just started working on setting up a ladder for it on ClanBase. Basicly we've almost finished the rules so we should be ready to set up a ladder within a day or two.
So if you're interested, keep an eye on www.clanbase.com
Good job on the review by the way MasterChopChop :)
/me has wet dreams about being able to edit comments
lovely review and editable comments? yeah i suppose the demand is there to implement that feature /me shudders
This mod is great indeed... I hope they will continue to develop it so there will be more weapons and maps... but hey this mod was already one of the best with 0.45 but now after 1.0 is released competing mods aren't competing anymore :)
Currently the best and ONLY realistic quake 3 mod. Urban Terror is fun but not about realism so you can't say either is better. Now this mod gives more choices as quake 3 now offers one FAST mod and one REALISTIC mod.
IMO the only flaw would be the sniper rifles are too easy to use. You can use one and camp a spawn and kill 4-5 guys til you die so that can be a bit annoying if thats the scenario for the hole map.
first off this game is an urban terror clone with added eye candy all the weapons/items are the same accept you can carry them all yay. second you get to lose your level freedoms in urban terror you could climb thing and use ppl for boosts witch you can't do in this mod l8m3
finally to end this rant. the levels/buildings and ppl models aren't at scale its like shooting big foot in one map and umpa loompas in another the only thing i like are the player models they look like the ones from rainbow sheild. other than that this is a game that cloned counter strike and added rainbow six like graphics that are out of scale and steals the freedom to be a monkey
I agree mostly. Actually, some sounds (like bullet ricochets) from UrbanTerror have been used in TC. And you forgot another influence for this Mod: Return to Castle Wolfenstein: same gameplay feeling. Which leads to the other side of the coin: This Mod is extremely well done, with lots of attention to the graphic detail, and that creates an atmosphere UT or Seals cannot achieve.
If you want to spend time, concentrate on team strategy and the like, TC (and Seals, despite the annoying experience points!) is perfectly suited. Things like the iron sight instead of a crosshair, or holstering, add nice realism which does not interfere with strategy biased game play. In fact, bigger maps and more complicated missions would suit with TC.
But for everything Deathmatch, and game modes like Team Survivor and Capture the Flag, UT is the clear winner, because it's more playable in this way: faster, more direct, less hassle with the shooting, more acoustic pain which adds to the stress.
A don't forget: If you are bored, there is always an InstaGib server! :-) Long live the Rail Gun!
i am playing this game now from the beginning...
i must say...
1.0 rocks my hole world......
This game is even better then i faught it would be....
Damn TT, they did a ff great job :D
its just 1.0....
and already so cool.....
Download this ff game and play it :D
(sorry for my bad english)
Cu ingame!!
at what wrong with you ppl....
TC owns and UT sux big time............
Everyday when i visit i see like Guests: 253 <---Why not register !?
is this mod trying to be entirely realistic like the Tom Clancy series? Because if it is, there are some things that need to be fixed, such as recoil for the guns, weapon damage, weapon accuracy, weapon sway and the ENEMY name tags which reveal their positions even in the dark. Apart from that, True combat 1.0 is a wonderful game
The new 1.0 TC is nowhere near as good as .45 was. Realism has been tossed out the door in favor of getting more players. Players now just blaze away at each other in an orgy of skilless carnage. Gone is the stealth, the realism, the skill. Lets face it, its just a Counter Strike clone. They should call it Counter Strike II.
its a real shit, and i really mean it...
as a hardcore player i played many games(and mods), not many of such poor quality or nonsense like this(well, maybe cs).
but the world is cruel. so the real gems(western quake 3) dies too quickly, and the real shit in its purity can roll over the world.
ah
p.s. once(long ago) i played 0.45b11 industrial and it was fun, a real aplha state but fun, from time to time with noobs...but not a serious game.
1.0 could not be even serious mod, its half of year 2003 ffs!
cowgaR
Delta force meets counters strike!!!!! The best gameplay out there?!?
Well, some ppl wanna compare TC and UrT, but its not necessary, i mean TC and UrT are so different and try to get different things, UrT is action and Tc is reality.
U could choose, but both mods are so Great.
UrT roox
but TC rooox more :D
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when you're sniping and you're zoomed in does the scope sway like in real life? and if so are u able to reduce sway while kneeling or wihle going prone? does htis game even have prone? if this game doesn't i'm going back to Day of Defeat!!!
lol, day of defeat is dodgy as!!! I think this mod looks really great, and as soon as i get ADSL i'm gonna be downloading it :D
Super cool! Smething like cs but with better graphics!
You should try america's army! That's a great, realistic game too.I don't know if it's better than True Combat but i think it's a lot like it.And America's army is no mod but you can download it for free @ www.americasarmy.com and you don't even need another game!! So try it out~!
this mod sucks ass dont play it
i agree it does suck :thumbdown:
Better screenshots here ----> Planetquake.com
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Trust me - any movie based on those two is gonna lick balls, because they both, in fact, lick balls. Namely, each other's.
P.S. - 'Clash of the Titans' doesn't stand the test of time.
Signed,
Darth Randal
Fun game just to hard to find maps
I am currently mapping for another mod for Quake3 and this Mod rocks. Good job to the developers. -STEALTH-
I played this mod at my friends house damn it was freakin awsome i love it! :wub:
so cool!!!
kennen du andreas mann er ficken mit die kamal khan doch kamal haben eine kind heissen maradonna und seien fette rind!!!!
hey i need some help cause every time i wanna play this game nobody is online maybe it is because i am using a local server i do not know how to connect to the game room itself plz email me at bashfam5@aol.com and kekvin2k3@yahoo.com
Anyway this game is the best game(online) i have ever played
TC is okay but ns-co bwahahahah better game play, more weapons,better realism, leme explain
Urban terror semi-realistic
Navy seals covert operations- realistic
True combat- Over realistic
www.ns-co.net Quake3 mod 1.9 is due out soon STICK that in yo pipe and smoke it.
Thank you bye bye
this mod rox! It just needs some better maps.
the only thing really missing form this mod is the hitbox tech thats in urban terror. ("Zeus" I think its called) URban Terror was fun but looked and animated in a "gamey" way. can we squish the trwo together? TC realism, animations, sounds, ISIS, models and penetration system combined with UT's accurate Zeus hit technology and a few of their maps ;) and id be a freakin happy camper... If i camped. which i dont. (its called sniping)
sastian
its a cool mod :D!
This mod could do for Quake 3 what Counter Strike did for Half Life.
Its cooL but Looks like soldier of fortune 2. I've been playing it for 2yrs now and it did a pretty good job working with the q3 engine, Well Looks like I might have to install q3 again :)
Hi there,
Red Halibut checking in. I only just found this review - I got into True Combat in May when I mentioned that while I enjoyed NS:CO, I didn't agree with the abilities system (a bit too RPG for an FPS), to a friend and they pointed me to TC. Wow! I was blown away. this mod feels natural, it encourages tactical play, and it has some GREAT one liners on the voice menu!
I have played quite a few FPSs, from the well known to the obscure, and I have to say that for me, True Combat is for small unit urban operations what Operation Flashpoint is for open field combined arms - a hugely enjoyable tactical fast-paced game that will leave you breathless.
The only question now is - how do we pimp it to the world? ASE typically only shows about 30-40 players online at any one time...
PS NO I don't work for the dev team :)
Yes, ur all right...this game sux now and many players quit because this 1.1 is almost like conuter strike which sux...bring back .45 and ull see serverss..(Full every day) Thank you!
This is a great mod , thanks to the dev. Team ,and for those of you who say it sucks .... cause you got pwnt
BEST GAME AROUND !!!!!
the best way to spread the word is to . well spread the word tell friends , co workers ect... this game is gonna blow up ! mark my words this mod will get HUGE!!!!
...the best Q3 mod ever.
This Mod is the best Mod for Quake3 out there keep it up guys
Poeple ur eaither stupid or dont know how .45 was good and now ur talking that 1.1 is good...yes it is but maybe for nOObs hahaha..have fun playing but ull never own!!! srbija do tokija !