Tuesday Update & QuakeCon

[marty]

Today's update brings a number of features and changes that we announced and discussed this past week at QuakeCon.

• QUAKE LIVE is now available for Mac OS X and Linux. We did just have an issue come up with the very latest version of Firefox on Mac (which came out after we finished the build), so this update is Safari only, but we've pushed a ticket with the folks at Mozilla and hope to have the Firefox build fixed very shortly.
• Leaderboards are once again online.
• We've increased the maximum allowable size of a personal config file from 16KB to 64KB.
• Fixed an issue where players could lose their key binds after rebinding Mouse 1.
• Added Instagib CTF servers (they were a blast on the BYOC).

We're still pulling information from the BYOC database and will be awarding the QuakeCon participation awards later this week, as well as posting our BYOC leader summaries and some interesting stats from the event. The entire QUAKE LIVE team would like to thank everyone that came out to QuakeCon, played in the BYOC, in our booth, or in the tournaments. We also couldn't have been happier with our tournament shoutcasting team from QUADV and Live on Three - TosspoT, djWheat, and Slasher did a fantastic job covering the pro tournaments, and we can't wait to work with them again. I hope you had a chance to catch them in person or on one of the event streams.

QuakeCon 2009 was just about as great as we could have imagined. We broke our previous attendance record, filled the BYOC, gave away a ton of cash and prizes to pros, volunteers, and contest winners, and had a great time seeing all of the people that have been coming for years. For all of that, we want to say thank you to the sponsors, exhibitors, attendees, and most of all the volunteer staff, all of whom make QuakeCon the greatest LAN event in the world. It wouldn't be possible without their work, dedication and commitment and it wouldn't be the same without the individual personality that each bring to those 4 days. Congratulations to everyone involved in QuakeCon for making it the biggest and best yet.

If you weren't able to make it this year, we hope you keep an eye out for 2010 and put us on your calendar when we announce the dates.

[ShadowsGreed]

Wow Finally The Big Update!

Gj Id Team

[epsy]

nice update but where is excessiveplus? =)

Bye sponge!

[milkflow]

Glad to see Linux and Mac users can finally join the fun, that could and should bring in some fresh blood!

[Patrol]

Awesome work on the update! Thanks guys!

[xdc]

holy shiz wow

me and my friend were talking about ictf for this update!!!

NICE!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fndz]

finally leaderboards!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although a bit outdated but still great!!!

[QOLIM]

finally Linux support
Thank you !

[Gunner9999]

Thats pure awesome, leaderboards! xD

[zhujik]

hope this brings many new players to ql