Quake 3 Arena Patch

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. Fight until you are the only one standing.

What's New in This Release:

· new network protocol, 68 · network code: improved fragmented messages handling map change while client loads map no longer causes an 'Invalid .PK3' error map_restart while client loads map no longer causes a reload fixing donedl being ignored after autodl if map_restart'ed · the demo command has a list of compatible protocols, it will loop through 66 67 68 you can do '/demo four' and it will try four.dm_66 four.dm_67 four.dm_68 or you can explicitely give a '/demo demoname.dm_??' · added mousewheel support in the console: wheel to scroll, ctrl+wheel to scroll faster, shift+wheel to scroll history · UI in baseq3/ and missionpack/ for PunkBuster configuration punkbuster server in server creation dialog (sv_punkbuster) punkbuster client in server browser (cl_punkbuster) added PB Yes/No to the browsers · removed obsolete MPlayer UI stuff · bumped server browser to handle up to 4096 servers · IP maintained in userinfo · cl_guid in userinfo (as part of PB integration) · printing ports as unsigned ints, no longer printing negative port numbers · cleaned up the legacy IP banning code use * for IP pattern matching now instead of 0 (fixes some confusion) ex: 192.246.12.* made it safe from overflowing and crashing NOTE: using PunkBuster's banning system is advised instead though · rcon: some fixes to the buffering to avoid overflowing and dropping parts of the message · rcon: now supports quoting /rcon g_motd "foo bar" · added SVF_CLIENTMASK (0x00000002), works only with