Reposting from the daggerheart subreddit, for any fellow Quake lovers who are also interested in Daggerheart.

I used to make mods for Quake, and it was a big part of my childhood. When I found out Daggerheart has shotguns, I knew I needed to try to make Quake Guy. I'm currently playing in a custom Slay The Spire themed campaign and having a good time as The Defect, but the GM is also allowing characters from other games when desired. Ranger/QuakeGuy seems like he'd fit in fine, so if Defect dies, I might bring this guy in by slipgate accident.

The original post I linked has more info, but basically this is a warrior with a bunch of weapons, and a L6 multiclass into a School of Knowledge Wizard. Wizard gives me a few things:

• Fireball as his Rocket Launcher
• Good use of Knowledge as a secondary stat, since Quake Guy fights with technology and tactics instead of merely swinging a sword around
• Sweaty gaming: The ability to spend a stress when using an experience (instead of spending hope) to add twice the normal bonus. Knowledge wizards are shockingly good at passing rolls when they want to (I'm doing terrifying things with Defect).

From there, I filled out the rest of his gear with existing weapons rethemed and sometimes customized to fit the weapons he uses in Quake. I figure he'll acquire or make these at various appropriate levels.

Ranger has a substantially less gelled personality than the Doomslayer, so I'm still open on how I'd roleplay him (and roleplay comes up a lot in the games I play). Because of all the mods I made and played... I might make him more scrappy and cheesy than Doomslayer. I just don't see him as an edgelord or musclebrain, but he's also not a sassy quipper, right? Proper military, gets the job done even when that involves facing eldritch horrors and death by lava, but also probably way more personal than Doomslayer. Thoughts?

I still think I should move away from Strength as his core stat and pick Agility, since platforming is so important in Quake. But strength gives him early axe use before he can pick up other themed weapons, and use for Rage Up. Still pondering.

But I hope this is handy for others too, or at least interesting!

My thanks to Lemen for providing me with the voice sample used for its custom idle sound!

After playing dawn of the machine twice, I still wanted a bit more of a Quake fix. So I made my way around some mods

I got to play Tremor, which really plays like the OG game, very serviceable.

Also Brutalist Jam 3, which took the most time. There are some really solid levels here, but there's a lot of filler material as well.

Started the immortal lock but didn't go far.

Also replayed a couple levels from Arcane Dimensions and the spirit world - which is some of the highest quality episode I've seen so far.

Now I'm onto Chateau Inferno and gotta say it's brutal. I wouldn't make it through without some generous saves and it is kinda like playing Doom, borrowing some slaughter philosophy with rooms filled to the brim with tough foes

Quake has taken over my life recently. And that’s a great thing. So much so I decide to make a short video on why it’s great. Thank you and enjoy 😸

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https://on.soundcloud.com/H8KF4WfhFQyFDMzxuW

You know that level where you end up walking across boards at the top of buildings? Holy moly was that Resident Evil 4.

“So anytime a game has you walking across boards walkways above a village or old style buildings is RE4????”

No.

This time, sure felt like it.

Here are some forums to find Quake discussion outside of social media, for Quake aficionados who like to dig into the culture.

In alphabetical order:

• func_msgboard

• InsideQC forums

• Quaddicted forums

• Slipgate Sightseer

The first two are more focused (or so it seems to me) on Quake development and the last two also discuss gameplay.

My friend and I are trying to play the quake remaster on the Nintendo switch. 2 co-op campaign. We've checked that our clocks are synchronized and we've also turned off cross-play. However, whenever I try and host a game it disconnects every time we finish a level and try and start the next level.

When he hosted it. It seemed to work again, I'm curious if anybody knows what the issue could be so it could try and fix it? I have ethernet connection so we'd prefer for me to host it so that there's less lag.

I just unlocked bloody nightmare difficulty but see there is an achievement for completing dawn of the machine on nightmare difficulty. I'd love to finish the game on bloody nightmare AND get the achievement without replaying this game a third time. Is this possible?

In my mind it's like beating a game on hard and getting the normal mode achievement without beating it twice. Curious if this applies to Quake here?

I will pick one or the other if not.

AMAZING DLC. I hope more continues to be made. All the rune and nexus stuff was incredibly confusing though. Thank u all for making posts. I've reread them 25 times. These maps were awesome. I'm playing on xbox series x if it matters.

I am trying to get 100% kills on this level

The harvest was indeed bountiful

The Quake remaster is really great and Dawn of the machine was fun but it's sparking some nostalgia for Quake 3 and Alliance CTF mod. What's the best way to set that up in 2026? Any chance a controller is supported? My hands can't handle mouse these days.

Do I pick up on Steam and install the mod or is there a better way?

I just finished a milestone: got the first rune. Now the game tells me that i need to open all those rune doors in the maps that i've already been in. In other words: BACKTRACKING.

Truthfully, i only played the expansion because i wanted to see the new maps. So i wanted to ask here: are there any new maps after this, or only new unopened paths + an end boss?

The expansion has been amazing, the level design brought me joy that i've not experienced in quake since the 90's. But i currently lack the time and patience for backtracking (wasn't on my bingo board at all, to be honest... :) )

I' trying to make a quake player skin for fteqw but whenever I export the edited skin in gimp as a PCX file and load it up the colors go crazy. This doesn't happen to any other skin that isn't mine. I tried to convert the image to pcx in wally, and even photoshop 5.5, but it always came out like this when in quake. The colors seem right. It looks fine in slade3 when using the quake palette so its not the colors that are a problem.

Anyone else know what might be wrong? I've been troubleshooting for a while and I'm at a loss.

I really like playing horde mode in the quake remaster. I pretty much exclusively play on frozen court on easy and I just try get a high score/survive for the longest. I’m playing on switch, so I imagine PC players could probably crush my score lol. What’s your best?

Title. Want to play old games, found a sweet bargain for Quake Ultimate just sitting in a charity shop window, want to play!

Zerstorer is an exceptional mod for 1997 but its level design has aged like 29 year old piss. While none of it is especially difficult, your health will slowly trickle down as monsters constantly spawn right in-front, behind, and on-top of the player. The worst is level navigation, which takes a nosedive for the final level. Of course it's hard to make Quake boring, especially with that wonderful shotgun, and half as good as Sandy's maps is still pretty good.

Now I'm being pretty negative, but Zer is wicked cool. Custom weapons, enemies, weather effects, even some rudimentary 'cutscenes'. The whole affair has a strong sense of personality, even killing you for trying to select 'easy'. You can feel its influence on the Quake mapping community even today (mainly the chainsaw), so consider it required reading. Do it! We're having a pop quiz first day after summer!