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Quake Live adds support for Mac, Linux

by Justin McElroy on Aug 19th 2009 11:59PM

Despite our best intentions, we at Joystiq have been pretty lax about sinking the hours we thought we would into the browser-based Quake Live. But perhaps we'll be more dilligent about it now that the whole gang can get involved. Via the game's forums, id announced Tuesday that support had been added to the game for Linux and Mac users

Currently, Mac players are limited to playing through Safari, though id says that the Firefox/Mac combo will soon be a workable configuration.

[Via Big Download]

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Tags: browser-based, free-to-play, id-software, linux, mac, quake, quake-live

Reader Comments (29)

Started playing yesterday (the 18th), when this was announced, and had quite a bit of fun. Only problem is that all of the vocal audio is super high pitched and super fast. It's like the chipmunks on fast forward. Anyone else experience this?

Check your settings in the Audio MIDI Setup. The problem you mention appears to happen when it's set to anything else but 44,100 kHz.

Still stuck using Windows because of all my Steam games. :(

I wouldn't call it being 'stuck using Windows' simply because there are games like TF2 to play.

Oh and replace the helmet on your Soldier avatar to a Paper Mario hat (like mine)

I don't want to use Linux so bad that I'm willing to reboot every time I want to play my games.

Also I've thought about the hat thing before, but I decided against it because of the blue soldier and the red hat. :/

Chrome for Vista / 7 64-Bit please.

I was a bit bummed that I could play it using Firefox on my Mac, so Safari will have to suffice. Been hearing that there's quite a few Linux issues though. I haven't tested it out myself since my Linux box isn't really setup for gaming.

Then why were you bummed?

Wow I just noticed a typo in what I said. I meant to say that I was a bit bummed that I COULDN'T play in Firefox. No idea why I was rated down so much for that...

the game is really fun... free is nice too!

I hate the fact you have to play 10 minutes with that dumb bitch before you can go and play. 10 minutes! i mean, what are we noobs?

It's used to gauge your skill for the matchmaking system.

I could be wrong, but I thought she said you could hit f3 to skip the tutorial.

I haven't been able to get it to play on any of my 3 Macs. Just hangs on the initial installation screen...

3 macs? how the fuck do you eat?

Registered, downloaded, and started playing it on my Macbook. It looks pretty cool, though a trackpad (even the one on the Macbook) is a no-no. All in all: good for id. I am, as you youngsters say, 'hip to their jive.'

Just played through the tutorial on my Mac, and it's really fun.

that pic is pretty funny

By the looks of it, the Mac portion of the Quake live support is only extended to intel macs, NOT PowerPC macs!

I found this out the hard way.

Sniff.

I just played a round on my MacBook Pro 15 in. and it worked great. Now I have something to do in-between classes yay! If any one ever wants to play TheWickerMan81 is ready.

It's horribly buggy on Macs at the moment (crashes, the sound problem mentioned above, the right mouse button does not work...) but the "Beta" tag is there for a reason. I'm having a blast.

Been playing this on linux with Firefox 3 I cant believe how nicely it plays.

My dad didnt get his conformation email :(

that's a huge chest..plate

I'm trying to figure out how it helps in combat situations but my mind is officially boggled.

It's distracts them from killing you.

can't get it to run...just shuts down safari every time I log into the site...anyone know of any help for this?

dont' use safari or a mac?

hah...I wish :) mac only here!! why do you think I was so excited to see that it was now out for mac :)

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