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Quake II (1997)

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This is the Grand Final of EDL #8 (European Duel League), a Quake2 online tournament, that featured the best Q2 players of that time.
The finalists are PURRI (SWE/FIN) and Syanid (FIN).
These demos are from: Mar. 21, 2010

Map1: 00:28 Q2DM1 (The Edge)
Map2: 16:02 ZTN2DM2 (The Killing Machine)
Map3: 32:21 Q2DUEL5 (Mortal Coil)
Map4: 47:22 PTRIP (Powertrip)

This video features commentary over the gameplay audio.
The commentator you hear in this video is Jehar from Tastyspleen.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TastyCast
https://twitch.tv/tastyspleentv
https://twitter.com/jehar
http://tastyspleen.net
http://q2s.tastyspleen.net

Again, I had to use the audio from one of my older videos, where I did a poor job mixing the gameplay and commentary together. I was unable to find the original commentary audio, without the in-game sounds.
Also I could not find all the POV demo of Syanid. The only one that was available on q2scene at that time, was the one from Map3 Q2DUEL5.

If you only want the in-game sounds, here is the same version of the video without the casting:
https://youtu.be/nPsqWjx8J6s

You can download the demos from here:
https://mega.nz/file/1MYgBS4T#qCfOZYWm0H8DNS4b-xiFl2cb3gdpPSZ3TkkYL0-_Po8

The EDL (European Duel League) online competition is still going on today and you can still sign up on this site: https://q2scene.com/edl/
You also don't need to own the full Quake2 game, as the multiplayer part of the game is free. All you need is the Quake2 Demo + the official 3.20 patch.
If you don't want to search for all these files, custom maps and paks, here is a link to a Quake2 Starter-Pack that has all of those things in one installer:

http://q2s.tastyspleen.net/

Here is the short description: "Quake II Starter is a free, standalone Quake II installer for Windows that uses the freely available 3.14 demo, 3.20 point release and the multiplayer-focused Q2PRO client to create a functional setup that's capable of playing online."

EDIT: If you want the pak file, here is an older version of it:
http://realistic.tastyspleen.net/PAKS/Clau/
It depends on what client you use
aprq2 (the client that is used in this video):
http://ir.tastyspleen.net/files/aprq2_v1.211.zip
r1q2:
http://antiche.at/files/r1q2-websetup.exe

Here are the High-Res Skins (q2-hi_res_skins.rar), High-Res Textures (q2-hi_res_textures.rar 001 to 006) and High-Res Weapons (q2-hi_res_weapons.rar):
https://github.com/quake2lithium/quake2lithium.github.io/tree/master/downloads/Custom%20Paks/High%20Resolution%20Paks

Download HD Textures from here:
https://github.com/tosher/q2textures

Here is a list of Quake2 clients:
AprQ2 https://www.moddb.com/games/quake-2/addons/aprq2-v1211-windows-quake2-client (this is the one I used to record this video)
Q2PRO https://skuller.net/q2pro/ (the one that comes with Quake II Starter Download)
R1Q2 https://antiche.at/ (features a list of anticheat compatible clients)
KMQuake2 http://www.markshan.com/knightmare/ (a Graphic MOD that improves some of the effects in Q2)

If you want more Quake2 custom skins, paks, sounds, etc... take a look at this site:
https://quake2download.pl/

Here is an awesome serverbrowser for Quake2 that syncs with quakeservers.net:
https://www.moddb.com/games/quake-2/downloads/r1chnet-quake-2-server-browser-beta-3
http://r-1.ch/qsb-beta3.zip

Or you can manually search them from here:
http://www.quakeservers.net/quake2/

You can buy the FULL game from here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2320/QUAKE_II/

Quake2 RTX - You can play Quake2 with modern ray-tracing:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1089130/Quake_II_RTX/

If you want to watch other nice Q2 demos or other things related to this game, visit these sites:
http://demos.q2players.org/
http://tastyspleen.net
http://q2s.tastyspleen.net/
https://q2scene.com/scene/
https://q2scene.com/edl/ (signups for EDL, if you want to compete in the tournament)

Music used: Beyond the Stars by Per Kiilstofte
https://machinimasound.com/music/beyond-the-stars
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

I hope you enjoy it :D

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