Proving once again that they're on top of their game like no other developer, id's Robert Duffy has updated his .plan with word of an upcoming point release to combat cheating:

Just a quick note on future releases for Quake 3 Arena. We will be releasing a new point release in the relatively near future which includes a handful of fixes and updates and also includes full Punk Buster integration to combat cheating. No firm date on when this will be out but it should not be too far off.

Very good news for anyone that has been getting worried about cheating in Quake 3.

you're such an id fanboy

hahahaha.... nah, iD's cool...

*laughs further*

they like nine inch nails, so they've got a special place in my heart....

Bot fix? "when it's done"

Be interesting to see if they can do anything permanent about it anyway.

Quake 3 is dead, let it go!

go back to your cs khel!

quake 3 will never be dead :)

I'd like to give quake 3 another run but I haven't been able to get it going in ages.

I can play single player and on instagib servers but nothing else.If I do a reinstall what patches would i need.

with word of an upcoming point release to combat cheating

Sounds like half-life.

Yay, no more fags with retarded settings.

Taipan currently you need PR 1.31, and probably OSP 1.01. To play on the CTF servers you'll need the maps that come with threewave.

id rock trog's pantz!

thats cause id are sexy

fanboy alert! :P

they're the BEST, jerry... the best

though none can doubt trog's fanboyism (action figures anyone?) he's got a point with the exception of Valve* no other developers really put much effort into post-preduction fixes etc. And none have as good a rep for multiplatform support as id. The other developers should take a leaf out of their book.

**who probably are only supporting the game as a testing platform for CS2.0 or TF2 (whichever it's released as).

When you have such diehards fans out there like trog, who can blame them for having such huge hearts!

"quake 3 will never be dead :)"

Well yeah, as long as Epic/DE keep bumbing UT2003.

bah all this nine inch nails and id fanboy crap.

quake2 had the best soundtrack, and quake3 was the best game. quake one had .. it had... um.. oh yeah! it had team fortress. and morphquake.

damn, how'd i remember that?!?

cause were all id fanboys, cause id are simply the benchmark in games.

hmmm good to hear about another PR but i dont want something like PB integrated cause thats just plain gay.

The Quake 2 soundtrack was pretty dumb... much like the rest of Quake 2 actually.

Cheating are bad, But Admins need to watch out for cheaters on the server.

all this fanboy bulls*** is just as bad as people bagging out microsoft, its old, and its stupid as hell.

what would it make you lot ? valve fanboys ? or just general homo ones.

ps. generally the people who bag out cheat protection are those that will be affected by it, i suggest you keep your mouth shut :P

everbalance & punkbuster are good simply because they are making an active attempt to stop the f***wits that cheat. hopefully in the future they wont be needed because the security wont be an issue.

doom3 / ut2003 cheat free... that would be good, with stuff like driver hacks etc, its next to impossible to be 100%