Quake 3: The Camping Grounds

PC: Q3DM6
DC:
Key Items:
Quad Damage
Mega Health
Personal Teleporter
Heavy Armor
Armor
Rocket Launcher
Railgun
Shotgun
Plasma Gun

The designers obviously knew players would camp on this map thus the cute name, The Camping Grounds. If you?re not fluent in Quake slang, ?camping? is essentially the ?turtling? of the FPS world. If you?re ?camping? you?re typically staying in a single area either sniping it because frags are easy or waiting for a key item to re-spawn. In this case the Quad is the central point on map and is fairly easy to camp around with either the Railgun or the Rocket Launcher. The Rocket Launcher is located right above the Quad area, just take the bounce pad up and score the big boy. Rocket ammo is pretty abundant so you should make this or the Railgun your weapon of choice. The Railgun is tucked away along the edge of the map; you can nab it by springing off the bounce pad. As stated before the Plasma Gun is the ideal Quad weapon, it?s outside of the hallway near the Heavy Armor and Mega Health. The Heavy Armor and Mega Health are almost on top of each other at the towers, you can bounce up or walk around for the Rocket Launcher to get here. The Heavy Armor/Mega Health point is a key location on this map; you have the two most important defensive items easily accessible along with a Personal Teleporter, to sum this spot up in a single word, loot! The Armor is between the main staircase near the Shotgun.

Since this map is a great wide-open FFA map you will fight a horde of bots here, Orbb, Hossman, Daemia, Bitterman, and Grunt all join the fray. Hossman?s Plasma Gun tactics tend to help him gun down the bots the most so he will typically lead the pack. Don?t worry about the current frag totals of the bots, concentrate everything on camping the Quad, Quad combined with the Plasma Gun will mow down the field and put you easily on top. The bots tend to flock near the lower levels so when you?re bearing the Quad drop down and give them some sweet loving!

Human opponents are going to be a lot tougher than the bots here; they too will camp the Quad so expect a bloodbath in that area. Your best bet to nab the Quad is to grab any defensive items you can, hoard the Rocket Launcher and pound anyone that comes into the Quad pit with rockets from above. Ideally you want to hover on the level just above the Quad, once you grab the Rocket Launcher drop down and air control yourself in. When you camp this area you also have a near unlimited supply of rockets, each time you run low bounce back up and refill. Players with sharp aim will find that this level suits the Railgun well, it is open enough to run the gambit with sniping and tight enough to keep erratic motions to a minimum.

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