Hard to tell. Depends on how we look at it. The first time I played this game was when I was around 3-6 in the early 2000's, so I got familiar with the Arena First Person Shooter environment very early on. I played the game for a few more years every now and then against BOTs. Then, when I was around 10-11 years old I started playing Counter-Strike: Source for a few years and started competing in it. Years went by and I also switched to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the meantime and played it on a semi-professional level for a few more years. During this, Quake Live came out and I have played it on a hobby level on public ranked duel servers alongside continously competing in Counter-Strike. Then, when Quake Champions came out in 2017 and I was 22 years old I left CS behind and started playing QC competitively for a few years. So, I had a very strong AFPS background. Then, last year during fall I remembered how much I loved playing Quake III Arena as a kid and bought the game on my Steam account. Installed it and played through the campaign on the hardest difficulty. I noticed you can get medals rewarding your performance during the matches and one of them was the "Perfect" medal that is given to you when you complete the map without dying once. I figured I'm going to challenge myself and try to achieve all 26 of these medals. (1 for each campaign map.) I did this during a twitch stream of mine where I also had a timer set up so that we could see how fast I could do it. I struggled with it for a few days but eventually managed to complete the whole campaign from start to finish (all 26 maps) in one sitting without dying once. The time was kinda slow, as I prioritized safety over speed, but for a first ever completion I was happy with it. Eventually, I started grinding the game some more and got better at it. Managed to find some new and improved tactics and gained confidence. I attempted this challenge once again and got this run in the video. So between me starting this whole project in the fall of 2022 and achieving this current World Record run in the video that happened in January, 2023 not much time has passed, only a few months, but if we look at the big picture... you get the idea. :P Fun fact: After this run, I started speedrunning the levels individually and achieved some insanely fast times on most maps. I also managed to take over the World Record time for the "With Deaths" category where I successfully completed the whole campaign on "Nightmare!" difficulty in less than half an hour. That was in march and here's the link for it if anyone is interested: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qnp4aqtsaK5_tH0.html So I'm very confident that I could improve on this "39:22 Deathless" time if I attempted it again, as I have gotten way better at the game since this run. Only thing is, it would require me to start grinding it again and it would be very, VERY difficult to actually pull it off. Doable, but it would be a lot of work. I might try it one day... :)

@@myztroRAISY Woah, a very invested response and great story to read! You could answer way shorter, but you told us the story we needed to hear. It is the journey that matters afterall, and that's what you reminded us. Thanks mate!

​@@myztroRAISYhow about UT99 ? Do you have any speedrun or deathless experience with it ?

@@LindenAshbyMK I played UT99 as a kid and also completed the campaign again a few years ago but I don't think I played it on the hardest difficulty and I definitely never tried to do it without dying :D Maybe one day I'll try myself at it and speedrun it on stream.

​@@myztroRAISYcongratulations! Really like Quake III Arena, reminds me on childhood..respect to your effort! I never saw someone shoot so accurate with plasma 👊

He's also doing something with his movement, nightmare bots kind of predict and I saw them fire weird rocket shots and even miss machinegun fire, that's freaking uncommon. It's a great run, even in my best days I'd not be able to do it, he knows the pattern and path of the bots pretty well, also his timing is impeccable.

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Unless the game is seriously bugged in relation to checkpoints, completing it without dying is always faster. In vast majority of games, any% is also deathless. For example if your quest progress or inventory or what have you is not reset on death, then death can be used as teleport which can save time on backtracking. But even then, this obviously only applies to dying on purpose. If you died inadvertently without reaching a desired milestone, you'll just have to trek the same path again, which is a straight time loss. In Quake3, this will be the time loss of finding the right weapon and walking to the right spot again, assuming none of the bots took your quad damage which is additional time loss.

It's not alive. This is single player.

Amen, Strider448, legends never die

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​@@kulkutha6148multiplayer is still played by quite many people, at least in Europe/russia

Good times!

Exactly! _"Damn, I wasn't paying attention - the bastard just got the railgun!"_ *RESTART* :D

@@strixczhahah now I feel like I'm suffering from Anarki PTSD.

Could you explain what is it? I dont have the point? He is playing vs Bot? Player? Noob? Dont understand!

@ARNDBDB sure, he's playing the campaign of quake 3 arena on the highest difficulty. This ai is accurate and punishes imperfect movement much harder than any other arena shooter I've played. Nightmare ai in q 3 arena is in my experience more accurate than the average human quake player. This is a speed run without dying. I had a hell of a time just getting through nightmare levels, especially the last level. For comparison, doom eternal on nightmare is easy, It took me 1 week of regular play to complete. Raisy is shaping up to be the Zeromaster of Quake. I'd love to see him do a deathless run of the q2 remaster

@@eyesofadonai I finished Q3 on nightmare back in the days and I can confirm it was an insane grind - most levels took me dozens of tries (some might have even taken me 100+) and it was usually a very close victory. That being said, I prefered UT99 and I found it harder against bots despite playing it more. Never finished it on Godlike, only Inhuman (the second hardest difficulty) - and it felt about as difficult as Q3 on nightmare.

Same, took me probably well over 100 hours of grind :D

Maybe character and weapon models. But geometry is clear and textures are rich. Nothing to remaster.

Apocalypse Void must actually be the single worst DM level ever. It's hard to believe it was a part of official release because it looks and feels like something a 12 year old would create, learning to use a level editor... One of the reasons I've always prefered UT99. Q3 really had some shit levels (also, the music was insanely boring / almost non existent in some of them) whereas UT had beautiful varied levels with amazing soundtrack (and let's not forget about bots with "personality" thanks to taunts that weren't just lines of text). Don't get me wrong, I like Q3 (finished it on NM back in the days too - though definitely not without deaths, LOL) but UT99 is just superior in many ways...

@@strixcz I never liked the physics of UT compared to Q3 and the secondary fire felt gimmicky but it did have strong qualities.

@@YensR I'll admit Q3 engine added an extra layer of mastering the movement (though I never cared much for it myself). Then again, I've mostly prefered UT because it packed much more variety (I actually loved the secondary fire modes), like other game modes and many different styles of levels (whereas it was all this techno-hell in Q3). UT for me was also the first game I ever played where playing against bots _felt_ a lot like playing against humans. The bots were smart, fun, loved their taunts - it felt like they actually _enjoyed_ killing me :D The Q3 bots on the other hands were just cold killing machines. Challenging but not much fun really... Since I didn't have internet connection at home back in the days, this was a huge selling point for me.

@@strixcz the bots are not great, that's true, there were a couple very promising community-made bot alternatives that were excellent on some levels. Sadly they did not get carried over to QuakeLive and QuakeChampions is of course devoid of any bots in the first place

He was actually lucky Orbb didn't kill him there - NM bots are deadly with shotgun (and rail) - I don't get how they never killed him. Insane...