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Quake III Arena is a fast twitch deathmatch where controlling the map's power items and armor through precise timing, combined with air-control movement, matters more than raw aim.
Getting Started
Grab armor and health aggressively: Yellow Armor gives 50 and Red Armor gives 100 points that absorb roughly two-thirds of incoming damage, so a stacked player at 100 health and 100 armor survives far longer than one with health alone.
Learn strafe-jumping to move faster than the normal run speed. Hold a strafe key, aim slightly in that direction, and jump repeatedly without touching the forward key to build and keep momentum around the map.
Winning Strategies
Time the major items. The Mega Health and Red Armor respawn 35 seconds after being picked up, so count from the moment you take one and return to camp the spot just before it comes back, denying it to your opponent.
Match your weapon to the range: the Rocket Launcher rewards splash damage in tight corridors and against airborne targets, while the Railgun's hitscan 100-damage shot punishes anyone caught in the open at long distance.
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