Per-Weapon Crosshairs
Give every weapon its own crosshair style, size and color. Add hit feedback, decorations, and names that shade with an enemy's health.
Unlagged Quake III Arena
Area 51
Servers that feel like LAN, and a client mod you can tune down to the pixel. Come frag with us.
Video created by Toodles
What the mod adds
Visibility, feedback and netcode on top of stock Quake III. Every one of these is a setting you control.
HUD Customization
Rebuild the status bar, weapon bar, scoreboard, pickup messages and fonts until the screen shows what you want and nothing else.
Unlagged & Prediction
Client-side unlagged on every weapon, projectiles included, plus movement prediction that keeps you where you think you are.
Damage Feedback
Hitsounds that pitch with the damage, floating numbers, kill beeps and hit indicators. You hear what landed before you see it.
Models & Colors
Force one model for enemies and another for teammates, color them per region, and outline or glow whoever you need to spot first.
Team Awareness
A team overlay, plus markers for teammates, pings and the flag, so you know where everyone is without asking.
HD & Widescreen
Widescreen, ultrawide and high-DPI all render at their true aspect. Nothing stretches, nothing gets cropped.
Quick Connect
An in-game overlay lists every Area 51 server with live player counts. Click one and you are in.
Getting started
Four steps from nothing to fragging.
- 01
Install Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena needs an engine and the game data. Both are below.
- 1Extract the zip wherever you want to keep the game.
- 2Add the game files below.
- 3Run quake3e.exe.
Game files
Put these .pk3 files in the baseq3 folder beside quake3e.exe
pak0.pk3479 MBThese need a Quake III Arena license. Buy it on Steam if you do not own it yet.
- 02
Join a Area 51 server
Check the server list to see who is online. Click a server address to copy its /connect command, then drop the console with ~ and paste it in.
- 03
Download the client mod
You can play without it. You will not want to. Connect to any Area 51 server, open the console with ~ and run:
to enable downloads, thento install. - 04
Configure your setup
Press Escape for the menu, then Advanced Setup to customize.
The Presets category has complete configurations you can load and then adjust.
Every setting, documented
The menu covers most of it. The console covers the rest: crosshairs, HUD layout, hitsounds, netcode, sorted by category and searchable.
Console VariablesEvery cvar the mod reads, and what it doesCredits
The Family
- X
- Toodles*A51*
- champi
- >DemoN<
- mentat*A51*
- ya!
and every Area 51 player, for testing, feedback and keeping the servers full.
Quake III Arena
- id Software
Area 51