Your Quake Live server is a real id Tech 3 dedicated server for up to 16 players. You pick the gametype and starting map on deploy, and you control the rest from the in-game console. This guide covers the one thing that trips people up (console vs chat), how friends join, and the commands you will actually use.
Open the console (this is the important bit)
Commands go in the CONSOLE, not the chat box. If you type a command in chat it just gets sent as a chat message and does nothing. Open the console with the key left of "1" (the ~ / grave key on most keyboards; it is a different physical key on some layouts). Once the console is open, type the command and press Enter. No leading slash is needed in the console.
How your friends join
The server is public from the start, no port-forwarding. Two ways in:
- Console: open it and type connect <ip>:27960 (the connect string is shown on your server card once the IP is ready). If you set a join password, type password <pw> first, then connect.
- Server browser: find the server by its name in the in-game / Steam server browser (it starts with 2hours.gg).
Change the map and gametype
In Quake Live you load a map together with a gametype (the "factory"). From the console:
map bloodrun caloads Blood Run in Clan Arena. Swap the map name and the gametype token as you like.callvote map campgrounds duelstarts a vote to switch map + gametype (as admin your votes pass instantly).map_restartrestarts the current match.
Gametype tokens: ca (Clan Arena), ffa (Free For All), duel (Duel), tdm (Team Deathmatch), ctf (Capture the Flag), ft (Freeze Tag).
Admin
The player who deploys the server is set as in-game admin automatically (your Steam ID is written to the access list). You do not need to type old commands like /mod or /admin, those are from a decade-old readme and no longer exist. Instead you moderate through callvotes (which pass instantly for you) and the scoreboard player menu:
callvote kick <player>remove a player.callvote nextmap·callvote shuffle·callvote restartskip, rebalance teams, or restart.- Open the scoreboard and select a player for kick / mute / make-referee options.