SFR Ultimate client config

Over many years I have configured my client to very efficient settings. I will discuss them here.

• Some people like to play quake with their gun visible. Sure this might give the game a cooler and mroe realistic look but this is a huge drawback. the gun covers more then 10% of your field of view. On some maps and game types this is alright because most people are on the same lever but when you play H&R you often end up higher then your opponent and thus looking down is critical, and with the gun on it limits your visibility. So disable drawgun with:

  cg_drawGUN 0

• By default in quake the crosshairs are way oversized and not very nice to begin with. Even if you download some other ones you migh not really like them. I scale the default crosshair to about 1/2 the size of the original. This increases my field of view and makes it easier to shoot at targets way in the distance.

  cg_crosshairSize 13

• If you find that the crosshair does not stand out enough try this variable:

  cg_colorCrosshair "7"

• It is very important to know how good your graphics configs are. You dont want to loose to many frames as you play so enable drawFPS to be able to keep track if you need to turn some fancy shmancy settings off to get better kills. FPS should be above around 50-60 unltimatelly you want it at the refreshrate of your monitor. If you get high fps over say 70-80 you can turn some more fancy shmancy stuff on to improve the eyecandy,

  cg_drawFPS 1

• During the match you want to keep track of the time so that you know how many ticks of frags you have left.

  cg_drawTimer 1

• As I have discussed in SFR tips it is important to have a /kill bind. Because it can save you a second when you fall of a map. Your are going to die anyway, if you kill yourself faster you'll save a second so.

  bind q kill

• I used to increase the time it took for the rail trace to dissapear, this is helpful on bigger maps as you'll have a hint is someone has just been where you are. Hoe ever now I play smaller maps and this variable is more of nuisance.

  cg_railTrailTime "800"

• Everynow and then people ask me how to add color to your nick/text binds, well here it is: press shift+6 to get the caret (^) and then press a number from 1-8 (look at color chart below). Example: ^1dot^3COM^1mie this would make dotCOMmie

  ^1
  ^2
  ^3
  ^4
  ^5
  ^6
  ^7
  ^8 (black)