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What is Action Quake and why am I here? Action Quake is a mod for Quake II that provides realistic weaponry, locational damage, hundreds of community-created maps and is the _actual_ father of Counter-Strike. As for why you are here, I can only imagine it's because you want to play with us!

Where do I download Action Quake? The primary installation for Action Quake is located on our Github Releases: https://github.com/actionquake/distrib/releases

Alternatively, there are other distributions: https://q2online.net/action https://actionquake.net/aq2_pro/

Ok, downloaded! Now what? Launch q2pro and browse the servers or the address book, or ask in the Discord chat if there's anyone playing and to join them.

How to I change my key bindings and controls? Go to the main menu (Escape key) and go to Settings -> General Bindings, and Settings -> Weapon Bindings, set them in there. If you'd prefer to edit a config file with a text editor, go to action/q2config.cfg and edit the file by hand.

No one's playing! What do? You can also play against bots! 1. Bring down the console with your tilde key (~) 2. Start a map with `gamemap <mapname>` (like urbanjungle) 3. Once it loads, you should have bots ready to go and blast away! (note: I'm working on a q2menu that will do this rather than via console commands, once finalized I'll amend this FAQ)