It features music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly founder Bill Leeb. The single-player mode is played against computer-controlled bots. The third installment of the Quake series, Arena differs from previous games by excluding a story-based single-player mode and focusing primarily on multiplayer gameplay. Quake Live players can sign up for the Launcher's beta in the game's Subscriber Only forum.Quake III Arena is a 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter developed by id Software. Developer id Software also expects players to receive a few benefits from the change, including the ability to get in and out of matches faster and view server pings before joining games. The new software will present users with an embedded website and interface similar to how it looks and operates today.

When the change happens later this year, Quake Live players will need to log into the website as they normally would, where they'll be prompted to download the new Quake Live Launcher. 'With the recent announcement of Google Chrome's roadmap to turning off plugin support and the upcoming changes in Firefox, it seems that now is the time to make the transition.' 'Over the past few years, browser support for plugins such as Quake Live have dropped off significantly, causing problems for plugins to operate in a consistent and working manner,' the post reads.

The developer explained that the change to a standalone product is necessary because of diverging web browser roadmaps.

Reports from testers indicate that the free-to-play game does run in virtual machines. Linux and Mac players with paid subscriptions will only be able to play through emulation or virtualization software. Quake Live will become a downloadable game by the end of this year, and the new client will drop native support for Linux and Mac platforms, according to a news post on the game's official forum.

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