Quakeworld

As a result, some serious players, particularly in the U.S., still preferred to play online using the original Quake engine (commonly called NetQuake) rather than QuakeWorld.

As with all other Quake upgrades, QuakeWorld was released as a free, unsupported add-on to the game and was updated numerous times through 1998.

Following the success of QuakeWorld, client-side prediction has become a standard feature of nearly all real-time online games.

However, the majority of players, especially those on dial-up connections, preferred the newer network model, and QuakeWorld soon became the dominant form of online play.

Siege A modification titled Siege was created and released by Raven Software in 1998 using updated QuakeWorld architecture, aptly dubbed "HexenWorld".

The Netcode parameters could be adjusted by the user so that QuakeWorld performed well for users with high and low latency.