Dude is totally still at ID too haha he was on quakecon recently. Iirc he directed the version of Doom 4 we never got too.
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Dude is totally still at ID too haha he was on quakecon recently. Iirc he directed the version of Doom 4 we never got too.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like it.
Minor MP update.
Quake - Quake | Minor Update Release Notes | September 2 - Steam News
Quake has a minor update now available.store.steampowered.com
Hm just opened steam and it did 11mb update, the xbox one is like 750mb for me. I might not be able to test it until later but there is hope :p
I had. We can still hope for sooner rather than later. ;)please read this post
Edit: But yeah, this is totally the same update as reported on Steam. I tested just now and there are patch notes only indicating this, and the look sensitivity options and functionality remain unchanged.
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Xbox version played fine for me over the weekend, beat the first three Episodes on Series X. Achievement percentage was below 2% for each one on standard difficulty in Single player so I imagine everyone is either playing co-op/multi or bounced off the game hard.
This percentage is bound to be skewed for an old school FPS that has mass availability on Game Pass. I can't imagine the number of people who downloaded it, played it for an hour and deleted it.
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+sv_cheats 1 to Steam's launch options to enable the console commands. It can go after -skipmovies
Don't think too much of this patch. It's was a quick push of a couple of very specific cherry picked fixes we needed to get out first, related to custom matches (due to some legacy Quake code shenanigans).
Would you be able to include enhanced models for the expansion weapons in a future update? It's pretty jarring playing multiplayer switching from the regular rocket launcher to the quad one in its low poly glory.
No worries, while I am waiting for a controls patch before I play it again on xbox, I'm still loving it on PC :D
Isn't that just a graphic update though? Or does it iron out the game like Quake remastered did?
It's a graphical tech demo of a fully ray-traced render pipeline. It's otherwise still unaltered Quake2, and even connects to the same servers for multiplayer. Though it does have a slightly punched up menu and built in server browser.
Odd. We didn't touch anything about that at all for this hotfix.
Still my favorite enemies ever. They seem better animated. Once I realized I could save scum I did the beat first level on nightmare for the achievement ha
No but I'd be super into it. Just like with Q1 I never played the expansions. So getting a remaster with everything bundle together and maybe a new campaign from Machine Games again would be awesome. Oh and mods with maybe the console campaigns already included.
They are really fun to fight.
All enemies feel very different compared to most classic shooters. Like compare it to Doom or Duke 3D. Most of them function the same but in this game all enemies are really unique. Even the spawn which is one of the most annoying enemy is pretty unique.
Quake 2 RTX is basically like that Jesus painting that this one lady painted over. It completely butchers the look and style of Q2.
It's neat as a tech demo for ray tracing but it really isn't any way close to being a definitive version of that game.
If we or anybody did Quake 2, mods would be the only thing that couldn't happen, or at least the existing ones. Quake 2 has a very unfortunate SDK API that's native code dependent (they run as DLLs or other library objects), which means all the mods are compiled and designed for x86 Windows (yes, that's 32bit windows). You couldn't run them on consoles, and you can't even run them with a 64 bit executable.
Too bad. Expansion packs and possibly the console campaigns would be possible though? Or would console campaigns not be possible because they would need to be implemented like a mod?
They are technically mods, yes, but assuming the source code for them is available the expansion packs would at least be doable because their libraries can be recompiled or changed as necessary.
Shame. Would Quake III also be out of the question for mods if someone were to do that?
Thanks. I also don't have a RTX capable card so I that makes me not playing it less sad.
Indeed, I mentioned here before, but the latest campaign was the best Quake content by far. Fantastic all around.
Don't feel sad about this at all. After playing Q1 Remaster and especially seeing how the new expansions look like I'm in love with that art style and I don't even want to play Q2 RTX.
Q2 RTX looks like a cartoon a lot of the time. Atmosphere is ruined and some of remastered textures are gaudy and completely do not fit Quake 2 style. It's a cool tech demo, but it's not really Quake 2. I'm eagerly awaiting Q2 Remaster to be made in the same true-to-the-original spirit as the first game was.
I believe so*. This same SDK design existed for Doom 3 as well (which is partly why BFG edition seemingly stripped out the SDK support as to make things not frustrating to port to consoles, at least from my understanding).
*Edit: Well, sort of. Quake III had both native libraries and a thing called QVM that could do platform agnostic mods. It was used in conjunction PK3 check summing system that could be used a primitive cheat detection as well. So Quake III would actually be possible to keep any mods that used QVM properly.
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Hell or Dark Water is PURE EVIL. Dimension of the Machine is incredible.
I love this. This is my peak asthetic for video games. Clean, simple, yet interesting geometry with so much atmosphere and character.
Yeah, really gotta shout out Dimension of the Machine. Not sure if it's status as an expansion or mod affects eligibility for GoTY, but I would have it in my top ten. Just a fucking fantastic campaign.
Scourge of Armagon is like a case study of design sins. Some cool level designs, but man the encounter design and scripted events with stuff that can insta kill you... Ufff
It's also a lot better than Dimension of the Past. It has its fuck you moments but it avoids the Shambler and Vore spam.
Well, then there's some hope yet. Quake 3 Rally, here we come.
I have actually no idea if it used QVM.
