Quake

stooeh said:
Oh really ;D

Here's a screenshot taken around 1998 at actual resolution :p

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I moved swiftly to 400x300 with my first PC (that pic above was a Uni computer!) ;)
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That's me at the top :)
...... ah just noticed the time
 
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Yep, the league server (barry.barrysworld.com, I can still remember the hostname...) turned into big game server at midnight, we used to play until it rebooted at 6am :)
 
Last night a mate and i played quake, was great fun, ended up completing it on co-op.. Decided to make our way through the series... What on earth happened with q2 - its, awful?! Nowhere near as dark?! Smoothed surfaces, feels clunky and slow?! Also read up a bit and realised that ID was bought out -by zenimax... Such a shame that all these decent devs get bought out by companys that churn out generic ___t!

SO if you all stopped playing quake/3 arena - what did you move onto?

Also, what method is used in the construction of the models in quake, its not sprites is it? is it early polygon modelling?
 
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Quake is the only game I have completed three times, once without using the mouse!
 
nothing really ever replaced quake3 for me I went on to play moh,cod,CSS etc but I have gone back to quake and quake3 recently and still enjoy that gameplay more than the reward based fps they have now
 
gigeorge said:
Last night a mate and i played quake, was great fun, ended up completing it on co-op.. Decided to make our way through the series... What on earth happened with q2 - its, awful?! Nowhere near as dark?! Smoothed surfaces, feels clunky and slow?! Also read up a bit and realised that ID was bought out -by zenimax... Such a shame that all these decent devs get bought out by companys that churn out generic ___t!

SO if you all stopped playing quake/3 arena - what did you move onto?

Also, what method is used in the construction of the models in quake, its not sprites is it? is it early polygon modelling?
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q2dm1 the edge

perfection ! pure class that map
q2 rail gun is best gun in gaming!


 
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badcompany said:
nothing really ever replaced quake3 for me I went on to play moh,cod,CSS etc but I have gone back to quake and quake3 recently and still enjoy that gameplay more than the reward based fps they have now
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So true, there is quake4, but it is not the same really. That last weapon you get is just stupid
 
HangTime said:
You can bind "impulse 10" and "impulse 12" for prev/next weapon, but QW has instant weapon switching so most people use some kind of weapon script to select. E.g. assuming using ezQuake client "impulse 8 3 5 2 4 1" will choose whichever of those weapons comes first that you have with ammo.
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It is a odd sit. whatever keys I bind stop working, maybe I am not doing something right? The numbers seem to work fine for switching, but that is kind of not good for fast switching with the way I play. I there a way to tie keys to # going up & # going down? Be awesome if the mods I played back then were still active, I love Weapons of Destruction. Does ezquake go ontop of nquake, or is it a standalone?
 
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ezQuake comes with nQuake but it can be run standalone. Basically:

ezQuake = the modern client application used by most for multiplayer
nQuake = a 'complete' package that was put together to make it easier for new players i.e. ezQuake plus a bunch of extras like maps, enhanced visuals, better default settings and so forth.

Regarding the weapon binds you may have been right about a mod interfering, but in theory if you bind it in the menu it should work. Or you can manually bind it via console:
bind mwheeldown "impulse 10"
bind mwheelup "impulse 12"

One thing to bear in mind is I am not sure if key bindings are saved by default, again if you go to the "config" menu you can force a save there or "cfg_save" in the console.
Finally one point is Quake can be a bit weird about configs in relation to mods e.g. if you save a cfg it may only save for that mod, but again in the config menu there is a setting to control whether you save to mod directory or to profile dir.

To answer the above question, Quake uses polygons whereas Doom/Doom2 used sprites. Easy way to check whether an object is a sprite I find is to circle-strafe round it - if it looks the same from all sides, it is probably a sprite.
 
gigeorge said:
Last night a mate and i played quake, was great fun, ended up completing it on co-op.. Decided to make our way through the series... What on earth happened with q2 - its, awful?! Nowhere near as dark?! Smoothed surfaces, feels clunky and slow?! Also read up a bit and realised that ID was bought out -by zenimax... Such a shame that all these decent devs get bought out by companys that churn out generic ___t!

SO if you all stopped playing quake/3 arena - what did you move onto?

Also, what method is used in the construction of the models in quake, its not sprites is it? is it early polygon modelling?
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Quake 2 is up their as one of the best games ever made in my opinion - I loved the sp of that game.

never did complete quake 1. Quake 4 was awful, and Quake 3 is a masterpiece on how to do mp really ****ing well.
 
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iamtheoneneo said:
Quake 2 is up their as one of the best games ever made in my opinion - I loved the sp of that game.

never did complete quake 1. Quake 4 was awful, and Quake 3 is a masterpiece on how to do mp really ****ing well.
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Yep, Q4 had a crap last weapon. Like a tiny dragon spitting fire at the other person. Q3 has http://www.openarena.ws/smfnews.php (Opensource not warez) it is a free. Not great, but free.
 
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