re-release on pc, why?

i read the comments on both sites, nobody has a clue like you and me. i think a pc re release is pretty useless.

and there was this problem that the german version was heavily cut (low violence version). no word if the german version this time will be uncut. but actually as a german player i give a fuck, i buy games in the uk (cheaper and uncut) or do proxy tricks for steam activation. but the sad thing was that the german version pc buyers could only join german servers xD i think until this day activision is to blame for that, not id.

it could be nice, since its goin to all the consoles as well. maybe servers start gettin full finally. (and the game is properly patched upon re-release)

quake is an amazing game in todays world of "realistic shooters", i like that it has "fun first" approach, i also like the approach of constantly changing setting of daikatana, finishing it was a blast, even though i might've done it only once for now. (btw sorry id for pirating your games)

Go go Quake 4 again :D

wasn't there a quake 4 on xbox360? O.o I remember there was a doom 3 for both xbox360 and pc. a Quake4 for ps3 would make some sense.

well if they combined it with a new patch that brings gameplay back to something similiar to 1.3 and managed to revive the q4max team in order to have a competive mod available I would very much like to play some q4 again but since that's not gonna happen..

If the new release isn't compatible with 1.4.2 there will definitely be a new q4max release. I expect it would be compatible though and not need a new q4max build.

As for 1.3 gameplay, if I believed people would return to q4 for that it could be done, but we all know that wouldn't happen, so no point spending the time on it for 14 players.

sub & anthony, what means 1.3 gameplay. im curious.

i know now that it was a big error from us when id contacted the scene / all here / us, that we said to syncerror, no actually we shouted "we want quake 4 mp similar to quake 3 because we love quake3". it is our mistake.

The changes and advancements made in Quake 4's 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4.2 were great improvements.

I still to this day feel that the gameplay differences between 1.3 and 1.4.2 are greatly a matter of preference and would never think less of a player for their preference between 1.3 and 1.4.2. The truth is that 1.4.2 was overall a better tuned game, especially for the tournament scene available at the time. Players were simply too easy to hit in 1.3, lg was too dominating, etc. However, there will obviously be many players who liked the bigger hitboxes, liked dominating their opponents with the lg. :)

1.4.2 also introduced things like Q4TV, the ability to expand beyond the hardcoded 60 fps cap, server-side file/pak downloading, fixes to the addonpak systems, the Q4CMP (community map pak) which introduced a lot of outstanding community content in an official capacity.

In the end I think 1.4.2 offered a far superior product, and I don't regret reaching out to the community and listening to their suggestions and pleas for one moment.

wow, time goes by.. anyway, not that it matters much, but if I remember correctly people were pretty pleased with 1.3 gameplay whereas the movement changes introduced in 1.4.X led to a great number of annoyances on the already established maps. The pretty rapid decline in activity after the patch might say something about this matter as well but I realize there were other factors involved and I might not remember everything correctly.
would still be interesting to see how 1.3 gameplay combined with the technical advancements in 1.4 would feel like.

i enoyed 1.4.2 far more then 1.3.

... 1 question syncerror

... i bought the old q4 release, will it be compatible with the new release? ... will the server browser work? :)

It's a shame you blatently ignore constant requests from the QuakeLive community then innit?

That's the difference when you've a team of 2.

"reaching out to the community and listening to their suggestions and pleas for one moment." :DD actually we are still waiting for a 1.0 quake live release.

try reaching out to the community regarding some useful ql updates?

.

The problem with 1.4.2 is the physics ( both speed in general and the broken rampjumps ). At least, that's what the whine is about nowadays.

no 1.4.2 movement is better in ctf but maybe just because the maps fit better to the 1.4.2 movement speed.

The new rampjumps can sometimes create ridiculos high jumps but that was really rare or my movement just sucked too much to make jumps like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILBYi4R2i_o&feature=related
or even a harder jump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Rn9qOPxm4
Yes there were some situations when hitting stairs at full speed and then suddenly hitting the roof but I managed to avoid it.

I have to say q3 rocketjumping and edgecatching (or better edgecatching) + low viewheight is what q4 movement needs.

The most whine come from lg range decrease and rail dmg decrease (rail 100 dmg ftw). Monsoon at rail shooting with lg to nmy at rockets... I still think this distance was made for pr 1.3 lg range and now... lg just needs his range back without changing dmg, knockback or firerate. Oh and rockets are still like little nukes (huge splashdamage range).

To make q4 weaponbalance perfect it needs insta weaponswitch like cpma or at least like ql. This would fit to the movement speed. Oh did I mention to increase rail to 100dmg? :-) Its actually fair when a direct rocket can do 100 dmg.

Oh well, It's mostly duel maps that are broken by 1.4.2 rampjumps.

Can't change the viewheight without shrinking and rerendering the maps....and going back to 1.3 style physics actually - it would feel way too fast otherwise -.
Raildamage is fine, there's way enough railwhoring nowadays already, bumping it back to 100 would just make most people play like it's instagib 24/7

gtr mod change q4 viewheight to q3 viewheight and they didnt changed all maps... viewheight actually doesnt change much, its just like go-kart. Only thing is rockets will be slightly harder to aim at mid-long range

1.3 physics are slower than 1.4.2

So you prefer rockets to be overpowered... rockets 24/7 yay

I forgot the nades stuck into the ground bug... this just sucks.

A while back I added a cg_placebo cvar in the q4max the latest codebase which allows you to lower the view height.

IMO there isn't any significant difference (unless you also move the height rockets come from when shooting, in which case it will screw up everyones rocket jumps etc), but saying it makes it more Q3 like makes people like it more.

The only problem with the game is that crouchslide is overpowered (thus making rockets overpowered as well) because you're silent, moving faster, and you have smaller hitbox. If the footstep sound, or some special crouchslide sound was added, it would be, imo, the perfect quake game. But I think even if this was done, people won't play it and switch from other games, cos its not supported by tournaments or the community that doesn't want to learn it.

without q4max the game was unplayable. period.

I dunno, never messed around with it but I guessed it would mess some angles up ?

no its just the viewheight

Yes so having it lower would mess some angles up because everything will appear taller ( if that is even possible, everybody already looks 2 meters tall in q4 )

Even though I like 1.3 more for a lot of reasons, I agree that most of it is personal preference. However, I don't see how anyone could deny ramp jumping in 1.4.2 is overpowered, and that's the biggest problem with 1.4.2 IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAYeTqx4zik

you can adjust to the improved ramp jumps so those jumps still work but slightly less accel on ramps could make the deal

Quake 4 shouldn't be on a console though. At all.

The levels, the gameplay ... none of that was ever designed to be played with a gamepad. You just need to play 10 minutes of it to see how awful it is with a 360 controller.

The net result of this, is giving a bad name to quake games for console players who have never experienced them, in exchange for a few sales.

reaching out to the community and listening to their suggestions and pleas

some quality trollin' right durr

Rocket knockback in 1.42 was way, way over the top. People began camping corners, opponent strafe slides around the corner - one rocket - bam their huge time airborne (borderline ridiculous) couple air rockets "done like dinner." I noticed dahang did it to opponents all the time. 1.3 was awesome balance btwn lg and rocket. Amazing Toxic vs Cooller battles, 1.42 far to rocket heavy. However it was all for not with the net code and 64fps - ugh. 125fps or forget it. Anyway good luck with the release.

yup, obviously. good to see you're still around btw, very grateful for the awesome job you've done on q4max back in the days :)

1.4.2 is way better then 1.3 in almost everyway.

case closed

says a guy who didnt even know about q4 when pr 1.3 was played active

inb4 raythenuhuhuhub

So, no PC launch for it in North America? That kind of sucks. I enjoyed the single player.

we could organise a quake 4 playday. it must be fun to shoot some of you through the teleporter xD beware my flamethrower is worldclass!

I hope something revives the competitive scene, even if it happens to be Quake 4! But getting our hopes up = so 2005!

Uhh... why?

So sync, you are doing a post about a 7 years old game completly forgotten by the community, and dont give a single damn shit about posting a comment about quakelive...

really that dev team sucks.

This could be a good oppertunity for id Software/Bethesda to actually bring fast phaced FPS back from it's ditch a bit, if they do everything right. Or finally kill it for good.

1. Listen to the people who played the game actively (if they're still around) when it comes to gameplay/physics.

2. Bring out one single version of the game in all countries you want to relaunch it, so no ugly-cutted bullshit uncompatible with the worldwide release like it was done in Germany by Activision with the original Quake 4. It doesn't matter if the Game gets a USK 16 or a USK 18 rating, since most of the 16yo here in Germany are too bussy playing LoL/SCII/CoD XYZ and Quake traditionally was a game for adults.

3. Include everything that was introduced by Q4Max into the base release, so one doesn't have to download aditional stuff to get started with playing the game.

4. If possible update the graphics just a bit (make them less shiny perhaps?), but Q4 looks quite good in its original state so that is minor thing to do.

5. Going over the top, maybe this could be done. Add a Ladder-System like SCII has it to Q4. This would bump the activity a lot I think.

I wish this could come true

imo one big reason right now why people dont start playing q4, is cause its just too much work to get a old game working with downloading q4max and getting all the maps etc etc

Soo make it easier to get started like he said with pretty much include all q4max stuff in baseq4. So its pretty much just install and GO

Everything else would be a +

its actually not much work when the server enables dl and got the files but it sucks to have to have all maps from the server even they are not played atm.

its
1. q4 install
2. pr 1.4.2 install
3. q4max install

q4max offers all necessary options ingame. You dont need console commands or cfg editing.

ofc its better to have an addition gamebrowser like maxbrowse or allseingeye and a IRC client with the q4 pickup channels.

But thats kinda the problem.. all servers doesnt allow it and it gets failed for some reason.

So you have to pretty much download maps from different servers to get all the maps. HARDWORK.

There's like,2 Q4 duel servers. Last time I tried to play around Christmas, there were 0 which weren't password protected. Sick.

You weren't searching for q4max servers, there's a handful of german ones, a handful of french ones, a few uk servers, a handful of us servers ( surprisingly playable with 130ping ), the usual russian ones ...

This was from Q4MAX.

Well I've been playing some again since christmas and that's what I've been seeing.

Waiting for painkiller comeback. DM_Sacred prolly best map ever seen in a fps game :)

Nah, I think DM_Psycho was way more fun to watch...
But DM_Absinthe was nice too...
So were DM_Blink and even DM_1v1_meatless...






Let's admit it, Painkiller was the most fun to watch FPS out there, even with it's bugs :D.

ztn

man, i think they only want some easy money and anyway, ql y far superior for a competitive scene nevery liked q4 at all

right, they only want some easy money!

q4 costs 18€ and you can play for the rest of your life
ql costs 24€ and you can play for just 1 year


right, ql is superior for a competitive scene!

q4 got LAN, GTV and whatever the community was asking for
ql got some competition features like their competition scoreboard (which took about 2 years developement) and I dont know any other comp. feature... but no LAN or GTV which is essential for big tourneys.

replying this is nosense
fuck i hate myself

Wooooaaahhhhhh q4 news :o :o

is this gonna be 100% the same game or is the content at least gonna be remastered, hi-res and up-to-date? i mean, why rerelease a 7 yeard old game if its exactly the same? can't they just drop the price on steam or whatever?

How about some quake 4 action right now? Me and sanchez gonna play some at 78.47.168.130:28007 Join everyone!

wow better book my lessons with master sanchez before its too late!

seven years... damn i'm old.

...I´m older

exactly my thoughts..

"oh quake4 that newest part of the series tha.. wait 7 years? O_O"

Yeah, thats fucking crazy. Wtf. I thought it was like 5 years old top.

suck my d*ck sync.

So nice of you to censor yourself on a forum like this.

q43a is too complex for console kids, and it probaly dont work

they give me monies, and re-released quake 4 official q43a, and they just add them mini megatextures to console and pc

and the game is good to go for 10 years, after engine fix of maybe more then 16 max_clients define extern probaly not used in engine

download :
http://www.moddb.com/mods/q43a/downloads/q43a...-build-198
http://www.moddb.com/mods/q43a/downloads/q43a...98-patch-3

Is there anything changed or is it just being sold again?

That's the question I also interested about.

I think this is an attempt to draw console "gamers'" attention to quake, in order to increase the probability of success for quake 5!
Re-release on pc is just a thing they do because they can.

quake 5? we didnt even saw a screenshot from doom 4 what do you think...

i saw 30 pictures :>

u trolling ?

130. you saw them too http://www.esreality.com/post/2230193/doom-4-screenshots-leaked/

It's not d4 it's some dude's 3d stuff.

no demons , no doom !

no thanks!

If this isn't a loud and clear message of what Bethesda thinks of quake live, I don't know what is.

I'd be willing to switch over, if id makes enough good changes to the game.

like what, they cant outdo q43a without making it quake 5 and full recode like q43a 90% of the dll is, giving lipsynced voice taunts, full custom player models, better performance, fully synced weapons and projectiles, water, fog lights, and 100 other small things

Like adding Q4Max-features to it by default, fix some of the smaller bugs, update the animations/gfx, add all the important maps to it by default and add ladders & stats.

Q4 1.4.2 + Q4Max 0.82 + Duel Maps >>>>>>>>>>>> Q43A

whats the point when q43a does it all and everything else, you can add stats etc yourself using csockets and visual c++ and send stats to remote http database and turn all game servers into a botnet remote access trojan kind of thing

Quake 4 has been the biggest money theft to the players in the history of quake, yes even bigger than quake live.

But now, of course, History repeat itself, and a lot of peoples will spend their money for that thing, unaware of how much id software betrayed the community back in the 2005.

? raven did quake 4, id fixed in hard work the mp. i see no betray.

Then you don't see betray because you don't want to see the many things.
You should have read some forums and heard some things that the players thought about the entire quake4 qestion back in these days.
The hate were tangible.

I wonder what the motivation is for re-releasing it, just trying to make money, or "revive" the quake community by putting out a graphically better game to the casual gamer?

What are the big changes from the original Q4?

guess the biggest change it is now 19.99$ instead of 59.99$

It cost less at the end of 2005. Think I paid about 18$ for it back then.

id brought all of quakewars engine and assets a few months ago, they might always use that, just have to convert maps and models and do mp gametypes which are probaly default as part of engine sdk anyway

then it would have id own lipsync code, and a proper drag n drop visme tool for custom wav`s

but quakewars is to hard for everyone to mod, except me

maybe its just for market research to see if theres a demand for a new quake title? i mean if they wont even sell 50 copies than why bother?

what about the ppl that already have it? will they have to rebuy? :|

I own 3 copys of the game, so if i have to do that im gonna rage.

singleplayer was fun, multiplayer was utter shit.

^ this!

1.3 and 1.4 was better than q3

not exactly hard.

nah, im not trolling (believe it or not). it is hard to be better than q3, but q4 does that in the later patches imo.

I wasn't trolling, q3 is better than ql pretty much by accident ( mostly due to unforeseen consequences of some changes made to ql ) but it's really the worst quake game overall.

It's just bland.

ITS COMING BACK....

WITH MILITIAAAAAAA

why you all still chat shit about militia, it died 2 years ago when it got working MP games on dedicated servers and became q43a, the only thing that is roughly the same is new features in SP,

none of the code is the same, and most of MP code is all new, and q43a has plenty of other new stuff

Because people like laughing AT you, maybe?

not laughing at me, q43a owns all you and the whole history of modding with id engine

i wipe my ass and piss all over you, while you all want jobs at id

you will all chat the same crap about quake until quake 5 or maybe later, when it is all done in q43a for casual and pro gamer and whatever else for SP and MP

is there any bots in q43a? If so, i'm gonna try it :)

no, its all recoded and cleaned up to play on dedicated servers with can be upto 128 players, if the engine uses the same max_clients define

the dll code is all good for upto 128 players on the same server

want bots then get skilth
http://nullnuke.netai.net/download.php?op=details&lid=19

ID why do you keep punching yourself in the balls? WHY

Because they can!

its comin! i can soooooooo not wait!! not

Then i'm coming back

Haters. Gonna buy it for 360 probably, fun fun fun :)

Should also play prey again...

Yeah I can't wait for Prey 2 as well oh wait. :(

if you bored, get your ass kicked in q43a SP and make doom style maps

Yep, I'll definitely do those things that you said.

cos you talk ass like everyone else, all chatting it large about worthless q4max and so on and a new cvar to change view height,. when q43a is all revamped and bling, with most the code recoded, all bugs fixed, plenty of new features and better performance even with all new features enabled ingame play for some frag fest alcoholic action on public random servers

1. april?
garbage game is garbage

Hell yeah, I'm all for a global q4 revival, so bored of ql, and I'd like to see how well this Crackbook would run it ;D

i don't understand this at all

Me either... but when I don't understand something it always turns out the reason is money. :) Thing is this endeavor probably won't net a profit since its going to sell very poorly (imo)... so I'm guessing they just found a huge lot of untouched Quake4 shipments from the first release of the game, and will now put a sticker on the packaging or something and sell them. A repress does indeed make no sense.

id's been whoring out the quake franchise for ages now tho, shouldn't really surprise many by now.

The problem is that kids don't know that franchise and older people like us just don't give a fuck anymore.

I'd tend to agree with you and that's probably most likely the case. Actually, if they re-release it with 1.4.2 on the cd already and q4max updates etc, I'll be kind of disappointed. Why put effort into this shit instead of ql?

Why put effort into this shit instead of q3?

fixed*

just play q43a, its the closest you will ever get to q3 without idtech 3,. q43a has strafe jumping etc too, just have to use the left/right strafe keys to pick up speed and start bunny hopping, + it has UT dodge jumping and air combos and what nots, custom player speed and duel, custom huds, custom damage sets,........... and everything else

there is no knockback, and i do not care about q43a so im never going to un // 1 line of code for a patch

unless there are 1000 servers

Late april fools?

why re-release the shittiest game in the franchise (other than QL)? Q4 MP was a flop, and never had much of a competitive scene so unless there's some drastic improvements i dont see how this will change anything.

they should bundle it with a 1 month trial pro account for ql or something. the marketing and sales strategies of id games are as weird as their game-design choices

A Q3 RE-Release would make sense.

But this is a joke.

For this re-release, will it be possible to fix some bugs that are present in the latest 1.4.2 patch?

I mean, sometimes when I play online, the sound would get stuck on some weapons. I sometimes can not use r_useSMP "1" offline because the game crashes when I try to load a map. (this may also happen in singleplayer)

ID should add similar settings/options found in q4max and multiplayer practice bots for players that do not want to play online. For example: SABot.a11 (the bots can strafejump) or the bots in q4max, which are harder.

As an option, ID should improve the textures a bit, add some effects like the gladiator rail (in q4max) and add some frag-videos on another disk.
There are a lot of shader mods out there, that would make the game look a little bit better. See the mods released by Dafama2K7 on quake4.filefront.


The multiplayer demo released in 2007 had a major bug. You could vote the "DeadZone" gametype but there where no maps for it in the demo. So if the vote passed, then the whole server would crash. If ID thinks of releasing a new demo, then please keep this in mind.

militia here i come

Just wondering if they'll release the Quake IV engine under GPL like every other Quake game. Not sure how much was changed from DooM III to Quake IV, but to me Quake stands out more than DooM in terms of modding.

waste of time, the engine is crap like doom 3, so on and so on,

they should release a UDK kind of kit with quakewars engine, now id own it

idtech 5 is "to complex" for modding, and quakewars is good for 10 years with small minor tweaks along the way and capable of many game types if your not a tard and dont need everything done for you

so you favor the quakewars engine, reason is performance and multiplayer netcode i guess. graphic wise the latest advanced engine was wolfenstein & brink.

i think its a good decision to release d3 source code, doom3 modding scene has the most modders.

d3 source is even more of a waste of time then quake 4, its only the games players that might use the source. no indy gamers id can or might make some money off making commercial looking games

quakewars engine is better all round, its better off packing the bots instead of normal boring Ai, the script objects can do many things if you import dll for your own map event functions

it just needs bigger megatexture terrain sizes and lipsync

the huds are better and can do more, with a tool to make a base layout

the performance is better, and can do near poly count of idtech45 with todays hardware pushing it

thanks for reply, you clearly have more knowledge of the tech than me.

what i get is that maybe modders built with d3 source something like ioquake3 engine. for standalone games, formaly d3 total conversions. and a doom 3 on mobile devices to demonstrate the performance.

most modders have gone to better games with bigger communities and more servers to play random people on,. university students etc all have udk to do course projects on

if id are not going to release sdk for any future games for idtech5, they should leave the modding world with a UDK type of kit using quakewars engine, gameplay already has scopes and mines and all the small things done, 3d platformers can remove with ease for just change and do games like zelda etc with 1024 textures making it all look good, when 99% of quakewars textures are 512 and look better then quake which uses 1024 on most textures

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/ and http://www.doom3world.org has still an active scene.

btw whenever i look on doomworld.com forum i see circa 150 users online. could that be true our is it the whole ugo network. 150 ppl is much for developers, isnt it.

d3world talks ass, they all can spend years comparing screenshots etc, when it comes to modding they just tweak a few lines of code, like most modders do, and only 1 -> 10 actually do any public mods

q43a is another world, and proves what you can really do with a crap engine and the dll only with some imagination and recoding to code all new features in

quake 4 without q43a only has bounds on idliquid working, nothing else todo with water, it has no mp vehicles code, no 100% custom mp player models, no mp liipsynced voicetaunts, 90% of q43a code is all new to make it all playable

Q4 wtf -_-
W T F
leave it alone please.
give me GTV and lan in QL and FO

you still believe in santa too right?

\o/

I don't like Quake 4 much, never did. I'm willing to give it a go again when it's released, though. I have my doubts whether it will rock at all. It's a smart move; Shootmania has people hyped for non-realistic shooters, and bethesda made the smart move of re-releasing it before Shootmania has a chance give enough to the people interested in it.

As much as I would like Quake Live to get 100% of the love, it is, after all, a pretty much finished product they have, so (re-)releasing it is probably only a few pennies worth in cost. I'm sure with a little hope that gamers actually want to thrive in non-realistic shooters such as quake, there might even be a big spark for Quake Live as well.

Thumbs up nevertheless!

fuk yah bout time I heard some god damn good news...

Lol...ffs. I would rather have a knitting needle through one if my balls.

all they need to do now is bring back WSVG and we're set.

btw I asked J.C at quakecon about quake V but he was too keyed up about Rave to really make even the slightest comment. He said "Doom" is next and wouldn't speculate any further than that. As for quakelive all he said is it is "limping along." Quake V is not even on the books right now.

Just for the record... I'm a player who goes all the way back to Q1 release and played both Q1 and Q3 a ton. I'm already fed up with the BS that QL is. I bought Q3 in like 2000, why am I having to pay for the shit again to play it. Lol, is this the same thing that Q4 is going to do when it re-releases?......

When i bought Q4 at release... it was an absolute piece of shit out of the box.... simply unplayable. After about 1.5 - 2 years, a friend and teammate told me Q4 had become playable due to q4max etc so he convinced me to give it another shot, and SUCCESS... it was actually fucking playable.... I went on to play for a couple years. Point is, better be re-released in a playable format or it's a waste of fucking time. As opposed as I am to Web-versions of shit that I have to pay for like QL, the only way this re release will probably work is if it's set up in a similar fashion and is released in the settings it evolved to over time.

ALSO.... original CD keys should get a free year or whatever if it ends up going that route. Regardless.... annoying as shit.

-cxt

If u wanna try Q4, I located 2 german servers still online provided for pickups and cups, connect here for CTF 195.13.62.18:30100 password u should ask in channel #spontanq4ctf and duel server on IP 195.13.62.58:27200 both with pr1.42 and latest q4max mod. And ppl pls ignore p0rt hes a troll and dreamer and his mod is laggiest bulshit mod ever.