New official Quake 1 episode released!
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New official Quake 1 episode released!
Nathaniel Nguyen
Hudson Reed
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Isaiah Peterson
is it any good?
still sad it's a PR attempt to bolster their new abortion
Cameron Phillips
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Jack Davis
I'm not very far into it but so far I'm really liking it.
Carson Allen
This is just poor quality lube for the assfucking of the century
Jace Wilson
i would actually prefer Quake abortion from MachineGames rather from this guys
Austin Robinson
everyone who cares about quake knows machine games isn't as qualified as many of the leading voices in the community like czg, mfx, sock, skacky, etc. People who truly understand and innovate with Quake.
Angel Collins
Feels a lot like Episode 3 or Scourge of Armagon, so if you liked those you might dig it.
Jeremiah Lewis
I'm glad to play Quake again (haven't touched it for at least the past five years), but this episode is disappointing and bland.
There are a lot of details in the props (crates rotated in all directions, broken walls, etc), but if you were to remove the useless eye candy, you'd see how "square" the level design is… and when I say "square" I'm not talking graphics (there's a really well done arch at the beginning of E5M4), but this episode's level design isn't as chaotic as iD's original game: the layout is fairly linear, everything is way too lit and rooms tend to always follow the same structure (lots of symmetry, lots of Ctrl+C Ctrl+V, halls always look the same). It also feels like enemies were placed "because there was enough room on the floor", and more often than not in batches (here's the hellknight room, here's the ogre room, the enforce room, the shambler room, and so on and so forth), combats were becoming so tedious I skipped some of them. Another thing that grind my gears: level designers now consider "secret areas" any items that isn't directly on your path or line of sight…
The generic level names are pretty telling: they were "making levels". You can change the texture set from one level to the other and you probably won't notice any difference at all.
It's okay but it's also unimpressive… but it's also free. Set the difficulty to hard or nightmare for your first play-through.
Connor Scott
daily reminder that MachineGames are literally populated by the same retards behind the Syndicate reboot and published(?) Payday 2
Carson Peterson
"Hey, Bob, you know those levels I've got you working on for that old game we're making the 'reboot' of? Well I just remembered this old mee-mee from back in the day called 'Dopefish' - the kids will want to see it; you've got until 5PM today to make sure it's in at least one of the levels you're making."
Bentley Perez
How do I Quake without buying Steam?
Ryan Wright
Without giving money to Zenimax, you mean. Anyway:
DOWNLOAD:
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Juan Murphy
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Elijah Collins
you realize that texture was already in quake, right?
Landon Watson
fuck off weeb
Owen Morgan
quakespasm or darkplaces
Benjamin Phillips
How do I play this new episode? When I run the game in Quakespasm it just has the main campaign and the two mission packs.
Carter Bennett
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Levi Morales
quakespasm -game dopa
if you're on windows, create a batch file should be easier to do
Adrian Thomas
I thought this was a quake episode not a doom wad
Jonathan Adams
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David Ross
Thanks guys
David Peterson
"If Quake was made today" the episode
Jayden Smith
WHAT THE FUCK
Caleb James
ARTIFICAL FUCKING DIFFICULTY
Hunter Nguyen
this episode is really fucking stingy with supplies
Ian Ward
Stay triggered goon.
Bentley Kelly
It's enjoyable but not mindblowning.
Lincoln Long
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Andrew Morris
these look extremely unimpressive when you see what the community has been putting out.
Luke Gomez
I will never understand why Quake took such a dramatic turn when it came to tone and setting of the game after it's first game.
Ryder Murphy
quake 2 wasn't supposed to be a quake game, they were going to call it something else, but I believe that name was trademarked so they just said "call it quake 2."
Quake 2 was a terrible game however.
Jason Wilson
Oh c'mon nigga. It wasn't as good as Unreal but it's a pretty good game.
Julian Miller
The first game was envisioned as a fantasy setting, and then took a hard turn to sci-fi half way through development, when the original vision wasn't really working out.
Logan Ross
some awful back tracking with that retarded siren, forgettable music, awful enemy design and awful level design. The weapons are pretty shitty too.
I have no respect for it. It's a game designed primarily by amateurs cobbled together from the modding community, and its lack of direction, decent enemy design, and boring as fuck weapons speaks for itself.
I never want to play it again. Unreal, I might revisit in a few years, Quake I'll probably be playing it this week.
Jace Jackson
The dopefish is the only cool thing about it, though. Don't hate on that of all things.
Jaxson Martinez
Apperently it's made by a guy named J. F. Gustafsson from the community who works now for Machine Games.
Brandon Johnson
I think he's just expressing some pessimism about the industry in general. I absolutely disagree with him, but I see where he's coming from.
I was talking about Quake 2, but that's neat. I know MFX works/worked at Starbreeze and worked on Riddick EFBB and some of their other games, and he's arguably the best Q1SP designer around. Maybe he left for machinegames.
Carson Taylor
What's that first image, user?
Ethan Rivera
Nyarlathotep map 2. Map 1 is even better, but its hard to show it off considering how dense fog is in that map, it may not look impressive but it plays amazingly.
Hunter Wilson
Ah, thanks. Have you played "Something Wicked This Way Comes?" Definitely one of my favorite maps, it's got a lot of backtracking but manages to stay interesting. It also fucks with the weapon balancing making the game feel a whole lot faster, fun, and dangerous. Give it a try if you get the chance.
Blake Morales
Yes, something wicked is tremendous, iirc, nyarlathotep is the part 2 of that "series." Absolutely amazing texture work in it too.
Camden Cooper
I bought the game on steam months ago and using an image to find some sourceports I got it working, now all I really wanted was the game to support my resolution and aspect ratio with this done I'm all good. See I want the music and since there's some episodes I can do as well as an user posted in this thread thanks to him. I just wanted to know am I setting up my folders in Quakespasm right?
Cameron Wilson
>every official site for it is either dead or compromised by mudslimes not fuckin joking, one of the links here quakewiki.org
anyone have a download for DirectQ? Its shit has been successfully fucked.
Zachary Cook
Just use QuakeSpasm.
Justin Wood
I figured it out I had my files named wrong and I have to activate them with a command if I want to hear them
Wyatt Williams
Watch this video and download gog version of Quake. It also explains how to enable music ingame.
Landon Richardson
So I was playing it and my HUD isn't really there now I really only need to know what my hp is.
Second holy fuck some of these encounters I win by the hair of my teeth and there's just enough hp to keep me going. I can duck, dodge and weave out of shots and come out on top fucking hell what happened to video games like this?
I get the same happy feeling only playing a few games honestly.
Camden Ross
Move the expansion packs one directory above.
Evan Ward
options > screen size
Ian Jones
thanks, i'll have a look at the gog video in a moment. liking quakespasm quite a bit right now.
Grayson Edwards
To which GLquake?
My screen size is maxed out. Sorry for shitty snapshot here but I had to use an external program to take a shot
Carson Carter
That's the problem.
Nolan Evans
…Oh wait I get it holy fuck how did I not think about this. It was like that natively so I left it
Ian Morgan
fuck this is slightly funny in a way
Brody Robinson
Trent is really good at dound design I guess
Leo Morales
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Jose Hernandez
Music in id1 and the mission packs outside that huh?
Right well music has to be console commanded to work each level and I haven't even finished the main game yet
Benjamin Richardson
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Andrew Miller
Daily reminder it's now full of fuckwits and children you're on your own with cancer there mate
Matthew Morris
>implyign it hasnt always been filled with fuckwits and children
it never gets better
Mason Ortiz
Nothing ever does user, nothing really ever does
Isaac Taylor
What did they do to the formatting? Newlines are broken on all comments.
Aaron Long
they fucked it, johnny.
they fucked it all.
Aiden Peterson
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John Russell
To be completely fair, two out of four screenshots were made to show what I meant by "Ctrl+C Ctrl+V design". I also think it's a limit respected add-on (so you can forget skyboxes, fog, and overly complex architectures). Maybe it's even possible to make a few good looking screenshots from this add-on… but frankly, I'd rather play the mediocre Aftershock all over again than this, because even though Aftershock was sub par compared to the four original episodes of Quake (or pretty much any other production of that time), I can still remember the mood of some levels (which is not the case of Dopa).
As a side note: if you have the occasion, try Malice for Quake, a total conversion where you play a bounty hunter in a not-so-distant future. I have fond memories of that pack, but I should probably play it again to see if it's still any good.