I have been waiting for this game for a long time. I loved the Doom 3 engine in Quake 4 but I never really cared for the Quake 3 type multiplayer and Quake 4 just rehashed it. Infact, the only Quake 3 engine game I liked in multi was Jedi Knight 2 and had Jedi Academy been given more funding and patches... it would have been great too.
So I hope Quake Wars doesn't turn out to be a rehash of the original Enemy Territory. I hated that game. I thought this would be more like Battlefield 1942 ( 2 sucked I have to say but only cause it was a poor implementation of the 1942 engine on steroids and obscene lack of balance ).
If ads in the game keep the public servers open so that when you buy the game you can log in to a server then by all means put it in. As long as they make the game fun and balanced and not some rehash of a bad game.
So I hope Quake Wars doesn't turn out to be a rehash of the original Enemy Territory. I hated that game. I thought this would be more like Battlefield 1942 ( 2 sucked I have to say but only cause it was a poor implementation of the 1942 engine on steroids and obscene lack of balance ).
If ads in the game keep the public servers open so that when you buy the game you can log in to a server then by all means put it in. As long as they make the game fun and balanced and not some rehash of a bad game.
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I absolutely hate the Doom 3 engine.
Basically, it's an abomination that needs to die, so it's sad to see another game using it.
It runs like crap on every system i've had...regardless of fps, it always feels like it's chugging, not to mention the terribly slow movement every game based off it has.
The console commands layout is a hilarious joke in all Doom 3 engine crap...
Makes simple things like changing the goddamn resolution an unholy nightmare, nevermind the fact it randomly changes settings on its own half the time.
/i'll shut up now, or i could go on forever, but seriously, i absolutely hate the Doom 3 engine...every single game based off it is ruined.
Finally, someone else here who can see this problem too. There is a way to fix it, but it makes the game speed dependent on the framerate and things essentially go into slow-mo when the framerate drops. I would take that any day over the frameskipping you get otherwise though.
I tried doom 3 on highest settings with ultra high quality on a 8800gts 640, and it was studdering bad. I did the same with quak4 and it was fine. silly programmers.
it better be. What is the deal with the multi-texture thingy? Is that new to the Quake series?Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
agreed, that is silly,but Q4 had a lot more optimization to it. i hope/imagine ETQW is likewise
Fenixgoon
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mega-texturing is a texture method developed by carmack specifically for ETQW that allows the D3 engine to "brute force" render the textures to the horizon (whatever that means). so they make 1 uber large texture file that describes the entire level (or the terrain, at least i guess) and apply it across the entire area. it also allows for texture description (a vehicle on grass makes X sound while on sand makes Y sound, handling properties change, etc.)
sounds cool. anyone who's actually played the beta (unlike me
) care to chime in about the terrain graphics (or graphics in general)?But what about this:
and this:
"You won't have to interact with them; they'll just be part of the normal environment. In fact, there are some places it's quite odd not to have an advertisement--the sides of container trucks, for example. Great care is being taken to ensure that all our ads are appropriate for the game world and we have absolute approval rights in this area. If it's not appropriate or it's distracting, it won't go in."
They are going to monitor how long and how many times you look at a particular ad. I think of that as spyware. And this is what they admit to collecting.
As stated before- they will start with so called non intrusive ads but over time you will wonder why you are ordering Avon lipstick and nail polish.
As long as they don't do it like Rainbow 6: Vegas, I'll be happy. Read: No stupid AXE 'Effect' advertisements on every garbage can within a 10 mile radius... Otherwise, whatever, if they don't shove it down my throat and force me to watch it (TV), I'm fine.
I'm guessing you're talking about the frameskip effect in D3 engine games, which annoys me to no end too. Make sure vsync is turned on and add the following lines somewhere in your doomconfig.cfg file: (or the equivalent one for whatever game it is)
seta com_preciseTic "0"
seta com_fixedTic "1"
The game should now become visibly smoother (you can especially see the difference by moving around in the opening area of D3 while looking down at the grating on the floor), but it will go to half speed whenever the framerate falls below 60. It also goes to double speed at framerates above 60, but you shouldn't have to deal with that on a 60hz LCD.
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