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Segmentation Fault posted:Isn't the Blood source kept under lock and key because some executive believes that releasing it would mean everybody would start hacking in Blood multiplayer? Though it's worth saying that this is the given reason why Half-Life 1 has never been open-sourced. The code's basically all ready to go, but they have cold feet after what happened to Quakeworld Team Fortress after that engine got opened and they don't want to kill Counter-Strike 1.6's community just yet.
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The Kins posted:Though it's worth saying that this is the given reason why Half-Life 1 has never been open-sourced. The code's basically all ready to go, but they have cold feet after what happened to Quakeworld Team Fortress after that engine got opened and they don't want to kill Counter-Strike 1.6's community just yet. At this point, CS 1.6 consists of zombie servers, misc. gimmick maps filled with text popups and Quake/UT sounds, and shady pirated Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and shithole third world country-hosted redirect servers that may or may not send you to a server that tries to perform a drive-by spyware installation on your machine depending on the one you go to at the moment. Destabilizing the CS 1.6 community wouldn't cause a lot to be lost at this point.
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The Kins posted:...what happened to Quakeworld Team Fortress after that engine got opened... What happened?
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Bouchacha posted:What happened? He's probably talking about regular Quakeworld. Short story is that Quakeworld was overrun with hacks and cheats after the source code was released because of people flipping throguh the source and building cheats based on flaws found in the source. There are several fanmade anti-cheat systems out there now, though. It might not matter because of how small the Quakeworld communities are, but you'd be surprised by how many people in them and other FPS games with small communities try to cheat. Even in Serious loving Sam deathmatch there was a huge scandal regarding cheats a few years back, and that has like 25 players on at max. Same thing happened with NetQuake.
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Bouchacha posted:What happened? EDIT: Beaten.
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Also, keep in mind that the Q1 source release was about 15 years ago. There's been plenty of developments that've stopped cheats since then. A source release for GoldSrc would probably cause short term chaos like the Quake 1 source did, but there's still enough programmers and scripters across the GoldSrc developers that decent anti-cheat programs could be whipped up to stop the whole thing a few months after the release.
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Because there aren't a shitload of GoldSrc cheats anyway.
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Little silly Valve being skittish about cheats considering how for years in Source games you could add a single line to player model mat files and make them visible through walls. Might still be able to do this in some mods.
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Going back to Blood 2 chat a bit, here's a little treasure I found while playing this trainwreck some years ago:
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laserghost posted:Going back to Blood 2 chat a bit, here's a little treasure I found while playing this trainwreck some years ago:
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Was anyone a fan of that Terminator FPS from the mid-90s? Skynet, I believe it was called. I remember it being fairly rubbish apart from the multiplayer which was a blast. Terminator vs Humans and the use of super cool vehicles like the hunter-killer never got boring.
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straight jerkers posted:Little silly Valve being skittish about cheats considering how for years in Source games you could add a single line to player model mat files and make them visible through walls. Might still be able to do this in some mods. EYE Divine Cybermancy literally uses that mat file trick for one of it's unlockable active skills.
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The Kins posted:One of the level intro texts also hurls poo poo at Half-Life, which is pretty rich. Blood 2 posted:"OCT. 30, GIDEON DOES HIS DISSERTATION ON THE RITUAL CRIME OF SIN AND HOW TO GET AWAY WITH IT. GET HERE EARLY AND YOU'LL HEAR HIS MINOR SYMPOSIUM ON A VALVE'S INCREDIBLY ONEROUS HALF-LIFE!" What were the big FPS' coming out in '98? SiN, Half-Life, Blood 2, Shogo...?
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The idea of someone talking poo poo about Half-Life in 1998 is kind of bizarre to me.
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RyokoTK posted:The idea of someone talking poo poo about Half-Life in 1998 is kind of bizarre to me. 
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Unreal was a hit that caught everyone surprise.
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Just a reminder that QuakeCon starts tomorrow.
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catlord posted:Just a reminder that QuakeCon starts tomorrow. Not sure what that means now Carmack is gone. I guess leaked Doom 4 footage if we're lucky?
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Convex posted:Not sure what that means now Carmack is gone. I guess leaked Doom 4 footage if we're lucky? Probably ~*~*~$SALES$~*~*~
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LvK posted:Probably ~*~*~$SALES$~*~*~ 
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Considering we got a redundant console port of Doom 3 to celebrate Doom's 20th anniversary, I'm not expecting big things. Maybe 33% off Wolfenstein: TNO if we're lucky.
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LvK posted:Probably ~*~*~$SALES$~*~*~ Wrack sale?
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Convex posted:Maybe 33% off Wolfenstein: TNO if we're lucky. It did go half-off during the summer sale, it might do that again.
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Hey Kins, why is Reelism on GZDoom and not Zandronum?
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Segmentation Fault posted:Hey Kins, why is Reelism on GZDoom and not Zandronum? Not to speak on somebody else's behalf, but I'll just remind everyone that Zandronum is way the gently caress behind (G)ZDoom feature wise and consequently can't do a great deal of functions that its mother port can.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Hey Kins, why is Reelism on GZDoom and not Zandronum?
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Does anybody know of good custom UT99 maps that are bot friendly? I haven't played custom UT99 maps in years, and I'd like to try some of the better ones instead of randomly downloading maps from old archives and hoping they're as good as their name sounds (which doesn't work very well most of the time) like I did back in the early 2000s. DM and CTF are preferred, but anything is fine as long as it doesn't suck and the bots play well on it.
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The Kins posted:Quakecon Weekend sales are up on pretty much every DD platform worth their servers. I discovered through the Steam thread that GreenManGaming currently has the best deal on the Wolfensteins and Doom 3s of the world, especially if you use their promo code: tehsid posted:Also you can use P36EYA-K5JYKT-ABO7X9 there to get 25% off any of the games on sale.
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Zombie Samurai posted:I discovered through the Steam thread that GreenManGaming currently has the best deal on the Wolfensteins and Doom 3s of the world, especially if you use their promo code: Also got this one at Gamefly which has more titles in it like Quake and what not: http://digital.gamefly.com/?stop_mobi=once&cid=quaked1gf071714#!/promotion/161
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I suppose I can wait for a good deal on Morrowind and a digital copy of Oblivion. (Because when you think Quakecon, you think The Elder Scrolls, clearly)
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Shadow Hog posted:I suppose I can wait for a good deal on Morrowind and a digital copy of Oblivion.
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PC Gamer has gotten to play the new Doom. All we know is it runs at 60fps, supports 1080p and you can shoot enemies to stun them and then kick their faces in.
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Does the Doom marine yell COME GET SOME! and I'M HERE TO KICK rear end AND CHEW BUBBLE GUM, BUT I'M ALL OUT OF GUM!! too?
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Zeether posted:PC Gamer has gotten to play the new Doom. All we know is it runs at 60fps, supports 1080p and you can shoot enemies to stun them and then kick their faces in. what about fatalities
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Doom 4: I'M GONNA CUT OFF YOUR CYBERDEMON HEAD AND poo poo DOWN YOUR THROAT
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Doom 4 is basically Brutal Doom 3D.quote:It's an origin game, reimagining everything about the originals. quote:Demo is now on. Inside UAC facility. Lots of particles and lava. Heavy Melee combat, ripping out body parts MK style. quote:A new twist on finding the yellow keycard: year off a corpse's arm and use it to open a handprint scanner. quote:A demon just ripped the player's arms off and beat him to death with them. quote:An adorable custodial droid is trying to clean up all the blood. It is not succeeding. quote:The hand-to-hand kill moves are varied and fantastically gory. And here comes the chainsaw. God is dead. TerminusEst13 fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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TerminusEst13 posted:Doom 4 is basically Brutal Doom 3D. Even worse, Doom is dead. 
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