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Could anyone suggest to me a few good Quake 1 mods that would enhance the visuals or at least allow for a decent UI size on a 1080p monitor? I'm looking for engine changes specifically, not changes to gameplay if it can be helped.
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disborat posted:I've always used Darkplaces. Enhances particles & textures, lets you do widescreen and mess with the hud. I think there's a retexture pack but it looks good enough without. Thanks, I'll check this out this evening.
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I've been playing a variety of Doom source ports over the weekend. Two standouts were Doomsday Engine and Chocolate Doom. I ran into a lot of issues getting DE working to detect all my WAD files, but it does look good with the renderer. Chocolate Doom is a really good representation of old school Doom, but the 320x200 resolution is kind of difficult to get used to. CDoom plays way better than the DE port. It's almost like DE has too much momentum and is almost has too much bobbing. Are the GZdoom variants a good balance of the above? I'd basically like vanilla Doom gameplay with a modern renderer.
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Apr 17, 2017 18:04
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Thanks guys that answers my questions. Sounds like I can just us PRBoom and disable mouselook and that will be what I need. I'm not super critical on the backend mechanics, but I would like the game to feel very close to vanilla.
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Apr 17, 2017 18:32
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Llamadeus posted:For very conservative source ports, imo Crispy Doom is less authentic but a bit more playable than Chocolate Doom. Runs at 640x400, isn't capped to 35fps and can play wads that don't obey vanilla limits. That looks very promising. I can handle 640x400, so long as the automap doesn't look like absolute rear end.
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Apr 17, 2017 19:51
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Locking the aspect ratio to 4:3 is the correct way to view it though, right? Trying to stretch those resolution to 16:9 would make the game look really distorted.
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Apr 17, 2017 20:13
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Trip report, Crispy Doom is awesome. It's exactly what I was looking for.
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Apr 18, 2017 16:34
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Turok 2 is out???? Know what I'm doing this weekend.
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Apr 20, 2017 15:02
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What's the deal with episode 4 of Doom being so much harder than the other levels on Ultra Violence? I beat the game pretty handily on UV, but I can't get past the E4M1 without dropping down to HMP.
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Apr 24, 2017 14:31
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Sir, that soundtrack is decidedly 16-bit.
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Apr 26, 2017 21:40
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It's not 8-bit unless the game fits on one 1.44MB floppy disk.
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Apr 27, 2017 13:45
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Cat Mattress posted:The double-sided high density floppy disk is for 16-bit computers. For 8-bit, you need to go older. You're doing the Lord's work.
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Apr 27, 2017 15:06
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I find it funny how much geometry skews when looking up and down in Duke3D with the default renderer. Game is still badass though.
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May 1, 2017 15:29
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What is the deal with diagonal running? They just added together the velocity for forward and strafe momentum?
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May 2, 2017 01:27
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah, basically its just naive code that says I saw this firsthand when I was goofing off with Hexen 2 this weekend. Holding run and then moving diagonally made you super fast. Couple that with the boots of speed and it's almost unplayable.
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May 2, 2017 14:31
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Mak0rz posted:Yeah but it seemed way more exaggerated in Hexen 2. I'm thinking it had something to do with class specific speed? I think the Assassin had a better movespeed than the other classes. What was the purpose of walk/run back in the oldschool games? I assumed everybody just turned autorun on unless they were trying to do some engine fuckery.
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May 3, 2017 13:08
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Are there any quick resources online that I can look at for an intro to Doom map making? Looks like I have several options for a map editor and I'd like to start out learning on a simpler one.
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Feb 21, 2019 14:05
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Thanks, this is exactly what I'm looking for.
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Feb 21, 2019 14:29
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When I'm importing MIDI files into a WAD, they just need to be .mid files, correct?
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Feb 22, 2019 16:13
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fishmech posted:Be warned that if you're trying for vanilla compatiblity, you may have issues. Thanks for this clarification. I should be well within those channel and instrument limits. I normally make tracks with like 5 instruments at most which don't last longer than about 2 minutes before they loop.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:37
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I gotta say, the Remaster source port of Quake 2 is pretty drat good. You can toggle off most of the remaster bits if you want and the item wheel thing is good for all the different inventory items you get in the game.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:19
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Baron von Eevl posted:The leap attack caught me so off guard the first time, which I think was the bridge over lava trap. Such a classic setpiece too.
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Apr 9, 2024 18:56
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Plutonia has so many gently caress off traps... I just finished map 8 on UV and I had chaingunners warp in on both sides of me after picking up a key, then the platform with the exit portal spawned TWO ARCHVILES and a bunch of revenants.
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Apr 11, 2024 18:51
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I played through Ultimate Doom and Doom 2 over the past month, and am currently working through Plutonia and TNT. I gotta say, the games still hold up extremely well even against modern shooters. The weapon and monster design is just so good and I find myself really thinking through what makes each map and encounter work. Just the combination of what the different monsters can do and what you can do to counter them is great. I decided to keep things as close to the original as possible, so I've been playing with PRBoom+ with some of the graphics smoothing options enabled. The art style still works well today. It's just crazy how much fun I'm still having with a 31 year old game that I used to play as a kid.
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Apr 13, 2024 18:07
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Volte posted:
Yes... I know I know... I like the smudged look lol. In Training posted:Are you enjoying TNT? I'm on like map 12 of TNT and it seems fine so far. I'm on map 9 of Plutonia but overall I think Plutonia has the better design, even with the difficulty. The was one map of TNT that had to have like 300 hitscanners in it. Some kind of Hangar level I think. But I'm playing on UV so I'm probably asking for the toughest encounters lol.
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Apr 13, 2024 18:13
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Bumhead posted:I bought a CRT a few weeks ago and played Doom on it for the first time today (started an UV, pistol start run and trying not to save mid-level). Depending on source port and renderer, you can make it pitch black on modern monitors as well. I'd still love to have a CRT monitor sitting around to really get the original experience down. Too bad they're so heavy!
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Apr 13, 2024 20:34
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I think I had to adjust a few things in PRBoom+ the first time I used it because the gamma was set way too dark at first. I swapped over to shader lighting and then set the gamma adjustment to 0 and that seemed to work well. Dark areas are still really dark even if not quite the way they were in software mode.
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Apr 15, 2024 19:02
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I was forced to watch a movie with the TV's "contrast enhancing" auto-dimming and 60 FPS upscaler enabled at my dad's house Oh my god, that's terrible. I can't stand those frame smoothing features on TVs.
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Apr 15, 2024 19:51
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victrix posted:it's an interesting phenomenon because I'll happily play doom or cod mp and giggle at the violence, but if it crosses an intangible line it's super gross and I don't want to touch it (see modern mortal kombat) That's kind of where I'm at too. I can play Doom Eternal all day and the gore doesn't bother me at all. But I cringe so bad if a character gets their arm broken or something in a game like The Last of Us. One is stylized violence against monsters/demons. The other is realistic harm against a human being.
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I like using bilinear filtering in source ports. I know it makes the graphics blurry, it just works for me.
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I know and I'm sorry. I have brain issues.
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Apr 15, 2024 23:41
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Other than the blaster, the grenade launcher has to be one of the poorer weapons in Quake 2. Love shooting grenades between an enemies legs!!
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Apr 16, 2024 17:50
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Milo and POTUS posted:Not sure I've ever had this problem.... I don't know if it's the model changes between the remaster and the original version, but I've had grenades to straight through the legs of Gunners and Berserkers.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Sounds like a skill issue. Highly probable. It's been a hot minute since I played Quake 2. The changes made in the Remaster are great, but some of the adjustments to enemy attacks are really throwing me off.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yeah, I clicked on the video not realizing it was him, and the moment I heard "Hullo you-..." I had to shut it off. I hate his videos because of that intro specifically. If he's racist on top of that just lmao.
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Cleared Quake 2 on Hard today. The penultimate level isn't as confusing now that I remembered where everything is. I reckon I'll start on The Reckoning tomorrow and see how that goes.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The reckoning's weapons are pretty fun but god do I hate the reptile enemies and the swamp levels are really loving dire. Yeah I got through that area today and it did suck. But it's better now that I'm at the actual base area hunting power cores. The difficulty feels a bit higher than the original campaign, I think mainly because the pace of getting new weapons has been slower. I'm about 2 hours in and I just now got the Chain Gun and some power armor.
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