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Quake 4 Announced

Posted by michael on from the dust-off-the-railgun dept.

Warrior-GS writes: "This just in from QuakeCon in Texas: Id Software and Raven Software will be joing forces on Quake 4. Id and Nerve Software are also going to working on some unspecified game. Carmack is giving his talk right now. GameSpyDaily has all the details."

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  1. Re:Yawn... by grammar+nazi · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Here is a list of many of Q3's substantial innovations over Q1, Q2, and pretty much every other game to date:

    Volumetric fog. This was not done in a video game before Q3

    Delta packets - Q3 was designed from the ground up to be a networked game and innovations such as delta packets resulted from this.

    Ballistic parametrics - Instead of bullet positions being relayed over a network, Q3 relays position, velocity, acceleration. Remember physics? This is enough to describe the entire trajectory, making for a large bandwidth saver.

    Linux (thank you Loki) - It took a *long* time for Q1 and Q2 to be playable in Linux. Loki accomplished this quickly

    What else did I miss?

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  2. Re:Quake4 + Mac by ptbrown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nonono... Carbon is just a compatibility hack. Real apps should be build with Cocoa, but I'm sure Carmack doesn't need to be told. As we all remember, OpenStep (now Cocoa) was the original development platform for Doom and Quake. So when he says that MOSX is his "new" development platform, he really means "old".

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  3. I hope they model it after q2 and not q3. by Jailbrekr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Contrary to many a naysayer who says that 'Quake 1/2/3 is dead', people keep playing, and our q2 game servers are actually enjoying a bit of a resurgance (sp). Why? Because it is still one hell of alot of fun to play. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING can compare to the q2 physics. It had an excellent combination of good graphics, excellent multiplayer code, and physics that allowed to game to be fast paced, but not too fast paced where it seemed too unreal (no pun intended). Counterstrike, one of the most popular multiplayers games at this time, is based on the q2 engine (heavily modified by Valve), so this says something about the enduring appeal of q2, and its associated engine.

    Q3 was cute, and had excellent eye candy, but I found it to be entirely unplayable. I did not enjoy the levels (even thou they were beautiful), nor did I enjoy how my character handled. It was too 'soft and squishy' for my tastes. It was obvious that ID wrote it not to sell it as a game itself, but to sell the engine to mod builders.

    I can only hope that ID learns from its previous games, and can somehow capture the strong points of all their titles.

    Imagine, a game that has the fear factor of Doom, the physics of Q2, and the eye candy of Q3. I can hope, can't I?

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  4. Re:Finally... by htmlboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    johnc has noted that he's developing the new engine on a geforce3, and it will probably get around 30 fps on a geforce3 when the game's finally released.

    finger johnc@idsoftware.com for the details.

    it'll be a while before anything's released, though, so it's not unrealistic to use a geforce3 as the baseline card.