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RTCW Single Player Demo & Linux Binaries
Ant was fastest on the mouse to report that Id Software has a single-player demo and a set of linux binaries available for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Blue's News has some more information and a mirror.
For those like me who have had problems with RTCW 1.0 you can get the Patch Here
http://www.kubuntu.org/
Try DOD. Seriously. Play as an Allies, with a big gun and go after those nazi bastards. Play with a sniper rifle, go into a building that's been ripped up with holes in it, and get the feeling from the movie "enemy at the gates". Seriously, I get so much more out of DOD than RTCW.
The levels, alone, make all the difference...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
While not yet posted on their website as of 15:07 Eastern Time, www.tuxgames.com will sell RTCW with a linux-based installer.
:)
This is for those folks who want to show their allegience to Linux gaming by purchasing from a company dedicated to bringing it mainstream and properly tallying Linux sales.
I have no affiliation, just a friendly notice.
Praying for the end of your wide-awake nightmare.
Yes, but Evenbalance is now supporting Punkbuster for RTCW, and not Half-Life/Conterstrike. All the cheaters made multiplayer Half-Life a waste of time. Also, RTCW multiplayer is better by virtue of its populatrity. With online games, it is often the cluster of people around the game, rather than the game itself that is most important. (Of course, if the game sucked, you'd never good sized group of people in the first place.)
Well one reason could be that Linux performs better on P4/2.2GHz than WinXP does. If more games would perform better. the more people would play on Linux ;)
fucktard is a tenderhearted description
What we need is people to log in to ID's ftp and download the 8mb file that is required to play the buy version on Linux since the CD does not contain Linux binaires. Will the next game be available on Linux if there is no one getting the binaries needed? hmm I don't know.
If you could enter to the FTP site you could note there's an OSX directory there... but since the whole thing is slashdotted, you can't. I'm really sorry. Just be patient and wait a few hours, by then everyone will have stopped clicking the pretty links...
The MP has been out a while and the SP ran fin under wine, transgamings, winex, and plain vainlla CVS , all except sound lag on SP under wine.
:)
What IMPORTANT is they DID it, they said the would and did is also imortant this is the kind of cross plattform movability you get with OpenGL.
RTCW is a ton of fun, I hadnt bought a game in over 10 years, Im not really the Gaming Type, BUT Me, and my two sons are Hooked on this, since we have Linux workstations at home, It RUNS FAR more stable on Linux than it does on My wifes W2k box, much nicer all the way around.
Just in case any of you wonder my handle is
"Major Dick"
See you at the Happy Penguin Server tonight
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........
A list of mirrors (which may need some time to propagate) is at:
http://www.fileaholic.com/
RCTW wasn't actually developed by ID Software. ID merely "produced" it. RCTW's multiplayer part was developed by Nerve Software and the singleplayer was developed by some other developer who was recently bought by Activision. Can't remember the name though.
The problems with your games running at a lower res and taking up a corner of the desktop is your XF86Config file. You need to define more (smaller) resolutions that it can switch to.
Also they clearly state in the installer (you know, that readme that you clicked through without reading) that wine can be used to extract the game from the cd. Sheesh.
... or anyone that is reasonably adept at first person shooters.
While the (full) game is gorgeous, as you will see if you download the demo, it seemed a bit "short" to me.
I completed the game on hard setting in 4 hours and 50 minutes play time. Sorry, but that's just not the kind of value I was expecting.
Replay value is IMHO low, since the sluggish handling (as opposed to, say, Counter-Strike) makes it hard to use your carefully honed FPS skills.
As an example, any long-time Counter-Striker will automatically aim for the head of the enemy. While headshots exist in RtCW, they are not easy to land and generally seem very random, although every shot will go exactly where you aim. Even Counter-Strike's very random firing pattern feels more precise.
The final boss I managed to kill on my second try. On hard setting. That was disappointing.
Overall, I'd rate the game B+ for eye candy, coolness and first-time wow factor. After 5 hours though, it drops off fast.
That's not even challenging. Don't you know that exp, sin and cos are just 3 faces of the same coin when you understand complex numbers?
e^(au) sin(bu)
= e^(au) * (e^(ibu) - e^(-ibu))/(2*i)
= (e^(au+ibu) - e^(au-ibu))/(2*i)
integrate w.r.t. u
= (e^(au+ibu)/(a+ib) - e^(au-ibu)/(a-ib))/(2*i) + C
= ((a-ib)*e^(au+ibu) - (a+ib)*e^(au-ibu))/(a^2+b^2)/(2*i) + C
= e^(au)/(a^2+b^2) * ((a-ib)*e^(ibu) - (a+ib)*e^(-ibu))/(2*i) + C
= e^(au)/(a^2+b^2) * [a*(e^(ibu)-e^(-ibu))/(2*i) - b*(e^(ibu) + e^(-ibu))/2] + C
= e^(au)/(a^2+b^2) * [(a*sin(bu) - b*cos(bu))] + C
Don't expect to become anything more than an engineer. And leave Malda alone.
This is a large reason the mac version didnt sell as well in my opinion. When I went to buy the game, the store had the Mac version, for 49.99 It had the pc version for 29.99. I bought the much cheaper pc version, went home, copied files from cd to my drive, and downloaded the mac binary. I greatly appreciate the fact they released a mac version, and I wish I could have supported it, but I'm no fool, and not was not going to pay 20 dollars more for a game that I would have ended up having to download the binary update for anyway.
This pricing/availability problem isnt the fault of id tho, if anything it is the retailers, and activision. Activision doesnt buy any shelf space for linux titles, and the retailers can sell the windows version cheaper because they sell a lot more of them (surprise surprise!) This results in greatly skewed results for OS sales for a few games, quake based games in particular it seems. id seems to realize this tho, which I suspect is why they keep releasing versions for other OSs and pushing licensees to do the same despite the 'horrible sales figures.'
Time for some tasty Shiner Bock!
ati provides driver docs instead, which is better. ATI's cards work out-of-box on linux, instead of needing new drivers from nVidia. they direct you to the sourceforge page, because they support the standard XFree86 DRI interface, which is maintained on sourceforge. But really, all you need is a recent enough version of XFree (4.1.0 for Radeon DDR, 4.1.99.x/released-as-4.2.0 really soon for 7500).
:-)
:-) Try that with nVidia's closed drivers.
Now, I'll have to admit in fairness that the 8500 isn't supported yet (for 3d). But my 7500 is kickin' ass and takin' names in linux, and (unlike nVidia's cards) actually runs 2d well too
I found a crash about 3 days back - now it's already fixed in X CVS, and I have a new build
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