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First Doom3 Tourney @ QuakeCon
Rogerpq3 writes "The battleground is set - it's confirmed that the 9th annual QuakeCon 2004 video game festival and tournament at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas on August 12-15 will host the first DOOM 3 deathmatch championship ever. Be there to game, hang out with 5,000 of your closest friends, and compete for $150,000 in cash and prizes in the NVIDIA QuakeCon 2004 Championship Tournaments. Online registration for QuakeCon 2004 has begun at www.quakecon.org, and the event is free to all attendees."
so does this tie in with the Doom3 release date, or what? Will these ppl have played D3 deathmatch before then, or will it be sprung upon them there?
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If I were there, I just know I'd be the really embarrassed guy who gets knocked out first...
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Now id has quite an incentive to not push back the release date.
Be there to game, hang out with 5,000 of your closest friends, and compete for $150,000 in cash and prizes in the NVIDIA QuakeCon 2004 Championship Tournaments.
Provided you have a computer that can Doom 3.
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id.com is not the website for iD Software. idsoftware.com is.
I thought Doom3 didn't have multiplayer? (Score:2, Informative)
How is an incorrect thought informative? Doom 3 has multiplayer. This has been known for almost a year now.
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coop!=multiplayer..
iirc multiplayer was in it all along, but xbox version being the only one with coop(id, if you hear this: we don't want another 'fuck you' from a games company making the xbox version only one with coop)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It has multiplayer deathmatch with, I believe, up to a whopping 4 players.
Only the XBox version has cooperative mode, unfortunately.
Oh, and going to id.com won't help you much. idsoftware.com, on the other hand, is probably what you're looking for.
You obviously have never been to a Gaylord hotel if you insist on making fun of the name. Their hotels are some of the largest and niceset on the planet. www.gaylordhotels.com
...than the Duke Nukem: Foreverathon being held August 32nd in Nigeria.
Cool, thanks for the correction.
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No, it's a P2P multiplayer system, and last I read it scaled up to 16 or so.. Higher if ping times/bandwidth allow (ie; on a LAN)
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When did deathmatch come to mean tons of people?
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What!? Arey they promoting Doom3 multiplayer capabilities? Wasn't Doom3 supposed to be a single-player focused game?
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Um. Doesn't it?
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did you just skip over the entire blurb(the article you did skip at least of course)?
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"We're having a DOOM 3 party this year, and want to offer our fans the first opportunity to compete in a DOOM 3 tournament," Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software said. "NVIDIA is putting up the largest QuakeCon prize package ever, and topping it off with DOOM 3 prizes that will have the competitors' adrenaline rushing."
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and you defintely weren't funny even.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The original doom was a 4 player deathmatch. Maybe they just wanted to keep it true to the original DM playstyle.
You mean that I'm the only one here that lives in their parents' basement and is allergic to socializing??
I've been lied to for years!
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Actually that sounds like the average Slashdot article write-up
IIRC, the leaked beta does/did not have multiplayer.
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That crap pisses me off, too. The vast majority of Texans are nothing like what people expect. In fact, Texas seems depressingly like neighboring states sometimes. Our rural people are just like rural people throughout the south and midwest, and our city-dwellers and suburbanites would be indistinguishable from people from similar environments in other states. I'm going ot California in a week, and if I get asked one more time where my horse is, I have a long list of You-elected-Arnold-Schwartzenegger-Governor quips to fire back with.
Does it annoy you that Bush is labeled a Texan, when he is a well-documented Connecticut-born yankee carpetbagger?
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Practice what?
It's the same as any other FPS with snazzier graphics. Practicing against ID's braindead AI bots isn't going to help you against real humans.
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Yes, and JR's ranch is nearby as well. idiot...
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The last time I wore a cowboy hat and boots was in OKLAHOMA when I was in boy scouts.
Actually, if you want a clear vision of what grapevine looks like...
Imagine... A giant, garish discount mall, DFW airport, multitudes of ugly car dealerships and chain restaurants, a VERY dirty Cinemark theater, oh, and Gamestop.com's shipping warehouse...
And no, if you stay at the Gaylord, you won't get your copy of Doom3 any faster... Gamestop's warehouse does NOT accept visitors.
But, you can visit Southfork Ranch, as seen on Dallas. It's in lovely dirt field filled Parker, TX. Just exit I-75 at Parker Rd. in Plano and head east. It's about 20 minutes off the highway. In the middle of nothing. Enjoy.
I'd like to know where Texas of all states picked up this stupid ass connotation of cowboys. You're just as rarely and as likely to see someone matching this description in NM, NV, UT or CO than TX.
But if you truly want me to break tradition, I'll be the one waiting outside of DFW airport for you in a soccer jersey and a cricket bat.
If you win the competition and the $150,000.00 you could then buy a computer for yourself that will be able to run Doom 3, and you would still have just enough money left over to order yourself the game.
Online registration for QuakeCon 2004 has begun at www.quakecon.org, and the event is free to all attendees.
No, no. Online registration began back on April 14th, 2004. It was full in about a day.
However, there is a waiting list. When you get there there will be two huge lines snaking around the walls. The smaller line is for those who've pre-registered, while the other snakes around entire second floor of the place, each player hoping for a spot in the grand ballroom.
For those who haven't registered and wish to attend, be sure to get there EARLY. And I mean 5AM or earlier if you wish to get in.
Good thing I got registered 30 minutes after it began...
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I think you meant to say, "Austin is the left-wing radical turd floating in the refreshing conservative pool that is Texas."
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Duke Nuk'em rules! One of the greats of its time. Oh and I'm disapointed that I never get any email scams like that I mean am I just not that important?! Ehh my bank account usually has a max of $10 in it anyways I don't think I've ever gotten it to $1000
looks like there is about 1600 people on the waiting list.
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Let's hold a huge convention featuring cash prize tournaments based on a piece of software that is testing new video card technology, has taken years to design and build, is probably going to be so massive that we'll need to ship it on DVDs, and won't even have been on the shelves for two weeks.
And just to make sure all of our eggs in one basket, let's drop support for any of the team-based competition games set in WWII even if they do seem to be kind of popular right now.
Awesome.
Hats off to iD's Doom3 QA team... ya'll must really have your stuff together to make them feel comfortable enough to do something like this.
egad- can you imagine how that hotel is going to smell? and has Mountain Dew been piped in or are they using communal vats? carl
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My mom's fiancee got a hand written letter with one of those scams. Now how cool is that. He actually asked me about it and I started to laugh :) He has never heard of these scams until then.
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You know how idSoftware is. They like to surprise the world. Maybe they just meant that it won't have online multiplayer but has the ability to LAN? That's what the other Dooms have anyhow.
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No. Did you even read the press release? They said this will be the first time anyone has had the chance to play Doom 3. And that crappy beta leak doesn't count. If it came out a few weeks before Quake Con, don't you think that a lot of people would be playing it before the tournament?
Doom 3's release date is still the same. It'll come out when it's finally finished. That's how idSoftware was with everything else and that's how they will always be. There are actually rumors saying it will come out in August, but no one at id has confirmed it... so we'll never know.
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This is going to be a great way for NVidia to show off their latest video card playing Doom3. But what would be better is if they have some footage of Doom3 being played on a Linux machine with an NVidia card.
(I recall Doom3 is going to be released natively for Linux, although without official support?)
Maybe it would help push ATI to develop better Linux drivers!
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Yeah, don't move here, but do come to the Texas Gaming Festival here July 23rd-25th for a CPL and Quakecon warmpup. Then you can go to Dallas for TXGF where they will have Doom 3 deathmatch August 7th-8th just before Quakecon.
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Man, this is just like the movie the wizard. Remember? Fred Savage's autistic younger brother was like the first person ever to play Super Mario Bros. 3? And he had to play it to win the competition. Nice.
What a great marketing ploy, I couldn't wait to get that game after that uh, cool, movie.
I'm shameless, I know. I'll even admit that I had a crush on that girl at the time. Which isn't as creepy as it sounds, I was like 13 or so.
Wow! That sounds a lot like that "sex" thing I've been hearing about. Unfortunately, most gamers keep saying that the release date for "sex" keeps getting pushed back.
I guess I should have put tags in my post. I know when it happened chronologically, I was just commenting that having huge DM games aren't necessarily fun, yet the industry is stuck on more people.
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No...DID YOU READ the press release? Read these below.
"We're having a DOOM 3 party this year, and want to offer our fans the first opportunity to compete in a DOOM 3 tournament," Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software said
First Doom 3 Tournament
Yes, you read that correctly. DOOM 3 Deathmatch is coming to QuakeCon 2004, and there has never been a more level playing field. With DOOM 3 launching this summer, there won't be anyone who has had time to practice or master the game,
Look at the phrasing again. "Who has had time", which could mean that when it comes out there maybe only a week time for anyone to play it and thats not enough to master multiplaying.
However....you MAY be correct if you trust NVIDIA over ID Software.
"For gamers, QuakeCon is the most exciting happening of the year, and this year it marks the arrival of DOOM 3 - which is one event we wouldn't miss!" said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing for NVIDIA
What does it all mean? It means that Doom 3 will be out by the start of QuakeCon or shortly(week or two) before QuakeCon.
I think you deserve to be modded up more but now people won't see you cause I've been modded down :(
What type of security do you think they will have here? I am sure they do not want this leaked, but with 5000 people to watch over, someone getting a copy seems possiable... How hard would it be to do one of the following,
Steal a hard disk with quake 3 installed (one of the player pc's)
Find a install cd someplace (breaking into rooms, garbage)
hooking up a usb/firewire device to the system and copy it over.
copy from pc to internet.
I would enjoy being there just to test to see how well they would be handling these security issues, but I dont think I need to go to jail just yet.
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And if somebody has tested it, are they barred from the tournament? I would hate to play deathmatch tournament against the programmers and the in-house game testers when I haven't ever played the game myself. That would not be a fair game. Knowledge of weapons properties, familiarity with the map, and general game play familiarity are all important factors.
I have seen map familiarity become an overwhelming factor in capture-the-flag battles between opposing clans. When the second set of counter-strike maps were released, [USC] (or was it [UCLA]?) practiced on them before inviting [CIT] to play on their server. [CIT] got wasted for a couple hours before they adapted. Then [CIT] creamed them as usual. (Yes, these 'clans' are universities.)
Mathematics is not a crime.
Even if it came out a week before, people will still have plenty of time to play it nonstop -- you know how hardcore gamers are nowadays. It'd make no sense at all. I believe that, possibly, it'll come out a few weeks after QuakeCon... or hell, it may even come out the same day. That'd make some sense... people could buy it from QuakeCon, install it, and run it. Then people who didn't get to attend would be able to play it also.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
you know how hardcore gamers are nowadays.
Yeah I know them, I used to be one. My response is they wont be at QuakeCon because if they're devoting that much time to playing the game to master it, it means they dont have jobs and cant afford the plane ticket, much less the hotel, and etc.
Lets use your original post concept. The people that said about no one having a chance to master it are the QuakeCon people, not ID Software. I believe it will be the first doom 3 tournament, but the release of Doom 3 can be a week or two before QuakeCon or (what I really think) the day QuakeCon starts. Infact the QuakeCon people may think Doom 3 isnt coming out till after the event because Doom 3 hasnt gone gold yet. However, there is still plenty of time for it to go gold and also ship on August 3rd.
Also the first time someone played Doom 3, excluding the crappy beta leak (which you mentioned), was at QuakeCon 2003. Granted it wasnt a tournament.
so fucking what? the end product is the same: xbox version gets coop but the pc version doesn't.
should I as a consumer care about the politics or realities behind why that happens? ID has it's hands on the pc version, it's not like it would be impossible for them to add it right away.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I was referring to Halo.
the thing that made it's xbox version actually fun was the coop.. so when it finally shipped for pc it majorly sucked that it wasn't included, made all the waiting kinda worthless.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I don't believe the QuakeCon page. If they're my friends then what are their slashdot ids?
you're socializing... probably with most of the people who will show up
what does irony taste like?
and now for a little OT question, why can't these tournaments be run remotely so those of us without time or money to travel there can play, how about home vs away (lan/public) matches? i know that people don't trust anyone in the day of OGC but still there needs to be a middle ground
So? the xbox version doesnt have modding abilities, meaning you will be able to play doom3 and then all mods made for it for free, while xbox is going to be stuck with the same game.
Besides, co-op will be added later in a mod. like you didnt knew.
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Never read that Co-op would be excluded from the PC version : any evidence to confirm that statement ?
Apparently you have never been to Quakecon. We don't drink that wussy mountain dew. It's all about the Bawls.
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it's more of a finger chemistry thing instead of brain chemistry, IMHO.
btw, I dont mean to make this one flamebait, just after so many years of playing FPS, tired of the simple DM mode, including team DM and those last man standing stuff.
vehicle/turret manipulation and team work (flag, ball game, onslaught) create a lot more gameplay than simplying DM
but I have to admit some time it's still 1 vs 1 in many of those new game types. it's still very different to die so that others can get to one powernode to gain the ground, than simply increase frag by 1
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More can be less in DM, actually, unless the map is large enough to support huge numbers. Most maps aren't. So that means there isn't enough ammo or armor, spamming and camping predominate, and the whole thing becomes the frag equivalent of a circle jerk.
If Doom 3 uses shadows effectively, we could be seeing an evolution in DM.
That may be true, but for people who appreciate technically superior rendering, there is nothing near to Doom 3 yet. Prettier, yes, but not better.
Insofar gameplay, yes, Farcry is awesome. But I still like the 'feel' of Quake 3 above much newer games. Somehow Id's games have laways felt 'solid' When you are in the game it feels as if the walls are more solid (barring level design mistakes). In all the other games (Farcry included to a lesser degree) it feels as if I'm walking on a paper-thing polygon and walls (and other objects) are made of stretched plastic film.
I'll reserve judgement until I play the final release.
Practice the physics perhaps? For me freestyling helped in Quake 3... granted the Q3A bots are braindead, but when I stared playing Q3A they were challenging. -shrug- At least they help you improve your aim... (a bit)
(Last night I got my highest average rail accuracy againt a real (but weaker) opponent... 48% -grin-)
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