Doom 3 Beta Patch to Address Config File Cheating

Jason Shoulders writes "There's a discussion at Quake3World about an upcoming change in the first Doom 3 patch. Specifically, Id Software's Robert Duffy has updated his .plan file and mentions making 'r_skipNewAmbient, r_skipSpecular, r_skipBump, and r_shadows cheat protected'. This will force players to use features such as bump mapping and shadows. What settings gray the line between tweaking and cheating?"

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Re:Doom3?

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

I commend you for responding to my asshole response without acting like an asshole yourself. That's seems to be a very rare occurence on Slashdot. I respect and salute you even if I don't 100% agree with you!

As a Windows gamer and a part-time Linux user, I can see both sides of this discussion, however the Windows gamer side of me says "If I had to wait 60 more days for Doom 3 to hit store shelves instead of being released on my birthday (it was, really!), then I'd be really pissed off".

I thought that having to wait for Linux binaries was a pretty standard thing - I didn't think it warranted the use of all caps and the F-bomb.

Would it have been great to have Windows and Linux servers available at the same time? Hell yeah, it would!

Would it have been hilarious if the Linux version came out BEFORE the Windows version? I would have needed stitches from my sides splitting from laughing so hard.

Is anybody going to really go postal because they were forced to wait 60 days for Linux binaries to be available. Doubtful.