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Cantercoin said:
Somewhat Doom related as the Quake remaster has all 3 expansions, 1 new expansion called dimension of the machine, mod support, the NiN soundtrack is back and cross play is Available. If you already owned the original Quake on steam you get the remaster for free.
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The prevailing buzz is that we're also going to get a reveal for a new Quake with a female protagonist and a solid release date for horde mode. Don't care about the former but I really hope the latter pans out.
 
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There wasn't much they had to say in their update besides some minor things. The next 2 Master Levels will be the world spear and Mars Complex in that order. Hugo wanted to reveal at least 1 more ML but Marty shot it down. They talked a little bit on how horde mode will work. There will be some more incentives to get people to play Battle mode and disincentivize people from dipping out after 1 match. They closed out their portion with a small highlight video from fans
 
Cantercoin said:
Somewhat Doom related as the Quake remaster has all 3 expansions, 1 new expansion called dimension of the machine, mod support, the NiN soundtrack is back and cross play is Available. If you already owned the original Quake on steam you get the remaster for free.
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I don't own the game on Steam, but from what I can tell from the Steam discussions and other forums is that this shit has major issues that the popular source ports just don't have, like input lag and unfaithful physics (shit that is downright required for Quake). This is, mind you, despite only running on Vulkan (and thus requiring much more recent cards, at least on the Nvidia side of things). Pretty disappointing they didn't just use an existing source port or something. Oh, and it requires a Bethesda.net account for fucking multiplayer lmao.
 
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ks99 said:
I don't own the game on Steam, but from what I can tell from the Steam discussions and other forums is that this shit has major issues that the popular source ports just don't have, like input lag and unfaithful physics (shit that is downright required for Quake). This is, mind you, despite only running on Vulkan (and thus requiring much more recent cards, at least on the Nvidia side of things). Pretty disappointing they didn't just use an existing source port or something. Oh, and it requires a Bethesda.net account for fucking multiplayer lmao.
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It'll get patched.
 
ks99 said:
I don't own the game on Steam, but from what I can tell from the Steam discussions and other forums is that this shit has major issues that the popular source ports just don't have, like input lag and unfaithful physics (shit that is downright required for Quake). This is, mind you, despite only running on Vulkan (and thus requiring much more recent cards, at least on the Nvidia side of things). Pretty disappointing they didn't just use an existing source port or something. Oh, and it requires a Bethesda.net account for fucking multiplayer lmao.
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The reason Id can't use source-ports for their re-releases has to do with GPL licensing being incompatible with Steam integration and console SDKs, so they are pretty much forced to do their own ports.

As for the inconsistencies, it's more of a case of the game running on the Kex engine instead of the regular Quake engine, mainly to have proper multicore support, which is necesary on consoles.

You can run it on DX11 using "+r_rhirenderfamily d3d11" as a launch command on Steam.

The new maps are good at least.
 
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Mr. Duck said:
The reason Id can't use source-ports for their re-releases has to do with GPL licensing being incompatible with Steam integration and console SDKs, so they are pretty much forced to do their own ports.

As for the inconsistencies, it's more of a case of the game running on the Kex engine instead of the regular Quake engine, mainly to have proper multicore support, which is necesary on consoles.

You can run it on DX11 using "+r_rhirenderfamily d3d11" as a launch command on Steam.

The new maps are good at least.
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Funny that they're still pushing Vulkan because the creator of the Kex engine openly complained about Vulkan when Night Dive did the Turok 2 remake.

Does ID/Bethesda/Microsoft have some kind of stipulation where they HAVE to use Vulkan?
 
BrunoMattei said:
Funny that they're still pushing Vulkan because the creator of the Kex engine openly complained about Vulkan when Night Dive did the Turok 2 remake.

Does ID/Bethesda/Microsoft have some kind of stipulation where they HAVE to use Vulkan?
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ID is notorious for not liking DirectX, as Carmack pushed for OpenGL instead when Quake came out, and they keep that desition to this day by using Vulkan.

The DX11 render must be a leftover from previous Nightdive remasters.
 
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Mr. Duck said:
ID is notorious for not liking DirectX, as Carmack pushed for OpenGL instead when Quake came out, and they keep that desition to this day by using Vulkan.

The DX11 render must be a leftover from previous Nightdive remasters.
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I tried that DX11 command line option and didn't fix the performance issues for me.
 
Mr. Duck said:
The reason Id can't use source-ports for their re-releases has to do with GPL licensing being incompatible with Steam integration and console SDKs, so they are pretty much forced to do their own ports.

As for the inconsistencies, it's more of a case of the game running on the Kex engine instead of the regular Quake engine, mainly to have proper multicore support, which is necesary on consoles.

You can run it on DX11 using "+r_rhirenderfamily d3d11" as a launch command on Steam.

The new maps are good at least.
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My comment about Vulkan was poking fun at the fact that this port currently has input lag, despite using an API renowned for it's low-level hardware access that allows very low latency compared to other APIs. I have no idea how they managed that. Also, from what I understand they straight up hired the guy behind Doom 64 EX to work on the official version for PC. I was figuring that they would have done something like that at the very least; get the people who know the game inside and out to work on it instead of making a half-assed version.
 
Quake feels like a completely different game with the new textures and models. Not sure if that's a good thing. I remember everything looking bigger and weirder in the original. They also looked much more visceral.

At least motion blur was off by default.
 
I'm replaying Quake for what might be the first time this millennium, and it still holds up really well. Great movement, enemies that require notable different tactics and an oppressive atmosphere helped in no small part by the soundtrack. As a kid I remember being a bit disappointed because I wanted more Doom, but now I can better appreciate the Eldritch themes of it all. Only real complains are a lack of graphical variety in the levels, meaning they do tend to blend together, and perhaps a few too many Ogres.
 
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Apparently some fresh drama is brewing over the Doom Eternal soundtrack.

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Have to wonder if Mick Gordon is conveniently omitting some important detail here.
 
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Dudes the first marauder fight wasn't bad but the second one is kicking my pure white aryan ass
 
Fuscateob said:
Dudes the first marauder fight wasn't bad but the second one is kicking my pure white aryan ass
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Try the ballista + super shotgun quick swap combo. I think the problem with the AI is that you have to judge correctly how far away from him you have to be to activate his green-eye vulnerability phase.
 
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North America said:
Try the ballista + super shotgun quick swap combo. I think the problem with the AI is that you have to judge correctly how far away from him you have to be to activate his green-eye vulnerability phase.
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My big issue is that I keep MH+SSGing the caco that spawns with him
 
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