DNF E3 Video Plans

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• The SWAT team with the alien tentacles bursting through them said enough for me. I am eagerly anticipat... : Wolfanoz
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  Where can I watch this old video? : joejoe55
  • ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/videos/dn4e398.mpg : astral

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• I can hardly play UT on my machine (GF2MX, Dur800, 320mb, W2K). I see no reason why you shouldn't be ... : firebone
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  I used to play UT on a PII 350 with a TNT and it ran pretty smooth when it came out. : vogel
  • I played it on a P2-450 with TNT2 and 128MB. It ran like buttah, 1024x768 and everything cranked up. : J4NUS
  • I had it on my P3 500, and the 338 demo ran okay. I had to use the OpenGL mode because I was running of... : the archvile
• have you tried the latest versions of UT? Both D3D and OGL run great on Nvidia cards now. : CharlieManson
• I can hardly play UT on my machine = occasionally dips below 100 fps oh how spoiled we have become :) : hunterkiller
• they ditched glide a long time ago. hehe shackers, and some other people on vextreme, were bashin... : h0rus
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  Nomad, >>Damn, I just hope they realise that Glide is dead and optimize for D3D Glide will be ... : GeorgeB3DR
  • alright, you got an account! I remember feeling a little let down when I heard that Q3 wouldn't have ... : the archvile
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  I wouldnt be suprised to see a new format for video within the next 5 years. Just a guess... then OpenG... : Wolfanoz
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    or the best of both will be melded into one; hopefully not by Microsoft. : the archvile
    • Anything but them... I'd like to see an independent company come up with the new format. That way, we c... : Wolfanoz
• What? I played UT on a machine far inferior to that one. Your system is whack. : seemlar

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  Target, >>Andy, can 3DRealms promise that there isn't going to be a launch like Black & White whe... : GeorgeB3DR
  • Wow...A company that stands behind their product *faints* : Wolfanoz
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    Well there goes my vacation... :) : Andy Hanson
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      Sleep when yer dead Code-Boy (tm) :) : GeorgeB3DR
      • Don't break him! He still has to fix the 'shack!!! ;-) : TargetBoy
    • when was your vacation planned andy? : Brandino
  • That is music to my virtual ears. Not that I really expected different, but the recent negative example... : TargetBoy

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  Thomas! : Kiwi Man
  • Thomas 1.2 or 2.3? : Brandino
  • hahha i liked that show : [sikander]
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  Modified Unreal I engine. I have low expections for this game. I don't expect to be blown away with this... : MarksmanX
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    why does the engine they're making it on matter anyway? from the old screenies, it's going to be mo... : pupismyname
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      It does matter to some. You can't fully enjoy a brandnew game on a dated engine which was/is plagued wit... : MarksmanX
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        q1's netcode sucked, too. but half-life's netcode is pretty damn swanky. have a little faith in th... : pupismyname
        • yeah, but id didn't really expect a lot of dial-up users to even try online games; they assumed that the... : the archvile
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          Quake I netcode rocked for me! No Unreal I didn't kill my parents or my friends. But I view the whole en... : MarksmanX
          • it's a good thing then that DNF is not using the Unreal 1 engine. : astral
        • q1 netcode sucked.. qw was the best : [sikander]
      • http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=1239464 : astral
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    they switched to the UT engine ~ a year ago. those year old screenshots look better than anything els... : astral
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      They're screenshots! You can't judge a book by it's cover! We haven't seen the video of the game in acti... : MarksmanX
      • well you said before that they should have stayed with the quake2 engine, and since you're raving about ... : astral
      • What's worse; judging a book by its cover or dismissing it because it has no cover? : [Oberon]
• If no one has done this yet, here is a direct link to the official Duke4ever FAQ regarding which gam... : [Oberon]

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  George can correct me here but they were probably around halfway through when they scrapped it to use a ... : Wolfanoz
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    No. We were only 4 months into the game. We started with Quake 2 in Jan 1998 (after Xmas). Worked... : GeorgeB3DR
    • Ok... My bad.... It looked halfway done anyway! ;-) : Wolfanoz
  • I think the upcoming Unreal engine games will finally start to dissolve Unreal's two remaining taboos (p... : the archvile

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  just because it was a long time in development doesn't mean it's going to be flawless. Remember Daikata... : the archvile
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    nothing about it was really a good move, but that's beside the point. DNF will surely be different : El Guapo
    • yeah, I think this video will be the start of DNF's upward trend until its release. : the archvile
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    I don't recall needing any patches for Duke 3D or Shadow Warrior. I know that was a completely differen... : dognose
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      blood was greatness! i never had any problems with it, what are you referring to? : El Guapo
      • Oh agreed it was a wonderful game, one of the 10 best ever made probably. But I recall it being buggy a... : dognose
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  You cant compare the steam off the crap that is Daikraptana to DNF. These are very two different animal... : Wolfanoz
  • probably 2 differnt animals... : ease_one

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  nope. unless some developer like Loki wants to port it. but there are no plans. : Maarten Goldstein
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    shouldn't be too hard; Loki already did the UT port; all they'd have to do is wait for approval and help... : the archvile
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      #20 - They've made heavy, heavy modifications to the UT engine, and frankly I doubt 3DR will have any int... : Carnivac
      • http://www.linuxgames.com/news/index.php3/3794 : Crusader
    • I heard their Unreal engine guy left ;) : vogel

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• It's a rumour. : firebone
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  the video is getting put out to a handfull of sites aheadof time in a password potected ZIP. They are re... : Cygnus X-1
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    Wouldn't that be very easy to crack? I would think so atleast. / [V] : {Venger}
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      depends how long they made the password. : the archvile
      • Yup.. If it was like 5 characters they it'll be cracked like that But if it's like 15+.. Ouch : j3uk.
    • regardlessof the Duke video I find cracking passwords interesting as far as programs that are designed t... : Cygnus X-1
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      The password is of sufficient length. Besides, it's not like the general public will have access to... : Joe Siegler
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        Maarten may trade it for a bong though :) : Degenerate
        • or a big, crystalized bud. : kadafi
      • And if they do it once, they'll find themselves blacklisted for that kind of treatment in the future fro... : J4NUS

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  Instead of the previous plan of releasing the video after 3DR gets back in Texas, the video will now be ... : j3uk.
  • doh! Sorry. I was just excited the video was coming out sooner. :) : Degenerate

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• it's actually Zimbabwese and means "I own you bitches"..honest! : FunkyBass

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  ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/videos/dn4e398.mpg : seemlar
  • downloading it now =) : aggressor
  • dammit thy should have released that as duke4 and released ths new unreal version as duke5. it makes ... : ath1337
• hahaha way to go ms : scarefro
• please go to werd for your SP2 question. That's really offtopic. : Maarten Goldstein

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  what incentive is there for people of a higher rank to grant the challenge of someone of a lower rank? : Torias
  • you need to remain active or you get booted. and to increase your win/lose record. man, did you kids... : frostythehitman