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Q3 Release Date Stuff
by Steve Gibson, Nov 10, 1999 2:31pm PSTOk guys, I've been getting a lot of emails from different people about Quake3 release dates that they have seen in different advertisements etc. Just to be clear, there IS NO RELEASE DATE as of right now. Obviously id and Activision are expecting to release Quake3 some time before Christmas, but that is it. Yes, they were handing out coupons with "redeem by this date" written on them but those are only coupons. Contrary to what you may have read in the latest magazine, or seen at your local software store there is no set in stone release date for Quake3. Nobody knows when Quake3 will come out for sure, it all depends on how quickly bugs are dug up and squashed and gameplay is finalized. So, that's it. If and when there is a release date announced by id or Activision you will see it here. Until then, just ignore the local kid at EB saying he knows when it is coming out. Because he doesnt know.
Comments
11/11/99
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* teamplay menu comment
* shrank and moved \"RECORDING demo:\" text
* identified and worked around Apple input queue issue
* properly send configstring resets on map_restart
* don\'t clip sound buffer on file writes
* don\'t draw scoreboard during warmup
* auto load added bots in single player
* swapped order of map_restart and warmup configstring
* disable dynamic lights on riva128 due to lack of blend mode
* put frags left warning back in all gametypes
* removed joystick button debug prints
:)
-TomServo-
Why is Unreal Tourney going to get trounced by this game?
Memo to the UT/Epic staff... Your 15 minutes are almost up.
...but thank you for playing. Y\'all come back now, y\'hear?
Blitz
I have one thing to say.....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
thats fuckin\' hilarious
-TomServo-
The code and tools probably wont be released until it ships.
If you just wanna do Q3a mods, then yeah technically you could make do with just notepad, as the compiler will be released with the tools.
Im really not familiar with Delphi, but yeah you should be able to use that to write dlls. Though it might be a lot of work porting the existing game code to Delphi, so you can start on modifying it.
I\'d really recommend MSVC 6.0, its got an excellent interface, excellent documentation, its basically the industry standard, and you should be able to get it cheap at eBay.
the next test? But now, since the next test will be the demo, does this mean it
will show with the demo?
I want to get started on coding up MODs and getting familiar with the code structure.
Also, what would people recommend? If this is gonna be like Q1\'s interpreted C, should
I just use my text editor or get a shareware? Or, since I can write DLL\'s too, can I use
Delphi as well?
Lemme know... thanks!
deathknight@bizserve.com
I concur completely.
but the whole point of the bot single player aspect of the game is to get people into
what gives all Quake games longevity and that is multiplayer.
Id is guaranteed very good profits buy name alone. And when the people that never
bothered to figure out how to get online find that it is so easy with the ingame brower
there is no doubt in my mind that Q3 will sell as well if not better than the 2 before it.
All id is doing is exploiting the strongest point of their games that a lot of the \"fresh\"
buyers never bothered to try out.
I mean read all the things that #53 wrote. All his points are all driven by one primary
motive. Money. Thats just the way businesses work.
PLLLEEEEAAAASSEEEE RELEASE 3 LET IT GO......
IIIII CANT STAND IT ..... <HIGH NOTE> ...AAAANYMORE!!
PLEASE RELEASE 3 LET ME GO <LOW NOTE>.....DOWN DOWN TO THE LOCAL SOFTWARE STORE.
<CHORUS>...REPEAT
Just restating the obvious.
for me to poop on!
And for the people who don\'t like the variable release date id has, stop whining about them not releasing it yet... it\'s getting damn boring to load up the messageboard and see \"My uncle\'s 3rd cousin\'s sister\'s hair dresser\'s pizza delivery boy who has also delivered at idsoftware said that q3 would be out on november 15 at 3:42 AM.\" You guys are good to poop on too, you know?
and does anyone really care that much about patches ? i think that no matter how long they spend looking for bugs it\'ll have at least one patch. so just release it now and patch it later. as long as it\'s playable it\'s good enough for me (:
well, i think that if it was ALL about money then id wouldnt release a multiplayer only game. single player games sell more, so id is losing money by going mp only. most of the money they get from q3 won\'t be from the game itself anyway, it\'ll be from engine licensing
Now, my question is, what\'s the music like? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Steve?
P.S. The Q3 cinematics are done, I believe...
I think before Christmas is a good date, simply because of recent statements that most everything is done (bots, engine) and it\'s simply a matter of polishing things up to release a quality game. I\'d look for, at the earliest, Thanksgiving, but no later than Christmas.