ToddH on Q3A

I can\'t believe that Todd would try to pass off the bots as perfect. What a load of PR crap. Shame.

Since when do people stop to chat in a fight, and they love to jump to their deaths consistantly in the same spot.....yet they never ever miss a shot. The bots are OK.

I would like to see a level pack with the next patch, but this is isn\'t really a bug...it\'s just something that I think would good of them to do.

What I do consider a bug is that my mouse wheel doesn\'t work! WTF. After months and months of testing a mousewheel doesn\'t work. ouch.

Well,
It seems that I had my network settings set wrong. I had it set on 56k, as I have a 56k modem.
But I didnt know that there is a setting for 33k AND 28k. Once I set it to 33k, Q3 ran very smooth.
Silly me! heh

Sorry \'bout bashin ya id.

Gareth

No offense Apache, but your review as problems.

One minute you\'re pining over the style of Q2, then you make a comment that you didn\'t like Q2 overall?

The velocity of the rockets is somewhat lacking, and the damage created isnÂ’t that great, but it splashes a lot, and is easy to hit people with. Still--I enjoyed the version in Quake II more than this newer one

Hmm... the rocket velocity and power is lacking, but you liked the even slower Q2 one more??

Oh, and \"the nail gun from Q2 returns (though I prefer the Q2 version)\"?

Uh huh. I think the word you were after was \"rail gun\"

#41

Hah, you think that URL forwarded to someone will solve anything?

Within five minutes, I just found six mirrors of the warez verion of Q3, three mirrors of the sound add on and two mirrors of the movies add on.

Thats in five minutes

l33t ass www based warez sites like that one are just the tip of the iceberg as far as warez goes.

Llama sauce.... wooot

\"This is the president. The use of tactic nuclear weapons has been authorised.\"

#36 - amen!

};^)»

Todd sounds like an arrogant, ignorant fool in that frosting covered interview. Please Todd, we like the game, but don\'t talk to us like we\'re retards or something...just fix all the little shit that should have been fixed if you weren\'t looking for some Christmas bank!

I\'m just dying for someone to ask Todd if Q3 was rushed out for Christmas.

I\'m sure he\'d provide a wonderful answer.

I think Todd is being a bit dodgy. It\'s one thing to say that the bots are \"magnificant\", but he seems to be denying (or avoiding the issue) of the bots needing improvement.

THEY DO.

#27, yup.. holding on barely. had to yank a couple of features for about an hour today but the optimizations made here seem to be really holding up.

Awww poor little crackers a little frustrated?? he he
Isn\'t it funny that when crackers can\'t get what they want they cry foul and change the topic to \"is (xxx) Company going to start Watching us now? Please go back to cracking photoshop or something, your complaints are meaningless.

#24, He\'s talking about cracked servers that don\'t talk to authorize.idsoftware.com and thus allow retail and warez\'d clients to join.
Here\'s some tcpdump connection flow info that will clear things up.

0) client registers its plaintext key with auth on port 27952 (dont think about it. this is a fake key)

....getKeyAuthor ff ff ff ff 67 65 74 4b 65 79 41 75 74 68 6f 72
ize 999 58jhd729 69 7a 65 20 39 39 39 20 35 38 6a 68 64 37 32 39
4728a9df 34 37 32 38 61 39 64 66

1) client asks to connect to server

....getchallenge ff ff ff ff 67 65 74 63 68 61 6c 6c 65 6e 67 65

2) server asks auth (port 27952) if this client is authorized.

....getIpAuthori ff ff ff ff 67 65 74 49 70 41 75 74 68 6f 72 69
ze 982960029 24. 7a 65 20 39 38 32 39 36 30 30 32 39 20 32 34 2e
129.26.67 31 32 39 2e 32 36 2e 36 37

(a hacked server won\'t contact auth, or will contact a localhost fake)

3) auth responds to server with accept or deny

....ipAuthorize ff ff ff ff 69 70 41 75 74 68 6f 72 69 7a 65 20
982960029 accept 39 38 32 39 36 30 30 32 39 20 61 63 63 65 70 74

4) if accepted server lets the client know

....challengeRes ff ff ff ff 63 68 61 6c 6c 65 6e 67 65 52 65 73
ponse 982960029 70 6f 6e 73 65 20 39 38 32 39 36 30 30 32 39

(a hacked server will always respond allowing a connection)

5) client can now connect and start frag\'n

Yes, I bought the game.

Rather, they linked to this:

http://www.3dshack.com/docs/press/1206993dfx_glide.x

Hey, the shack is holding up under /.

/. linked this page: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/06/1531250&mode=thread

Now Steve, if you could just arrange to be /.\'ed a few times a week, and your server can handle it, then you could make quite a killing on the ad. revenue.

No dumbass- cracked executables are those that break the security features on the pak files and the like. Executable changes that alter gameplay aren\'t \"cracked\"- they\'re legitimately recompiled.

This is one stoooooooooopid assed interview. And I thought Bill Clinton was good at waffling around issues. Holy shit. Todd\'s a master!