The Lost Quake3 Maps

yes this thing could effect performans but we should be able to decide just likewe choose the video settings.(and i\'m getting a big performance increase with cg_draw2d 0 but id does let me specifie my own settings) You can turn off the reflective surfaces in unreal and this lets me have\'em on and taste the beauty . They could put the old plasma in pak0.pk3 in a directory plasma2 and let us swicht on that on by another cvar or something like the selection of color by the menu (same thing for the railtrail).But i like the way they made q3 and also think that q3 looks great
but people with poor connections or players who like singleplay modes, also lan players and the ones with faster connections will want to have better effects and i think they should be able to choose. Id should\'nt be the one to decide otherwise this game wont last much on our tables ,even 3 months later we\'ll all have faster computers that will support a lot more things and i\'d like to be able to enable more things to keep q3 my favorite and the best looking one.I hope there will be a patch soon to fix the bugs in the game and wish it includes that old maps and weapons to let us choose what we want (with maybe a force weapons option which could be good to beware of performance decrease because of other people\'s chooses)

For god\'s sake people, if nothing else, you have to respect id\'s insights into what a good trade-off is between performance and and visuals. I think they managed to get a great balence, personally, i just they\'d had more variety in colors and map styles. It\'ll come. Mirrors are a HUGE hit on performance. And really- how useful are they for gameplay? I\'d like to see more fog though- it looks fab, and doesn\'t seem to hurt my performance any.

hope it wont take one year

\"its not hard to understand that any other singleplay game made with it may provide a better looking game with cool effects and more detailled good looking environnements\" Try running half-life on a PC that runs Quake 1.....MUCH SLOWER. A game that comes out in one year using the Quake 3 engine will have an average of 150 more MHz and a video card 2x faster.

i\'ve waited long enough to walk in that sewer tunnels and all the reasons i wanted to bye the game for seem to be gone due to the gameplay. I cannot understand why id doesnt make maps that look as cool as games made by other companies with quake engines. Why is there only so few mirrors or reflective surfaces in the maps(1 ?). could\'nt id just put that things in most of the areas and add a cvar to turn it off for people with slower machines. In the case of particules , i like the old avis on tim portal with the old version of the plasma , the effects look good know but is nothing compared to the old ones. I\'d like to be able to download this maps i\'ve been waiting for and have the right to see if i want to play in them or not.
As id cant offer what q3 engine lets them offer its not hard to understand that any other singleplay game made with it may provide a better looking game with cool effects and more detailled good looking environnements

The official word from id, Thanks for your time Paul, and congratulations on Q3.

#118, I also think the one in the video was so incredibly spiffy. I was looking forward to seeing that map when I was opening my q3 box. id didn\'t seem to include very many of the blue/gray style maps -- they just retextured them.

Also, that particular teleporter is cooler than anything in the game, and the particle teleport effect is better, too.

or doom2k whatever bullshit may lay ahead. I love quake3, i\'m just dissapointed in some of the games features/ or lack there of.

i can\'t wait till\' quake4.

Tim Willits Dec 9 .plan
\"Many people want to know which level designer designed
which map. This is not exactly an easy question to
answer. Unlike previous id games the designers are not
separate individuals working on \"their\" maps without
cooperation from anyone else. In order for a company to
create truly great maps all the designers must learn to
work together. The team of designers we have now is
by far the best team originated group that has ever
worked at id. There are no maps in Quake3 that were
developed by only one person. Some maps were touched by
as many as four different people. Expect this design
trend to continue and look forward to id creating some
of the best maps around.\"

/me say, \"uh, please don\'t.\"

Q3DM14 \"Grim Dungeons\"
how it looked then, from the Pentium III Preview (14.5mb)
http://205.229.73.2/files/q3a/movies/q3a-mov.shtml

/too many chefs working on the same pie?

Good call #116. We want some Carmack player model! Heh.

...and we also lost flares =(

Here\'s the screenshot that really got my juices flowing. If this map was finished, I hope id releases it eventually.

http://www.quake3.nu/images/newset1.jpg

#110, Yes, that was the railgun. I didn\'t realize that until I saw a screenshot on some webpage (I can\'t remember it right now) that was an \"unzoomed version.\" What I used to think was some unusual weapon flash is actually the just the railgun explosion as shot by the player at the top of the screenshot. Explosions used to be polygonal instead of sprites. Heh.

Here\'s the \"unzoomed\" shot:
ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/electronfish/Quake3/old_rail.jpg

#110, wasn\'t that the railgun?

re the shotgun with the laser sight: whether or not it\'s worthless or existant, it was said in an interview a while back that they put the laser sight on there because a shotgun doesn\'t need a laser sight. don\'t argue with me. i\'m just the messenger.

bring it on. I don\'t give a fuck, your just some worthless dude no one cares about. call me a dumbass, because i\'m in limp bizkit. NO one cares about you. sparhawk your a nice guy, thanks.

and don\'t ask why i know that ;-P

um, yah, i agree with various other people that wesborland is a dumbass, especially since he named himself after someone in limp bizkit...

heh. ok.. i\'ll do that.