DOOM 3 Expansion Preview

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• you really have no idea how happy i am knowing you guys are in charge of d3ctf. : krakhead420
• Who do I have to bribe with large sums of money to be a part of testing this? I've got an extensive backg... : DKo5
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  Hey, how come you tards never come out to the Vancouver shackmeets? ;P : timmie
  • Not on my radar -- this is the first I've heard of it. : SLUDGE^

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• Me too! : TheNarcis
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  I'll wait for you suckers' reviews! :) : rasputinreborn
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    I loved Doom 3. I assume this is more of the same - so I'll probably love it even more. I think its sa... : DKo5
    • exactly. I just couldn't get enough of Doom 3 love. I wanted more and more. This expansion will satisfy m... : personaljesus
• count me in too. : personaljesus
• i should probably beat doom first :( : ermac
• ditto. : thejm4n
• OMG UR SO STUPID DOOM 3 SUXORD. So am I, Doom 3 kicked serious ass : Priest77
• i'll be in line : Kiai
• saving the giftcard for this one. How long will it take for HL2's mission pack to come out? One year? ... : the archvile
• iawtp. : dilutedq
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  I'm so in on this Highway to Hell. \m/ : eskimo spy
  • highway 17 to hell. ;) : lonestar3
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  Wow, I didn't realize many people shared my love for this game. I enjoyed it more than HL2, personally. I... : DKo5
  • I think it (D3) is a better FPS experience than HL2 is. May be not a better game, but definetely better F... : personaljesus
  • I already uninstalled HL2. I made it about 1/2 way through before getting bored with it. :/ : ^rec
• hell yes : Senor PoopyPants
• Hell hath no fury ...like a gamer hungry for some mo' D3 goodness..ok it sounds lame .nm : hippolove
• Yea, me too.... : ^rec
• Amen to that : Spike Spiegel

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  lol... i just boot up with WinXP CD and Quick format to NTFS... takes 5 seconds... : tommysgun
  • Same no need to do raw formats on new drives from my experience. : imperator

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  Which all FPS games ripped off Wolfenstein 3D. So stop with the id bashing n00bs since they in essence i... : TheNarcis
  • well said. : cam3lt0sis
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    ..invented the wheel in which you hamsters play. : CRasterImage
    • Or the constant loadings the geriatric's need? : TheNarcis
  • HOVERTANK 3D! : limabone-jlp
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  So, calling everyone asstards helps make your point? : Fred Garvin
  • No just sounds funny when said :-P : TheNarcis
• It's the difference between building on what has come before and just producing something hideously deriv... : SpiderMonkey

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  Are you kidding? They were all over... excellent physics. : Guava D
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    Sry, I played all the way through. I saw no phsyics that caught my attention. Looked like all objects 'we... : ShadowRam
    • That's the point, though. It's not that HL2 has a gravity gun, it's the way the game is tailored around i... : adas3dhw
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  Download the gravity gun mod to see the physics. They're definitely there, though they're not as overtly... : zipr
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    If I have to download a tool to help me see the game's physics, then there's something obviously fucking ... : mystifier
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      shoot something and you'll see it, don't be such an asshat, just because they don't line the hallways and... : cam3lt0sis
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        lol please. The objects/bodies/etc behaved much more realistically. Comparisons: For a chair to fall ... : SpaecKow
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          I thought the bodies behaved more realistically in Doom 3 than they did in HL2.. also everything seemed t... : dilutedq
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            Hmm why am I not excited : slacko
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              doh meant to be a new post : slacko
              • It's better like this. Thanks. : BaBOon
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          max payne 2 and half life 2 use the same physics engine, most of the crap flys around very similarly i... : cam3lt0sis
          • according to quite a few articles written during the development of D3, Carmack didn't write the physics ... : ghale
          • That doesn't have as much to do with it as you think - all the engines can "do" the same things, the beha : SpaecKow
        • After playing a lot of HL2, i played doom3 again. I crouched and walked up to a traffic cone in the begi... : kingdepork
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  Did you even play Doom 3? seriously, what the fuck, how uninformed : cam3lt0sis
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    Played it twice, own the strategy guide too. We're talking about 'advanced physics' right. Don't reme... : MatthewPhillips
    • the fact everything fell realistically, was hit realistically, you probably didn't realize it because it ... : cam3lt0sis
  • I played it and really enjoyed it. But I don't think that the physics of doom3 had a lot of impact on th... : zipr
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  Just because they didn't flaunt it in your face every 2.3seconds of gameplay doesn't mean it wasn't there... : BaBOon
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    shoot a rocket at a desk in half life and see all the junk fly off. This makes it creates a suspension o... : ltrls987
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      there are a lot of things in hl2 that you can't shoot off/gravgun off, and in that almost takes you out o... : ermac
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        Aren't Doom 3 vs. HL2 pissing contests a bit childish? : dumptruck
        • Isn't frequenting a large internet messageboard comprised of videogame fans a bit childish? :) : BaBOon
        • i love 'em both. neither are perfect, so it annoys me when someone says "hl2 is perfect, meanwhile doom ... : ermac
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          hl2 > d3 - end of story. : mystifier
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            I have to force myself to finish HL2 while im on my second way through DOOM3... therefore DOOM3 > HL2. T... : Pneum0
            • Well ok but keep in mind that's pretty subjective. Yes, D3 has an extremely constant pace - in fact it's ... : SpaecKow
            • i couldn't of said that better. : Kiai
          • Maybe for you, but not in total. I preferred D3 to HL 2.. I loved both. : dilutedq
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  some of the things interacted very oddly, like the brick test map, there were certain explosive weapons t... : Turd Ferguson
  • one set of entities in a test map not flagged to take certain kinds of damage does not mean the physics w... : eskimo spy
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  The thing that botherd me the most about how Doom implmented their physics was not really the physics so ... : ease_one
  • The more I read game forum posts the more pissed I get with all the missinformation and BS. Just because... : ease_one

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• I was just about to post this. Could they have possibly come up with a cheesier name? : Delusional
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  Ha! Yeah, now that I think about it, wouldn't "Hell time" be more likely to be accellerated time that mak... : Holesinswiss
  • No, it would accelerate the gameplay pace to enjoyable. : Tawler

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• Yup, me too. : dragocore
• Yea, they said "Old school" style CTF too... so does that mean GRAPPLE? please please pelase : SexualAvenger
• Yes, CTF will stand the test of time forever. Give me classic CTF with the gorgeousness of Doom 3, please... : Holesinswiss
• Q2CTF to me isn't old school CTF... had too many damn runes, ty Threewave. QW/Q1 CTF = true old school... : m4yhem

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  4 player CTF \m/? : rasputinreborn
  • They saiid they raised the default limit/support to 8 : Guava D
• 3w for LIFE yo!!!!! : krakhead420
• pfft... isn't that too little, too late? God I swear... Threewave make the best mod, but it always turns ... : mystifier

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• I'll probably end up buying it just to "complete" the Doom3 set. : abubu
• thanks for alerting us : cam3lt0sis

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  because no monsters spawned in doom or doom II....EVER! I just wish there were some open environments. ... : Turd Ferguson
  • Hammer + nail, right there :/ : MrLonghair
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  what monster do you know of that just wanders around hallways and open lobbys waiting for you! I dun thin... : flasher 907
  • lol : Kiai
  • Unless the monsters communicate like the borg, I wouldn't expect them all to just happen to be hiding fro... : Holesinswiss

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  Official Doom 3 sales numbers: One metric fuckload. : Priest77
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    Is that sell-in or sell-through? : Fred Garvin
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      Seriously though, I am wondering how well it's maintaining after the initial burst. I never saw any press... : Fred Garvin
      • yeah, whenever they mention sales they just call it "the fastest selling shooter," who knows what they sp... : ermac
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  So what are they changing that allows the game to support 8-players? It was the lighting info that cau... : mc-fine
  • silly reply button : mc-fine
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    I'm guessing they are thinking that next year's computers will cope better with more characters on screen... : SpiderMonkey
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      i thought it was the lighting info that had to be sent by the server causing the bottleneck. I know physi... : mc-fine
      • Doom 3 doesn't use the Havok physics engine. According to an interview I read with Carmack, the physics c... : Serpico74
• Team Arena, shudder... : abrasion

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  This is a very good point. I don't remember people clamoring for more missions, but I do remember outcrie... : Holesinswiss
  • Agreed. Man. : Rice-Rocketeer

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  ...hit things behind you. That be great!! : ShadowRam
  • Yeah, especially considering the frequency of monsters that spawn directly behind you in Doom 3. :-/ : Holesinswiss

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  No, Max moves slow as well, what are you talking about? I think it will be a lot like The One with Jet... : TheNarcis
  • some of the weapons are sped up for him when in bullet time (especially the M4 and Jackhammer). : the archvile
  • No in max payne 2 max's bullet time gets more of a golden color the more enemies you kill in bullet time.... : kingdepork
  • Yeah Max moves painfully slow, at least in the first one. Full speed is totally different. : SpiderMonkey
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  It's exactly the same as Force Speed in Jedi Knight II/Jedi Academy. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • Or the sands of time in prince of persia : marmite
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    Or painkiller : idmud
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      4X slow card with 2x faster reloading was awesome. : Turd Ferguson
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        You know, I played all the way through PK, but never once used the cards. They didn't seem integral to t... : Dynotaku
        • You missed out on some crazy powerup fun : Nighteyes
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  Fuck. It sure sounds like they are trying to add gimicks. Grav gun? Bullet time? Just create a living... : Kiai
  • this is not id, this is not id, this is not id also: hl2 had a lot of puzzle timeouts. if it fits in ... : ermac

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  This is getting old. : speedy3d
  • Well, you can´t buy good taste, right? RIGHT!? : Spike Spiegel

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• import btw. : mirko1979