Quake4 DM Preview

Team games are incredibly overrated. I've played all major titles extensively, and the gameplay on pubs boils down to deathmatch where you can only shoot half the players. You have to find specific private clan servers if you want any meaningful teamwork. Even with an excellent squad system, built in voip and points for performing team oriented tasks, it's mission impossible finding a BF2 server where there is any organization. And even if you get a good squad (which is fun), on a 64 player server it won't make much difference as far as the outcome of a round goes. Winning a round on a BF2 pub is completely hollow - it's just a random result that is well beyond your control.

Essentially what you have is a bunch of people running around playing deathmatch with their 'realistic' hitscan guns and movement. As deathmatch games, today's team games fail horribly, yet that is how they are played. Their popularity is easily explained by the fact that minimal learning curve in combination with low ceiling on an individual player's skill level is very forgiving on new and average players. Anybody can kill anybody, and nobody stands out too much.

So bring on a tweaked quake3 (75dmg rail, double jumps, better graphics): a game that is awesome at deathmatch and doesn't pretend to be anything else.

borrriiiiiing!!!!!!

bring on QW:ET over this regurgiatated 10 minute distraction


but to each his own :)

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When Quake 4 gets this good and hardcore, let me know.

Serious, DM is dead. It isn't 1997 anymore. People want teamplay, people want goals and strategy.

People don't want straight DM, they never will, this will hardly make a ripple.

Has Raven never heard of CS?

ID just gets more and more innovative as time goes by....

I love Quake1/2/3. But this going is going to fizzle and pop faster than any game in history.

Quake 3 worked, sure, but simply repackaging it within a new engine and inrementing the version number does not revitalize a game. You can still achieve all of the things that made Quake 3 great, but get creative with the weapons. I believe that there are an infinite combination of weapons, armor systems, and maps that could make for a great DM/CTF experience. It's kind of like how you can take the same deck of cards, and play so many different games of strategy with them. This theory is even evidenced in the successes of Doom1/2 and Quake1/2/3 themselves. Each very similiar, and yet each unique in it's own right. Unique enough to rejuvinate the scene and keep it alive another couple of years.

But from the sounds of it, Quake 4 will lack the neccesary fresh elements to revitalize gaming this time around. And that's a real shame.

Please oh please let the geometry be adjustable (like in Q3). Doom 3 had tons of settings to reduce the load on the graphics card, but nothing to reduce the load on the CPU. Q4 is hardcore DM... it needs to be highly tweakable.

Just like Q3 DM? Fine, considering how Punkbuster has basically BROKEN the Q3 scene.

articles like this make me even more excited...

It's a lot like Quake3 deathmatch, but with a bigger number in the title.

This sounds great to me. \m/