Quake 4 1.1 Patch Released

Quake is a dying breed. Hardly anyone plays q4. More people still play q3 than q4. Quake reached its max long gameplay wise long ago. Its all downhill from here. ID software needs to come up with a new MP game.

- Shotgun animation will play its full cycle before the new weapon selection begins.

I don't know if this relates or not, but I fired up the single-player campaign from the beginning, and I noticed that when you reload the shotgun, the model snaps right to the tilted beginning of the reload sequence, instead of rotating into it. I think the reload sequence starts a little sooner as well. I guess I'll find out if this affects the clip mod, but not for about 10 maps or so.

Is this the patch that allows me to continue playing the game, and doesn't crash at the same spot over and over?

So I can actually finish the single-player?

"highly anticipated" lol

WARNING !!!

per the installer, it says OLDER SAVEGAMES WILL NO LONGER WORK CORRECTLY ONCE THE PATCH IS INSTALLED.

this will certainly impact my progress through quake 4, it seems I'll have to restart the single player...

just passing that along incase the TLDR syndrome is prominent, as it usually is.

Cool, you're like 1 of 50.. good for you. Exactly, level of play is so high that it's pointless for a lot of people to play it, because they'd have no chance. ID didnt make a new game, they made quake 3.5, which has ruined the chance of quake ever being revived.

thoughts on the new maps:

both new dm maps seem to have good flow. "Outpatient" is probably suited to up to 16 players or so and has some long, wide hallways that will surely see a lot of rail battles. it also has some tighter inside sections and a large three level atrium.

"Skeleton Crew" is a smaller map that would probably be a good duel map but I'm sure it will also be fun for dm with up to about 8 people. like Outpatient it is a map with a good amount of vertical and also has a space station kind of look to it with windows looking out on space.

i only got to run around the new CTF maps briefly... "Mind The Gap" looks to be a really nice one. very nice visually with a cement/stone architecture kind of thing going on and the layout is fairly complex with a lot of ways (high and low) to get from one side to the other. i can't wait to try it later tonight. "Double Edged" is simply the Edge remake from Q4 turned into a symetrical ctf map with the rail area opened into a center section and the rest of the map repeated on either side for each base .. it looks to me like there might not be enough distance between flags to play decent defense but maybe it will play out differently.

Too bad they didn't put the fragarcade map winners in the patch. That could have actually helped the community a lot :)

ps dear jesus server admints please only put on custom maps with the addon.conf

Crap, it's on their FTP site with a "_beta" name... argh!!!!

Wow, long wait lines on fileshack. I wonder why - WoW patch isn't that big.

How are the new maps?

I'd like to see some scores with the HT tech enabled.

i dont see anything about the weapon switching,

you know how when you press a key for a weapon and the packet gets lost or something and the weapon doesnt switch? that really put me off

yay!!
Why no London fileshack mirror :(

is there a full change log somewhere?

Too bad its about 4 months too late. Last time I looked multiplayer = dead

w000t.. new maps.. Can't wait to play once I get home.

Impromptu Shackbattle? Honestly, I didn't play Quake 4 online for more than a half an hour, but I did like what I played...