Quake 4 1.3 Patch Released

Any chance of Raven getting to work on SOFIII, something new? Elite Force 3 or whatever - even another Jedi game?

Interesting Patch... Now that we've installed it...we hope it is as appealing to the general gaming FPS community as it was to us.

It is well worth the test/check out.

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Wow, I was a definate nay-sayer before, but after this patch, color me impressed. Feels almost like Quakeworld. Good job on this patch. Looks like I can finally play it again.

Installed while I was at home sending a fax. Looking forward to playing it. First thing I thought when I hit W ingame was "awesome! FAST!"

\m/RITUAL\m/

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(Not Biased)

This thing seems like a last-minute "let's see if the game gets more popular by adding some stuff; it's not nearly silly enough!" effort to me.

I almost think the movement acceleration is too quick. Makes lining up to jump on crates and other precise movements hard.

Still, an improvement over the previous version.

Central Industrial: Special Edition

The version of my "Central Industrial" map, formerly known as "Hammertime" in Q2 and Q3, that shipped with this Quake 4 patch was heavily modified from my original design.

I present to you, the original, unaltered version for your Q4 enjoyment: http://www.whatthehal.com/files/hal_centralindustrial_se.zip

It does not support Deadzone unfortunately. DM and tourney will work fine.

I wish more people would give Q4 some love. They stuck a Q1 map in this patch.

I cant get any servers to come up :(

Downloading! Hopefully people will tweak their settings and get back into this. Good old fashioned high-octane twitch shooters are my favorite type. It's high time people started honing their chops again! (myself included)

Any news of an update for the Xbox 360 version of Quake 4? Just curious is all...

full change log?

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but when I use a custom widescreen resolution my monitor stays in my larger desktop resolution and the game doesn't fill the screen.

anyone know if this patch will break RA4?

I like the movement, although I'm still a QW guy and I can't understand how can't I run in curves :)

Deadzone seems pretty chaotic but it's been fun so far.

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Had to run the exe through strings to find it. What an awesomely named cvar....

Ok here's a minireview:

The movement is much faster. It feels even faster than Q3 to me now. The biggest thing for me is how quickly you can do a side to side dodging/strafing. It feels much more like previous quake games now.

The weapons have been tweaked a bit, but it's hard to digest all of that. Hitboxes seem to have been scaled down, or is that just because the side to side strafing speed is increased? Anyway it's harder to hit people which is good. Rockets seem a little faster although I could be imagining that. Napalm Launcher = nice new addition.

Sound has definitely been improved. In my brief time playing I didn't experience any dropped or stuck sounds like those that were so common before.

The new maps seem ok but I have to play more to figure out which are really good and bad. None of the ones I saw were all that visually stunning, but as far as layout goes they bring some different things to the table which is good. Now Quake 4 has A LOT of stock maps to pick from.

I couldn't find a server running Deadzone or the buy stuff yet so I can't say how that is, but overall I think people who didn't like Q4 before should give this a try as it is a lot better now. It definitely has a feel more in line with what longtime Quake players expect I think.

Ok I just played Deadzone for a while and it is actually a lot of fun. It took me a while to understand how it worked but eventually I got the hang of it. I like the idea of the zone artifacts and how someone on your team needs to have one and bring it in the zone to capture it. The maps seems to have been reworked to accomodate the gametype too. Definitely a nice addition to Q4!

Wow, I must admit.. good job id, game feels so much more solid than it was pre 1.3, actually feels like quake.

The movement feels like I actually have grip now, before it felt like i was falling all over myself. The weapon switch is perfect, no idea about the new gun, havent tried it. I'm not saying its perfect, but damn it feels like quake. Now we need RA4 to update.

I really want to try this but for a while now my q4 has just been bumping me back to the desktop and dissapearing, no error nothing, while lanching a game. Afterwards my gamma is all messed up.

First thing I noticed as soon as I started the game is that it moves similar to how Quake 3 moves.

..... Now my interest is piqued. Shackbattle later?

OH HELL YES!

woooo!

new game mode worth the reinstall? i couldn't stand multiplayer before

WHERE'S SIN ARENA MODE MULTIPLAYER!?! :'(

Finally!!!!

Dunno about that buy weapons/powerups thing for a Quake game.

worth a look-see.. but i'll probably go back to q3 anyway :D

excellent!

Well uhh... Hmm. Here goes nothing.