Quake 4 Multiplayer Demo Released

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  nope : Maarten Goldstein
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    boo : RikiTiki2
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      Well, the full-game owner can always download the demo. :) : Johnny Law
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        demo users were able to buy the full game and play onlie but u can tell they didnt cuz THERE IS NODY PLAY... : X-GOUKI
        • nody = nobody : X-GOUKI
      • although, having just been in a game where a retail player was completely pwning everyone else (they even... : johnsto
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  it'd be nice to have strictly a MP only install for the retail version owners. : cell9song
  • YES. : Downforce

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• I would blame Doom3 being less than spectacular in single-play and having total suck multi as more reason... : Old_Fart
• did it really fail though? Is there evidence saying it failed? : Lawgiver
• When a game has a number 4 attached to it name, it's time to be spectacular... Quake 4 was not. : cosmicc

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• Hey I still play q2ctf.. Everyone should download the q2 demo + threewave ctf mode and /connect acmectf.c... : God_Virus

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  Are you sure you're hitting the 'Update list' button and not just 'refresh servers'? That caught me out y... : johnsto
  • Yes. I think I have to configure my router's firewall...whih ports do I have to forward? Thanks! : eazed
• worked fine for me : Mansmells

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  Yes, it's such a good game, too. Don't know WHY it failed so badly. : lookitzpancakes
  • Because people are bored to death of Quake. : SockMonkeh
  • The F.E.A.R. release and it looking like a Doom 3 mod (which itself isn't a very popular game) in every s... : forktaileddevil
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    Multiplayer: because Quake 3 still feels better than Q4. Plus: no MP Test available before the gane came ... : perforierer
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      to be fair, the last time Raven released an MP test, it was better than the game itself. : the archvile
      • If you mean SoF2, they put the best map in the game into the demo, hence everything else was sort of a le... : Old_Fart
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    well the multiplayer did have a lot of issues when it was first released. having been so burned out on qu... : Mansmells
    • err, pretty much *every complaint has been fixed now : Mansmells
  • Because Q3 multi is much better than Q4's. Q4 single player was really fun though. : Serpico74

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• to be fair, you cant really *do* a lot about ping times. : grimiv
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  rocket launcher, health and armor in the same room in a deathmatch game is a surprise? : Mansmells
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    Yes. And it's retarded too. : [7]kami
    • yeah demos really just totally suck!!!!!!!!!!11111 ZOMG : Downforce
    • every version of quake has had maps like that : Mansmells
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  Q3's netcode was awesome. : thief
  • Doom 3's wasn't. Of course they spent a lot of time trying to do the peer to peer thing, then gave up an... : the archvile
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  I assume you mean Verticon. Veritcon is a 1v1 tourney map with two arenas. One arena has a rocket launc... : SyncError
  • Eek. =p Meant to say one had RL and RA, the other YA, RG and LG. Left out the RA above. ;) : SyncError
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  Id has been known for having amazing netcode. What on earth are you talking about? : the city
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    I think he's talking about what I covered in http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14641537 . The Doom 3 n... : the archvile
    • Like other people have poointed out, it's not like they can't and haven't done good netcode. It's just t... : capt tripps
    • This isn't DOOM3's netcode. : Pneum0
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  D3 netcode, aside 'typical craptacular ID netcode' is like the funniest, most ironic sentence ever posted... : Fayk
  • Shh, the yougn'n don't understand that there were 3 ultrasuccessful Quake games prior to Q4. : disposition
• like totally right bra. lets go play some halo bra!! : FlatlineDixay

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• If it's anything like Quake 3, open up the console and then press Alt+Enter to go into windows mode; Alt+... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  Quake Wars does this same thing. It's about the only game out there that behaves this way... very annoyi... : Athlon7
  • Alt+Enter works in ET:QW too. : tangles

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  play deathmatch classic, it needs more players.. : deceiver
  • I'll go back to Quakeworld or Q3A, which actually feel like Quake. Or just rail someone in 2, just for th... : [7]kami
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  Considering how similar this feels to q3, how is this not a "quake" game? : -efx-
  • Might be my quirk (too much WoW...), cause for me it feels more like Doom 3 multi (which is kinda harsh, ... : [7]kami

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  hmm, too bad there's no DM3 in there. DM9 would have been a far stronger re-make to show if that was of s... : kungfusquirrel
  • yeah i'm surprised they went with a remake in the demo. i'm not sure what maps i would have picked but i ... : Mansmells
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    if theres a way to convert from Quake3, I remade DM3 for Quake3... Maybe someone can convert it to Quake4... : WesleyTack
    • q3 to q4 is super easy; q4radiant will load the q3 .map file - just make sure you strip out all your enti... : kungfusquirrel
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  hmm i might have to reinstall : inc77
  • yeah I was disappointed Q4 multiplayer never caught on. I like the occasional game of DM :D : aeg1x
• I think this is too late for me personally, with Quake Wars around the corner, I won't be spending my tim... : speckz

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• It doesn't have a timer? Usually for a setup like that there's a timer.... Raven Shield for instance. : K1Bond007

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• yes, but the multiplayer has been majorly polished since then : Mansmells
• yeah, my first thought was a shack database hiccup : delataur
• There was a multiplayer demo before yes. : razlebol

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  Q4MAX have bots that work very well, they are technically still in development (although you can find out... : SyncError
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    Hrmmm, maybe i fail at google ... going to check em' out now = ) : pixelat3d
    • http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1378284 : SyncError

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• I just hope it'll spawn a resurgence in Q4 MP : RikiTiki2

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• Yes you can alter your zoom sensitivity with pm_zoomedSlow, you use values 0-100 which is a percentage of... : SyncError