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Quake 4 Multiplayer Demo Released

by Maarten Goldstein, Jun 24, 2007 7:28am PDT

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Following the release of the 1.4.2 patch, a new Quake 4 multiplayer demo is now available. The demo uses the game code from that patch, and includes three levels. A Linux version is available as well.

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Blah this demo is horrible, the maps have WAY too many weapons in them and badly placed. One room has a rocket launcher, health and armor.. I got 25 kills in about 1 minute..

Plus it has typical craptacular ID netcode so the person with the lowest ping is usually the best.

Jun 24, 2007 10:03am PDT

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Blah this demo is horrible, the maps have WAY too many weapons in them and badly placed. One room has a r... : rythex
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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 to the shack.
  
  Quakeworld.
  
  Jun 24, 2007 6:35pm PDT
  
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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