No More Q3Test-Next Up Q3Demo?

i havent heard id say there wont be bots, if they skip the bots they would totally fail their original goals they set with q3a...bringing dm to the masses....id said the bots would be in the demo, not the test

I think it\'s a shame that id aren\'t putting bots into q3test. GD said that they would show up in a test release and they haven\'t. Feedback about bot behaviour should arguably be as useful to them as comments on the network code ... which makes me worry a bit about id\'s reticence about the subject. We\'ve been told that they\'re going to have great AI, making a good single player game but we were told that about the q2 monsters and a lot of what id said never came about.
There\'s so much potential in the single player game working your way through specific characters like in a lot of the fighting games. I really hope that id don\'t give us a half-baked sp game just so they can get it out of the door more quickly. When your paying for time online, bots are an excellent way to learn levels and the more realistic the better.

they are good for rail practice

yay.

networking better in 1.05/1.06/1.07?
i think not..
i admit i have a shitty 33.6k connect with my 56k modem..
and its gotten 1000x better since 1.05
and that locking.. i dunno but if you notice it its newbie players standing still and shooting....but i havent noticed it..
usually if some one stand around like that they stand there and get killed.. then respawn and grab the rail gun and try to snipe you while you circle strafe round them and put a rail in the back of their head a few times then they leave...
as for the bots... they got that gladaitor bot programmer doing the bots supposedly? (T/F? Dunno) but if the bot progress has been the same as the networking code we could see some sweet bots out of the box
And as For UT....if it hogs resources like Unreal did then its system req will be like a p2 400 with 128meg of ram and tnt2 ultra...
its not getting bought by me...

Yea, what\'s the latest word on q3:a bots? This is so important but no one seems to be talking about them. The folks making UT have been hyping their bots for months.

Networking in qw was the best. I know.. it\'s not quite as smooth as q2 or q3, but it was the most \"honest\" with you. Q3 covers up so much.. that at times you may experience bad PL for a second but it \"intelligently\" washes over it and you\'re left trying to figure out why \"that guy didn\'t die.. I swear I shot him!\" Or the whole, \"quad damage.. DENIED!\" That\'s just a cover up for the networking smoothyness when the client thinks it has quad but the server reports right back \"no you didn\'t!\"

qw with a good connection just can\'t be beat.

Dnormlguy I agree totally. That was the first thing that came to mind when I read that the demo is probably next.
No. 8 the reason to be worried is that they haven\'t done anything about in the 3 tests that were released. That is
cause to be concerned since the finalized demo is next.

Also has anyone heard anything about a slider to adjust client/server side prediction? I heard it twice but I don\'t
know where the info is coming from.

If you build it, they will come... What id leaves out or leaves broken the mod community will fix in short time. It\'s happened for both other Quake titles and it\'ll happen with this one, too. (Remember multi-skins? \"It can\'t be done!\" they said...)

To the person that said \"R.I.P. Unreal Tournament\", you are dead wrong. UT looks amazing and has many game modes that all look amazing! What does Q3 have, DM, a horrible excuse for teamplay, and CTF. What will UT have, DM, CTF, Assualt/Defend, Territorial control, and tons of small mutators (mods), such as InstaGib! Q3 looks amazing, plays great, has awesome network code, but it lacks the in-depthness that other network-only games will have! And just for the record, TF2 will not suffer a hit in sales at all.

In my opinion, Q3A is riding on the name right now.

Too bad TF2 didn\'t make it out. That game is gonna rock. If it comes out after Q3, its gonna take a big slash in sales.

-Kn4w

Bah, I hate locking together with people. Especially idiot teammates who don\'t move when they shoot, just stand there and try to kill someone. Sigh.

Course, I prolly shouldn\'t talk about moving, since Steve railed the shit out of me. Bastich. ;)

Hubris

good news? i think its bad news. i still think the networking sucks. compared to q2. and that locking together with players when you are close to them better be fixed. sigh.

But, as ever, the question is \'when?\'

Still, the news is quite good. When they talk about making CD images, it means they basically know all the files that are to be in the final distribution. This is really far along. Looks like we\'ll easily have it by Christmas, after all. I want it for Thanksgiving. LAN party at the in-laws is a BLAST.

V