Quake 2 Remaster

[Bitterman]

Is anyone checking this out, if you owned the game on steam and gog you get it for free, plus they updated and restored everything thgat never made it into the final product, including the AI

 

[Childerich]

Interested to know more about this as well. I am on Game Pass and it's in there, but I've never played old-school shooters like this. To anyone who has played it, how is the difficulty compared to modern shooters? The fast-paced gameplay seems to difficult to follow for me.

 

[General Frank]

Is anyone checking this out, if you owned the game on steam and gog you get it for free, plus they updated and restored everything thgat never made it into the final product, including the AI

I played through it and got all achievements.
The remaster is pretty damn impressive and I really like how the improved the graphics, the general gameplay (the improved AI you mentioned) and that you do not have to jump through hoops to play it and they restored the amazing sound track.

Interested to know more about this as well. I am on Game Pass and it's in there, but I've never played old-school shooters like this. To anyone who has played it, how is the difficulty compared to modern shooters? The fast-paced gameplay seems to difficult to follow for me.

It is probably much harder for people that are used to the Call Of Duty style of shooters these days. No regenerating health, no autosaves for the most part.
You can however just save free whenever you want.
I played Quake since 1998 or so and I can't really judge the difficulty of much things fairly.

 

[Bitterman]

If anyone wants to port Wc3 models back to Q2R is possible now, all you need is a md2 vertex model and a MD5 model with bones

also i was doing some side job with some retextures, plus everyone is welcome to join nightdive and quake discord, the guys there are nice and open to talk about the game

 

[deepstrasz]

If anyone wants to port Wc3 models back to Q2R is possible now, all you need is a md2 vertex model and a MD5 model with bones

What's your favourite target practice? Night Elves, Orcs, Pandaren...

 

[Bitterman]

What's your favourite target practice? Night Elves, Orcs, Pandaren...

back when WC2 was "new" someone made a Orc model

There is also a Terran marine, protoss zealot and zerg hydralisk made for it too, the late 2 are terrible even by the old polycount standards.

 

[Childerich]

I played through it and got all achievements.
The remaster is pretty damn impressive and I really like how the improved the graphics, the general gameplay (the improved AI you mentioned) and that you do not have to jump through hoops to play it and they restored the amazing sound track.

It is probably much harder for people that are used to the Call Of Duty style of shooters these days. No regenerating health, no autosaves for the most part.
You can however just save free whenever you want.
I played Quake since 1998 or so and I can't really judge the difficulty of much things fairly.

Thank you for the inputs. I was actually a bit embarrassed to mention Call of Duty given the pedigree of this forum but yeah that's the gameplay basis I had in mind XD though I'm pretty much a new school shooter player, I think I can at least compare the non-regenerating health to Halo 1 or ODST.

As soon as I'm done with Starfield I'll give this a spin. I honestly think Quake is legendary and I want to be someone who could relate to discussions with this. Plus the lore seems interesting (dark, techno fantasy) which I'll read up on.

 

[Bitterman]

There is a map jam happening right now for those interested in it

https://www.reddit.com/r/quake/comments/16fq60f