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Quake Remake Multiplayer Demo
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The Quake Remake Team released a multiplayer demo of the Quake Remake Project featuring several outstanding maps, new weapons, bot support and much more. "Addbot" adds a bot. So many features it is difficult to describe accurately.

I'd recommend checking out the readme and then trying the mod and posting any feedback in the release thread for the authors.

Ideally, it would be nice to get modern marvel this on a server.



Quake Reforged Release/QRP Release
Reforged Thread | Quake Reforged Site | QRP Site

The Quake Reforged Project made a new release of textures and the Quake Retexturing Project made a release of normal maps (for DarkPlaces, FTEQW) for Christmas.


Now at this point, you would think "Wow! That's a lot of news." No ... we haven't even started ... there is a Travail prequel in beta-now (screenshot) ... but what would in a normal and sane world be its own news article ....


Insta-Classic! - A Roman Wilderness of Pain
QuakeOne.com Thread | Read Me | Download (32 MB)

This is a consummate single player episode rivaling Travail and Warpspasm in satisfaction with several atypical weapons and enemies. It is hard, it is different, it is great. And it is big. You'll need to use FitzQuake 0.85, DirectQ or Enhanced GL/WinQuake to ideally enjoy these massive maps. Actually not "need", only those engines can run it (I've heard it is unbarely slow in DarkPlaces).

Prepare for Hell Hounds and a final boss: The Cyberdemon.



Bot Waypoints, Utils, Etc.

Lightning Hunter released the Definitive Frikbot Waypack. There are waypoints for 400 (four hundred) maps in this pack. Func_Msgboard Thread. (Qrack video: left)

QWalk. Sajt released a Quake model converter that can convert between mdl, md2 and md3 model formats. Those are the formats for Quake, Quake 2 and Quake III Arena respectively. Inside3D Release Thread | Qwalk Site. Open source.

textures2quake. Some "Baker" guy released a utility to easily convert textures from Quake 3 type games to Quake and/or Half-Life easily dealing with several issues like file name limitations, texture size limits and so on. Inside3D Thread | textures2quake Site. Open source.

QSBrowser. Some "EFESS" guy released a utility to setup a Quake server browser for ASPx using web sites easily like the example at QServers Web Overview which can easily be used for Quake or Quake-based games (like Kurok, Solitude, etc.). Inside3D Thread. Open source.

Predicted future news: Zop and Spooker are working on a new expansion of RQuake Coop maps. Other things I can't remember ...