id/raven/activision you're so close!

[MKJ]

Then odium and MKJ, i am sorry, but you are not true gamers.

what?
that didnt make any sense.

[Goner]

Ok, hate to sound like I'm spamming or something, but I think a lot of the things people don't like about Quake 4 are solved with the 1.2 patch and the Expert mod.

Download it, I implore you! Try it out! read the readme and play with the options to get it the way you like it! Up a server! Let's frag!

direct link to files:
http://expertctf.net/q4/expert1.02.zip

link to my server config:
http://www.expertctf.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12

Hell, I didn't like quake 3! I barely played it. This after killing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS in quake 2 (according to the CLQ, may it R.I.P.)

I agree that there are some gameplay issues in the base q4 that make it a pretty boring/troubled game. Then again, without the Q2 Expert mod, LMCTF, L-fire , Lithium, etc. I wouldn't have played much Q2 either.

Q4, I think, is close to ready. A number of mod teams have done some excellent work to make this happen. The one main gripe i still have is the SOUND problems. Yes, my sound hardware is a bit outdated, but I should be able to turn the sound settings down and get basic playability out of the sound engine. That would be my number 1 remaining complaint about the game. Bots, etc? Sure. all of that would be nice, but the sound is a core thing that has to be right.

So anyway, as i was saying.. Play expert!

[Incinerator]

Reason 1.
No one knows the Quake 4 auto downloads have been fixed yet. That was a big problem.

Reason 2.
I was looking on the net for server Game browsers that supported Quake 4 , i found 3, Gamespy Arcade, Kali( Kali.net), and KQuery(which only seems to support up to 1.1 so far. So this would be 2 in all actual numbers, and Quake 4's Game browser i think needs a way to further filter, like adding filters by fs_game, or by server name, for example. Make it as easy as possible for someone to find the game type they want to play.

Reason 3.
Bitter tastes are still left in peoples mouths from the original releases, and don't know about the new changes or updates to the game.

Positive Notes:
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They really did add and fix a great deal of stuff, even though they forced it out the doors for a Christmas bonus. The game is alot more stable now and handles quicker speeds now, as expert mod shows and does utilize. I speak of the Expert mod because i'm the coder for the mod.. Continuing the positive note, great job Id/Raven on the updates that were finally in the 1.2 release... Stable servers a major plus.


Incinerator

[Runningman]

http://www.multibrowser.org