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FWIW, we successfully use the screen + 1d texture successfully on the Unity version on all 18 million platforms we run on, but we're probably not supporting as old or screwed up machines as some other projects trying it have been trying to support (we're 64 bit only, and Unity probably has high enough requirements to knock out some of the lower end machines.) It was quite a significant speed boost on all platforms, I believe.

We don't use Steam connections or Steam network services, so it's just weird the way you keep saying it that way. But no, I don't think there are a ton of people interested in custom content on the remaster, they'll more likely just use existing QuakeWorld clients.

Basically, that CTF map isn't very good, it was included more for completeness sake in the original game, it still worked as a DM map. We ended up having more maps than we were expecting, so didn't think it was worth it to update that map. Dissolution of Eternity contained a CTF mode based on Threewave (that's where the hook model comes from since we couldn't get the rights to the morningstar model) however it was not played very much. We didn't bother supporting Dissolution's CTF mode in the initial release due to time constraints and general quality reasons-- 3W was always much more popular.

Gyro aim works natively on PC but only with DualShock 4. It's just what Rewired supports. Should be able to setup gyro for other controllers through the Steam input overlay though.

The H and the heart were def one of the "finalists" (I had like 9 different variations to get rid of the pill at some point) but we thought using an English letter H for a global game would've been suboptimal compared to the green +, which is also used as health in Doom Eternal, I believe. Specifically, I thought it'd be neat if the Hitler change was a reference to what was done in the German version of MachineGames' Wolfenstein games. The logo is the one they use there, and they also removed the mustache. Fitting considering the level was already a Wolf3D reference!

MAP33 ended up crashing the engine and had to be cut, thought it would handle any lump names but apparently not! I've passed this on to the team handling the GOG launch, but don't know if this was intentional or not. Thanks for the report!

Should be fixed now, was unrelated to the name change, and didn't require a new build so there won't be an update pending or anything.

This is an old issue, as far as I know. I'm not able to reproduce it. Seems like there might be a problem with handling error screens, and it works when you play offline. Asking around to see if there were backend changes that are affecting us, but there are no planned new features or other fixes planned right now.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1148590/view/3333243235353175643 FPS issues on Steam Deck fixed, along with the weapon sprites. Should be fine on Steam Deck now (only reason it's playable and not verified is because you have to manually pop up the keyboard on the Bethesda.net login modal)

Definitely happening, just don't know when yet.

We didn't do anything to lock down console mods specifically, but they might be .NET serialized files at the most, so it is probably not very proprietary. I didn't think we put the addon data in there though, I'm surprised it's not just a file named 1-15 like on the PC. It'd be silly to spend time trying to add extra protection from jailbroken consoles since they already are able to interfere with your operation at a level you can't control. I have no clue what that stuff looks like on disk though, you don't really need to interact with the filesystem directly very much. RE: SIGIL, there's specific code to handle the Master Levels. There's no specific code to handle SIGIL, as the point is that we don't need to update the game in order to ship new addons. As for the start menu stuff, it was just a decision made out of time. Was easier to just punt you to the Level Select screen which was already data driven, vs making a whole new menu that was un-hardcoded to read the episodes out of DMAPINFO and generate GameObjects out of them. I ended up doing this dynamically in Quake, since the game ships with multiple mods out of the box (the expansions/DOPA/DOTM are all in separate directories). There's no functional difference between level selecting the first map, and hitting new game, it's entirely visual.

I looked into mouse support but it wasn't really working great when I tried it on the Switch, and Unity doesn't seem to support it natively. Keyboard support was (accidentally) left on since the original launch at QuakeCon 2019. Should work on Android though since Chromebooks are supported.

Just popping in to say that we've released a minor update for D64 on PC platforms, but it also fixes the graphics loading in PWADs! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1148590/view/3088910094673350020

There's some unavoidable input lag on Chromebook unfortunately, even comparing it to Delta Touch and other native games, I haven't found anything else that offered an acceptable amount of latency. Disabling/raising the FPS limit and disabling VSync will help.

We do support controllers on iOS/Android. Touchscreen controls are always tough, though, especially if you're not used to it. I played many hours of other games to try and figure out what we need to improve our controls. I've gotten fairly decent on HMP and can even beat most of E1 on UV. I think what we have now is pretty damn good, the biggest omission being moving controls around. Not being able to look down makes it a lot easier. You want to be rolling on the tip of your thumb in order for fine aim.

There are a couple of mods in the pipeline after the next one so hopefully there won't be as much of a gap as this time. Shipping Quake was tough!

I've sideloaded nuts on my Switch during development to test and it actually tanks the FPS pretty bad, although I did bump up the amount of sprites being drawn so its a little less broken rendering wise than vanillla. Not sure how it works on the other consoles. It's possible it still lags because all the game logic and rendering has to happen on a single core. Computers and consoles are fast now, but they're fast because of how many cores and how powerful the GPUs are. It's pretty easy to make a 25 year old game run slow on a modern system if you specifically ignore everything that makes modern systems fast. 3x resolution in 16:9 at 60FPS was already a problem in some of the more complex addon maps we have, it was one of the many reasons we standardized on 2x resolution across all platforms when we added widescreen support.

Probably some audio pulled from a production library.

Auto aim should feel better now, which will probably help. If you're playing on the Switch the sliders work now, too.

There are more add-on releases planned still, just busy with lots of Quake stuff, and starting the Quake add-ons. The update was just a version number bump for the physical release, it is the same build as the last one. As far as I know, Doom 1 and 2 is playable offline with no WiFi, you just need a linked Nintendo account before you launch the game.

Not really devs to talk about here, it is just myself, and I have been working on Quake. I looked into the Switch crashes on sleep many times but was never able to fully solve it. I found one issue I was able to fix, but it seems people are running into another now. There's always going to be requests and such that could be added but I'm not sure what's missing or incomplete at this point, especially compared to previous official releases.

Thanks for all of this, this was pretty much on spot. It looks like we got rid of the original volume cvar multiplier when porting the audio system over, which caused the pre-mix volume to go from 0.7 to 1.0, which immediately started clipping all over the place. The 20% post-mix volume hack was trying to address why the game was so loud to our testers, and then I applied the same value to the music to be consistent. In the next version, we added back the multiplier to the samples, hardcoded it to 0.4 to further avoid some clipping in the noisy areas of demo1, and then got rid of the volume scaling hack. This is at 0 music, 10 sound: The overall sound level doesn't seem to overpower playing a YouTube video/my podcasts in the background, either. I might still tweak the pre-mix level, I don't think this is something we'd want to expose directly and instead rely on the current volume output slider, but just trying to stop "garbage in, garbage out" kinds of issues here.

Hey all, just popping in here to say hope y'all enjoy the new port! This is the project I've been involved with for the past year, and am excited that it's out on everything. For nightmare, 50HP is intentional. We removed the "turreting" that enemies tended to do in Nightmare, and set health to 50 to compensate as a nod to what Copper did, in order to make Nightmare harder than hard, not easier.

Optional content like Add-ons aren't eligble for trophies/achievements unfortunately. We'd have to at minimum include them with the game. If it were DLC from the store that you downloaded from first party you definitely could.