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Dimension of the Boomed is a short episode in the style of Quake. It includes 7 playable maps, designed in Boom format, with custom monsters and effects, and is intended for single player or coop. Download Vanilla Boom Version The original mapset for MBF compatible source ports. Most ports will be able to play this with the exception of Chocolate and Crispy Doom. Uses Dehacked and a custom Palette, and therefore is not intended to be played with mods, though some may work. Download True Colour Z-Mod Version The original mapset reconfigured to use high colour graphics and Decorate code. Intended to be compatible with ZDoom mods as much as possible. Use GZDoom or Zandronium, Load the mapset first, and any mods of choice second. Download Quake Champions Doom Edition Version A version of the mapset intended to be played with Quake Champions : Doom Edition, and in fact requires it to run at all. The maps are converted to UDMF format, and use QC:DE 's custom set of Quake monsters. Many encounters play very differently and are often tougher than the original, though much depends on your choice of Champion. Use GZDoom or Zandronium, load QC:DE first and the mapset second. Requires QCDEv1.5.1.pk3 or higher versions of QCDE. (Spite Shadows are additionally recommended.) Midis by the following replace the Quake OST in the TrueColour & QC:DE versions: Parallel Dimensions, Retribution Dawns - Silent Zorah Burial Chamber - Nabernizer Become The Hunted, Barons Province, The Ravens Nest - Jimmy Egypt, Demetria - Ribbiks Addtional Credits: Shambler sprites generated from Skiffy's updated Shambler MDL. http://quakeone.com/forum/quake-mod-releases/finished-works/12334-shambler-hd-remake-released Spawn sprites generated from Arcane Dimensions updated Spawn MDL. http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/sp/ad.htm Scrag sprites directly lifted from Eriance's 'Wicked' monster. Minigun pickup sprite from Tormentor667's 'Minigun' weapon. http://realm667.com And of course, a big thank you to everyone who provided support and feedback to the project!

This is a demo of the first map from The Realm of Z-Magic, a Doom2 episode for ZDoom & GZDoom in the style of Quake. Download Demo Here Jumping is required, use mouse-look if you want to. Tested in ZDoom 2.8.1 & GZDoom 3.7.2 I was a little hesitant about posting something this early, but it should prove useful to have an available demo if only for highlighting examples of glitches, bugs, etc. Let me know what you think, and if you feel inclined to record any demos that would be great.

Oh boy! I guess I know what I'm doing today then.

Oreos taste like a fake chocolate biscuit with an unidentifiable filling, would not buy again. Can't beat an honest Custard Cream or Bourbon, or better yet a Penguin which is basically a bigger, chocolate coated Bourbon. That said, I don't know if the Italians make a sandwich biscuit, but if they do I bet it's amazing.

I imagine he'll do alright, the majority of people who have read his statement seem sympathetic to his point of view. I understand the composer of Halo, who's well connected and has had litigatious experiences of his own, has been in touch with him.

In 1996 on a Pentinum 200, software Quake was playable at 360x400, while a P120 played best at the default 320x200. Duke Nukem would play at 640x480 on lesser machines, which was one of it's selling points over Quake. It wasn't until the first 3DFX cards and GLQuake were released, that you could go to 16bit colour 512x384 on the Voodoo 1. Voodoo 2 would be released in 1998, and allow resolutions of 800x600 and 1024x768 in a dual card SLI setup. There were a few other graphic accelerators knocking around at the time, but none had the raw power of the early 3DFX cards.

This year I have mostly been listening to Battle Tapes

I don't expect companies to be angels, especially big publishers, and for all I know Mick Gordon might be difficult to work with. But I don't care, nothing excuses stealing a contractor's work. They've paid him for 142 minutes of music, and then sneaked an additional 144 minutes of material in the game, that they had previously rejected. That's fraud. In the UK you could pursue that as a criminal case if you chose to. And they're not denying it. They're just asserting that Mick has mischaracterised and mispresented the situation in the vaguest terms, with no specifics or evidence given. Meanwhile Mick's 14000 word statement is highly detailed, refutes the specific allegations made against him point by point, and provides documentation to back it all up. He even goes so far as to ask people not to make any personal attacks at anyone at id, or indulge in any online hate campaigns. I mean, I know who I believe, but hey, read it and decide for yourself.

Wow! That's some impressive black magic hackery and attention to detail.

I really want to buy Starfield when it gets released, but I'm not touching a Bethesda product until Mick gets his fucking money.

I haven't tested it, but VKQuake has also been updated to support the remaster. (Edit: Seems to work, but doesn't appear to support the updated models, and like Quakespasm you have to copy the QuakeEX.kpf file over.)

I quite like the back-pedal change, it makes knights more engaging, and gives a 'push forward' momentum to combats in general.

No, it isn't in the default compile tools. I can understand why they would use it though. With it you can light a scene with just a few sources and get good results.

Decommissioning costs for fisson reactors are substantial even for modern reactors that have been designed to be safely decommissioned. For sites that have suffered a major disaster or were originally built without any plan for decommissioning, the costs far out weight any benefits and will literally take decades to clean up, in some cases as much as 120 years. So a modern reactor typically has a life-span of about 40 years, which means any more reactors we build now will be due for decommissioning in the 2060s. Which is about the time we are due to hit 4 degrees global warming. Now, 4 degrees above pre-industrial levels is the point at which a lot of scientists believe modern technological civilisation will break down or collaspse, so the societies of the latter 21st century may simply not have the capability to deal with this. I think the best thing we can do for future generations is decommision as many sites as we can, and limit the amount of new ones we build.

Looks like E2M6 The Dismal Oubliette got updated. I wonder if Romero did that.

I'm little disappointed that it's a remaster rather than a modern reboot. But it's a very nice remaster, with a new engine and additional content so thumbs up. And if you already had the game on steam, it's a free update with the original soundtrack finally included, and all the mission packs on top, and even an option to download the Quake64 version. You couldn't really ask for more. I had a quick play through the shareware episode and noticed quite a lot of work has been done to improve the maps without altering the base geometry. Notably the texture alignment in tech bases is easier on the eye. There's transparent water as standard, with the best water warping I've seen in a hardware port, nice use of coloured lighting, and some nice engine additions such as dyanmic shadows and motion blur which works really well with the speed of Quake's gameplay. The only things that feel missing are an equivalent of r_shadows for making monsters feel more grounded in the environment, (though the ambient occlusion option more or less addresses that.) and some additional options for pixel scaling. At release you have native resolution or a super crunchy 320x200 equivalent. It would be nice to see support for mid range 640x360 and 960x540. Oh and the desktop icon sucks, so I made a better one. QuakeIcon48.zip (Edit: I noticed a bug on opening the game a second time, that HUD elements started getting filtered. Oddly on opening the game a thrid time, the filtering disappeared.)

Very intriguing.

Player One

UDMF can get a bit ambiguous. In theory GZDoom (Hardware Rendering/Software Rendering), ZDoom, LZDoom, Zandronium (Hardware Rendering/Software Rendering) and Eternity Engine all support UDMF, but in practice the level of support can vary quite a bit.

Sometimes cats will approach me on the street and act all playful and friendly, a couple have even adopted me on occasion. Dogs on the other hand, well, large dogs tend to be chill, but some small dogs really do not like me at all. They'll instantly freeze and raise their hackles when they see me.

Fake slopes is not a technique you often see, but it basically involves leaving the 1 pixel high walls untextured so that the flats all blend together. I think Requiem had some, along with other interesting bits of trickery.

In turn, Year's Nihility is what taught me how to do ambient sounds in Boom.

Getting back to working on this after a year's hiatus.

There was this one time I spend a few days writing up a very specfic npc, who was secretly the brother of one of the elven player characters and would move the plot forward by revealing that he was actually a drow. And I detailed this guy quite extensively, full backstory, rolled all his stats, did all his classes and spells, equipment, everything. Because he was going to be a major recurring character, I would need all that background to play him and improvise as necessary. But things, well, things didn't work out. So picture the scene, if you will. The party have returned to their base of operations, a small town on the frontier. But it appears abandoned. Some buildings have been burnt down, there are signs of fighting. Something bad happened here. And at the town center, they encounter a lone elf, his white robes and silver armour splattered with blood. Now at this point I had intended the npc to open his arms and say, "At last my brother we meet again." Pass a hand in front of his face, removing his magical glamour to reveal that he's really a dark elf and smile, saying, "These poor people. They thought I was you." I thought that would be a nice dramatic way to introduction this antagonist to the story. But the party's cleric had other ideas. Oh, yes. Because before the npc has said a single word, the cleric player says, "I step forward and cast Plane Shift on him." Ohhh... what does that spell do exactly? I look up the spell. "Well ok, but this guy seems alert, you'll have to roll initiative for that." We roll initiative. The cleric wins. "Well, I see here that this spell requires a touch attack in order to..." The cleric rolls a natural 20. Ahhh..... Wait, saving throw. I check the spell, yes there's a saving throw, great! I secretly roll the npc's saving throw. He fails. Of course, this guy is really a Drow, he has innate magical resistance! I work out the modifers for his magical resitance, and make the roll, again secretly because the players won't know about this. He fails. Son of a bitch. So in the end this guy opens his arms and says, "At last my brother we meet aaaggggggrrrrrrhhhhhhhh...." and promptly gets sucked into the Elemental Plane of Fire, never to be seen or heard of again.

I pretty much spent the past year playing Total War Warhammer II. According to Steam I played over 2000 hours. (Didn't get much mapping done.) So I guess that's my favorite, though I did play an awful lot of Medieval II back in the day, and Dawn of War was a pretty fun RTS adaptation of 40K's squad mechanics. I think Warhammer is probably the happest marriage of Total War and content. In the historical titles, CA was always stretching things or straight up making stuff up to create unit diversity. Whereas in Games Workshop's fantasy universe that diversity inherently exists, along with the individual Hero units, Monsters and magical abilities. I can't help but feel that Warhammer II is the Total War CA always wanted to make. And Skaven are awesome.