Smackdown 184: Quake, rattle and roll

[Creole Ned]

Smackdown 184: Quake, rattle and roll
Date: Sunday, July 8th
Time: 6 p.m. PDT, 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. EDT
Game: Quake 4 demo
Gametype: Team DM or DM
Map: Speed Trap (Team DM) or Over the Edge (DM)

That's right, kids, we're trying something brand new for the Smackdown, namely the Quake 4 multiplayer demo. id has a link (http://www.idsoftware.com/downloads/shambler.php?id=13031) that will take you to a random site for the download or you can visit any of the usual places to grab the 251 MB file. The important thing is to get the current (recently released) demo, version 1.4.2. Earlier versions are not compatible with this one.

If we have enough people we will play Team DM on Speed Trap. If turnout is smaller we'll have a go at the Edge remake, Over the Edge in regular DM.

I highly recommend turning off shadows for performance purposes. You lose some eye candy but gain lots in the FPS department.

Hope to see youse there!

[Budly]

After installing I get a startup error that kills the whole thing.

[Tick]

At some point I intend to do Smackdowns again, but right now my monitor is on it's last legs and I'm mostly using my laptop and remote desktop to have access to my pc, and there's no way I could play any modern games that way, so it's going to have to wait until I have the spare cash to buy a new monitor.

[Q]

Tick, I have a 17" and a 19" CRT monitor sitting around collecting dust. You're more than welcome to one of them if you want to swing by sometime and pick it up.

[Creole Ned]

I'm planning on having the server up early Thursday evening for a test-run. Feel free to swing by then to give it a whirl.

[Paladin]

*BUMP*

Don't wait until 10pm tomorrow to download! :spank:

[Creole Ned]

Some tips:

- turning off shadows will greatly improve performance
- by default you will switch to whatever weapon you run across, even if you already have the weapon in your inventory. You can turn this behavior off under options.
- projectiles will go through teleporters
- the hidden area of the original Edge map is not in this particular remake
- you can't double jump :P

[Circuit]

Also, forget trying to dodge projectiles like in the UT games. It simply isn't viable in Q4. It's also the biggest reason why I suck at it.

[Q]

Ned's link no worky.

[Creole Ned]

The link is correct but apparently doesn't like to be hotlinked. Anyway, if you go to id's site and find the link there it works. Or you could just grab the demo from FilePlanet, Fileshack or the other billion sites that host it.

[Budly]

Still getting an initialization error,

"Couldn't load scripts/main.script.

[Tai]

Still getting an initialization error,

"Couldn't load scripts/main.script.

Same here. :(

[Creole Ned]

Google turned up a few possible things to try.

Here's one that suggest sound config may be an issue (http://www.ravengames.com/board/showthread.php?t=4907).

Or it could be missing .pak files (http://www.q4max.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1730), possible corrupt download/bad install. Note this thread references the full version so they are listing pak files you wouldn't normally have, anyway.

Here's what my folder looks like for reference:

Quake 4 Multiplayer Demo:
CrashReports folder
Docs folder (has two .txt files)
q4base folder
q4mp folder

dbghelp.dll
libcurl.dll
Mss32.dll
mssvoice.asi
Quake4.exe
Quake4Ded.exe
uninst.exe
Quake 4 multiplayer demo web link

Quake 4 Multiplayer Demo\q4base:
pak00.pk4
pak01.pk4
quake4key

Quake 4 Multiplayer Demo\q4mp:
demos folder
config.spec
game000.pk4
game100.pk4
game200.pk4
gamex86.dll
Quake4Config.cfg

[Tai]

I'm starting to think I have some patch installed, and not the demo. my pak files start at pak013

[Creole Ned]

Try downloading from:

FilePlanet (http://www.fileplanet.com/178460/170000/fileinfo/Quake-4-Demo-(Multiplayer))

or

FileShack (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/10680/Quake+4+Multiplayer+Demo)

Filename of the download should be Quake4_Multiplayer_Demo.exe (Shack) or Quake4_v1.4.2_MP_Demo.exe (FP).

[Tai]

blue screen of death. I was going to win too. =P

[Creole Ned]

Clearly the game hates you.

Thanks to all who showed. We ended the official round with seven. I managed to drop from #2 to #4 in the last few minutes. Yay! Congrats to Circuit for the win.

http://martiancartel.com/smackdown/scores/sd184_score.jpg

[Tai]

I have the same clan as Orion, imagine that :)

[Orion]

In my defence, game crashed on me. I was doing pretty well otherwise.

[Tai]

funny, same here, and yet I'm not even listed.

[Q]

I trump the game crashes with a crying baby that wouldn't let me play :p.

[Tai]

I trump the game crashes with a crying baby that wouldn't let me play :p.

oh hardly, she started crying before the match started, I actually had two kills before I blue screened! It was good seeing Bridude and Orion though. :thumbup: