Quake 4

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » October 24th, 2005, 8:25

What's the multiplayer like on Q4 Fatherjack?

*awaits indepth and well written review*

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » October 24th, 2005, 10:28

2000 words minimum please FatherJack. I had a quick go of MP over the weekend and it's okay, your standard Quake DM affair, frantic fun but ultimately very shallow.

Eurogamer has a review of the SP which is pretty accurate from what I've seen with a good proporation of the game completed. I need to go through again on a harder difficulty, it's just too easy on the second diffculty setting.

Post by **FatherJack** » October 24th, 2005, 10:45

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:What's the multiplayer like on Q4 Fatherjack?

*awaits indepth and well written review*

Haven't actually managed to play against anyone yet - no games show in the in-game browser. I don't know if I need to open up ports or what.

Had a go of FEAR MP DM and was rather chaotic, but wanted to try the other game modes before comparing, as non-slomo DM isn't really the selling point.

Ran around a few levels of Q4 DM and they look rather good - Q3DM17 (The Longest Yard) returns, plus a rather tasty remake of Q2DM1 as Over The Edge. Much smoother and more responsive on my PC than FEAR, and the levels look a lot better too - the MP FEAR levels were at odds with the design seen in SP, some being a bit blocky and reminiscent of HL1 mods like Action.

I'll try using XFire to connect to games tonight.

Quake 2 - style Total Conversion now to be ported to Quake 4:
http://www.planetquake.com/meanarena/quake2_lostmarine/

Edit: talking of noCD patches I hear they have some at www.megagames.com under "PC Game Fixes" - rather a popup-intensive site though, I'm told.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » October 24th, 2005, 12:15

FatherJack wrote:Haven't actually managed to play against anyone yet - no games show in the in-game browser. I don't know if I need to open up ports or what.

It worked straight away for me, I have all out-going ports open though.

Post by **FatherJack** » October 24th, 2005, 18:19

spoodie wrote:
FatherJack wrote:Haven't actually managed to play against anyone yet - no games show in the in-game browser. I don't know if I need to open up ports or what.
It worked straight away for me, I have all out-going ports open though.

seta net_master0 "192.246.40.28:27650"

in the autoexec.cfg file in the q4base dir did it for me. Guessing it tries to resolve at install time, and was only (later) unblocked by the firewall when I first ran it.