It looks like they are using capnbubs' models (Player, Rottweiler, Grunt) plus his Ogre which he had never published before. They might have locked that guy in a dungeon for the last years to do all the models for this remaster, maybe that's why he vanished for so long. 

So when you ripping and converting the Ogre for AQM? :P 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33T7NPxnEKI 

Interesting for the AQM would be the Ogre, Vore, Zombie and rocket launcher. However, with the models having md5 format, it isn't clear whether it's even technically possible to convert them properly. Right now, it rather looks like the port could use more of our assets, considering ammo and health boxes haven't been touched at all, for whatever reason. 

The MVG video mentions new prediction code, so multiplayer is clearly not vanilla NetQuake. 

I don't know what they used, but it's definately not QuakeWorld and the code feels a shitty as NetQuake has always been, if not worse.

Another problem is lack of capability to run dedicated servers. The dedicated servers are all on Azure Playfab and only in Matchmaking, game browser is all P2P, no dedicated server binaries, no -dedicated switch on client... 

KEX has its ups and downs and has still way to go I think, but it is clear that MachineGames went all out with the new episode: unlike the classic one they produced for the 20th bday, it looks like they aimed for community-level content this time around. It is top-tier stuff and may hopefully serve as an entry-point for people out there who had no idea that their olde Quake was capable of looking that good and make them start looking for more quality content to play. 

Yeah, Dimension of the Machine is way more detailed, but that's because as I understood from J.F. Gustafsson's QuakeCon'2021 interview, he made Dimension of the Past "the old way" - using WorldCraft editor and keeping maps within the original limitations, even the supplied .bat file to launch 2016 released DOPA uses winquake.exe.

He also added that Dimension of the Machine episode goes beyond that and I think he said that he used Trenchbroom this time, not sure about other mappers. And yes, they were clearly influenced by some of the modern community releases and also advances in the sourceports.

He called it "our MachineGames Quake modding group". Well I hope they will produce more content. 

Certain sections of the levels found within DotM has always a kind of RT shadows going on. Even though I disabled dynamic shadows (gets distracting pretty quick and I'm not used to see it in Quake), those sections stay the same. It's a pretty impressive and adds a nice atmospheric touch. Would love to see it implemented in the source ports we normally use, though I wonder if that is a possibility at all, considering the KEX version is now an official release. 

I still have my old Quake CD somewhere, so this was never an issue for me... but it's great that people who bought the Steam version can *finally* hear Trent Reznor's soundtrack, without hunting around for it. (Now, if only they didn't have to "hide" from YouTube's algorithms when doing Quake playthroughs...)

I've noticed something weird, though: every 5th level seems to play Track 10 (as heard in "Ziggurat Vertigo") instead of Track 11, even though the latter exists. Also, I'm pretty sure the .ogg files have mismatched titles (though it makes no difference in the game.) 

Nice catch. That's because for some reason ExM5 have "sounds" "10" in the worldspawn. So in this rerelease, Track 11 won't be played at all when playing original content.

I just checked the sources that Romero released in 2006, and ExM5 have "sounds" set to "10". Since they recompiled the maps (small cosmetic changes and fixes here and there), perhaps that is the reason. But it's weird because these source .MAP files are dated September 1996.

Interestingly, I found this peculiar entry in Quake's 1.06 (downloadable) shareware:

v1.02 -- Bugs fixed
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* Had to remove one ambient track from CD for retail

But it appears he didn't? 

One thing is certain, this port did set a new standard and custom engines will have to work to match its features. The new userbase will expect that the custom ports fully supports it, minus the obvious platform-specific stuff like Steam integration. 

But this thing with the ExM5 tracks doesn't happen in other source ports, right? I think they didn't touch the maps after the v1.01 release, so if tracks were changed later, it didn't happen via new entity definitions. 

So for example let's take E1M5 "Gloom Keep".
Right now there's four variants of it:

* 1996 Beta 3 Pre-release - uses track 8
* 1996 Regular release - uses track 11
* 2006 .MAP source - uses track 10
* 2021 enhanced - uses track 10

I don't think they hex-edited their BSP files :) Too bad .pak files do not contain file's timestamp information. 

Good catch. This version can definitely benefit from some community feedback about all the negative changes (wrong tracks, wrong backspeed, view bobbing disabled by default, etc.) if the developers are willing to fix them. Hopefully they will still do some updates for a while.

On the long run, I imagine the community will provide patches to fix most issues. 

I have reported your ExM5 music issue over at Doomworld where the Nightdive guys are watching.

In the meantime, I found a new glitch on my own: Flying gibs have low gravity. Looks like there's a dedicated variable for this and it's set to lower than normal. 

Some maps like ad_swampy seem to work. Some others like ad_tears definitively not. I´ve also tried some maps of Alkaline. They seem to work although the original menu is gone.

I´ve finally run the new episode mg1 with QSS, which despite some error messages, it runs until it crashes randomly during the game play.

So, for the time being I will stick to QSS or QS. I´m not playing Quake for just playing quake. I´m playing Quake for playing quakes´s mods. 

I would say it's a safe bet they will eventually do a conversion for the port and make it available as DLC. It's pretty much the most popular Quake mod by now after all. Might take a while, though. 

You mean to make Arcane Dimensions as downloadable addon for the Quake Enhanced version?

That would be great of course!

But to do that they have to ask permission from every author involved in creation of the assets. And also those, who's assets were borrowed - since mods often borrow such stuff from each other. But even if they manage to contact everybody, some stuff would need to be changed or removed, like the textures and models from other games that AD or other mods use.

I mean, imagine overhauling even like 25% of that gargantuan mod. 

Has anyone reported the r_gpuCulling 0 bug/fix? I've seen this bug and the dude had a 1080 Ti and was getting <1 fps :D 

We've had a lot of posts from sponge, an id employee with a ton of great info. Here are some interesting bits from he and some others:

white is quoted (with some edits)

1. they are actively looking for content for their add-ons with some parameters i'm starting to look around for stuff that's newer, popular, doesn't have assets from other games, and the authors are small in number and still contactble. i tend to have a recency bias since the new stuff is usually way cooler than the 90s stuff, and people are way less likely to be familiar with the modern community output contactble: fewer people to track down for legal docs

2. don't expect AD any time soon and not in it's current form (way too thorny due to use of H2 and other assets, team size and see #1 re: legal) you are free to load it in the engine as an add-on but expect issues if and until some tweaks are made to the engine

3.Henry -
the MG maps have doors with angles that are impossible in id1

Mclogenog —
yeah the doors use "movedir" which is a position offset rather than using "angle" and "lip" -- to be clear, that's just with the mg1 and dopa maps though, that's not the base engine

4. yea i don't expect QW players to play the new port seriously at all, completely different audience and requirements there heh


5. also re: soundtrack chat either here in the other channel, i ripped em myself using EAC, didn't bother to tag them though. the de-emphasized stuff i know is contentious but that's what EAC did by default so i went with it. it sounds like one of those cases where no matter what you do someone will complain heh

6. Speaking of which, why is nightmare a weird hybrid of Copper and id1?
sponge —
was an easy thing to do and it was one of the more blatant problems with the base game. nightmare shouldn't be easier than hard

7. Here's something from r/quake about getting mods to appear in menus etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/quake/comments/p9b311/how_to_host_mods_on_the_rerelease_multiplayer/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

8. and related: a project for hosting downloads that show up in the Add Ons https://github.com/RamblingMadMan/q1mods 

The amount of entitlement, whining and simple rudeness centered around this release is absolutely mind blowing. I am embarrassed to be a part of this community right now.

id tastefully updates the game as opposed to a horrid reboot, a fantastic new episode from community veterans with DM maps, they make matchmaking a thing, coop is doable and you can sideload mods. They included the OST for Quake and both the MPs! WTF? It's not perfect but man at least they did something. And you can play cross platform MP too!

The responses I've seen on QM from people who are supposedly adults are completely bonkers.

The good news? From a sampling of YouTube and Twitter the response outside the community has been very positive. 

Built-in and you can edit the navs for them in-engine. 

And most complaints don't make any sense:

"I hate the new models" (you can turn it off)
"I hate the dynamic lights" (you can turn it off)
"I want my old quake back" (it's still there)
"The new engine doesn't run my old mod" (you can still play it with quakespasm, like you always did)

:P 

imagine willingly performing damage control for id/bethesda/microsoft in the year of our lord 2021