no, I meant real secrets, a secret level would have been nice, a cave level somewhere you could kill some secret lab experiment about a new weapon or, in the game trend, to give you a weapon upgrade so you could kill
more stroggos on hard skill :). 

...very, very dark. Not overall but so far filled with unrealistically pitch black shadows. 

that's teh d3 engine for you :} 

... then how about the lack of Quad damage in singleplayer? I was looking forward to finding a few scattered around, nomatter how 'unrealistic' it may be. 

I was looking forward to finding a few scattered around, nomatter how 'unrealistic' it may be.

"The Stroggs would NEVER put their quads here." 

Yeah. I don't think I like the D3 engine to be honest, or at least not the way it's been executed so far.

Harsh lighting + complex textures > having impressive designs + clear visibility = dissappointed smables 

the failure of shadow-volume realtime light at convincing outdoors illumination has never been so apparent ;/ 

smables means shambler you dump russkie! 

awesome game!
the sound rocks everything i know - this probably is the first game that really makes me realize what a subwoofer can be good for. all the explosions and stuff (war athmosphere, similar to cod, but more accustucally intense) - great! the weapons sound cool, too, especially the machine gun (which usually sounds like a grandma taking a shit in most games).
there was also some nice looking machinery - one thing i appreciated about doom3, too.
i'm pleasantly suprised the game runs very smooth on my machine - in fact even better than doom3 - both in 800*600 + high quality settings. i experienced some minor slowdowns only once or twice.

the strogg player model doesn't look that good, though, it's not stroggy-mean enough, too skinny, orange and all...
why can't the dead marines be ragdolled??
and yeah, gameplay is extremely linear (in fact, there is *always* *only* one way), but i didn't expect it to be any different, so it's okay. still a cool game.

the stroggification comes too early in my view. i hope this doesn't mean the game is as short as i fear (i'm at the waste facility now, i think), because that would really suck ass. doom3 felt kind of long - in a positive way - but about q4 i will see... 

some maps after stroggification but before the Mech have choice of routes actually - just need to look around more 

About sounds, I thought the machine gun actually sounded pretty bad, dunno... just sounds so plastic, feels like a toy or something. Rest of the sounds are fairly good, music is pretty bleh though, sometimes it sounds like something you'd hear in some ww2 game or something. =\
Still enjoying the game though. 

tried mp: maps are cliche - 45 degree angles, trims , prefab walls - like ztn q2 maps . and many maps look the same 

I'm going a bit OR with this, but did anyone actually like the HL2 secrets? There were plenty of them, but I NEVER felt rewarded by them. I would spend ages stacking fucking crates up to reach a secret area and find a fucking box with a clip in it...

..thanks for nothing, bastards.

One thing I like to find is hidden areas, where the reward for finding the secret comes from a small area you can expklore that contains neat details or cool views onto another part of the level (such as a good sniping spot, or view of enemy patrols etc.) Finding a health pack or ammo is so cliche. 

a bit OT. 

 

While certainly not a carbon-copy of Q3 multiplayer, the speed, simplicity, and sense of "weight" in a Q4 deathmatch make it feel similar to me. In fact, I think this is the only decent, competitive deathmatch game to be released since Q3. Raven did a great job of incorporating the best aspects of the entire series into Q4, without sacrificing SP or MP gameplay.

For me, Christmas came early this year. 

no double jump here :\ 

I have a geforce 4 ti 4200 (128mb),
is Q4 gonna run ok on this card?
(athlon xp 2400, 1024mb ram)

or is it again time to buy a new card? 

I have the same setup, except with an athlon xp 2600. Runs fine for me at 640x480, medium quality, shadows enabled.

Then again, I hear there are some size queens who refuse to play in anything less than 1280x768, and throw tantrums if there's no antialiasing. Fuck you, size queens. 

I have a friend who has the same card, less ram, but I can't remember his cpu speed, it is amd also, it would be close to what you've got. He seems to play Quake4 ok, both SP and MP. I have not seen it running on his system myself though, I would imagine that there is a lot of stuff toned down. I can ask him about detail levels, resolution etc and how it runs and get back to you if you like?

I think he runs at 800x600 

 

....without anti-aliasing is like fist-rape without lube - ROUGH and really unpleasant to watch. End of story. 

From this we gather that you enjoy a good, lubed up fisting? 

I do. 

go buy 7800gt everyone!
you'll get absolutely different experience!
1280 + high setting + fps 60 and more = omg, constant ejacs, need more doom 3!

saying that as proud owner of hi-end hardware.