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That was certainly part of it. OTOH, the actual language that Quake mods were written in, QuakeC, belongs in nightmares. And you might say it's not that bad.
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That was certainly part of it.
OTOH, the actual language that Quake mods were written in, QuakeC, belongs in nightmares.
And you might say it's not that bad. You might say that it's okay, given its domain. And then you realize that Xonotic is still, to this day, written largely in QuakeC. And then you start to feel a bit ill, just contemplating a codebase of that size in a language that actually has less abstraction powers than C.
- DiabloD3 10y agoAnd then you realize they gave me the ability to steer rockets and remotely detonate them on command. Combine that with the fact I grew up with Descent 2. Disclaimer: I've been banned from Nexuiz/Xonotic servers. For winning. Using their rules. Written in QuakeC.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWell, yes, but the language itself is a mess, so the codebase is a bit ugly.
- justin66 10y ago> I've been banned from Nexuiz/Xonotic servers. For winning. Using their rules. Written in QuakeC. Botting?
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThat would be me immediate idea. It's unlikely you'd be banned for winning if you weren't suspected of it. It's a community mostly consisting of migrants from Nexuiz, Quake, and Quake 3: Very competitive.
- DiabloD3 10y agoNope, but repeatedly accused of it even when the head developer of the engine said I wasn't. That community has infinite salt, but it made my day^Wweek^Wmonth^Wyear.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoOuch. Well, I guess it's time to move to QL, Q3, or QW. That sucks.
- DiabloD3 10y agoQuakeLive is basically dead due to id mismanagement (which QuakeLive is essentially Q3 + a CPMA-like mod), I switched to Nexuiz/Xonotic because QW died, and Q3's community is finally dying off. There's Reflex, but that community never really seemed to form, and there's also the newly announced Quake Champions game that is basically a QuakeLive-esque game via Doom 4's multiplayer engine (whereas Doom 4's multiplayer gameplay as-is is a lot like classic Doom/Doom 2 multiplayer). I'm looking forward to Quake Champions, but I'm afraid all the younger kids are going to bring too much salt to make it worth investing time into.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoQW and QL are livelier than you seem to think. God, I hope it's not actually through Doom 4's MP engine: Doom 4 MP was pretty bad. And there are other small scenes scattered here and there: Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball, Quake 2, Sauerbraten, Warsow, and so on. Seriously, have you tried Warsow? That might be your sort of thing.