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id Software Q&A-DOOM III MP Clarification

[Aug 24, 2002, 9:15 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

FiringSquad's QuakeCon 2002 report is now online, offering their impressions of the DOOM III presentation, John Carmack's address to the attendees, some highlights of the Carmack Q&A, and more. They cap things off with their own Q&A with designer Tim Willits and animator Fred Nilsson of id, discussing DOOM III's single-player focus, multiplayer support, weapons, interactivity with the levels, NPCs, monsters, and more. It should be noted that Tim's answer to a question about multiplayer scalability offers relief for those concerned about John Carmack's comments about four-player multiplayer support, saying: "Doom 3 multiplayer will be fully scalable. It will be a peer to peer system. We haven't started working on it yet. Tell everyone not to panic - it will be fine. John just forgot to mention it'll be scalable past four players."

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Re: Its a single player game

Aug 25, 2002, 23:10

Black Manta

32 is on the ball. That's pretty much what I meant when I said revolutionize multiplayer. I knew someone would say "but! but! id hasn't done jack to revolutionize multiplayer!!" Doom introduced deathmatch, Quake had first client server, and the first real mods came from these two games. Quake II was more single player, but SO many people played Q2 for its network code and built in varients. Then Q3 came out, which we all know really boosted the online community (whether you liked the q3 gameplay, thats another issue). Now I'm not saying that id has single handedly is responsible for what multiplayer first person shooters are today (TFC, Counterstrike and UT come to mind), but id certainly has revoultionized it on more than one occasion. Doom III will not be one of those times; they are revolutionizing much more - the entire gaming atmosphere and 3D world. So many people are so quick to jump on id's back about this or that. They really are the true professionals and industry leaders. This "controversy" is nothing new, it comes with the job of being the trend setter.

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Comment [quote="Black Manta"Aug 25, 2002, 23:10]32 is on the ball. That's pretty much what I meant when I said revolutionize multiplayer. I knew someone would say "but! but! id hasn't done jack to revolutionize multiplayer!!" Doom introduced deathmatch, Quake had first client server, and the first real mods came from these two games. Quake II was more single player, but SO many people played Q2 for its network code and built in varients. Then Q3 came out, which we all know really boosted the online community (whether you liked the q3 gameplay, thats another issue). Now I'm not saying that id has single handedly is responsible for what multiplayer first person shooters are today (TFC, Counterstrike and UT come to mind), but id certainly has revoultionized it on more than one occasion. Doom III will not be one of those times; they are revolutionizing much more - the entire gaming atmosphere and 3D world. So many people are so quick to jump on id's back about this or that. They really are the true professionals and industry leaders. This "controversy" is nothing new, it comes with the job of being the trend setter. [/quote]

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