QuakeWorld Turns 17 and This Day in Gaming History [Dec 18, 2013, 12:15 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Stories from our archive. First are a couple from yesterday, as it was
December 17th 1996 that the
QuakeWorld client was released by id Software and it was
December 17th 1996
1998 that Epic Games (at the time Epic MegaGames) announced both Unreal
Tournament and Unreal II. On to December 18th, it was
15 years ago today that
Starsiege TRIBES went gold. Here are more stories of note:
Splinter Cell Demo
(2002),
International UT2004 Demo (2004),
Tiberium Announced
(2007), ABIT Closes (2008),
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam shipped (2010), and
RAGE: The
Scorchers shipped (2012). Update: Corrected the year on the Unreal
Tournament/Unreal II link.
Dagnamit wrote on Dec 18, 2013, 11:50:nin wrote on Dec 18, 2013, 11:28:
UT99 - woot! Still the best.
I always preferred UT 2003. Was I the only one that thought quakeworld was kinda janky when it was first released? I actually preferred the original netcode for gameplay purposes. Of course, my 300+ ping might have had something to do with it.
Quake World added a lot of prediction to it, which flopped miserably, at least on dialup, with fast-twitch action.
I was in NBI, a regular clan that vied near the top, and finally quit after a Quake World match where I had rocket jumped from a lower to higher bridge over water (under heavy assault), the kind of stuff I loved. Sudden lag, and I found myself underwater running in the corner.
The predictor, combined with bursty twitch changes, just couldn't handle it. As it was almost all Quake World by that point, screw it.
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