I fired up the launcher, checked my library, and viola it was there.

one of the greatest sp fps ever! and all the mp mods weren't too bad either

Q2Lithium II w/hook rail only instagib all night long baby

man.. in 1997 i was playing Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack... from my dorm room in the AF.

Anybody happen to know if the gamma slider of the Bethesda version of Hexen II works? Because it doesn't work on the Steam version.

Who here doesn't already own a copy of this game for the past 2 decades?

For those that don't know there's 2 great mods:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp
or
https://www.moddb.com/mods/berserkerquake2

Both have impressive effects and graphic enhancements. I'd say Quake2xp is closer to the original look, just waay prettier. Beserker looks great too but is darker in general.

Either way you can't go wrong.

fakespyder wrote on Aug 12, 2020, 22:21:
Who here doesn't already own a copy of this game for the past 2 decades?

For those that don't know there's 2 great mods:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp
or
https://www.moddb.com/mods/berserkerquake2

Both have impressive effects and graphic enhancements. I'd say Quake2xp is closer to the original look, just waay prettier. Beserker looks great too but is darker in general.

Either way you can't go wrong.

I got rid of mine, but kept their keys just in case. It's nice to have them back. Now, they need to Doom!

Cool. More abuse of the "FREE" word.

It's not free if we're forced to use a launcher we don't want to use.

Not only forced to use your launcher, but to jump through all the hoops in that process, and forced to attach ourselves, as an account, to your database of accounts.

deqer wrote on Aug 12, 2020, 23:48:
Cool. More abuse of the "FREE" word.

It's not free if we're forced to use a launcher we don't want to use.

Not only forced to use your launcher, but to jump through all the hoops in that process, and forced to attach ourselves, as an account, to your database of accounts.

Yep, that's the catch.

I hope I can download, copy the game datas, and use third party binaries to play the games on any computer and OS.

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RaZ0r! wrote:
Q2Lithium II w/hook rail only instagib all night long baby

Man after my own heart with those words.... bless you sir *tear* (assuming you're male)

Easier and more useful just to buy it on Steam for $1.50 .

Acleacius wrote on Aug 13, 2020, 00:56:
Easier and more useful just to buy it on Steam for $1.50 .

But it's not free.

Didnt they release a ray-traced version of this game like 6 months ago? Or was that just a demo?

I didn't even know they also had their own launcher. Quake][ really was awesome back in the day though. Probably still awesome now but I have old sucky reflexes now instead of young spry reflexes.

VaranDragon wrote on Aug 13, 2020, 02:33:
Didnt they release a ray-traced version of this game like 6 months ago? Or was that just a demo?

Quake 2 RTX on steam.

ColoradoHoudini wrote on Aug 12, 2020, 21:51:
man.. in 1997 i was playing Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack... from my dorm room in the AF.

Don't know why but I connect the Quake 2 Test Release to Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

VaranDragon wrote on Aug 13, 2020, 02:33:
Didnt they release a ray-traced version of this game like 6 months ago? Or was that just a demo?

I think you need to have the game data to play the full game as the download of the RTX version only shipped with the shareware game data. Don't have an RTX card so I don't know for sure. Berserker Q2 looks nice enough on my GTX 1060. I wish someone would release high-detail model pack for the enemy characters to use with the mod.

I tried the RTX version, worked surprisingly well on my system (RTX 2060) but there was a huge problem which made it unplayable for me. For some reason they messed up the input latency and there was no fix at the time. Any single key or mouse press was terribly laggy, somewhere along the line of 100-200ms at least....Has anyone tried it lately, did they maybe fix that shit in the meantime?

Okay, just googled it for a bit. No fix for this.

- Quake 1 to this day with the Darkplaces engine, is beautiful specially the non tech levels, great gameplay, excellent expansions, and amazing campaign mods (Arcane Dimensions, etc, etc, etc, go to www.quaddicted.com, tons of high rated SP maps)
Fans going strong with non-stop new maps releasing often.

- But Quake 2, though excellent in multiplayer, has a joke SP action.
Enemies that run around instead of shooting you, or stand rooted to the ground.
One enemy behind every previsible corner as expected.
Hidden doors with enemy in un-aired closets that spent all day there just waiting for you.
Fuzzy faces, samey corridors, go there and back and get lost and repeat gameplay.
Boring.
Fans' works basically died rapidly years ago.

- No wonder Quake 3 had no single player campaign.

I preferred even the Juggernaut Quake 2 crappy campaign total conversion for better, more interesting gameplay, warts and all, specially in later maps.

A couple weeks ago played Quake 2, couldnt't finish it, hated every dumb game decision.
Doggedly, finished Quake II The Reckoning expansion, boooring.
Should try Ground Zero again, don't remember much.

I suppose there are good SP levels, but the base mechanics will be the same poor mix.


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Or you could get the Quake games completely launcher-free from GOG.

Just sayin'.