/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6947701
yes but Strogg are better for the said theme, i love Q1 but Fantasy and lovecraft is better than Q1's techbase assets, also its something that AVP-99, old Alien Trilogy and 80's movies til total recall had, atmosphere.

i was skeptic and 100% for the "quake 2 has shitty enemies" for a long time due to never knowing about nightmare/hard+ until i went on to check the old maps by curiosity, and its insane how good they are and how nasty they become unlike vanilla Q2, when they are used right.
Also Q1 is good with chunky textures since they were made with that in mind while Q2 ends up better with higher res since carmack made the engine with that in mind.

plus if my memory serves well, continuing with the 1st line about atmosphere, i remember that a guy was doing a Q2 10 map unity back in the days of Evolved, Inspired by the terraformer of TotalRecall and the PS1 alien resurrection game, and the bastard even got a mix of doom 3, that game and avp textures, and lazarus with the mission pack's enemies like the beta super tank and Q2Test's berserkers behavior. But he disappeared and the forums died along with the archive, shit was looking on par with Nehahra's stuff and the maps were huge

>>6894827
Look for Quake 2 Evolved by Richeliu2012

but don't expect the newest versions work on it, also the source port hates anything higher than its original resolutions.
I remember that someone has shown a patched exe for it on the quake mapping discord group but since it left that garbage, it forgot the link and how to do.
Mostly because KMquake2 and Yamagi are better

>>6890567
The Disintegrator was originally a weapon in Q2 but it was cut because TIMMY, rogue even tried to implement it back but they ran out of time.
Fortunately they reused the concept for Quake IV's Dark Matter Gun


>>6890608
it depends of Term's determination for it