is the daylight Celadia Village. The z-fog is just perfect, and it oozes atmosphere from every polygon seam. 

You know I was just thinking about Enclave last night and wondering if I should get it as the "Fantasy/Gothic" section on my new PC (it arrived, whoop!) is sadly lacking.

Can you tell me a bit more about the combat - how difficult is it, how hectic is it, is there any/much instant death stuff, what is using the save points like?? I've heard it can be frustrating due to the lack of normal saving, how did you find it??

Cheers... 

...anyone else's opinions would be valued too, thanks. 

There is hardly any instant death, the only one I had was when an elven archer managed to fill her bow with 8 or so arrows and then launch them into my face - owww :)

Combat can be good when its 1v1 or 1v2. But in the later levels it can be as much as 1v4-7 and it kinda just degenerates into a "who can hit faster?!" kinda battle, but the 1v1's can be quite good.

Also depending on what character you use, some have access to stuff like bombs and firebombs that you can throw, a novelty really but its quite fun dropping a bomb onto someones head ;D

Err back to difficulty, I found it very difficult on medium skill, but this isn't the kinda game I usually play so maybe I just suck, there were points where I wanted to give up cos I kept dying but wondering what the next area / level would look like kept me going :) 

I get this error trying to run GLQuake or GLquakeworld (after installing qw2.30client).

"This application has failed to start because glide2x.dll was not found, Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Now my problem is that I don't have my quake CD anymore and I was wondering whether there was a way to fix this without installing it again? 

...that installing glide2x.dll may help. 

remove opengl32.dll from your quake dir. 

Opengl32.dll removed and all is good. Thank you greatly. 

For gothicy goodness I recommend Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. 

you could do bombjumps in ....but that was before release... 

Hmmm. I am having a hard time with my optical mouse in Quake. Works fine in UT2K3Demo, but in Quake, it feels like it varies between properly responsive and quite sluggish, and often refuses to turn for a crucial micro second.

Any ideas / solutions?? 

I have a Microsoft Intellimouse and sometimes it obviously thinks it amusing to spasmodically do a turn then point diagonally upwards, it also does this in EnemyTerritory too, 

You didn't install any special software like IntelliPoint when you installed your mouse, did you? Sometimes it interferes with things. The default mouse driver works fine for optical mice. 

Did you get my email? 

I just use the default driver that windows assigns and I have no problems in any games. 

We're discussing it at the 'mo.
Expect a reply soonish. 

You could try running one or both of these parameters from the command line or your quake shortcut, see if it helps:

-noforcemaccel -noforcemparms 

http://www.doom3.com/

i came. not even anything there expect a front page and some sound... but it still exciting. 

w00t!
that monster looks like a black shambler to these eyes. 

is the Hell Knight, is it not? From the end of the leaked demo... 

Kell i think your closer than me.

As usual. :P 

...cheers for the thoughts guys. Nope, no extra software installed AFAIK.

Fribbles I will try that thanks.

Checking in the Control Panel > Mouse, I haven't noticed anything untoward except that "Enhance Pointer Precision" is set ON. Turning it off slows down the mouse in Windows but doesn't seem to have an effect so far in Quake.. 

p|a is back up. I still don't understand what you were asking about/for? 

does anyone know any maps converted from other games (doom, duke3d, quake, whatever else) for quake2? dm supported, of course.

thanks in advance 

btw, "ish" maps would be good too - maps using themes from other games, or "ish" layout remakes.