I downloaded Yamagi Quake 2 and now have a new, clean, and functioning Quake 2 install.

I tried playing a map I had started years ago. It's better than I remember, but I'd forgotten that the .bsp goes in a pak file that has any custom textures. My map is full of red and black check texture.

Going by file dates in the original folder I apparently haven't done any Quake 2 since July 2010. 

Slightly Mechanical Destruction, get on it. 

That I'm in love with Sock's texture packs. Does such a good job. 

His Egyptian set is particularly impressive! 

a few friends of mine tried hldm the other day, with our own private server in DE. Good maps?

if anybody is interested to join... we're playing something like mon/tue nights. 

What region is this? States? 

 

What do I need to join? Just HL from Steam or HLSource or what? 

 

Add me to steam if you will =) It's Hipshot, there's tiger as avatar and I'm from Sweden.

I'm heading out for a beer now, but maybe when you and your friend have time later on or another day =) 

Serious "pro" deathmatch or the good old silly "muhahaha I am camping with traps around me and bugs in my hand" on crossfire and stalkyard? :> 

a mix, i'd say :D definitely not just camping and definitely no big skill

@hipshot added 

how do I pls save brightness/screensize/scale (to config?) so that I do not have to adjust every time I start a game again? 

There's an "adjust screen" in the console options config video, that gives 5 sec delay to keep or draw the settings. 

If you're asking about Quake, then any changes made on the Options screens should be automatically saved on exit. If not and you're running Windows, maybe Quake is in a folder located where it doesn't have write permissions. You can also try putting the settings in an autoexec.bat file in the ID1 folder 

autoexec.cfg he means 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CegMFrsW8AE7SMS.jpg:orig 

... the new pornQuake edition 

That depends on which engine you're using. Vanilla Quake engines only saves the resolution if you press D into the Video Options menu.

Brightness is usually always saved. 

I think he uses JoeQuake so he'd need to type cfg_savevars 1 in the console. 

quakespasm -heapsize 64000 -game quoth -zone 4096 -width 1600 -height 1200
after each start game is bright no matter what 

autoexec.cfg file, write
viewsize "100.000000"
gamma "0.990000"
scr_menuscale "1.5"
scr_sbarscale "1.5"
thanks 

I decided to play through some old-school Quake maps and thought it would be fun to pick on a mapper who had released several maps so that I could gauge 'improvement' as time moved on.

I used the maps listed at Quaddicted.com and selected Neil Manke's maps for no reason other than it was a name I recognised, and I remembered that he went on to create some HL maps.

However, I then Googled him to see what he was up to now (nearly 20 years after his maps I am playing) and ran into some kind of 'conspiracy' scenario with reports of him suddenly disappearing half way through a new gaming project. The thing is, there are reports of him being ill, suggestions that he had died, but a constant stream of 'nobody knows the truth'.

Does anyone here know what happened? Did he die and if not, why did he disappear? Did he ever get back into mapping for any games?