Well played everyone. 

 

 

USA is now doomed. Trump will destroy America. 

for your bottomless political insight that everyone on this message board about Quake needed to read. 

"Talk about anything in here"

;) 

 

 

Does any of the 28K+ posts in this thread explain who's abusing the general? 

This election was the psychic and legislative instatiation of an ongoing assault on the imagination of a shared (inter)national fabric - of discourse *and* of bodies. 

Does any of the 28K+ posts in this thread explain who's abusing the general?
You got it wrong! Abuse is the name of the general, like Doctor Strangelove: General Abuse. 

 

 

Was a pretty fun 2D sidescroller back in the day. Dang mutants scared the crap outta me back when I was like 10. That napalm gun though, hooboy! 

Never played it but I just googled it and I do remember the cover artwork. Never was a big fan of this type of games, except for Contra (very fun in coop) and Shinobi (because ninja). 

Is pretty cool. Gets ridiculously hard in the later levels. 

Someone recently asked about QME sans the installer. Here it is: qME31full.zip 

Mod packaging question. Which is better, to use pak files or have everything loose in folders? 

The list of comments on the Quaddicted page for Arcane Dimensions became taller than the list of files in the mod only about a month ago.

Just a neutral observation. 

...which reminds me I still have to play AD_skanky a.k.a. Froggy Frogbosom :p and complete my reviews, preferably before 1.5 comes out, thus adding yet another comment. Been sidetracked. Hmffff... playing Quake is a lot of work! 

theres no particularly difference between pak and whatever loose , if your mod contains a lot of sounds, mdls and all that shite(sorry) , just stick with pak 

I'm sure sock has been hard at work to ensure AD 1.5's filecount will outpace the comments, at least for the next few months. 

.Pak was only useful to id as very minor form of copyright protection. It serves no purpose whatsoever in Quake mods in 2016. All it does is make patching your mod more bothersome, and annoys end users who might modify your mod on their own harddrive.

Put all your stuff in a .zip file with proper directories and ship it. 

yup, shove it all in a zip, rename it to pk3, and then call it done. the user doesn't even have to decompress anything! assuming the engine supports it.

pk3s or paks are handy with engines that can download them - especially if you want you .lit files to be downloaded at the same time.
but hey, screw coop+deathmatch and/or decent engines and just fill up their harddrive with a thousand more files with which to bog down windows' shitty filesystem even more.

that said, .pk3 don't work in every engine, and .pak tools suck (including for the mythical people that actually care enough to try hacking/breaking your creation).

Hilarity always ensues when files inside different packages conflict, so lets just put another z infront of the filename, that'll fix it! On the other hand, loose files are easier to diagnose, and easier to corrupt too.

whatever you do has downsides, so just do whatever the hell you personally prefer for other modders to do, and hopefully the people who like you mod will hope your other preferences too.

I personally favour packages over loose, but then I can get away with pk3s for the junk that I package, and you probably can't. 

Pretty much the same-titled discussion my arse has the morning after the previous night's curry.