In the year one million and a half, humankind is enslaved by giraffe. 

http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/sparkjoy.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/04/31212955/MuDRaG_giraffe01.jpg 

Quick poll:

What is your favorite underemphasized mod? Don't answer with something like Quoth or AD. The point is underemphasized, the underdog mods no one/few have heard about. 

I remember playing a mod at one point which was a wave combat sort of thing - you'd go into a single arena and fight endless waves of monsters to try and get a good score. I actually quite enjoyed it. Don't remember what it was called though :( 

I don't think I've ever played any Quake mods other than Quoth and Arcane Dimensions. I played Quake very little after Quake II came out and didn't come back to it until years later. 

 

https://youtu.be/pRz_CG3DZb4?t=1m10s

this was a year ago, so the guy is talking about an older chip using a 28nm process. current chips are 16/14nm with 10nm just on the horizon. very soon we'll be at 5nm, the outer limit of conventional semiconductors. pretty amazing feat of engineering. 

I generally prefer maps to mods. But the better mods are cool. 

Drake mod because that's about the only other mod I have tried! 

Qonquer-mod!
It was used for Mapjam5 

I kinda liked the character of Madfox's mod...quirky in a very Quakey way. Reminded me of MDK. 

Like Shambler, I suppose I prefer single maps. 

Aside from "regular" mods, what Total Conversions have people played that are actually good? I've tried a few but they were just... weird and bad. I get that TCs tend not to be made any more but it seems like a few were produced back in the day. 

I liked it because you could spam d-pad to get a gib fountain. Also 2048 is nice! 

i would pick that travail mod, as a best mod evar 

I think the most useful mods for me are the MP bots Reaper and Omicron bots. Most of my mapping experience over the years has been with MP. I also think DMSP is awesome for a quick adrenaline rush. I would love to discover more SP mods though (besides the obvious Zer, Quoth and AD)

http://mrelusive.com/oldprojects/obots/obots.html

http://easttown.co.uk/quake/reaper.html

http://strlen.com/maps/dmsp/ 

Quake was the Unity of its time. Despite being great for making mods, it was actually awful making TCs for it. Anything that deviated too much from Quake's design was an unstable pile of hacks due to engine constraints, and anyone that tried to replace all of Quake's content with assets made from scratch ended up making awful crap due to asset format constraints in conjunction with limited and/or buggy tools. Things have improved somewhat, but we still get people making Q1 MDL models with inverted normal vectors, for example.

The kind of people who liked to try to push the limits of the engine's flexibility and create wholly new games using it are on UE4 and Unity now.

The fact that most Quake TCs are crap is a testament to how difficult its engine and tools actually were to work with, and to how talented the id Software team was. With this in mind, it becomes easier to judge Quake TCs by what they really are, and appreciate their upsides.

The X-Men TC, for example, had great looking models for its time, and good textures. Its gameplay was panned, but it's actually one of the most polished TCs out there. 

I started creating Citadel on the Quake Engine. Darkplaces specifically. It's limits, even with all the additions and special features of Darkplaces, made recreating System Shock untennable. Specifically crouch, prone, leaning, and any other changes to the player's collision hull size are buggy or unworkable.

Unity is what I switched to.

I still love Quake though.

-Quake Master 

 

I found out recently that the developer of Papers Please (and upcoming Return of the Obra Dinn) was one of the main dudes who did the Malice TC. I have fond memories of that one being fun, and put together pretty well as Quake TCs go.

Wonder if I should ever retry that or if it would not hold up even as a nostalgia thing. 

related link, a cool point cloud fog/smoke effect he's adding to Obra Dinn
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1329818#msg1329818 

Alternate spelling:Cuvfyfy in case Cuvfefe isn't unpronouncable enough.