Hello... Been A While

[Apocalypse]

How is everyone doing?
Me..... Had alot of health problems the past 4 or 5 years. Getting better now. Just ordered parts for a new puter.
Still here and missing vogon.
Apoc

[dyn]

Hey, long time no see!

Glad to see you are back and doing better. Kimmy is doing OK?

VOGON is still online, but we seriously need some new games or something around old games. I am exploring a few options around that, but it would require total site overhaul and diff strategy and a new playerbase.

[SD]

What are people even playing these days anyway? I stopped gaming years ago for various reasons so I'm completely out of the loop. I played a bit of Q3 here recently when I found the USB stick with my cfg on and I discovered that after years of not gaming, I reaallllllly suck compared to how I used to play.

[Fierfaks]

The less you play, the more you lose your skills.

[Apocalypse]

Guys.. Got my 250mb xfinity blast back. I am no longer working when puter gets going i plan on coming back to play... And give Dyn and vogon any help i can give as always.

[Apocalypse]

Ohh.... Kimmy says hello and she misses everyone. She said even SD lol

[GR1T]

I'll be looking for you on the COD4 server. I want to show you my knife.

[dyn]

What are people even playing these days anyway? I stopped gaming years ago for various reasons so I'm completely out of the loop. I played a bit of Q3 here recently when I found the USB stick with my cfg on and I discovered that after years of not gaming, I reaallllllly suck compared to how I used to play.

A lot of stuff, Fortnite is free and popular and also there are alternatives, some also free. Of course, they earn by selling you stuff in the game. The only problem is those are games are very tied to the companies and their servers, and practically impossible to mod or set up dedicated servers. Another problem: with any mega-popular game be ready to play all day long with 10 year olds, which will be highly annoying, especially with voice on.

Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is also free for a few years already, and has a pretty stable user-base. Dedicated servers are possible, which is what we like, in the game those are called 'community servers' to differentiate them from the official servers.

In case you missed it - DOOM co-developer John Romero is ready to release SIGIL, a new episode for The Ultimate DOOM! Yes, 1995 game, and the original DOOM was finished in 1993 already, the ultimate edition added 4th episode, and now in 2019 5th episode will be added! It will be out in a few weeks and for best experience anyone playing it should use a modern engine like GZDoom or similar. All you need is the original .wad and a new engine. Will make a thread about it when it's released. He also released E1M8B and E1M4B in 2016.

[SD]

What are people even playing these days anyway? I stopped gaming years ago for various reasons so I'm completely out of the loop. I played a bit of Q3 here recently when I found the USB stick with my cfg on and I discovered that after years of not gaming, I reaallllllly suck compared to how I used to play.

A lot of stuff, Fortnite is free

Heard of it, know a few people whose children play it? Is it a "vogon-ish" game?!

and popular and also there are alternatives, some also free. Of course, they earn by selling you stuff in the game. The only problem is those are games are very tied to the companies and their servers, and practically impossible to mod or set up dedicated servers. Another problem: with any mega-popular game be ready to play all day long with 10 year olds, which will be highly annoying, especially with voice on.

Oh yeah, VC can be annoying in games. Back in the day we used to use Vent here of course, and for a short time TS. I run 2 Discord servers of my own and admin about 8 others. I've recently taken a break from Discord though, was getting on my nerves, need at least another week off.

Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is also free for a few years already, and has a pretty stable user-base. Dedicated servers are possible, which is what we like, in the game those are called 'community servers' to differentiate them from the official servers.

Yeah I'm fairly familiar with TF2, never tried it but I know it's popular. Seems more Vogonish

In case you missed it - DOOM co-developer John Romero is ready to release SIGIL, a new episode for The Ultimate DOOM! Yes, 1995 game, and the original DOOM was finished in 1993 already, the ultimate edition added 4th episode, and now in 2019 5th episode will be added! It will be out in a few weeks and for best experience anyone playing it should use a modern engine like GZDoom or similar. All you need is the original .wad and a new engine. Will make a thread about it when it's released. He also released E1M8B and E1M4B in 2016.

Can't beat DOOM. It has epic nostalgic value for for me, especially D2. Broke both my ankles when I was a kid and spent the entire summer holidays playing nothing but D2. I didn't enjoy D3, too dark, too different, same reasons I didn't enjoy Quake 4.

[dyn]

Best remake is DOOM 4 (DOOM 2016) and DOOM Eternal, which will be released this year.

DOOM 4 (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiinO9JPUGw

DOOM Eternal – Official Gameplay Reveal (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGq8Ee2gOe4

[QueenKimmy]

Hi Everyone!!!

[dyn]

Hi Kimmy! Great to see you around!

Maybe more will join - if enough people are interested we can setup one Q3 server with custom maps, like this: viewtopic.php?p=32711#p32711

[QueenKimmy]

Hi Dyn! Missed ya!

[dyn]

Hi Dyn! Missed ya!

Thanks!

[dyn]

Apoc, this may be interesting for you, DOOM 3 expansion pack The Lost Mission, but you maybe already know about it. Certain elements were incorporated into DOOM 4, like that stone block hitting the ground @ 1:30:00 and similar. It has weapons and enemies from DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil as well.

DOOM 3: The Lost Mission walkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7jOYuwB3A

[Apocalypse]

Apoc, this may be interesting for you, DOOM 3 expansion pack The Lost Mission, but you maybe already know about it. Certain elements were incorporated into DOOM 4, like that stone block hitting the ground @ 1:30:00 and similar. It has weapons and enemies from DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil as well.

DOOM 3: The Lost Mission walkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7jOYuwB3A

Looks good will have to try it. I have most of the stuff for doom 3.SIKK mod was awesome .
Thanks dyn. Oh and kimmy has been trying to play quake but no one on vogon

[dyn]

Sometimes a few players are on HQ-1, other times on NL. It would be best for all interested to join at the same time. Not many of Q3 players are still active, even years ago it was a few hundred online at the same time worldwide and declining.

Check Q3 real stats from 2009 and 2010, US 40-50 players and globally barely 100, if even, and that was 10 years ago!

So, yes, Q3 is done unless people decide to play and join. No other way around. Even if you sit on some server you may at best get 1-2 curious players, and sometimes even using hacks, because they can't handle 2 remaining players.

[SD]

That happened to me about 2 weeks ago, I was just bashing Ms Gauntlet for a while and then someone joined, then another, we had a few maps. People will sometimes join if they see human players connected.

[QueenKimmy]

Was looking at gametracker to see what games people are playing since we have been out of the loop for sometime now. Saw counter strike global offensive has like 20k servers. Not sure if that is a game we can put it on our own server or if dyn can mod a server. Im not real familiar with a lot of the games on the list but i figured that was a good place to look.

[SD]

I'm also out of the loop and probably suck at any game more aggressive than chess right now but I have to admit, I did enjoy my few rounds on Q3 a few weeks back. Might slip on later to see if anyone is playing.

[ES*AllyMcBeal]

Well, well! I saw some references to old map packs, and I took a look at my Q3 folder for maps and such. Here's what I've got tucked away:

Beryllium
ChaosHouse
CPMA
CraneWorks
CTF Maps
DeexDyne
DoctorsHouse
EvilClan
ExcessivePlus
FilePlanet
Generations MOD
JAX Maps
Kitty
Lego
LevelMaker
Map-Bot-Tools
MapTools
MasterCTF Maps
NewWorldClan
OSP Mod
PlusPlus Maps
PunkBuster
q3pointrelease_132.exe
Ryoko Skins
Simpsons_Map
SMPmapset
Threewave
Ventrillo
Vogon
X3 Maps
ZCTFS Maps

These are the folder names. The folders contain .zip .tar, and some other related stuff. If any map paks strike your fancy, I'll dig them out and post them for y'all!

[dyn]

In case you missed it - DOOM co-developer John Romero is ready to release SIGIL, a new episode for The Ultimate DOOM! Yes, 1995 game, and the original DOOM was finished in 1993 already, the ultimate edition added 4th episode, and now in 2019 5th episode will be added! It will be out in a few weeks and for best experience anyone playing it should use a modern engine like GZDoom or similar. All you need is the original .wad and a new engine. Will make a thread about it when it's released. He also released E1M8B and E1M4B in 2016.

It's out, finally!

SIGIL thread