The Screenshot Thread

[coldvvvave]

More or less a companion post to my Tarkov rant. Quality is not very good as I ripped screens from already compressed video. For some reason Bandicam tanks my performance in screenshot mod. Videos are ok but not screenshots every 1 second.

[Spacewalk]

Today it’s multiplayer mods.

Painkeep

PK had such an air of quality about it you’d be excused for thinking it was a commercial product. I would go as far as to say that this is the de facto deathmatch experience. Get the bots here.

Deathmatch Essentials

You can find the mod here, “dme11.zip” is what you want. DME mostly adds extra animations to the game so now you can see what weapon you are using reflected on the player model. You can also crouch. They claim that it runs on a 8MB machine so if you are seriously RAM deficient you can still play Quake with this mod.

Horror Show

You can find the mod here, “horror.zip” specifically. It’s a chainsaw wielding maniac or a Shambler against a team of weenies. When I saw that Friday 13th game I had an instant flashback to this except this is super basic.

Quake Soccer

You can find the mod here, “soccer3.zip” was the version I played. Unfortunately this isn’t the one where you kick a head around and shoot off your guns. It does have bots, bots that don’t have no game plan but bots all the same.

[Chaz]

Painkeep

PK had such an air of quality about it you’d be excused for thinking it was a commercial product. I would go as far as to say that this is the de facto deathmatch experience. Get the bots here.

I remember Painkeep. The Air Fist and the tins of beans. That’s about all I remember mind. Seems so long ago now.

[kaicooper]

Transformers: Devastation

[chopper]

More Snowrunner. It is a very screenshottable game.

[SephKing]

Stormland

[LexW]

Yeah it’s weird - to me a lot of this Quake stuff actually has more of a “long aeons ago” vibe than, say, early and mid 90s JRPGs and the like, even though they were technically longer ago, probably because I’ve thought about them a lot more since, both in terms of replaying some of them, and because games in a similar enough style to put you in mind of them have come out. Whereas nothing like Quake 1’s wonderful explosion of both “vital at the time” (DM Essentials, Painkeep) and bizarre and wonderful stuff (like Airquake or Quake Rally) mods has really happened since, and by 1999 or so Quake 1 had become large forgotten because of Half-Life, Q2, Unreal Tournament, and so on, and their mods.

[SephKing]

Sea of Thieves

[Spacewalk]

I found a page full of bots that has another bot for Painkeep on it (how are any of these sites still up?). It’s a bit easier than those Reapers so if you’re a pud you might have a better time. If you’re wondering why it doesn’t work that’s because there’s a progs.dat in the pak1 file so rename your existing PK progs to something else and then it will work.

Find these following maps over at Quaddicted.

Soul Of Evil

Two episodes of future warriors in fantasy landscapes await you as well as an arena mode to slake the thirst of fans of ‘Invasion’ style gameplay.

Soul Of Evil: Indian Summer

SOE’s excellent sequel. Takes the fantasy theme even further and the difficulty much further. God damned difficult but so good.

Quoth

It might only have two completed maps which are remixes of Quake maps but there’s a few test maps to look at too. It’s pitched more as a mappers resource and it’s common to see Quoth stuff turn up in maps post 2008 which makes it a bit of an essential mod.

[TheDreamlord]

Snowrunner. Slightly starting to grind now, after 33 hours. It also has some dick moves under its sleeves which I don’t appreciate. Still … I haven’t played anything else the last couple of weeks.

[Chaz]

Sea of Thieves

Really would like to play this, just wish there was a PVE server option. Just not interested in PVP at all.

[SephKing]

To be fair, there is very little PVP in the game. There are only a few groups of players per server. I’ve played the game for about 7 hours and have been in three fights against other players. The fact that they are so rare adds a lot of tension to the game if you see an enemy ship and / or your ship is full of loot you haven’t sold.

Overall I quite like it as playing with a few friends with some drinks now and again. The only negative for me is that it can get a bit monotonous sailing long distances and the melee combat is extremely simple.

[kaicooper]

Transformers: Devastation

[Spacewalk]

Pulling out the big guns tonight.

Rubicon

That’s the rusted look that you only get in Quake. A bit long in the tooth since you’re only killing human enemies and their dogs.

Rubicon 2

Three maps that you can play in any order. A gigantic improvement over the first Rubicon due to the addition of more monsters to kill and some environmental touches.

Rubicon Rumble Pack

This is like an extreme version of R2. Hands down my favourite techbase mapset it’s just so beautiful to look at. I mean look at that screenshot, isn’t that the kind of place that you’d want to be fighting invaders from a runic hell dimension in. All the maps are huge and super detailed even the start map is totally overdone.

[Spacewalk]

Kids ask your dad what these are.

[Spacewalk]

So if I’m reading this right then this is an archive of the dearly departed Telefragged. I bet there’s a lot of shit in there that I’m missing, it was the place for mods even more than Planetquake was but it’s over 12 GB big and I’m not game enough.

In the Shadows

Adds stealth to Quake but don’t go thinking that it’s going to be Thief or even Thief with guns. It was setting itself up to be a major project but it just wasn’t to be. The author later went on to be part of the Arcane Dimensions core team so at least the love lavished upon all those assets wasn’t wasted.

Honey

Has a real thing for massive architecture, particularly chains and the rustiest machinery you will ever see.

Explore Jam 1

Two maps of switch hunting and slope jumping.

Explore Jam 2

Even more of a test of your movement skills than the previous one. By the time you’re done you should be a master.

[Kiril]

Some from Among Trees a new survival game up in early access on Epic. I am in love with the forests, they feel alive.

From shabby cabin

to new home

with trees

old construction

and beautiful water

and friendly birds

bunnies

not so friendly bears

oh dear

“Hello, I want to eat you please”

[SephKing]

If I remember correctly the bottom is Missile Command. Think the first time I saw it was watching Terminator 2. I started gaming around the snes/mega drive era. On the one hand that makes me feel very old but, on the other, it’s pretty amazing to have lived through the evolution of games from the 16 bit era to where they are today. Always been fascinated by technology and can’t wait to see how games further evolve over the next 20 years, especially with VR technology.

Red Dead Redemption 2

[Spacewalk]

Nehahra

The mod has a prequel that’s a three hour long film and there’s no way that I’m watching that again so no screenshot. The mod itself is a classic, two of the best single player episodes you’ll play. Then there’s an expansion episode on top of that, ambition was not in short supply here. Comes with its own engine but Quakespasm will run it no problem.

Contract Revoked

CR’s first map is one of my favourite settings ever: impossibly vast libraries. But with a difficulty level this high it’s not wonder that contract didn’t last.

Arcanum

Starting your mapset in a graveyard outside of a mansion is a great way to make a first impression. It should be a case study in architecture in Quake maps.

[SephKing]

Sea of Thieves