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Of course. Arcane dimensions is the best thing to happen to quake in a long time, all real shooter fans are playing it and its new maps. If you haven't also catch up on the latest quake releases from the past 6 years, since bsp2 support was added, quakes been amazing.

OP here. If anyone lagged playing this on Darkplaces, try Quakespasm. Runs flawlessly.

Wow that looks amazingly good

Anybody got a list of the best of the best quake mods?

>No shitscan enemies or even weapon

It's a top tier mod

>>14192801

Are you playing v1.5? Because v1.7 came out a day before New Years 2018.

>>14192818

Damn, that's news to me, I played it at release when it had like 6 / 7 levels? How many does it have now?

Does this mod add any new weapons? The lack of weapon variety was what made me bored with the original Quake and made me never finish it.

>>14192901

Triple barrel shotgun, shadow axe, plasma cannon

>>14192827

About… more than ten.

>>14195275

It's 20, not counting the test or level select maps.

AD is alright. I appreciate the beauty of its maps and the amount of stuff it adds for both players and modders but I dislike most of its maps. The only AD-original maps that I find enjoyable enough to revisit are Critical Error, The Forgotten Sepulcher (the largest ever Quake map that OP is referring to) and the E2M2 remix. Zendar is great, but not an original AD release. Monstrosity is also good, but it's a worse and somewhat toothless rendition of the original standalone release. I may warm up to ad_ac. The rest of the maps I find tedious and/or boring.

looks like Quake 2 level,

gonna play some Quake 2

>>14197007

You are making a mistake

Almost finished my first playthrough with only a couple of maps left to discover but I have missed literally dozens of secrets though.

AD is probably the ultimate avatar of classic fps from the pre Half-life 1 era. Seriously.

Its gameplay is refined almost to perfection.

Apart for maybe one or two maps, each level has a very strong visual identity that extends this weird lovecraftian atmosphere that vanilla Quake had.

The level design is truly amazing. It is very typical of old school maps with clever use of backtracking. A few are perhaps a bit maze-like for my low spatial-awareness taste but it is not that bad. Some levels even feature very advanced destructible scenery that you won't find in a AAA game today.

TLDR: you must absolutely try it, even if you are not a big fps fan.

It is thousand times better than any "muh retro vidya" indie 3D shooter shit you will find on steam.

>>14192633

we really need a infographic for quake 1.

The only downside to this (to me personally) is that this is my first quake modpack. If I played the BEST modpack out there, my expectations of other modpacks might be too high, then I'll play them and get disappointed.

can i play other mapsets with the AD weapons and changes?

>>14200858

If you know how quake files work, maybe? But that 'maybe' is a HUGE maybe.

>>14208064

A huge Quake mod.

>>14209100

Is any more work being done to it do you know? New maps and whatnot? I guess how big is too big?

>>14209841

what kind of quality control is there for the new maps? When I played this a while back the maps were fucking amazing but I wouldn't want the quality diluted just to get more content in.

>>14209856

>quality control

there technically isn't any except the quake community who mostly consists of major developers who when they aren't at their jobs making games, they're at home making quake maps. The creator of Arcane Dimensions is Simon O Callaghan who you may be familiar with his work as a level designer on enemy territory wolfenstein and the train level in crysis warhead. There is also Maik Franz Xavier aka MFX who you may be familiar with his work on The Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay.

The quality control is the developers themselves and the quake community determining what is truly great.

>>14209850

Are you saying that Dusk is not worth it?

>>14198069

Yes, setting up Quake mods feels harder than it should be.

>>14211158

>setting up Quake mods feels harder

what the hell? all you have to do is drag and drop shit. Even GTA SA modding is a little more difficult.

>>14211170

I could be too used to having a mod manager for Doom.

>>14192875

Brutal Doom.

>>14211134

I think it looks awful in terms of gameplay and is visually repulsive

>>14200858

Yes, just open the console and type "game ad" like usual then open the maps you want with "map $mapname" e.g. "map e1m1". Obviously the AD weapons like the triple barrel and plasma cannon won't be present unless you use impulse commands to give them to yourself.

>>14218524

PLEASE GET DOWN FROM THERE.

>>14218524

neat easter egg there

Arcane dimensions was so good that it has inspired me to make a medieval fps using the quake 2 engine, q2 largely because of new engine features and modification isnt built around qc, also trenchbroom exists and making maps with it is a blast.

Friendly reminder that map packs built around arcane dimensions have been released and you should try them.

>>14192875

Doom 64 for doom really, coloured lighting and level geometry are beyond original doom, i prefer it.

>>14192508

its perfect. all i ask now is more maps

>>14231408

https://www.quaddicted.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=534

AD christmas jam.