Q4max 0.82 release

Published by Free June 13th, 2008 in Quake 4.

Q4Max 0.82 has been released. Even though the Quake 4 scene is in deep inactivity it’s a good job that some people are still creating the upgrades. This upgrade has 3 major features:

Tutorbot:

Tutorbot is a special type of bot, which can be used to playback demo-snippets while you’re on the server with the bot. You can either choose to spectate the bot, so you can see what it is doing, or you can stay in-game with the bot and interact with it.

There are a number of uses you can put this to:

For true "tutorials", to teach new players how to do specific things - eg, strafe jumping, crouch sliding etc.
For showing specific moves - eg, showing how to do "bridge to rail", or some jump or trick that you’ve recently discovered possible.
For using as target practice. Record a bot dodging, or running down a particular hallway ; play that on a loop and keep trying to kill him.
"Team" trickjumping : have a tutor shoot a rocket at your feet for that extra height boost.

More detailed info about Tutorbots is here.

cg_unsmoothclients - a cvar (defaulted 2), makes the prediction of the other players’ positions more accurate, and so makes the game much more playable at higher pings at the cost of some smoothness.

Domination gametype - ("callvote mode dom"). This is a team-game where you gain points for your team by capturing points throughout the level.

The full changelog - is here.

Note to Mac users : Q4Max still runs on OS X. The Mac-specific package of this release might come at a later time. At the moment, just unzip the new file from above into your .81 install.

Download Q4Max 0.82 - Size - 24 Mb! ( QuakeVoltage.com)