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Started by Shogo
Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:20
Q2 Mission Packs and related stuff
Author: Shogo
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:20
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:20
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Since I read about people playing them COOP and I have them and never opened them etc I figured I'd install them and try. I mean the seals were still on the boxes! There was a rebate coupon for Hexen II in there that expired in 1998! I have a number of games I got deep discounts on I've never had the time to install yet. If I had known there were completely new soundtracks by Sonic Mayhem I would've opened them right away! They rock! It seems that Ground Zero has mostly completely new tracks while The Reckoning has some of the original ones, and some of the new ones are alternate versions which are cool. Anyway I watched the demos and tried them. GZ has a look and feel like the old Quake and with Quake like monsters and one of the new weapons has the exact sound effect of the Quake nailgun. Very original. Neat in a way but c'mon! TR seems more Q2 like than GZ. Also the opening cinematics of TR are much better and closer to the original Q2 than GZ which is more amateur. At any rate I'm sure many community mods and sp maps were as good or better than these. I had a problem with the installation program for both on Win2K which is what I have now. I did some google searching and found a forum where someone had the exact same problem but no one replied to it. The files on the cd are not compressed so I attempted copying the files much the same way I would for any community game mod and after a few tries got them both up and running. The file I did not copy was the gamex86.dll because the 3.2 patch installs the most up to date version in the correct directories for you whether you have the mission packs or not. Ill have to check out the new DM levels too. David http://www.zmax.org/quake2/
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