John Carmack "not all that excited" by next-gen hardware

Re:John Carmack "not all that excited" by next-gen hardware by tfb on Monday June 25, 2012 @11:49AM (#4157043)

I actually still play UT99 daily! There's still a fairly competitive community where we hold tournaments and stuff.

Plus, I'm developing something (long-awaited) for UT99 called NewNet (similar to Lotus's UT2004 UTComp mod) that eliminates all movement lag and simulates zero ping server-side. And at some point I'd love to create something similar to QuakeLive (Quake via the browser, with tons of stats tracking and stuff) for UT99.

For a 13 year old game, it's still more fun than most games out there if you ignore the trolls.

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Re:John Carmack "not all that excited" by next-gen hardware by gouranga on Monday June 25, 2012 @12:56PM (#4157361)

Great stuff. Might dig out my CD later!

Thanks for keeping it going :)

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Re:John Carmack "not all that excited" by next-gen hardware by tfb on Monday June 25, 2012 @03:46PM (#4158351)

If anyone is interested in our little community, it's mostly on irc.globalgamers.net within the following channels: #tdmpickups, #iPug, #mlut, and #mlig. Basically you join pickup games (aka pugs) - 4v4, 5v5, etc. - using an IRC bot that keeps track of everything, captains choose teams, select a server, everyone enters, ready-up, and may the best fraggers win. And of course hilarity ensues on IRC afterwards. ;)

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