Modders Resurrect the Quake 4 Expansion Raven Software Never Shipped
Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable
openQ4 0.14.1, the Awakening Edition, lets players run The Awakening — a Quake 4 expansion Raven Software and Ritual Entertainment built but never released, recovered and published by Justin Marshall — alongside the original campaign. All 13 maps are rebuilt on openQ4's own engine and game code, patching broken alpha content like the Valkaryne finale and immobile Retches. The update also adds stable shadow mapping, Vulkan on Windows, a rebuilt interface, smarter bots, and experimental Android and VR support.
The Quake 4 expansion that never shipped is now playable.
- lavendermon
The Quake 3 demo was one of my favorite games I wasn't allowed to play as a teenager. Loved blowing people up with a rocket launcher and laser beaming with a railgun. I have no qualms about whether AI finished this, just enjoying the fact that nostalgia can be invoked more easily and cheaply than ever before.
On a similar note World of Warcraft just launched "WoW Forever", a nostalgic throwback to vanilla WoW. Millions of people tried to play on the first day and for the first time ever during a major launch of WoW, everything went smoothly and players were able to log in and play without lagging out. Normally it took a few days after launch for servers to catch up to demand and allow people to actually play the game without lag or disconnections. I'm confident that AI played a major role in allowing Blizzard's team to navigate a WoW launch successfully for the first time.
- imbusy111
It wasn't a good game though. I tried it a few years ago and it felt very sluggish. Definitely not some classic worth playing now.
- whalesalad
Quake never really did it for me but Unreal Tournament... oh yeah.
- johnnyApplePRNG
This feels wrong... like releasing post-humous musical albums the original artist never finished or intended to finish.
- logicallee
"Play the original campaign"
!remindme 74 years.
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