Yes of course the patch! If that isnt possible we need a followup title (with maybe a small single player campaign and a ultimate multiplayer setup)!

By now you know all the things that needs to be fixed, so let me just repeat what i find the most important - getting new players into the game! For the moment it seems that Quake 4 might become a painkiller game - tournament game but no active community at all. Quake 4 online is not all n00b friendly! It takes a very long time for Quake 4 to start up and most often a newbie will find that he "miss some files". And the absence of bots makes it very pointless for a noob to connect to a server (as they want to get in and frag)! And if they get all the files, if they find a server with people on it they will find their fps is much much worse than in the single player game (most will get 10-20 fps in crowded areas).

As im one of the admins for the largest pickup channel in Sweden we can see that newbies dont get into the game! 98% of the players are "old" players who already knew what to do to get the game started and find the solutions for the all the problems. The multiplayer experience for a new player is very offsetting.

So help get the newbs into the multiplayer game! That means bots, autodownload function but also any other stuff that is possible. It would be nice if you could merge the game with irc as this is the way the community works. I would also like the game to prompt what fps you will get if you go for that and that graphic setting (different for single player and multiplayer). And yes I would like know what system i need to get a steady 63 fps on all areas, in all situations, in a 5vs5 ctf game (please tell me! ) I would also like that we could put long help messages in the servers (startup screen or something) telling the n00bs of how to go further, what webpages to visit, what irc channels to visit etc.

And I would like full and easy GTV support, player tracking (stats etc) and so on (just check your average quake4 message board)...

I would like the game developers to team up with the community and help each other to get more immersed into the game story, playing the game and the competitions.

And yes, the awards are nice and the combo statement in game is cool, but get the same thing for the air rocket!  

Ok, thanks, See you around soon  

that would be very nice to have an ingame irc client, would make it easier for everyone to find games

haha..they can't even release a patch that fixes the bugs and needed things..good luck on seeing extra things like an irc client.

"happened to include some online capabilities"? Multiplayer wasnt something they put in while having some time off on a coffe break.

"Raven stressed that the multiplayer and single player experience were both getting significant resources put behind them. Quake 4 will not be lopsided in that respect."

Yeah, surely the big thing was the sp experience but somehow I remember something like "bringing the best single player experience from q2 and the best multiplayer experience from q3 into one packet".

"A large focus will be put on mod tools that will ship with game out of the box. They want to make modding the game be very easy which of course had been a trend for some time. The only significant mod of late has been the Quake 2 mod of Doom 3, and no multiplayer OSP style competition mod came to fruition."

If this had been the case the setup had been excellent - letting the modmakers put in all the things they knew the hardcore online crew wanted. And I guess you could say the modmakers really jumped at it - but they still havent been able to get a version out that fixes the mapdowloadning and including bot issues. And they had said that the game is "a mess inside".

Therefore - I hope the patch will fix it, and I hope for a single player/multiplayer expansion.

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"Raven stressed that the multiplayer and single player experience were both getting significant resources put behind them. Quake 4 will not be lopsided in that respect."

AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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"happened to include some online capabilities"? Multiplayer wasnt something they put in while having some time off on a coffe break. "Raven stressed that the multiplayer and single player experience were both getting significant resources put behind them. Quake 4 will not be lopsided in that respect." Yeah, surely the big thing was the sp experience but somehow I remember something like "bringing the best single player experience from q2 and the best multiplayer experience from q3 into one packet". "A large focus will be put on mod tools that will ship with game out of the box. They want to make modding the game be very easy which of course had been a trend for some time. The only significant mod of late has been the Quake 2 mod of Doom 3, and no multiplayer OSP style competition mod came to fruition." If this had been the case the setup had been excellent - letting the modmakers put in all the things they knew the hardcore online crew wanted. And I guess you could say the modmakers really jumped at it - but they still havent been able to get a version out that fixes the mapdowloadning and including bot issues. And they had said that the game is "a mess inside". Therefore - I hope the patch will fix it, and I hope for a single player/multiplayer expansion.

Singleplayer was severly lacking and the so called Multiplayer of Quake3 is an abomination...