Quake's latest beta patch, 1.1, is now available.

This is the first "big" patch since Quake4 arrived four months ago and will fix issues and add gameplay elements throughout both single and multiplayer.  Though the patch is missing key updates such as "smaller hitboxes", "enemy model sounds" and "improved netcode", there have been many other important updates, such as:

  -Autodownload
  -Several sound fixes
  -Voice chat
  -Forecemodels
  -Hyper-Threading Technology support
  -Smooth stair strafe jumping
  -Improved scripting options
  -Unlocked cvars
  -Improved player spawn code (same as Q3)
  -Improved hitsounds
  -Increased Lightning and Railgun noise
  -Simpleitems
  and much! more.. including many bug fixes.

README

More coming in the final pointrelease, we just need to test all of these and get some feedback.

Please report all bugs here: http://www.idsoftware.com/bugs

Once we are satisfied the 1.1 BETA is completely solid, we will release the FINAL 1.1 update. This will be a required update and will be available through the “Update” option in the game. With that release, we’ll also be including 4 all-new multiplayer maps in addition to the QUAKEMAS map pack (3 maps) that was released in December.

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We've been wacking these guys pretty bad.

Time to send some thanks to the folks who did a fine job on this patch:

q4editing@ravensoft.com

Stop whinning, start playing.

What is cool is they actually don't want to screw stuff up an other time. The beta of that patch is a proof. They actually post a link to log all bug you can accounter, so they can deliver a flawless patch. Love when devs does that.

<suggesting thanks be sent was my post>

It's nice to see all the improvements for multicore/multithread, I'm hoping this makes it to a patch for the XBOX 360 version of the game soon.