In q4X you start will all 10 weapons and 400 in health. Your health will countdown to 300 after you spawn. All weapons have 999 in ammo and are much faster and more powerful than any weapons in the standard game.

The Hurtstreet Network is serving up a downloadable font of the Strogg Alphabet. You can find it here.

Also, over at the Quake4 website, they have put up a language converter if you want to fool around with it.

We are preparing the release of the Quake4 GNU/Linux installer we expect to have it ready within a few days, with a dedicated server and a native client.

NoctemWare - Quake 3 Arena CE for Windows CE version 4.2

"Sure, the game still runs at like 5 FPS, but at least we know how to make it faster for future builds. Expect continuing development on this port. In the meantime, enjoy the 1.0 release!"

id Software™, Raven Software and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) have confirmed Earth’s invasion of Stroggos with the announcement that QUAKE 4™ PC has entered manufacturing and will begin shipping to retail stores nationwide on Tuesday, October 18.

In just a few weeks (or so we hope), the Quake series will return to a PC near you with the release of Quake 4. The single-player campaign picks up where Quake 2 left off, with human forces about to launch a counter-attack on the planet Stroggos, and so the game's arsenal features a mix of human and Strogg weaponry, many returning from previous Quake titles.

As you know, Quake 4 and FEAR are both due out next month so the previews will be flowering. Today, shacknews has a nice preview of Quake 4 where Chris Remo was able to checkout both the single and multiplayer aspects of the game.

And if you didn't know they are due out soon... the fyi, release dates are shown on GameStop as 10/11/05.
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