Comments - Azeem

So I just recently found out this mod existed, and to my surprise, it appears to be a relatively new mod, so I'm psyched to finally give the game a go with my friend as I've never actually played the game before. I skipped both Quake 2 and Quake 4 while growing up, so I figured it was due time to pay my full respects towards Romero and Carmack.

So FYI, to all you other players who are new to this, just to help where others had failed us, here's what to do in case you encounter the same issues as me and my friend:

Did you encounter an error saying that Intel Graphics weren't supported? From my personal experience, running the game from my Alienware laptop, having both Intel and nVidia graphic-cards myself, you need to force the game to use the nVidia card from the nVidia Control Panel. If your global settings are as mine were, that every game is preferred to run with nVidia, you still need to force the quake2xp.exe to run with nVidia in order to make it work.

Did you encounter an issue starting the game with some text on a grey screen, and returning to Windows? Chances are you're missing the socalled "OpenAL" drivers. Head over to Code.google.com and download oalinst.zip, run the setup, and everything should work, that is, if the issues you had were audio-related.

Also: if you're a Steam-gamer, good-to-know basis, you may unextract the contents of the latest quake2xp into your ...\steam\steamapps\common\quake 2\ and then you may change the quake2.exe to something else, for example quake2.exe.bak, and you can rename quake2xp.exe to simply quake2.exe. That way you may still start quake2xp through steam without adding a nonsteam game as steam will recognise quake2xp as quake 2 and you can still hoard playtime hours.

You're welcome. ;)

So, it wasn't untill recently that I figured I'd buy Quake IV and finally give it a try, seeing as I recently made the time to finally play and finish Doom 3. So my thoughts were "Doom 3's graphics weren't actually half-bad, oh boy, Quake IV must be even better as it came out half a year later", but to my surprise, I see some improvements, however I honestly feel the graphics felt poorer than what was shown with Doom 3. And it's a shame really, because I was really looking forward to seeing what the fuzz was all about...

Just randomly, I checked with MODDB, and I stumbled across your SikkMod! PRAISE BE THE LORD!! :P your mod was my solution! I downloaded the mod with glee and put it straight into my Quake 4 folder, booted up the game and I was ready to rock and roll! Everything was going on tracks, I stumbled through the SikkMod settings, trying to tweak the graphics to the utmost delight, orrrrr uhh not exactly a wiz on the professional terms used in the settings, but I thing I got it just right. Now all that was remaining to do, was to start the game!

Alas, OFCOURSE, I had to encounter a weird bug or glitch or something, just my luck; down in the left corner of the screen, there's literally a small, cloned screen of my full gameplay screen, and within THAT little screen, there's ANOTHER , EVEN SMALLER screen of the gameplay! So PLEASE help, what can I do to fix this?? I want to get my quakin on ASAP!! :S

Thanks for any help, appreciate it!

Hi again Garcy! :)

Sorry for spamming, but I felt like I had to report back that I tried the Bot Map Pack with my wife, and it worked like a charm! :D Excellent work with the mod guys, absolutely outstanding!

Now if you'll excuse me, I got some gaming to do... ;)

Sincerely,
Azeem Amin

I come to you again Garcy, admitting my lack of research is at bay, once again. :P See, I didn't know that about bots. I automatically presumed that bots were preprogrammed to read the map and generated tasks automatically upon join. :P so THAT's what the Bot Map Pack is all about, hahah. I presumed it was something I needed for an earlier version, that the newest update had these included. :P My bad, entirely. Gonna try these tonight! Thanks once again! ;)

Shame about the console rebinding. :( now what am I supposed to do? That really sucked...

Seeya later!

Azeem Amin

So there isn't a stable version of that system? :( that sux! Tell him to finish up and I'll buy him a 6-pack if we ever cross our paths, heheh... ;)

How did it work actually? Like sort of an "advanced" extension of the gui admin controls that you as host could access ingame too? Man, that would've been sweet...

I need to add to my reply.

I have a question I need to ask: is it possible to implement some sort of "mutators" for Far Cry such as the ones in the Unreal Tournament series? If you're not familliar with the term; it's a selection of rules and/or small changes to the gameplay that you can include in a multiplayer match. Me for one would love to see a "unlimited stamina" mutator for FarCry. I fricken HATE the stamina bar! :P heheh or it could at least last a bit longer...

Oh, and one last thing; need to ask someone with the experience and superior knowledge of FarCry, someone like yourself: I need to use the console, but I think that because of my keyboard layout, the standard console key "~" doesn't respond as it should because my layout shares "~" with this "¨" button, and where "~" button should be, this "|" button is instead. So I've been searching the net for a way to rebind the console button to "|" so that it may be placed where it should be, but without success. As of today I can't toggle the console, which kind of sucks when you're the host of a multiplayer game...

Looking forward to your reply! :D

Hi Garcy! :)

Had a blast last night with my wife, she actually liked it, very much at that! And I believe that this mod just made that easier, thanks alot!

But I have to ask; concerning the bots: at this stage, are they designed to work properly with the assault gamemode?

I only tried two gamemodes last night, and those were assault and TDM, but honestly; all they seemed to do was jump and dodge bullets within what appeared like designated and constrained areas close to their spawn point.

These examples are what gave me the impression: Instead of chasing or trying to defend in assault mode, they were stuck as mentioned earlier, close within the spawn point. Changing the bot difficulty didn't change the behavior. So therefore we decided to try TDM instead, but once again the problem remains. So in order to be lucky enough to encounter a firefight with an enemy bot, we added the max amount of players and filled the available spots with bots. What happened then was that most of the bots decided to just disappear and go for a swim. And they just stayed there untill they got killed and spawned back on land.

Sorry to say, but... Either I didn't know how to configure the bots properly or the bots are unfortunately unfinished... :/ at least it was great to see that the bots option is in the works! :D

Hope you didn't take my feedback the bad way! Please don't get me wrong, the Overall experience was truly superb! Elefantly improved FarCry; not too much, yet solid improvements to the gameplay! Excellent work, you're awesome! :) looking forward to seeing upcoming updates!

Sincerely,
Azeem Amin

Uhm... Not to be a n00b or anything, but uhm... How the hell do I add bots to my server? :S I can't even alter the "max bots" value, it's non responding to my clicking. Help, anyone...? Need of immediate help, gonna try this with my wife just now... :P

Hello again! :)

"Check for updates" worked like a charm! Well hidden that button! :P hahah I feel kinda stupid now... -_- should've searched better... :$

Thanks for everything Garcy! :) can't wait to report back what great job you lot have done with the mod, now that I finally get to try the mod fully functional! ;)

PS! Perhaps you could try to implement automatic search for new updates (or an option you can select) upon start of the launcher in an upcoming update? :) would've been 1337...

Sincerely,
Azeem Amin

Hi Garcy!

Thanks for taking the time to reply! :) really appreciated.

Strange... I tried what you suggested, although I thought there couldn't be a logical connection between the launcher problems and running the launcher from the installer-generated shortcut. But against all my expectations, it actually worked...! :S thanks for the "illogical", yet useful suggestion, heh. Added the FCAM.exe as a non-steam game, works flawlessly! ...well, almost.

Can't find the v1.985 update you wrote about. Searched the net and rumors say that the FCAM launcher should prompt to update the mod, downloads and installs automatically upon accept. Appearantly it doesn't work that way, or at least not for me.

Is it possible for you to upload the patch here on MODDB? Would be much appreciated! :D

Sincerely,
Azeem Amin

Hi Garcy!

Looking forward to revisiting an improved Far Cry through this mod.

But unfortunately the mod seems to be suffering some issues upon execution.

I'm running a "steamed FarCry", and the first issue I'm having with this mod is the FCAM launcher. Obviously it was designed to run with the non-Steam version of the game. But is there a way to corporate the launcher to work with the Steam version?

And second issue, or rather a question; when I start FarCry through Steam and change mod ingame: will it automatically switch to the 64-bit version of the mod, considering that I'm running FarCry in 64-bit natively?

And third and last issue: Is the menu-background (once inside the mod) supposed to be white? :S seems kind of... Unfinished, and not meant to be.

Hoping for a quick reply! Been wanting to play this with my wife a while, hope tonight is the night we try it together against bots on Assault... :)

Sincerely,
Azeem Amin