Comments - mSparks

what your saying is you want all others work for free and for no effort on your part

You're doing just that.

Rubbish, the audio engine is entirely my work, and used in both Paintball2 and Q2E, All the AI is written entirely from scratch and all my own work, huge quantities of the textures are done either by me, members of the team, and some others are used with permission from the orginal authers. how dare you say a project that has been almost my life for over 7 years comes for no effort, managing the shear number of people involved alone is almost a full time job. let alone all the web design, tech demo releases and sub projects involved in bringing a project such as this to the point it is at now.

So ltktbm is action quake 2 with community works ctrl-v'd in, with an engine and a paying charge?

**** you, thief.

no because the community does not pay anything, what your saying is you want all others work for free and for no effort on your part, stupid foul mouthed muppet your exactly the kind of person who the current community wants kept well away.

Stubid that there are no servers. Why you the game maker do server??

The game has been going for many years, even before I took over. There are many, many players, most of whom I either know or have spoken too This game is a community project of unriveled proportions (even by HL, CS and HL2 standards) Which is why it is contribution based, old and new players can play it, but people who want to 'leech' everybody elses work can either contribute with even more content, for the benifit of all those who have gone before, or donate funds to be used to improve the project. These players form a fairly close knit groups of friends who are glad their games arn't plagued by cheaters and poluted with u18 garbage chat.

Their are many servers, and much more content. These are included in the donate version.

and its not $35 its more like $15,

but you should take off the cs models

The player models from AQ2 date back to the late 90's, and sure their not the best of player models (mostely due to the limitations of the MD2 format) although, other than the fact some were made by the gy who then went on to make CS thats where the similarities end.

Instead of critising why dont you take some time to look at the project history, then maybee work with us to make 1 or two player models I can use with the ragdol physics code to bring what you ask for....

Do I have to donate?

Why Donate?

You speak that you 'know your facts' yet you quite blatently comment on a mod thats 'like CS you should report..to them' - I give English lessons as well if your struggling to work out the difference between to and from. CS is LIKE AQ2, AQ2 came first, was the biggest mod of its time, and still has a very strong community which was the building block for CS, just because counter strike was taken on (and became damaged goods in the process) by Valve and had a huge mount of money pumped into advertising it, does not make it any less the spin off of AQ2, AQ2 is hence further up the food chain and eats little kids like you for breakfast. I suggest you stick to burning your fingers on the grill and keep out of things that are way out of your league.

erm, did you know that Gooseman, the original creator of CS among other things actually designed the model for the sniper rifle, AQ2 is like 4 years older than CS, and is the project Goose worked on before moving onto his own, now infamous mod. It might be worth checking your facts before complaining

and wow, I just found moddb added a 'standalone games' as engine type :p
asked for this feature sometime last year (or was it longer ago that that?) good to see its finally here. GJ on the site btw.

emules fine, throw it around, share it with your friends, sneek it under the desk in sk00l, jam up the college networks with it, its all good :p

not seen you round for a bit, whats up?
I found the cause for the overspeed, if you still interested in working on this you know where to find me.

well erm it might be great now.... we stopped playing completely:

Cam-direct.co.uk

For the benifit of everyone else:
the textures he refers to were included in a public domain AQ2 retexturing project, he since decided that unlike almost every other public domain texture artist instead of simply providing credit he should be contacted before using his work, and they have since been removed from the project.
should you wish to use his textures in another project he requests you contact him first. I personally would not recommend doing so since it has been proved that he has submitted work in the past to the project he referes to using origonal Quake 3 artwork illegally.

thanks, and the best news is you dont need Quake2, its standalone :p

Thanks for your comment
cool.. one person who understand it

hehe, I was actually about to shout at you first, because I read "i think you have no idea what all behind a MOD.. " and thought it was directed at you.

your MOD looks pretty cool too but i havn't quake2 so i never can play it.

then I have good news for you. That full installer is standalone, you dont need quake2 :p

lol hl2 dont even work yet.... with all this steam garbage your going to have to download the entire game from places like fileplanet every time they release an update.
nice work btw

mentioned mod reeks of lazy design

Why do a good percent of your weapons look ripped from Counter-Strike?

lol @ the dumbasses , nice work btw.

eh, why was the explosion image removed from the post???

and of course, the all important changelog

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ltktbm 1.7(included in test release 1.3b->1.7b)
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holding down fire when using the sniper rifle now holds zoom untill released.(kudos tiger('s daughter))
Teamplay combat sword is back to lin kuei training, with no leg damage on fall
sniper rifle now causes reduced damage when delfected by a sword.
fixed dedicated server crash (eh!)
genades now eject smoking debris and also cause damage over a wider radius when exploding under water.
bots team killing much improved.
bot dispersion and pause code added.
added the following maps to installer: actcity3,cliff2,murder.
improved teamjungle gfx(thnx to BLeacH)
ladder movement should now be much improved.
fixed bot skill issue when they switched from one enemy to another
taught bots to use grenades.
fixed movie script 'pause and wait' code for leaders (range=0)
fixed an issue with changing many config strings causing overflows
_______________
Engine code base changes:
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client side effects improvements: "gl_particlelight 0/1"<-possible performance hit, but very nice
"cl_partflash 0/1"<-client side particle muzzleflashes,
New smoke and explosion effects.
improved stainmap code.
client side clipped decals for splats and bulletholes (bholelimit and splatlimit now default to 0 to reflect this)
added propogation of bullet decels through thin objects like glass.
effects menu back + updated.
fixed issue with linkfile preventing finding linked textures in their non primary folder.
greatly improved IR_vision goggles <- map lighting for IR_vision controled by gl_particlelight

==========
ltktbm 1.6(included in 1.3b test release)
==========
autoskill now tweeked up, resulting in removal of ltk_skill.
More TBM code, including various movement fixes.
movie script code, including leader/guard and hostage code
added lens 1/2/4/6 for sniper rifle
new sword model curtosy of Birdman/BirdBird and skin by mSparks/ along with relavent fixes.
various other minor fixes and improvements
teamplay wide, and movie script specific primary weapon dissallow
fixed spelling bug with sas/sasurban model
lin kuei changed to combat sword and leg damage returned (dont like it this way, will change for 1.7)
_______________
Engine code base is now straight 3.21 for compatibility, with the following changes:
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*)new particle effects, including smoke, splash and explosion.
*)explosion stainmaps added.
*)Gamespy/other launchers should now work properly.
*)linkfile code for duplicate textures
*)added optional OpenAL sound engine to engine code for proper sound FX
*)completely optional .jpg texture loading for high resolution/colour images.
*)added blood particle generated stain maps and 'gore 0-20' command for truly bloody battles
*)Implimented linkfile system for reduction in texture number and ease of retexturing.
*)WSAECONNRESET fix.
*)various improvements to menu system (specifically controls menu).

hehe, check the explosions picture, I added a big smoke puff up the center just after uploading the download, but that will have to wait till the next update, I'm sure theres other things that are more pressing :D

q2slide2, 15.2 seconds
do i win a prize?

blinding, should be great fun

looks good, I might have to fish out my unreal disk and give this a go.

looking good, I see bright new things on the horizon

thnx for the tip, as soon as I've got BB access again it will be done.
also, you might want to try the 3d downloads link, their que time is ussualy only 5 or 10 minates, sometimes less.

e1u1
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ceil1_1
color1_4
color1_7
color1_8
flat1_1
floor1_3
metal3_5
metal14_1
wndow0_1
wslt1_3

e1u3
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ceil1_21
mach1_1
shiny1_6

e2u1
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tunl3_5

e2u2
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metal18_2

e3u3
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color1_4
color1_5
color1_7
color1_8
flat1_1

Ok as I said in my final thoughts, I hoped I hadn't missed any1 off the credits, well I have just been contacted by quaked_out that some of the textures were done by him and he wasn't credited properly for them. Also from this, I noticed that a text file with credits in is missing from the install, I am unable to find the altered file which included the files we actually used, so I have pasted the details of the origonal credits file of the texture pack below:
Sorry about this, if any1 knows what best todo next please let me know.

Author: KMan <kman@polycount.com>
Textures:

e1u1/+0btshoot1
e1u1/+0btshoot2
e1u1/+0cgrate1_1
e1u1/+0cgrate2_1
e1u1/+0cgrate3_1
e1u1/+0comp11_1
e1u1/+1cgrate1_1
e1u1/+1cgrate2_1
e1u1/+1cgrate3_1
e1u1/+1comp11_1
e1u1/+2comp11_1
e1u1/+3comp11_1
e1u1/+4comp11_1
e1u1/+5comp11_1
e1u1/+6comp11_1
e1u1/+7comp11_1
e1u1/+8comp11_1
e1u1/+9comp11_1
e1u1/+abtshoot2
e1u1/+abtshoot3
e1u1/baselt_2
e1u1/baselt_3
e1u1/baselt_4
e1u1/baselt_5
e1u1/baselt_b
e1u1/baselt_c
e1u1/basemap
e1u1/bluekeypad
e1u1/bluwter
e1u1/brlava
e1u1/brwater
e1u1/baselt_b
e1u1/c_met11_2
e1u1/c_met5_1
e1u1/c_met5_2
e1u1/c_met51a
e1u1/c_met51b
e1u1/c_met51c
e1u1/c_met52a
e1u1/c_met7_1
e1u1/c_met7_2
e1u1/c_met8_2
e1u1/cgrbase1_1
e1u1/color2_4
e1u1/comp1_1
e1u1/comp1_2
e1u1/comp2_1
e1u1/comp3_2
e1u1/comp3_3
e1u1/comp3_8
e1u1/comp5_2
e1u1/comp5_3
e1u1/floor3_1
e1u1/floor3_2
e1u1/florr1_5
e1u1/grnx2_5
e1u1/grnx2_6
e1u1/grnx2_7
e1u1/grnx2_8
e1u1/lever2
e1u1/lever3
e1u1/lever7
e1u1/lever8
e1u1/p_lit_02
e1u1/p_lit_03
e1u1/pip01_1
e1u1/pip01_4
e1u1/pip02_1
e1u1/pipe1_3
e1u1/pipe1_4
e1u1/pipe1_5
e1u1/plite1_1
e1u1/plite1_3
e1u1/rocks19_1
e1u1/timpod
e1u1/timpod2
e1u1/timpod5
e1u1/timpod6
e1u1/timpod7
e1u1/timpod8
e1u1/timpod9
e1u1/watrt1_1
e1u1/watrt1_2
e1u1/watrt2_1
e1u1/watrt3_2
e1u1/wbasic1_1
e1u1/wbasic1_7
e1u1/wgrate1_1
e1u1/wgrate1_2
e1u1/wgrate1_3
e1u1/wgrate1_4
e1u1/window1
e1u1/wmtal3_5
e1u1/window1
e1u1/wndow1_2
e1u1/wslt1_1
e1u1/wslt1_2
e1u1/wslt1_5
e1u1/wslt1_6
e1u1/wswall1_1
e1u1/wswall1_2
e1u1/wtroof4_2
e1u1/wtroof4_3
e1u1/wtroof4_5
e1u1/wtroof4_6
e1u1/wtroof4_8

e1u2/+0btshoot1
e1u2/+0btshoot2
e1u2/brlava
e1u2/rocks19_1
e1u2/support1_1

===========================================
Author: Quaked Out <quaked_out@hotmail.com>
Textures:

e1u1/btdoor_op
e1u1/ceil1_1
e1u1/ceil1_2
e1u1/ceil1_28
e1u1/ceil1_3
e1u1/ceil1_4
e1u1/ceil1_7
e1u1/ceil1_8
e1u1/color1_5
e1u1/color1_6
e1u1/color1_8
e1u1/flat1_1
e1u1/flat1_2
e1u1/floor3_3
e1u1/ggrat12_2
e1u1/ggrat12_4
e1u1/ggrat2_2
e1u1/grate1_4
e1u1/grate2_7
e1u1/metal1_1
e1u1/metal1_2
e1u1/metal1_3
e1u1/metal1_5
e1u1/metal1_7
e1u1/metal1_8
e1u1/metal14_1
e1u1/metal2_1
e1u1/metal2_2
e1u1/metal2_3
e1u1/metal2_4
e1u1/metal3_4
e1u1/metal3_5
e1u1/metal3_6
e1u1/metal5_1
e1u1/metal5_2
e1u1/metal6_1
e1u1/metal6_2
e1u1/wndow0_1
e1u1/wndow0_3
e1u1/wslt1_3
e1u1/wslt1_4

e1u2/brwind5_2
e1u2/ceil1_1
e1u2/ceil1_3
e1u2/ceil1_4
e1u2/ceil1_7
e1u2/ceil1_8
e1u2/metal1_1
e1u2/metal1_2
e1u2/metal1_3
e1u2/metal1_5
===========================================

Author: o'dium <odium@planetquake.com>
Textures:

e1u1/yellow1_2
e1u1/yellow1_4

e1u2/window4_2

^and gain access to the source code for the engine, rather than just using an external dll, with any luck they'll do the same as ID has done with the quake II angine and give us a GNU licensed copy :D

I think it means that if you are wanting to develope a mod for download on this site you can use there engine for free, or almost anyway. thats why the dual license, one license for the 'garden shed' progammers, and one for the game company developers.

The full version also means you dont need to own any game to play it since we have just finished replacing everything required to make this a stand alone game (q2 source released under gpl), just install and play with much gfx improvements over standard q2 :D