About Gloom

Gloom is a Quake II modification that blends fast paced action and strategy to create a unique gameplay expierience that will take many years to master. Featuring 16 classes, each with their own unique abilities and tactics, over 300 custom-made Gloom maps and rock solid servers, it's no wonder Gloom is one of the most popular Quake II mods still played today.

Goals

The goal of each game is to exterminate the other team. To do this, you must eliminate all the opposing players and all of their spawn spots, so they cannot respawn. When a side is totally eliminated, the other team wins. For humans, they spawn from teleporters. Aliens spawn from eggs, which regrow after an alien emerges. Each side has one class which can build new spawns, create defenses and possibly repair friendly units. This class is the engineer for the humans and the Breeder for the aliens. There is a limit on how many structures you can build in a single game - the number on the top right side of the screen is how many build points your team has left to build. Some maps have different objectives that need to be fulfilled in order to win, these will usually be explained when you first enter the level at the introduction area.

When you start the game, you will only be able to pick two classes - the 'builder class' and the 'base class' (engineer, grunt or breeder, hatchling). Choosing the better classes costs frags. Them more frags you have, the better classes you will be able to choose. You will not earn any frags as the Stalker or Mech except for killing an enemy Stalker/Mech, Stinger/Commando, Guardian/Exterminator or enemy spawn. Every enemy player you kill otherwise will earn you one frag, regardless of which class either of you are.

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Some 'new' better looking models and other some minor tweaks.

Changes:

  • High polygon models for humans troops.
  • High polygon models for aliens.
  • Added Gloom Config Setup. (helps configure gloom)
  • Tweaks made for installer.

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Gloom 1.3 Installer

Gloom 1.3 Installer

Jul 21, 2009 Full Version 0 comments

Quake II is required with 3.20 patch or only Quake II Demo.

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TyeTheCzar
TyeTheCzar Aug 4 2009, 12:22pm says:

Is Gloom's climbing mechanic similar to Natural Selection or is it like its spiritual successor Tremulous? I like NS's one to be honest. The latter was too disorienting.

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L31ch3
L31ch3 Aug 4 2009, 7:59am says:

ERROR: players/guardian/tris.md2 has a skin smaller than 480


wat

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Leodido
Leodido Jan 7 2009, 2:56am says:

Awesome mod, I remember playing this ages ago :)
Long time I did not play, I see there is a standalone version now, I might give it a try :)

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Gurra300
Gurra300 Nov 6 2008, 9:47am says:

im the first in 2 years posting here now, this is a mod i could be playing, but..quake 2 is only accsed online through xfire for me, and cant join a team.... so theres a problem :( or when they are finished with quake evolved i could try this :D

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pallokallo
pallokallo Nov 6 2008, 9:52am replied:

You can download the gloom server browser from R-1.ch

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TES_Chrisse
TES_Chrisse Dec 10 2006, 8:32am says:

This mod is really good.
I like it Happy :)

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Tei
Tei Aug 10 2006, 7:47am says:

A nice mod with a big community.

If you like this one, play Natural Selection(HL1) and Tremulous (Q3) too!

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lillbrorsan
lillbrorsan Mar 3 2004, 3:37am says:

Im still playing Gloom on my monster machine as i did 3 years ago when i sat on an old P2 233mhz 128mb ram and voodoo2. Totally rulz.

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PsychoBrat
PsychoBrat Jan 14 2004, 5:32am says:

*sighs*

Those were the good ol' days... I made a couple of maps for Gloom ("Gloomy Hallways" was one of them... you've probably never heard of it let alone played it... it was never really popular :P).

Yes, I'd have to say Gloom is my all-time favourite mod. EVER.

-jEFF

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MaGn0lia
MaGn0lia Oct 16 2002, 3:21am says:

This is the best mod ever, you can't say that you are a good player unless you can't make it with your team!

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