More Quake 4 DM Impressions
1UP, IGN and GameSpy all have posted their hands-on previews of Quake 4 multiplayer which can be played on lots of machines at QuakeCon.
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replyA single elimination tournament is hosted on a single server. Up to 12 people can join an online tourney, and all matches happen independently of each other as the winner is instantly put into the next match. Losers have the option to just spectate. One suggestion for Raven is to let the losers continue playing in general deathmatches afterwards, but keep a picture-in-picture window so that you can still see what's happening in the championships.
That is such a great idea. I faintly remember a Q2 mod that tried to accomplish this but couldn't because without an optimization of the network code and map visualization, it wasn't really viable. The mod had special maps that were 4 copies of 1v1 maps in 1 giant maps, and all the while you were playing you were getting just as many updates for players in the other 3 games as you were your opponent.
Quake 4 officially has my attention, but I refuse to get too excited until it materializes.-
Wow.
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