Doom III - summer 2004! - Page 7

Stephen · 03-08-2004, 14:44

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Originally Posted by s1lv3r

surely you can bind a key to console in your config?
i remember doing that in the alpha anyway

there is a console command which lets it open with just the ` key. At work so can't check it now.

Luxor · 03-08-2004, 15:41

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Originally Posted by TheShadow

I'm downloading it too at the moment (I hope NTL doesn't foam at the mouth because I've uploaded quite alot).

Anyway, I'll be buying this as soon as it's released in England. It's one of those games you have to buy purely because it's a classic (and the fact I've got all the other Doom games).

Shame about multiplayer though, only 4 people max per server, but I'm getting this purely for SP. I'm sure some fan made mods will up the max player amount.

Reports of 32 player servers being opened up in the states already

Stephen · 03-08-2004, 18:40

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Originally Posted by Richard M

One word: arghh!!!

I just spent about 3 hours playing Doom III and it's everything I expected and more.
The graphics are generally excellent, lots of dark corners you just have to check with your torch and awesome pixelshader effects all over the place, although the low res textures on the people's clothes really annoyed me.

Being used to Far Cry, I've also seen a lot of this before which is a shame.

It really is as if they opened a gateway to hell, it's complete chaos in the research facility, some of the visuals are pretty gruesome and it can get quite violent so it's not a game for kids.
The area I think it really excels is the sound though, I highly recommend a minimum of a 5.1 system playing it - the voice acting is also superb.

The gameplay rocks, it feels bit repetitive sometimes but it's not too bad, you're usually on the edge of your seat the whole time you play it and a few times I yelled out "oh <expletive>" when something came around the corner and lunged at me.

I also like the scout-bots, they were very cool.

My system played it extremely smoothly on max details and the high quality setting at 1024x768, in fact it plays so well I'm putting off the purchase of a new graphics card for a while I think.
I'll see what it plays like at 1280x1024 tomorrow but I'm not really that bothered, you don't notice the jaggies when playing.

Anyway, I've got some screenshots up - a couple attached and some more here:
http://www.richardm.co.uk/images/for...m%203%20Grabs/

PS. Try not to play it in the dark.

Your PC seems powerful enough already, running it like that. I was playing at high detail at 1024x768, on my athlon 2100xp and 768DDR RAM with Radeon 9600XT it managed well enough. It does look really nice though doesn't it.

jamesclarke555 · 03-08-2004, 23:02

...Catalyst 4.9 Beta

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4547.html

TheBlueRaja · 03-08-2004, 23:10

Feckin Eck.

Any news on how it works? (downloading it now)

jamesclarke555 · 03-08-2004, 23:29

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Originally Posted by theblueraja

Feckin Eck.

Any news on how it works? (downloading it now)

Not yet, apparently its only just been uploaded, let us know how you get on with them m8

TheBlueRaja · 04-08-2004, 00:22

Seems pretty good actually - smooth as a nut in fact, cant say how many more FPS i get but it seems better.

Might even try Ultra settings.

jamesclarke555 · 04-08-2004, 00:53

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Originally Posted by theblueraja

Seems pretty good actually - smooth as a nut in fact, cant say how many more FPS i get but it seems better.

Might even try Ultra settings.

I too can confirm this with my 9800 XT, well in the E3 leak anyhow. Very smooth, kudos to ATi.

Richard M · 04-08-2004, 01:48

Couple of new screenshots I took: spiderheads, spiderwoman and the flaming heads.

Has anyone reached that "they took my baby..." bit yet?
That was pretty disturbing.

TheBlueRaja · 04-08-2004, 02:26

Wheehee - just got the chainsaw.

Richard M · 04-08-2004, 02:48

Hehe, me too.
FUN!!

Richard M · 04-08-2004, 03:32

By the way, anyone who has anything like the system below will be able to play it at 800x600 at low-medium quality.
I took it round my mates house to show him tonight and it ran fine.

Athlon 2100
512MB DDR
Radeon 9600 Pro

Even in medium quality it looks awesome and AFAIK the only major difference between medium and high quality is the usage of 8xAF.

TheShadow · 04-08-2004, 03:38

Superb game.

I'm stuck on the level where you can ride that little platform between 3 different 'stations' and can't figure out what to do and it's driving me nuts!

There's a door at platform 3 (the last platform) but it's locked and I can't find where to unlock it.

Richard M · 04-08-2004, 03:41

Find all the PDAs and listen to all the messages (TAB key)

Stephen · 04-08-2004, 09:07

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Originally Posted by Richard M

By the way, anyone who has anything like the system below will be able to play it at 800x600 at low-medium quality.
I took it round my mates house to show him tonight and it ran fine.

Athlon 2100
512MB DDR
Radeon 9600 Pro

Even in medium quality it looks awesome and AFAIK the only major difference between medium and high quality is the usage of 8xAF.

I have a XP2100, 768MB DDR RAM and 9600XT and am running 1024x768 at high detail and it runs fairly well. have been getting between 15-60fps.