Do you know one cool thing about the "end" map? The original source code of Quake has a bug for the animation of the entity that teleports you (the one you're supposed to take when it's inside Shub Niggurath) - it's actually meant to spin along several of its axes, not just be stationery like in your video. I actually fixed this bug in a mod I had developed with a guy called 'hexum' called exCoop - a QuakeWorld Coop mod. :)

Amazing thing about Quake and Doom is the demos. We get to witness old speedruns and strat improvements decades later.

@@Fantax92 and in top notch quality! Think about it!

it's always our -mistakes- *[Happy Accidents]* that the future generations learn from 😅

You're a gaming legend!

​@@Fantax92 Seriously. Going through the history of games without demos is a nightmare, half the time all you have to go on is forum posts. sometimes you're lucky enough to have a compressed to hell postage stamp, or even a vhs tape, but not often.

And here I am, watching in 1.5x ...:)

God damn, seriously? I had to watch this at 2x speed, and it was still painfully dull. He repeats some stuff 3 or 4 times, even. I don't think anyone watching a Quake speedrunning channel needs to be explained how Shub works, among the many other verry slowly explained basic concepts.

@@darkshadow851 I would guess that the majority of people watching this channel (myself included) don't usually watch quake speedruns, and all the info within the video was very helpful in explaining things. Maybe you should look elsewhere for content more catered to your desires. Gl

@@sparky117SAS Yup, don't worry about that. Saw this video, gave the channel a shot, hated it, told KZfaq don't recommend it again, problem solved.

@@Venthe The modern attention span has been completely obliterated

How much did it lower your grade? ;-)

@@davep8221 PhDs don't have a grade, it's pass or fail. I dont' know anyone who failed as it takes ~4 years. 4 of us were doing the same kind of topic (Laser Flash Photolysis) and the experiments used to take 8-10 hours to run, there was a lot of spare time :) This was well before 3D shading and dedicated gfx cards, pixels galore!

Classic Doom? What bug does the BFG have? I don't think the tracers are a bug, if that's what you're talking about. Those were very intentional.

@@MBCollector672 The tracers were intentional but certainly not in the way they're used in practice. Specifically they're very useful in deathmatch play as the BFG can be used for attacks that can't be anticipated and avoided (especially when combined with the "silent BFG" trick). You can literally get fragged by another player who shot a BFG ball at a far-off wall that you neither saw or heard.

crazy to think the demo feature has been around for that long haha

Couldn't agree more

It's also very reminiscent of the Rimworld soundtrack, which is a nice vibe.

Really? Did the opposite to me, hated the tune- it's like pensive, stuck at a bus stop - but agree that the vid is top notch!

Modern QW (KTX) rewrote most of the code and doesn't have the bug anymore. Original DM, original QW and the remaster all still have it.

​@@quakespeedrunsexplainedI'm worried my brother will call me a hacker if I ever play Quake DM on the remaster lol.

“Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not important.” -John Carmack

@@D0Samp With a quote referencing porn, maybe it's not a surprise that Carmack went on to work so hard on VR at Meta for a while..

Eyy I was also born in 97. Had quake as a hand-me-down from my older brother and it shaped who I am today. Always been fascinated by the dark, abstract dimensions and I still love stuff like that

@@strongbadman2 "it shaped who I am today" Amen to that. DOOM/DOOM2 had much DEEPER impact on me and and did in fact shape who I am but Quake also heavily influenced me and not a day goes by where I don't think of Quake. I remember waiting for Quake to come out while I was in high school and then we got the deathmatch working. HOLY CHRIST Quake deathmatch in the '90s was LEGENDARY. Imagine laughing so fucking hard and so much you literally cannot catch your breath and then screaming bloody murder at the CRT when one of your rockets connected with another player in mid air. There is nothing else like Quake.

@@Vile-Flesh when I was a kid I actually lived in garland TX where the id software building was and my dad used to tell me "that's where they made quake" and because I was so little I figured he meant they actually made it for us lol. probably part of why it was one of my favorites

Nice to see you here!

Love this! Thanks!

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Believe it or not, Quake STILL feels new to me all these years later. I remember hearing about it and reading about it LONG before it came out. We got it for Christmas 1996 but couldn't play it till one month later when we got our Pentium 133. It is such a well made game and the deathmatch was amazing.

Same here. Been an fps gamer since the first doom, mainly played consols then got into pro halo 1,2,3 and competitive cods but these videos have me hooked

Modern QW (KTX) rewrote most of the progs and doesn't have the bug anymore. Original DM, original QW and the remaster all still have it.

@@quakespeedrunsexplained I am guessing it was already fixed by the late 90s in the original Kombat Teams (KT) as it was never a thing in the QW world.

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Sadly no, you can't cause a discharge with the other beams - the discharge only ever emanates from the player's position.

thats what im wondering too.. that was actually the first thing that came to mind when I heard about the bug. like how would nobody ever notice some random bursts of damage from a invisible source. i imagine it doe not come into play very often since players are usually moving their mouse quite a bit but still..

Honestly I think it was because it wasn’t a popular weapon, no one really knew that it worked that way, and while it was strong you had to have line of site on your target AND have good aim.

100% my first thought, too. I logged 1000s of hours of CTF and DM in the 90s and never experienced this or heard anyone mention it.

Same. Never seen or heard or experienced anything like this and I played a lot of Quake Deathmatch '97-'99 in pure DOS and later in Win95, software and GL. Then again, because of limited energy cells for it I didn't really use the Lightning Gun that much other than intentionally discharging into the water if I saw 2 or more Quakers going at it in the water. That NEVER got old.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJ2ia7xkuZzVpXU.html :)

haha thank you! 😅But I've never done voice work. This channel is the first time I've recorded myself speaking...

@@quakespeedrunsexplained Well it's a good start, if you ever wanted to do it, I say you've got an edge. Keep up the great content man!