Quake2 RTX Thresh playing FFA on q2dm1 "The Edge" Demo from 1998

[@retro5700]

its crazy that you can relive a persons gameplay more than 20+ years ago

[@SrFulanoTal]

we need The Edge for quake champions

[@375band]

we don't need quake champions I believe)

[@birgernilsson9246]

QC went off the edge and is no more.

[@AdamsDuhStuff]

Plus the abandoned base and the dark place and claustrophobopalous...

[@375band]

what we need is a second life for QuickLive. Make it a tennis, a footbal, a boxing - a classic all-times game

[@tss1473]

@@AdamsDuhStuff no we need the bad place

[@lafindutemps7206]

can't wait for quake 3 and quake 4 RTX to get top of the class demos :D

[@lopwidth7343]

Watch czm playing the qualifying FFA rounds of quakecon i think it was. The man looked like a human aimbot, with his settings an era of windows xp and CRT monitors. A sight to behold even considering that :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKPbZa2Pbdh5fsU

[@TAURON85]

Quake 4 yes, Quake 3 dont deserve such treatment.

[@aryansweetsongs]

I have q3 on my phone and laptop.

[@zyphos9444]

@@TAURON85 wtf why not?

[@SimilakChild]

Quake 3 Arena already had a OSP mod that made everything look as if RTX was enabled

[@Pizzoots]

Now that’s a process! Thanks for going through all that to bring us this though!

[@parashkevdraganov2395]

My favorite level of every game ever.

[@gambitdoesnothing3205]

The railgun dissapoints me.

[@residuevideos]

Hard to believe the rails. Below average.

[@A.T.-89]

@@residuevideos they were using ball mice back then. huge difference.

[@bedeesey]

@@residuevideos if you go back and play quake 2 and use the railgun you'll notice there's actually a delay between clicking and the gun shooting which is a big reason why rails were not as consistent as the later quakes

[@netsider]

I remember viewing this in game after downloading the record file.

[@audriusnesvarbu9970]

legendary sounds

[@Storm_.]

This demo hilariously shows the skill level of the average 'gamer' and what happens when you put a pro in the arena. Back in those days there weren't any other online games to play, so you got all sorts of people on servers.

[@squirrelz6117]

that dude was actually really good :o

[@peterlind6950]

Thresh is the best! We need him bacK!

[@monocore]

Now I need a whole series of these!! awesome work!

[@router_BasedUser]

Huh, this is interesting. I have the exact same demo, dated April 6 1999 for some unknown reason Edit: Apparently tastyspleen peeps put the demo into q2s, shockingly enough

[@DennisS-h4b]

wow. transparent water! much easier to rail swimming bodies from the chaingun bullets )

[@philipepi]

but its not really 'transparent', its just an effect. You can't see objects through the water.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

@@philipepi You can now...

[@ladynetrex]

That brings back a few memories :)

[@yolofullsend]

Spent a lot of time on q2dm1.. freezetag mod was awesome

[@abremamel4015]

supee :P

[@SimilakChild]

Oh i miss max rails on this map. brings back memories.

[@KeksimusMaximus]

Kek, so much trouble for recording it on 1070. But yeah, this shit's super unoptimized and Q2 RTX plays in like 40 fps with everything maxed out in 1440p on 2080Ti

[@Wobbothe3rd]

It's not unoptomized, its fully path traced.

[@regularnimnule9715]

Top quality gibs!

[@sergiomengual]

And now I managed to run the Quake Mission Pack 1: The Reckoning with Q2 RTX too.

[@placeholdername3206]

It may not seem that impressive by todays standards, but this guy was "rapha" during his time in Doom and Quake in the mid to late 90's. Just a cut above the rest. His contributions to gaming both in and outside the game cannot be understated, look him up. People think Fatality was the first pro gamer, but's actually this guy.

[@VinnyEmini]

OMG! I LOVE THIS!

[@wnbetv]

Awesome!

[@robwebnoid5763]

I played Q2 multi heavily back around this time, but had never tried RTX. I do kinda remember RTX but I probably never tried it because my rig/graphics was already being strained. I was using a Pentium233mmx & then probably an AMD K6-II at around 300 or so. Ahh, the good ol' days.

[@disk0__]

Really wanted to do something like this with fisheye quake (edit: uhhhh I mean Blinky) and a match / qdq*, RTX version completely slipped my mind though lol

[@RobertPetrucha]

There is a way to speed up more than 4x in Vegas so you wouldn't have to render twice, but I can't remember how exactly since I haven't touched it in years. There was some tool you'd use to do smooth transitions between different speeds, and I would combine that tool with the normal "squish the timeline" way of speeding up playback. Was the tool called velocity? I think you'd access it from right clicking on the video clip? It's been a while...

[@decebal01US]

Thank you for the tip. I'm going to experiment with it in the future :)

[@dlugi933]

superrrrrr

[@tehdrek]

awesome!

[@IvanDimitrovDimitrov]

Who here knows how to do the Holi Trinity on the Edge ?

[@Blitnock]

Are you referring to the three-box jump? Then yes. That more or less became known (or was discovered) a while after this demo came out. You can see Thresh using the light fixture to get to the 100h, lol.

[@die4ever2005]

You should've changed the time of day to nighttime

[@shp4rk]

Hi I am curious where you got the demo file. Where can I look for it? :0

[@decebal01US]

Its in the video description ;) You have to wait a bit longer after you click on the link. Its in a zip file.

[@shp4rk]

@@decebal01US Ah sorry for being impatient and thank you for being so kind! I found it. Thanks bb

[@sergiomengual]

I was able to run Quake 2 RTX with my Ryzen 7 1700 32GB Ram and my GTX 1070 Ti.

[@q2forever778]

the water is the most nice-looking part, but everything else is pretty shitty

[@conzmoleman]

quake 2 seems so much slower than quake 1

[@billybobbob3003]

its not

[@leq6992]

@@billybobbob3003 it absolutely is. the forward, backward, and strafe movement speed is much slower in Q2, and there's zero air control like Quake had. Strafe jumping and ramp jumping in Quake 2 are great, but general movement is slow and clunky. This doesn't even take into consideration the terribly slow weapon switching, reloading time (super shotgun especially), rocket velocity, and the awful chaingun spool-up time.

[@billybobbob3003]

@@leq6992 actually quake 1 is slower paced game you can never strafe jump as good in quake 1. the only thing faster in quake 1 is the rocket launcher and it takes less skill rockets moving fast also

[@ProductionB1]

How do you know Homey is Thresh? I remember playing Homey around this time great competition, managed to hold my own against him, so I doubt it was Thresh as I assume he would have been even better?

[@decebal01US]

Another demo source is this: \ www.esreality.com/post/869146/thresh-vs-pub/ where it is mentioned that he uses the alias "Homey". There is also an old article where it confirms that he sometimes used that alias: dondeq2.com/2017/07/18/3dgn-vs-threshs-firingsquad-in-quake-2-an-observers-perspective/ It links to an even older article that can only be found on the web archive site: web.archive.org/web/20000831044422/www.3dgaming.net:80/columns/firingsquad/ The people over at Tastyspleen also did a video earlier, using this demo of Thresh playing FFA on q2dm1: q2s.tastyspleen.net/

[@DranDragore]

I love Quake II i spent hours and hours and months and years playing it but this RTX version looks horrible :(

[@leob4403]

Why is it horrible?

[@q2forever778]

totally agree

[@TroutButter]

No it doesn’t.

[@alvarooliva7109]

Is there a way to play multiplayer online? I cant seem to find any matches😥

[@decebal01US]

If you are using Quake2 RTX, then open the game and go to "Multiplayer" and click on the first option "browse q2servers.com". You should then be able to connect. Quake2 multiplayer is free, you only need the demo version of the game and patch it to v3.20. But there is no built in server browser. That is why I recommend q2pro, its a small alternative client for Quake2 with an integrated browser for q2servers.com. There is a site with an easy made installer here to get you started. But it does not have ray-tracing q2s.tastyspleen.net

[@alvarooliva7109]

@@decebal01US great! Thank u so much! But just another quick question, how many active players are there usually?

[@decebal01US]

@@alvarooliva7109 Sadly not that many. Maybe a maximum of 200 players, but I don't know. And all of them are very good, having played the game for years. There are some mods that will ad bots if you want to practice. The ones that I remember are "3zb2" and "Gladiator".

[@SkinnerIJA]

There's always a tasty spleen DM server that's always populated everytime I play. Sometimes on any night you'll get like 8 or more people on it just blasting away. It's the only server that's pretty much legit unfortunately.

[@Сергей-ф9с2е]

rail gum sheet((

[@mdvhimself]

the rg model has nothing to do with the original

[@decebal01US]

The RG model is done by Nvidia to showcase the ray-tracing. Luckily there is a mod that is more faithful to the original www.moddb.com/mods/quake2-remodel/images/fixed-railgun#imagebox

[@uzknistasis]

whats wrong, it is all choppy and fps are 20... hard to watch it. why not smooth?

[@mattmartian1658]

What's rtx mean?

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Fully path traced, in this case.

[@montazownianr1]

XP mod looks much better

[@holiday8282]

Add some ultra HD textures, make HD models, fix an animations, add decals and this game will be better than most of the crap that was released novadays. And yeah, Railgun model is dissapointing, also the sky is too bright.

[@weho_brian]

he's playing some straight up noobs

[@gabrielsum1]

HUH

[@JayDawson-i4o]

Yea get some 😂.

[@Rontinay]

fov 120

[@FERN69Q]

Wow he had some bad rails

[@SgtBagel32]

everyone did back then.

[@SleepyAdam]

You gotta remember it was 1998 and those characters you can now distinctly make out at a distance in HD were probably just mere pixels on the screen.

[@markstottlemyre409]

Most people with Voodoo 2 Cards were running 640x480 or less during competitive play. 100+ continuous FPS during the late days of Q2 play.

[@Сергей-ф9с2е]

rocket launcher norm

[@Kompakuta]

he is playing like noob, bad rail aiming

[@Kartoffie]

bro he's using a trackball mouse, do you realize how old this demo is?

[@Kompakuta]

@@Kartoffie yes I know, im playing since 1999

[@antony4186]

ну конечно с ботами играть)))

[@EVILid]

Classic game is more better....

[@Roadjull]

What? He died once? I'm dissapointed.

[@Igorsov]

Thank you, but I’ve already have a better technology from 1996 and It calls “Glide”. If I want to play this game that’s what I’ll use. I also prefer to see this game just how pro gamers have seen it back in the day.

[@elliotweinstein7244]

Go watch a different video then geez

[@stuartfury3390]

Wow good for u mate go glide on outa here then. Its a tech demo for christ sakes

[@Storm_.]

@@stuartfury3390 Don't worry the guys an idiot - Quake 2 didn't have Glide support, only OpenGL.

[@Igorsov]

@@elliotweinstein7244 Hey 4th eyed one, I forgot to ask you wha to do 🤦‍♂️

[@Igorsov]

@@Storm_. 🤦‍♂️

[@jsushi1377]

is qauke 2 changes to fortnite (* i mean cartoon looking models for that times) ? (=

[@denisbbb218]

jsushi1 quake 2 was fun back then. Nowadays, I don't know what's the appeal of fortnite given that there are so many games with better graphics.

[@IgnacioGouk]

@@denisbbb218 It's free and run on toasters for a start...

[@jsushi1377]

@@denisbbb218 Yes it is, although the game is based on Unreal Engine 4 and shaders may be better for 2018-2019

[@lucashernandez7951]

Quake 2 was a big hit. The main reason of this is not the base game but the engine. Many ppl remember Quake 2 for things like Action Quake 2, KotH, Vortex, RA2, etceterá.

[@khav99]

@@denisbbb218 Graphics isn't what makes a game good.

[@boogieman1085]

Newb fest

[@Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский]

What noob played it?

[@schiaccius1clay]

Diabotical

[@grabisoft]

i know this is just a gimmick to showcase the rtx support, but quake 2 looks so much shittier with this. the original with just opengl is the best you can get the game.. maybe with some hd textures for extra results. but this.. this is an abomination

[@BaconSenpai]

agreed, this looks like dogshit

[@Wobbothe3rd]

You're BLIND. RTX looks better now than it does when you made this comment, but even 3 years ago you were still wrong.

[@Ulexcool]

Are they bots? they feel like bots.