ok who has it, who has it on download and at what stage and for those of u who have it whats it like ?


On another note if u got it from ur uncle in america gg

So this uncle in America bought it for me and FTPd me the files. [I've got it pre-ordered through Amazon in the UK, so I'll have 2 copies. Yay me!]

Re: the game - I've found it fairly disappointing so far. Graphics aren't quite as special as I thought they'd be and it's very repetative. It's certainly scary and the story is keeping me engaged (the PDA thing is really cool, but slows down the pace of the game when you listen to 3 minute audio files. Arguably these along with the emails you can view do make the game more atmospheric). I'm running at 800x600, Medium - it's smooth as you like on a Radeon 9600Pro.

I might try it on silly high resolution that I can't actually play at, just to see whether it makes a difference. I think most of the game looks like very chunky plastic.

more reason for me not to buy then

It is quite an experience all the same. The cut scenes you go through as you meet a demon you haven't seen before are almost breathtaking.

I'm enjoying it, but I can't imagine you gaming junkies really getting that much from it. Still - I haven't tried the multiplayer and that's your domain. Best o' luck with the mini tourney!

Yer have doom3 on order also, might be worth playing seen as ive given up on NS i need somthing todo & miss knifing mani

SP aint bad, pretty obvious theres nothing new in there.

You can certainly tell the MP has been left in the dark in this game, nothing but a token of mp gaming here.

iD are deffo leaving this to the modders to get something going mp wise.

And Verp I never did play NS again, get yourself regd for this 2 vs 2 Doom3 League.

omg, i played this for the first time today
and all i can say is SHIT!
Wow whee it has good graphics, that doesnt make a game, its only part of it. I actually got bored playing single player its very linear and dull. As for it being scary? i just get annoyed that everything is dark and i cant see without getting my flashlight out, which i then need to put away to shoot.

As i expected, ultimate anticlimax

1st 3 levels are shitty, it gets much better

Apparently you can use the duck tape mod to save that annoyance. I aint bothered downloading it, gunna wait till its released.

For those not arsed to read news or click the link, heres the D3 tweak artical from frontpage news.

After installation, the Doom III Folder consists only of the doom3.exe and some .PK4 files. Those PK4 files includes the entire game (sounds, videos, textures etc.) compressed. They are normally uncompressed in mid game, which is very hard on your CPU. We can unpack them and thus take the strain of your CPU.

1. Make a copy of ALL the files in C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base. This is some big filage, but if you want to revert to MP without reinstalling you need to do it.
2. Unrar the following .pk4 files (just pretend they are .rar's and open them with winrar) into the C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base folder (each one should unrar a single folder such as textures or models):
pak000.pk4
pak001.pk4
pak002.pk4
pak003.pk4
pak004.pk4 (This one has many files, put them all in \Base and overright any that apply.
3. Now delete the files above (pak000-004) or move them to another folder for storage so you can revert to multiplayer.
When you want to revert to multiplayer, restore everything you had before and get rid of the new stuff. I'm not sure if the folder maps is the same or not, so make sure you back that up.
When in the original Doom3 /base folder (that is, before the unpacking), you would have thse folders and files "maps" "savegames" "config.spec" "doomConfig.cfg" "doomkey" game00.pk4" and "gamex86.dll", nothing else.

ALSO DO THIS! If you open DoomConfig.cfg (C:\programfiles\doom3\base) in notepad and change (make sure to save a backup copy) seta image_cacheMegs "32" to a higher number, such as 128 or 265 (depends on RAM, use 256 for a gig, 128 for 512mb) you will see a big increase too. You also have to change the seta image_useCache to "1" and seta image_cacheMinK to approx "20480" (or higher)
There you have it, since the CPU wont have to unpack the textures, sounds, etc...there is a MASSIVE performance increase at the expense of no MP and requiring more HD space.

Spammage,

sounds like a lot of work... im just gonna stick with the ductape mod

I cba finishing the game atm, it's dull.

Wud, i found that unpacking those made doom sooo much smoother. As before i was finding it jerky when it was uncompressing those files. It's much more enjoyable now.

Still haven't recieved my copy yet from amazon tho. Might tell em to cancel it.