Relnav’s Quake 3 Announcement

Posted on March 31st, 2010 by TimeDoctor

THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE!

San Francisco, CA – After over four and a half years of serving the Quake 3 community, the developers have behind ioquake3 have decided to make some changes. Citing the need to keep with the future and keep up with the community’s demands, the ioquake3 team has teamed up with Relnav of the Relnav’s Quake 2 project. With this, several changes will be made:

ioquake3 will be renamed to Relnav’s Quake 3
The principal development platform will be Windows 7 and Direct3D 11
Legacy suport for Mac OS X and Linux will be provided by the WINE emulation software project.
The multiplayer subsystem has been rewritten and a new, written-from-scratch, anti-cheat system has been created.

The first release of Relnav’s Quake 3 will be made available in the next few days. Due to the anti-cheat system, source-code releases have been suspended for the forseeable future.

We’ve already provided a few mod teams with a prerelease version of Relnav’s Quake 3, and we’re excited to see what people can do with it.
One particularly promising mod team has created a mod in the Goldeneye: 007 style but using the CSI: Miami universe! It is really quite amazing.

The Relnav’s Quake 3 team thanks you for your continued support and looks forward to the next five years!

12 Responses to “Relnav’s Quake 3 Announcement”

theoddone33 Says:
April 1st, 2010 at 12:18 am
Wow I can’t believe this is actually happening. Relnav’s Quake 2 was my favorite Linux game for years. I think he can finally do what even Jon Carmak couldn’t do and turn Quake 3 into a game that is as good as quake 2. I just wish it would be open source I’m sure it would be too except for all the damn cheaters lol! This will be extra good with wine too at first I thought that was crap but then I played civilization and everquest with wine and I realize that it can handle the high demands of modern games I’m sure relnav’s quake 3 will run even better than ioquake3 does now with these changes. keep up the good work, my only question is when will we see relnav’s duke nukem?? lol!

k00pa Says:
April 1st, 2010 at 1:54 am
Linux support with wine? Meeh…

JadenKorn Says:
April 1st, 2010 at 11:23 am
So that means it will support all the features that Windows 7 is actually consists.. Direct3D 11, DirectWrite, DIrectCompute, Direct2D, DXVA-HD, WARP, not to mention multi-touch capability. A very great deal indeed, I can’t wait to see it happening!

Thomas Says:
April 1st, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Hahaha, best april fools joke I’ve seen today

8bitprodigy Says:
April 1st, 2010 at 1:47 pm
haha, i guess this is how tremulous will run on the xbox!

kmonk Says:
April 4th, 2010 at 4:14 am
this better be a joke goddamn! that sounds horrible.
btw can we get an updated version iourbanterror any time soon? that would be good.

TimeDoctor Says:
April 4th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Yes it was an april fools joke. To answer your other question; ioquake3 has nothing to do with iourbanterror or their release schedule.

k4l1br3 Says:
April 7th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
OMG Windows 7, directx and all that stuff, nice but, how much for those license to compile the code? best wishes for your new projects, I don’t really know what you’re going to go after now, but I think that the original Quake 3 GPL project ended here. honestly, each step looked worse, first it were the move to the portable SDL routines that everybody hated and that was the reason of the Rocket Arena 3 v1.8 failure for example, and now that this was fixed with the new SDL 1.2.14 and the new routines from qlive this new movement, I’m sure it will definitively kill all the scene.

well, I will go backing up all the relevant branches versions of the code rigth now however, I would like to request from here that you leave the current original svn up as is now for compatibility with old projects, because it’s really usefull, I (and I think that many of us) would really appreciate that. thanks in advance

regards

It's a joke Says:
April 7th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
It’s a joke — Relnav hasn’t done anything useful, like, ever.

RawShark Says:
April 9th, 2010 at 12:54 am
My Linux gaming world came crashing down there for about 30 seconds until I realised it was An April Fool’s joke. You had me, briefly. Good one…..but don’t do it again! B*stards!