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Quake - 15 years on, "Epsilon" build - free download for Win/Mac/Linux
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I've been browsing the latest graphical/sound quake mods recently, and have managed to put together a pretty neat build using LordHavoc's darkplaces, rygel's ultra textures packs, the reforged packs and a variety of Seven's mods, to play the original Quake.
The problem comes when you have to browse the quakeone forums, stumbling to find the posts which detail what cvars and what configs/files you have to overwrite etc in order to get each mod to work. I literally spent as much time getting the mods working as playing the game!
So, with that in mind, I've built together a pretty happy-looking build of quake original called 'epsilon' for everybody to download without getting into the hassle of config files and reading every post in the quakeone forums.


Take a look at the screenies below:




Screenshots are from the 'High' graphics quality mode.


NEW BUILDS:
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All downloads/info/instructions/etc for new builds after 10-12-2011 are on the epsilon website:
http://www.xpfree.org/epsilon

Please go there for downloads and information.

Mission Pack 1 - Scourge of Armagon - Epsilon Build Addon pack
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I've done a lot of work to make sure that this and the other mission pack, dissolution of eternity, look a little different to Quake Vanilla.
There's different enemy models, different water, sky effects, a different (transperant) heads-up display and menu graphics. Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks in particular to the QRP Team (Quake Revitalisation Project) for the great wall/floor/etc textures for MP1!

This addon pack for Mission pack 1 requires both the Quake epsilon build above, the download below and a full version of Quake Mission pack 1 (Scourge of Armagon) - there are no shareware versions of the mission packs.


Screenies:






Screenshots are from the 'High' graphics mode.


NEW BUILDS:
=============================================================================

All downloads/info/instructions/etc for new builds after 10-12-2011 are on the epsilon website:
http://www.xpfree.org/epsilon

Please go there for downloads, torrents and information.

Epsilon Build Addon pack - Mission Pack 2 - Dissolution of Eternity
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I've tried to make this mission pack a completely different experience to Quake Vanilla and Mission Pack 1, with different models and textures for as many elements as is humanly possible. I've even changed the sound setup to a slightly different set (Seven's). Personally I think Dissolution's a great mission pack, much more inventive than the first one. Don't know why people didn't like it initially!
Having said that, there're still some textures that haven't been redone - mainly some wall/ground textures.


This addon pack for Mission pack 2 requires both the Quake epsilon build above, the Quake MP1 addon pack above, the download below and a full version of Quake Mission pack 2 (Dissolution of Eternity) - there are no shareware versions of this mission pack.



Screenies:






NEW BUILDS:
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All downloads/info/instructions/etc for new builds after 10-12-2011 are on the epsilon website:
http://www.xpfree.org/epsilon

Please go there for downloads and information.

Wow this looks awesome. I'm going to try it.

Though - you know, you might have better luck if you set up a website for the project. Just spamming message boards isn't responded to very well. I notice you've posted this randomly throughout tons of forums. Just saying. I went around looking to see if anyone had had any experience with this on a Mac and just found the same thread tons of times on different boards.

I'm assuming you just released this?

Heh this is cool. I went on a quake modding spree myself for a while. I don't think I bothered to get all the mods here though.

thedisavowed wrote:Though - you know, you might have better luck if you set up a website for the project. Just spamming message boards isn't responded to very well. I notice you've posted this randomly throughout tons of forums. Just saying. I went around looking to see if anyone had had any experience with this on a Mac and just found the same thread tons of times on different boards.

Well, I'm not interested in publicising myself, just in getting people some good quake.
I've stated my reasoning why I'm doing this at the top of the post.
The quakeone forum results are awesome, but hard to organise- that's why.
I'm "spamming" the boards to share it across as many communities as possible, and I don't have time to write a personalised message.
Sorry if I'm getting defensive, but I just don't have time to deal with negative when I'm trying to share something positive with zero personal gain. I mean seriously, it's taken me all week just to get the damn things uploaded, that's how crap my internet is. If people want to take offence, offence they will take...

Looks cool, I loved Quake...will check this out!

Well, I hope everybody enjoys it anyway (

No don't get me wrong I'm grateful for the heads up (downloading now in fact) - I just think something like this needs it's own page. That's all.

Though... the d/l is taking a long while. This might be a good candidate for a torrent or something like it. It's just such a huge download.

thedisavowed wrote:Though... the d/l is taking a long while. This might be a good candidate for a torrent or something like it. It's just such a huge download.

Yes, sorry for that, filesplat is not so great.
Apologies to anyone who's had troubles downloading-
I've updated all the above posts with alternative download locations from putlocker!
Enjoy
Matt

I second the torrent motion.

Will look into it.
There is someone looking to put up a megaupload link as well.
BTW everyone, to get it looking like the above, this line from the first post is very important:
"Go to options, select "Full Lighting" and hit enter"

Alright - so, big news, big changes.

The 07122011 version is finally uploaded of course and is working fine.
Also uploaded is the medium version of the same build.
The ultra version now has a torrent courtesy of another user (thanks blueraven!) which is listed in the main post (I've used filesplat to host the .torrent file as it's a direct link rather than an ad-filled paradise).

AND - my Pièce de résistance (or technically, a compilation of Pièce de résistance's by other people) -
the new 07122011 Mission pack 1 and Mission pack 2 addons- while the original version of these were fine, they didn't add or change too much in the way of graphics.
Well, that's all changed - in these you have updated, better graphics for many of the new elements/monsters, different graphics for skies/water/most things to the main game, and an overall different experience. So I recommend downloading them even if you've already downloaded the 28112011 versions of the addons.

These will be my final uploads, as I'm pretty sure I've pissed off my flatmates enough
But I think they're pretty great.
If you want further updates, you can always head to the quakeone forums for future updates to individual packages

Enjoy!

Okay, there're two new mission pack downloads-
these are updated with the pre-release re-texturing from the "Quake Reforged" project for the new monsters in each of the two mission packs.
See the second and third posts for the new download links. Hosted mainly on 4shared since megaupload upload system isn't working at the moment.
Thee's also a few additions I made to the addons while I had the chance.

Here's one - before and after (click image for full size):
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Plus this happy chappy:


Thanks to several members from the Quakeone forums...

Just thought I would update this slightly.
There's v2.0 of the build now, which is a consolidated single build, looks better and has better performance.

Also, I adapted a few expansions for use with the epsilon build - travail, beyond belief and The Myths.
Main reason I'm mentioning this is because Ochre kindly allowed me to use his 'Fictional Soundtrack' music for the Myths expansion Nice guy...

This's been updated quite substantially since last I posted - v2.54, loads 4x faster, 7 expansion packs, etc.
More info:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-epsilon ... -every-one

No wooden finish on the double-barrelled shotgun?