Quake Engine Indicators
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Quake Engine Indicators
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Re: Quake Engine Indicators
#2Cool curiosities! The chocolate quake source port is great as well. I've always wondered why there wasn't a chocolate doom equivalent for quake. It was nice to see its announcement earlier this year, so I've been quietly following its development ever since. The guy behind it did a great job, now we just need a crispy doom equivalent for quake!
I also wonder where is that tortoise texture from. Seems such a small thing to have the effort to create art for during development.
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#3The turtle/tortoise note is correct for UK English, but in the US (where Id software was headquartered during the development of Quake), tortoises are considered a subset of "turtles". Per Webster:
> Turtle (noun): any of an order (Testudines synonym Chelonia) of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reptiles that have a toothless horny beak and a shell of bony dermal plates usually covered with horny shields enclosing the trunk and into which the head, limbs, and tail usually may be withdrawn.
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#4> The NET indicator is displayed when a client has not received any packets from the server in the last 300ms. This was likely aimed at players to help them determine how bad their ping was.
This is not an indicator of high ping. It's an indication of loss of connectivity. Even if your ping is 2 seconds, the server should be sending you updates regularly. If you haven't received anything in 300 ms, either you're losing lots of packets or you have some epic buffering somewhere.
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#5The turtle/tortoise note is correct for UK English, but in the US (where Id software was headquartered during the development of Quake), tortoises are considered a subset of "turtles". Per Webster: > Turtle (noun): any of an order (Testudines synonym Chelonia) of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reptiles that have a toothless horny beak and a shell of bony dermal plates usually covered with horny shields enclosing…
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#6Lovely read.
Just a curious question if the authors or any maintainers read this comment:
Does this bug fix break the functionality of re-connecting the client? Or how would the client know they need to use the same port as the previous session?
(My understanding is that a new client coming from the same IP and different port will now be treated as a new player instead of a reconnect)
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#7I saw that NET indicator plenty when playing on 56k back in the day. Funny to see it written about as some curious historical artifact.
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#8I saw that NET indicator plenty when playing on 56k back in the day. Funny to see it written about as some curious historical artifact.
Yeah. Looks like an ethernet jack. True, buts its a modem jack (rj11 maybe?)
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#9I saw that NET indicator plenty when playing on 56k back in the day. Funny to see it written about as some curious historical artifact.
I believe it still lives on in the Call of Duty series, being based on id tech. There's even memes about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/edmai1/connection_in...
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#10> The NET indicator is displayed when a client has not received any packets from the server in the last 300ms. This was likely aimed at players to help them determine how bad their ping was. This is not an indicator of high ping. It's an indication of loss of connectivity. Even if your ping is 2 seconds, the server should be sending you updates regularly. If you haven't received anything in 300 ms, either you're losi…
Example: the slow-motion replay of this demo causes the flashing of the net icon due to the packet frequency red-shift: