Better download it now before they get it pulled
Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'
Submitted 1 month ago by creamfresh@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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KssioAug@piefed.zip 1 month ago
It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can’t Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?
AmyAye@nord.pub 1 month ago
Activision and Github are both part of the same company too. Maybe a different Git would have been better.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 month ago
I like Codeberg, but I don’t think they would allow a project of this size, especially given the liability.
myster0n@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Well, now he must be quaking in his boots!
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
He heard the call and did his duty
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Seeing as he obtained it legally, albeit by accident, I think it would be whoever sold the hard disk that’s at fault.
Thorry@feddit.org 1 month ago
Nah that’s not how that works. He might have obtained it legally and accidentally. But he made the decision to then distribute it. He can most definitely get sued for that. If you want to distribute basically anything, you need the right permissions / license for that.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He doesn’t hold the copyright so has no right to distribute it. Like if you bought a manuscript from a book you don’t have the right to print copies of it and distribute it. Since you only are the owner of that specific manuscript not the copyright and distribution rights of the actual content.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 month ago
Just finding something by accident doesn’t give you the right to publish it.
If you found someone manuscript in the drawer of a desk you bought, you would not gain the right to publish it, it still belongs to the person that wrote it. Physical possession has nothing to do with the right to distribute, that is IP law that goes back a hundred years.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is like those “I found a hidden safe in a wall in my home” posts on Reddit but specifically for gamers and I love it.
I had a blast with Q4 and been waiting over 20 years for the next Quake. Guess this will have to do.
jinwk00@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For now we have another Quake 1 expansion pack
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Arras@nord.pub 1 month ago
Can we please have XCOM3?
Ioughttamow@fedia.io 1 month ago
I just want XCOM 3 and dishonored 3… is that really too much to ask for?
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
You just need to convince Satya Nadella that it’ll be profitable. Like, billions of dollars in ROI profitable.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Xenonauts 2 is the balm you desire. Nothing worthwhile will ever come from Firaxis again.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Technically, Deathloop is Dishonored 3. Death of the Outsider kind of killed the base gameplay premise that Dishonored 1 and 2 were built on, though, so I wouldn’t expect a true Dishonored 3… ever, really.
phx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sorry, gotta wait for a Quake 6 developer to find it in an SSD in an old laptop they bought online
warm@kbin.earth 1 month ago
All the devs have gone, it would be a shell of its former self. If the original developers are still together somewhere, we would be better off getting a new IP.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Original devs like Julian Gollop, who made his own spiritual successor ‘Phoenix Point’ in 2019? Which unfortunately turned out to be so-so.
Or you could look at third-party developers instead, since ‘Xenonauts’ was received much better.
albbi@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Why? Xcom has its first game released in 1994. The IP has been around for a long time.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 month ago
What do you mean “gone” did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
‘Xenonauts’ is probably your best bet, since it’s said to be faithful to the original games and received very good reviews.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Quake 4
I forgot this game even existed. It wasn’t very good tbh
JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No way, that game was awesome! It was actually my first quake game and the story and bosses were really cool. The scene where you’re captured was so cool and brutal.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Strogg were such a good enemy. Loved the idea that they used body parts of enemies to make their soldiers. I’d love to see that concept with modern graphica.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I replay it every now and then as a part of my normal rotation. I still can never remember what the final boss is like. The mid game tower boss is much more memorable. The core problem with Q4 is it had an idenity crisis. It was trying to be a classic Quake game, a CoD-like and a Halo-like all at the same
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I played it recently, and enjoyed it. It wasn’t quite what I wanted out of a quake game, but as a standalone sci-fi horror game, it’s a thoroughly fun romp
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe it can be ported to the latest idtech
Smaile@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Fuckin baller man
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 1 month ago
I am amazed this dude uploads it on a place like Github and even provides his name in the hopes of scoring a job. I will also be amazed if he doesn’t get sued for the rest of his earthly posessions.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, I’m sure he’ll be sued for a quadrillion bazillion dollars for publishing an alpha version of a canceled expansion for a 2005 game, the engine of which is already open-sourced.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Businesses do not care about any of that. They don’t even care if it has been out of production since 1952.
Soulinyx@piefed.world 1 month ago
Especially if it’s both Bethesda and Microsoft we’re talking here.