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 2 months ago by creamfresh@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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KssioAug@piefed.zip 2 months 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 2 months ago
Activision and Github are both part of the same company too. Maybe a different Git would have been better.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 months ago
I like Codeberg, but I don’t think they would allow a project of this size, especially given the liability.
myster0n@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Well, now he must be quaking in his boots!
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
He heard the call and did his duty
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
For now we have another Quake 1 expansion pack
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Arras@nord.pub 2 months ago
Can we please have XCOM3?
Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 months ago
I just want XCOM 3 and dishonored 3… is that really too much to ask for?
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
You just need to convince Satya Nadella that it’ll be profitable. Like, billions of dollars in ROI profitable.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Xenonauts 2 is the balm you desire. Nothing worthwhile will ever come from Firaxis again.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Why? Xcom has its first game released in 1994. The IP has been around for a long time.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 months ago
What do you mean “gone” did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Quake 4
I forgot this game even existed. It wasn’t very good tbh
JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Maybe it can be ported to the latest idtech
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Fuckin baller man
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Especially if it’s both Bethesda and Microsoft we’re talking here.