o'dium wrote:They made it harder to stop cheaters, pretty much.
I can only assume you mean the fact that stuff is pure checked against the server. Would you prefer that people could use fullbright skins and suchlike?
Polycount (the site not forums) went right down hill as soon as id software made it retardedly hard to use custom models in games... Quake 3 sucked ass for it, and Quake 4 is even harder... Do you for a minute think that id deliberately make it difficult to add models to their games? ( not that i'm...
It is the equivalent of the GDF sniper rifle, with a slight twist, but for all intents and purposes you can just think of it as a sniper rifle. You will *NOT* be bunnyhopping around with it and picking people off with it with snap shots.
It can be useful for tracking down issues when you have some compiled release code, and the source, but no pdb/whatever to match them up, as you can at least try and work out which registers are storing what, etc, but actually writing something using it... bleurgh.