If you value your health, don't even try to play this game. I am at a loss of words. In the first 5 minutes you will get frustrated at the camera, the controls and the environments. When you can't even do the simplest things without difficulty, the game just becomes a constant uphill. I don't know how the game is on console, but on PC with mouse and keyboard it's completely unplayable. Stay away.
The controls makes it unplayable on PC. Very frustrating and not a pleasant experience. I would not recommend it to anyone. Sometimes the inputs just don't register either. In the first 30 minutes I had died so many times from camera/control/environmental-related things that I just asked myself Why? Even the Prince himself said "I have better things to do than this". Play AC Origins, Odyssey or Valhalla for perfect controls and ZERO environmental/control deaths.
15% into the game and the glitches have been so many and so severe that I rate the game UNPLAYABLE. You get stuck in corners, you get stuck on pressure platforms, you get drawn into corners next to pressure platforms and cant get out, you get stuck on bridges. The final let down came when I over and over got stuck on the last part of a bridge and could not progress any further. As of 2024, this game is completely unplayable. You will be paying for 15% of the entire game. Complete waste of time.
Hi-Res Texture-mod + Glitch Fixes Also fixes many other issues (forced low res, forced aspect ratio, forced low res textures, game freeze, game slowdown). 1. Install the game. 2. Start the game. The game will now create a config file in ":\Quake 4\q4base" named "Quake4Config". 3. Close the game. 4. Open that config file with Notepad. 5. Find corresponding lines in config file and overwrite them with the values below. 6. Save and close. 7. Right click on "Quake4Config", choose Properties, Check "READ-ONLY". 8. Play. >>Set Res and Aspect ratio with this:>> seta r_customHeight "1440" seta r_customWidth "2560" seta r_fullscreen "1" seta r_displayRefresh "0" seta r_mode "-1" seta r_aspectRatio "1" >>Set textures with this:>> Alternative #1: seta r_renderer "best" seta image_downSizeLimit "0" seta image_ignoreHighQuality "0" seta image_downSizeBumpLimit "0" seta image_downSizeSpecularLimit "0" seta image_downSizeBump "0" seta image_downSizeSpecular "0" seta image_useCache "1" seta image_cacheMegs "512" seta image_cacheMinK "4096" seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "0" seta image_useNormalCompressionLoadDDSForPal "0" seta image_useNormalCompression "0" seta image_useAllFormats "1" seta image_useCompression "0" seta image_preload "0" seta image_downSize "0" seta image_lodbias "0" seta image_anisotropy "16" seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR" seta com_videoRam "2048" seta com_machineSpec "3" >>IF #1 DOES NOT WORK>> Alternative #2: seta image_downSizeLimit "1024" seta image_ignoreHighQuality "1" seta image_downSizeBumpLimit "1024" seta image_downSizeSpecularLimit "1024" seta image_downSizeBump "1" seta image_downSizeSpecular "1" seta image_useCache "0" seta image_cacheMegs "256" seta image_cacheMinK "30" seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "0" seta image_useNormalCompressionLoadDDSForPal "1" seta image_useNormalCompression "2" seta image_useAllFormats "1" seta image_useCompression "0" seta image_downSize "1" seta image_lodbias "0" seta image_anisotropy "8"
