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Quake II

A nice remaster with problems

Finally Quake 2 is remastered for modern PCs. I'm actually playing it on an M1 Mac using Crossover. It runs flawlessly. But the remaster does come with a few annoying problems that I think the dev need to address. First off most of the elevators are semi-broken in the game. They just don't trigger when you stand on it, and they immediately trigger as soon as you step off, if you don't run back to it fast enough, a fall damage is ensured (for elevators that go down). Than the player shadow. It's quite annoying cause you don't see your own body in old FPS games, so seeing a dynamic shadow of yourself is quite jarring. I tried turning off dynamic shadow in the menu. It had absolutely zero effect. Then comes the problem with the berserker enemy. It's always been the scariest enemy for me, now it even has a jump move which is impossible to predict and to dodge. I mean, why? The last problem comes with its CRT mode. While it's definitely a welcomed feature, there is no way to adjust the CRT'ed resolution. I'm playing it on the Studio display which has 5k resolution, and the pixels of the CRT mode are so big they are laughable. I know the 5k monitor is capable of much higher CRT resolution but there is no way to change it.

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