So long as one takes care not to unjustly exclude non-Windows clients, AC can be helpful.Īnd you force people to use specific clients and client versions. Granted AC only works on Windows, but then most of the Q2 population and most of the hacks are also on Windows. This also ensures that on case sensitive systems like Linux and OS X the downloaded resources are properly named and loaded with other maps using the same files. Our repo does not have such tweaks and relies on the client being smart enough to lowercase files before downloading and when saving to mod folder. This causes serious problem with the HTTP downloading repo unless you use some apache tweak to make the repo case insensitive.

Overall, all textures can't be fixed without using the full version Quake 2 pak0.pak.Īlso, I think every other client than recent enough Q2PRO from git incorrectly downloads whatever case the textures are in the. The way id packages textures for each map and mappers used them causes some issues that can be resolved with soflinking all identically named original id textures to their aliases. In addition, the Q2Online default config enables texture remapping (softlink) which resolves some demo texture problems present in some AQ2 maps. You might need to use original zips to extract some of them or stick with HTTP downloading as for the majority of sane AQ2 servers we have a proper HTTP repository for map content (extracted original. Maps have never been part of official AQ2 installation. Contains various Q2Online specific default configurations and improvements (for menu configuration, you seriously need a proper nu file), you can peek inside to figure out if you want to use anything Latest AQ2-TNG dll built from my git, you can build it yourself of course (use my TNG as the game dll anyway) Not latest but greatest AQ2-TNG content by the TNG team, this is the preferred version, official release by the AQ2-TNG team, newer client content has crappy announcer sounds no one wants to use ) Action Quake 2 1.0c by A-Team (don't use the game dll, it's very outdated)

The original Action Quake 2 install files are as follows in their original zips: If you have examples of specific files which were listed in the error messages, I can help identify whether they are part of the pak0.pak data. In order to play the single player maps, the 175 MB pak0.pak is needed, which is only (legally) available by purchasing the game. As for vanilla Quake II, the contents of the 3.14 demo and 3.20 point release only provide enough data to play the deathmatch maps (q2dm1-8 and match1).

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