Doom III is out there! W00T!

[STanger]

Hell in a handbasket

it's got some early doom3 screenies

John Carmack and others interviews

desktop pics and the like it's really neat

also the 1st disc contains Ultimate Doom ... Doom II and Final Doom along with Doom95 that you can use if you're running 2000/XP

it gets installed automagically so no need to worry there ... very nostalgic

[ForeverUnknown]

Hell in a handbasket

it's got some early doom3 screenies

John Carmack and others interviews

desktop pics and the like it's really neat

also the 1st disc contains Ultimate Doom ... Doom II and Final Doom along with Doom95 that you can use if you're running 2000/XP

it gets installed automagically so no need to worry there ... very nostalgic

geez i never knew about this. how much more does it cost?

[jerry]

Hell-In-A-Basket, what are the load times like ?

FarCry easily takes over a minute. :/

[Reload]

I finally caught up to this big ass forum topic. Personally I think we need to just calm down and wait for the game. Play some of our other games for awhile. This one is not here yet. We just need to breathe.... in between Removed - Radish?b> check;);).

[bakerster]

YES! I forgot, what is the loat times like?

[dray_04]

I finally caught up to this big ass forum topic. Personally I think we need to just calm down and wait for the game. Play some of our other games for awhile. This one is not here yet. We just need to breathe.... in betweeRemoved - Radish? che;)s ;).

speakingRemoved - Radish???.

why isnt the manual (DOOM 3) link working?

[SimplyPotatoes]

too bad the matrox parhelia 512mb isn't out in stronger force ... I'd get one just so I could play doom3 in Ultra quality lol but then again I'd have to upgrade 100% everything hehe

parhelia...would be like using a 512meg geforce 3. lets not forget how many times john himself dissed it in the past.

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

Load Times depend in Quality setting, for the breif time it was on Ultra it took a long tiem to load, on high quality 1280X1024 id prolly say 1.5-2 times the load time of Battlefield 1942, or equial to Jedi Outcast on MAx Settings, i was goign to time it, but id guess at no mroe then a minute, getting ready to go back in, ill time it

[bakerster]

Load Times depend in Quality setting, for the breif time it was on Ultra it took a long tiem to load, on high quality 1280X1024 id prolly say 1.5-2 times the load time of Battlefield 1942, or equial to Jedi Outcast on MAx Settings, i was goign to time it, but id guess at no mroe then a minute, getting ready to go back in, ill time it

hmm.. never played battlefield extensivly.. it wasn't that bad..

is it longer than farcry?

[ForeverUnknown]

yeah far cry will be a good comparison

[Lingwo]

So how big are the areas before it needs to load again?

[episode]

I read your post quick and thought you said 1.5-2 times the load of BF: Vietnam. I was ready to cry.

[bakerster]

I read your post quick and thought you said 1.5-2 times the load of BF: Vietnam. I was ready to cry.

hahahah :laugh:

[bobeck]

I call BS on you, sir.

seems the guy you quoted is correct if hardocp is right...from their frontpage

Edit:

Rolf send word that the Corporate Office of Best Buy has sent out emails stating that under no circumstances are they to start selling Doom 3 before August 3rd, so apparently it looks like the person that did get it was an aberration and not the norm. Oh well, I guess the waiting game is back on.

let's hope the stores don't listen lol

[jerry]

Load Times depend in Quality setting, for the breif time it was on Ultra it took a long tiem to load, on high quality 1280X1024 id prolly say 1.5-2 times the load time of Battlefield 1942, or equial to Jedi Outcast on MAx Settings, i was goign to time it, but id guess at no mroe then a minute, getting ready to go back in, ill time it

Thanks ! Appreciate all your efforts and sharing the info with us.

:cool: <- Hell-In-A-Handbasket

:woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: <- The rest of us

[RadishTM Veteran]

Can members refrain from posting torrent sites and the like, thanks.

Radish?

[Nexus-]

yeah load times in compairison to far cry would be nice. on and on that one mp map with the red reactor (was the mp map at quakecon last year) you go down into that reactor before it activates each time and the bezerk is down there.

a couple of other interesting things you all may not know about the game (well 2 really)

1. there is no activate key everything is done with the mouse

2. all monsters dont have hit boxes anymore its per pixel so if your bullet goes thru the legs it wont take it as a hit like it does in half life with the hit boxes overlap between the legs etc. (that was the only example i could think of. same goes with mp and hitting a player in mp)

3. dead characters and ememys ragdoll.

[episode]

seems the guy you quoted is correct if hardocp is right...from their frontpage

Edit:

Rolf send word that the Corporate Office of Best Buy has sent out emails stating that under no circumstances are they to start selling Doom 3 before August 3rd, so apparently it looks like the person that did get it was an aberration and not the norm. Oh well, I guess the waiting game is back on.

let's hope the stores don't listen lol

I read somewhere that stores were allowed to sell it as soon as they got it. Came straight from id. I used to work at best buy, I will ask some of my contacts if such an email (called a TAO at BBY) went out. I would have it but the closest store to me with the game is 2 hrs away.

If anyone in NY is interested, the West Nyack store and the Commack store both have 60 copies in stock.

[ForeverUnknown]

geez 60 copies each

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

Ok i times it, The Administration Lvl alont is 1min 15 seconds almost exactially,

as far as between loads, the each map is pretty big in itself. early on.

also i have pics form the imp test map, seems there were more then just imps in there, got mauled the first time (god ofcourse for screens)

this tiem i turned no target on to catch screens of the cerub (baby thingy) that spider skullthing, Pinkey demon, Imp, And soldier with tenticle arm, uploading now

i made shure and got pinkey and imp because i heard it brought up abotu the Doom 2 imp vs D3 imp. and somebody wanted a pic of that baby thingy

[bakerster]

Thanks HIAH!!!!

[dray_04]

,Aug 1 2004, 02:24] Thanks HIAH!!!!

hiah?

[episode]

geez 60 copies each

Actually each best buy in the company is scheduled to recieve AT LEAST 116 copies on the first shipment.

[bakerster]

HIAH - Hell In A Handbasket (Y)

quicky :p

[JohnO]

116 copies WTF!!!

this is supposed to be huge