Doom 3 Offical Thread.

[metroman]

Well, I finished Doom3 a few minutes back.

What I have to say is that I was suprised at how well my system ran it. (one of the better GeForce3/64MB ram)

For some reason Doom3 defaults to lowest detail and 640x480. Using this setting and textures for some reason it get *very* chunky after exiting the elevator in the communications tower. I tried many save games and reloads and attempted not to shoot certain enemies just to see if I could avoid the chunky graphics and eventual lockup problem. No dice.

So I then said why not to myself and cranked it up to 800X600 and put the graphics quality to the one just below Ultra maxed out and no more slow graphics, no more chunky video leading to lockups. Everything looked great and it was an enjoyable time had by all :)

So keep that in mind if you lock up or chunk badly. I think they went a little too far by defaulting everything so low.

I also found something else interesting. Doom3 is a remake of the original story line and as such it was quite good at first to revisit the past. However, after a while, it soon became a repetative game. The levels would change but its the same basic monsters strategically placed off to the side of door openings and behind corners ready to pounce into action. I dare say I started getting bored near the end until I got into hell and got to experience something besides hours on end of space station hallways and rooms.

As far as guns go, the fact that you run out of bullets rather quickly means you will end up cycling through different weapons so you won't be stuck playing with your favorite gun. The chainsaw is nice but I found it useless until I got tired of all the monsters attacking and decided to go crazy like an insane guy slashing everything in my path until I died. (it was good for sress relief)

But the graphics are good, the sound is great, and it has a good "wow" material to keep the incomming Doom players, some who may not have played the original, quite happy.

I think its going to get good ratings.

--metroman

[Canuck]

For some reason Doom3 defaults to lowest detail and 640x480 It autodetects your video card and sets the video settings accordingly.

[Virtuosofriend]

Until we got a forum for it , post here everything for Doom 3. Any other threads made will be deleted.Thank you.

[Bludd]

Well for those who want to get busy tweaking the game for MP, I put together an alphabetized list of every cvar and cmd:

[cRAZyDESi]

doom 3 is opengl?!?!?!
quake engine ??!

[Bludd]

Yes it's OpenGL, naturally. And no, it's not the Quake engine, it's a brand new engine, the Doom 3 engine...

[[MPC]UnKnOwN]

The Doom 3 Engine....it has a nice ring to it :). Just think....porting popular HL mods to the Doom 3 engine. It would be hard, but damn....Day of Defeat with real life physics.



BIG BIG EDIT: I'm sitting here with my newly purchased copy of Doom 3 :D

[Bludd]

Well, those HL mods will be ported to Valve's new "Source Engine". For example, Counter-Strike: Source (already in development). That's the new Half-Life engine. Very unlikely they will use the Doom 3 engine when they have their own new one coming out soon...

[[MPC]UnKnOwN]

Well...."they" wouldn't...but the modding community might switch over to Doom 3...you never know man...you never know.

[Da BuzZ]

i'm quite sure it's an extremely upgraded version of the quake 3 engine... that's just my 2 cents ._.

[Bludd]

Actually, according to the man who coded it, John Carmack, he used the Q3 engine as a foundation to begin playing with his new ideas, then once he had them fleshed out and working, he began a ground-up rewrite. So the ideas were developed as far as they could be on Q3, but the D3 engine is a completely new engine built from scratch.

[metroman]

Just a quick note to add:

1) If you want to access console right away, you can skip modifying the shortcut, and use CONTROL+ALT+TILDE(~) when in the game. I would only suggest switching to something like fists and not hold a rocket launcher while facing a wall when you go press these keys :)

2) A lot of the old Doom console cheats work

3) I saw a file floating around called "Doom3 Multiplayer Trainer", I havn't tested it yet to see if its a single player trainer, a multiplayer hack, or a trojan key-stealing piece of dung.

--metroman

[Syphon]

Uhh moved to Other FPS.

I was very surprised at the length of the game actually. Very long.

If you start getting chunky graphics and artifacts, chances are your card is overheating.

EDIT: Guys please don't post any spoilers in this thread otherwise it will be kind of ruined for those who haven't played it:

http://syphon.game-deception.com/images/doom3

Some of the later pictures are spoilers, you have been warned.

[nightmare]

Shouldnt we get a off doom 3 forum?? Or is it to early for that ?

[McAlpha]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK 9 days till it's released in Denmark :x

[Virtuosofriend]

Be patient Mc!Btw how was your holidays in Greece?

[Da BuzZ]

Actually, according to the man who coded it, John Carmack, he used the Q3 engine as a foundation to begin playing with his new ideas, then once he had them fleshed out and working, he began a ground-up rewrite. So the ideas were developed as far as they could be on Q3, but the D3 engine is a completely new engine built from scratch. link me :0

If you can still remember where you read it...

[Nseven]

nice ingame video with some trickjumps:
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=725377

[metroman]

I was very surprised at the length of the game actually. Very long.

Definately long, in my mind it was getting tedious, but long is an understatement :) Carmack and the entire id team must be perfectionists!


If you start getting chunky graphics and artifacts, chances are your card is overheating.

Good to know. So if you have artifacts, consider an overheat. I just had consistent chunking and eventual psuedo lockup/freezing.

My chunking happened at the same section in the map all the time and always was repeatable. I have my case open and full ventilation and no GFX card overclocking. It was a simple case of GeForce3 performing poorly at 640x480 resolution mode on the low settings compared to higher resolution modes which has been a symptom I noticed in other games and benchmarks. This particular chip likes to run at higher resolutions and bit-depths which tells me its been optimized for said modes.

[stndm]

Comes out today here ,I think I will wait till I see all the reveiws on this one :smoke:

[barry_white]

Anyone knows how i can kill the last boss in SP?

[KCKCKC2004]

why the cheats "give doom95" didn't work? or the wrong cheats code?

Anyone knows how i can kill the last boss in SP?
haha~ go to console type doomhell,then typed god and give all! And you'll have fun

[fuxtheworld]

Call Counts:
glAlphaFunc 19451
glBindTexture 3221863
glBitmap 44745
glBlendFunc 615882
glClear 28977
glClearColor 4529
glClearDepth 4531
glClearStencil 4297
glColor3f 10265
glColor4f 4531
glColor4fv 719333
glColorMask 80329
glColorPointer 1286156
glCopyTexImage2D 2
glCopyTexSubImage2D 1852
glCullFace 222055
glDeleteTextures 2155
glDepthFunc 83299
glDepthMask 23827
glDepthRange 241246
glDisable 1254650
glDisableClientState 612508
glDrawBuffer 4529
glDrawElements 2204299
glEnable 1190921
glEnableClientState 631601
glGenTextures 2155
glGetError 5086
glGetFloatv 1
glGetIntegerv 34
glGetString 4
glLoadIdentity 50000
glLoadMatrixf 1546223
glMatrixMode 701786
glNormalPointer 2376
glPolygonMode 9062
glPolygonOffset 288497
glReadBuffer 622
glReadPixels 2
glScissor 207285
glShadeModel 4531
glStencilFunc 140666
glStencilMask 4297
glStencilOp 26024
glTexCoordPointer 989285
glTexEnvfv 51790
glTexEnvi 761308
glTexGenf 144992
glTexImage2D 4838
glTexParameterf 16002
glTexParameterfv 1
glTexParameteri 24
glTexSubImage2D 159
glVertexPointer 1957150
glViewport 9647
wglChoosePixelFormat 2
wglCreateContext 3
wglDeleteContext 3
wglDescribePixelFormat 4
wglGetPixelFormat 14
wglGetProcAddress 72
wglMakeCurrent 5
wglSetPixelFormat 2
wglSwapBuffers 4529

glActiveTextureARB 5573872
glClientActiveTextureARB 1243011
wglSwapIntervalEXT 1
wglGetExtensionsStringARB 2


GLTRACED


enjoy



the fact that the doom3 engine is a totally original and new engine is bullshit


its a suped up q3 engine. ;)

true he rebuilt it from the ground up however, the q3 engine is still within its core

q3 hackers/coders welcome

[Vertex]

HAS ANy one created a remote server manager for this yet?

[advanced_soldier]

in Germany at the 10th Aug. I think.STill some Time to upgrade my PC :)

[ChronicWaRLocK]

I'm getting Doom 3 and you can soon expect cheat skins, models, weapons, pick ups, scripts, and anything else I can make. If they are possible, I'm not sure what is (if anything) disabled.

Also, I think we could import a triggerbot from MOHAA or something if we can make neon/cham skins, till a good aimbot is made.

But I'm getting ahead of myself, I dont even have the game yet.

This is gunna be fun.

:smoke:

[cudencuden]

anyone found any good private server

[mr.explosive]

Open gl eh? cvars "set"

r_shownormals 1

pm_thirdperson 1

[metroman]

I'm getting Doom 3 and you can soon expect cheat skins, models, weapons, pick ups, scripts, and anything else I can make. If they are possible, I'm not sure what is (if anything) disabled.

Also, I think we could import a triggerbot from MOHAA or something if we can make neon/cham skins, till a good aimbot is made.

But I'm getting ahead of myself, I dont even have the game yet.

This is gunna be fun.

:smoke:

Oh my god, you Germans are just so easily excited! O.O

You may get me to reinstall Doom3 yet if all these goodies come out soon :lick:

I'm now looking at HL2, and the game that slipped under the radar from all the HL2 vs Doom3 hype in the magazines and websites, its called Stalker. :rambo:

[RastaMan]

Just got doom 3 today was pretty shocked really as its not meant to be out here in the UK till the 13th :)

I've already been playing it however for days :)

~EDIT~

Has anyone got avidemo to work, coz everytime i do it, it seems to just reload and go back to the main menu.

[cudencuden]

doom 3 private servers

66.79.19.194
DJBEN.ORG
82.134.26.130
212.34.137.60
68.96.166.177
67.18.178.28
82.134.26.130
213.84.22.224
67.85.188.111
212.34.137.60
67.68.64.90
24.76.8.97
66.79.19.194
64.235.195.67
212.34.137.60
nizero.server.us
24.76.8.97
67.18.178.28
68.209.144.61
68.96.166.177
80.202.95.49
blubber.ath.cx
24.83.78.134
207.6.164.91
66.30.39.159
24.21.250.60
d3.xclan.org
67.68.222.65
81.106.182.160
D3.XCLAN.ORG
ftp1.servehttp.com
203.202.90.117

[Nseven]

New Doom3 guide,
everything about Armour, Ammunition, Cheats (Singleplayer), Enemies, Health, Items, Maps, Powerups, Weapons, Tweaks, Configs, Commands

http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/Doom3Guide.htm

[Syphon]

And, its not illegal because I've already bought the game!
A) Yes it is illegal, downloading the game infringes piracy because you only payed for the copy you physically bought.

haha~ go to console type doomhell,then typed god and give all! And you'll have fun
That didn't answer his question at all. And NO SPOILER POSTING ON THE FORUMS. If you ruin the storyline, or openly post methods your post will be edited and you will be warned. Don't ruin the game for others.


barry if you haven't figured it out yet, come on IRC and i'll tell you (don't PM me since I disabled my PM system)

[Loucifer]

An Barry when he tells yo then you pm me an tell me lmao............

[Organ_Shifter]

Doom 3 looks & plays amazing!! I play with stereophones on, so it's creepy as hell hearing every little groan, hiss, and snarl from creatures in every corner (not to mention the wispers,screams,cries for help,etc.). And using the flashlight in areas that are pitch black to only be attacked from behind can sometimes scare the shit out of you. :confused: It's money well spent. I'm not really into the run and gun shooters when it comes to multiplayer, but the levels are so beautifully designed, along with tight gameplay, that it more than makes up for it with me. I've been fragged several times just 'cause I'm exploring the maps in awe (much like Far Cry-lol).

When the forum takes off, I'm sure that we'll be in for a real treat once the mod community gets goin'. It's been a long time comin' and this is gonna be great!

[metroman]

And using the flashlight in areas that are pitch black to only be attacked from behind can sometimes scare the shit out of you. :confused: It's money well spent.

Actually this is pretty tame. If you want to litterally have the shit scared out of you to where you throw your headphones down and make a solemn oath to yourself never to play again, you need to play Thief 3, the level that is called Shalebridge Cradle. A lot of gamers have considered that this may be the scariest thing ever to show up in a video game!

I have not seen Hollywood movies that could capture the scare you senseless ability this level has evoked when people finally make it there.

Even I don't want to go back and install Theif 3 again just to relive the experience :) :bath: :croc:

*shivers*

[nightmare]

I think im gonna wait till its priced down abit,im not gonna pay 50 bucks for this cuase im not having to high expertations(spelling :P ) of it. :x

[SuPeRn00b]

hello, im tryin' to fix some stuff for doom3...
But it wont work for some reason....

The doom3 engine is a beefed-up Q3 engine....
And, some things are REALLY different...

The thing I made here, works local, but not when I join some server....
(it's just a start, only bright-skin, non-chameleon)

Doom3 does some weirdo overwriting shit, or i'm just heading the wrong way with the scripts...

here's what i got: (this is in the characters.mtr file)
models/characters/male_npc/marine/mp1
{
noSelfShadow
noShadows
{
blend GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_COLOR, GL_DST_ALPHA
map textures/cham/dif_red.tga
rotate time * 0.1
}
}

What do I need to do, to make it work when I'm joining a server, that is not local??

I also tried editting some ".skin" file, but didn't do anything either...

any1? :P

[Da BuzZ]

2) A lot of the old Doom console cheats work iddqd etc? o_O

[BlackDove]

Nope, iddqd and idkfa both don't work, just the god and give commands like most Quake games.

Metroman is right about Theif 3 - that cradle level is the scariest peice of gaming I have ever experienced compared to Doom 3's cheezy behind-your-back entity spawning.

I've been working on a trainer that works for both SP and MP - I will probably release it once I add more features. Right now it has...

Third Person: 1 (http://members.aol.com/lexiconave/3rdPerson1.JPG) 2 (http://members.aol.com/lexiconave/3rdPerson2.JPG)

FOV Changer: Before (http://members.aol.com/lexiconave/FOVBefore.jpg) After (http://members.aol.com/lexiconave/FOVAfter.jpg)

Far Zoom: 1 (http://members.aol.com/lexiconave/Doom3Zoom1.JPG)

If anyone can figure out a way to remove the anti-SoftIce settings (setting bpx on CreateFileA won't tell much) and anti-TSearch debugging, that would be greatly appreciated and allow me to add more things.

[Loucifer]

I finished the game an was amazed at the detail an graffics, as i was an old dos doom player i really got into this one.
I do wonder tho if it will at some point as in the old doom be able to have players make wad or map files for it like we did in doom for share , single an multi play.

[SuPeRn00b]

here some stuff im workin' on :smoke:
http://cd.gameserverhost.nl/shot00003.gifhttp://www.mpcforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1753&stc=1http://www.mpcforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1754&stc=1

[Nseven]

hello, im tryin' to fix some stuff for doom3...
But it wont work for some reason....
..
here's what i got: (this is in the characters.mtr file)
models/characters/male_npc/marine/mp1
{
noSelfShadow
noShadows
{
blend GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_COLOR, GL_DST_ALPHA
map textures/cham/dif_red.tga
rotate time * 0.1
}
}

What do I need to do, to make it work when I'm joining a server, that is not local??

because the most server are PURE server that means localy edited files are not accepted only the original files on the server

easy to bypass in opengl ..

[BlackDove]

Exploit:

In case you don't all know about the bug in multiplayer that allows you to set cvars, click here to learn about it:

http://www.forums-center.com/viewtopic.php?t=2600

In order to set the cvars, open up the console by pressing CTRL+ALT+~ and then type in /set (cvar name) (value) and press enter. A full list of cvars can be found around at this site that was already posted:

http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/Doom3Guide.htm

It's funny considering they spent so much time making sure the game was "perfect" before it was released. Obviously, they left out a few lines of code.

[h4x0rrule]

i heared about this multiplayer trainer, thats allow u to play the multiplayer with out using an original cdkey...
some1 have it? cuz i wanna try it....

[nightmare]

Just got it,and I dont like it,just aint my style of shooters,Ill prolly finish the sp part but im not planning on playing mp games.

[Virtuosofriend]

Moved to Doom3 forum --->

[SkriptAsylum]

Is it true that the Muliplayer is limited to 4 players per server? I heard that a patch or something similar has done away with this, but I dunno, haven't seen any evidence...

[doom27]

Is it true that the Muliplayer is limited to 4 players per server? I heard that a patch or something similar has done away with this, but I dunno, haven't seen any evidence...

well yeas and no it says 4 in the manual, but i got it the day it came out and first thing i sw was a 24 player server... so there are 8,16, and 24 but its not offical.

[Nseven]

server admins can easily change maxplayers with the si_maxPlayers command
si_maxPlayers 4 = default

[PmS]

Are you serious this is openGL ? I thought all of the newer games would be DX, what about HL2 ?

[Nseven]

yes doom3 is opengl
hl2 is directx/direct3d

[SuPeRn00b]

:D
http://cd.gameserverhost.nl/shot00004_thumb.jpg (http://cd.gameserverhost.nl/shot00004.jpg)

Download the wallhack...

[mp7]

Just got it,and I dont like it,just aint my style of shooters,Ill prolly finish the sp part but im not planning on playing mp games.


Same here. Don't get me wrong the grafix rule. But it gets tedious after a while. Good scares though. Have you guys read the gamespot review? Pretty harsh. But PC Gamer gave it a 94%. My guess is cause they were allowed to review it b4 ne one else. Just my opinion.

[Ch3T4]

blackdove: that FOV changer really has my attention now, wiil be so great seeing more then just darkness... :)

supernoob: way to go, seems this game has potential :P

and CudenCuden thx alot for those private servers :)

[bloopgun]

Anyone knows how i can kill the last boss in SP?

Repeated use of the soulcube

[SuPeRn00b]

yeh, that guy is easy....
btw, before you get the cutscene (walls goin open etc.)
try tor stick to the the left, so you skip the cutscene...
then you'll come into a room with a stone, wich says ID on it....
just click on it, and there will open a room, with pda, including emails from the developers ;)

[avidfan]

Edit: Nevermind. Found my answer.