Flag Movement Styles
I am not opposed to adding a flag to control the movement styles. I was
rather expecting it to be made optional in 3.17, but I haven’t been directly
involved in the last few releases.
The way this played out in public is a bit unfortunate. Everyone at Id is
busy full time with the new product, so we just weren’t paying enough attention
to the Quake 2 modifications. Some people managed to read into my last update
that we were blaming Zoid for things. Uh, no. I think he was acting within
his charter (catering to the community) very well, it just interfered with an
aspect of the game that shouldn’t have been modified. We just never made it
explicitly clear that it shouldn’t have been modified.
It is a bit amusing how after the QuakeArena anouncement, I got flamed by
lots of people for abandoning single player play (even though we aren’t, really)
but after I say that Quake 2 can’t forget that it is a single player game, I get
flamed by a different set of people who think it is stupid to care about single
player anymore when all “everyone” plays is multiplayer. The joy of having a
wide audience that knows your email address.