While I've got a spare minute I thought I'd do a little update. Vigilante sent word that he has a review of EDC on his page, so have a look at that...

LinuxQuake3. What can I say? This game is awesome. I've been playing a bit on a few servers I could find around here and I'd have to say this is one addictive game.

The whole thing just works beautifully. The player models are easily the best I've ever seen - no more skating when you run and shoot. The sound FX deserve a special mention. These are really bass intensive and you just have to play this game with some decent speakers hooked up (the shotgun sound is my fave ;). I can't wait for the win32 version to be released so I can get this baby going on my TnT =)

The networking code is very good at hiding the effects of lag. Most of the servers I played on, I had a ping of about 550-600, which felt about the same as 300 in QW. There does seem to be a few problems with it though. When more than 3 players were in the map I seemed to be getting about 30-40% packet loss, but suprisingly the game remained playable (although worse than before obviously). I'm not sure about this yet - it may have something to do with the server I was using...

And if you're wondering what the hell 'Penguin Power' is all about just look here for a clue...

(later in the day): I fixed the site graphics so it doesn't go all white in 256 colour mode in Netscape (I must have been really bored to bother with that...)