Grzegorz 'deniu' Gładowski has joined the continuing celebrations of Quake's 20th year with a few demos:
- discord - Discordia Easy Run in 0:43, one second faster than the record from 1999, and then quickly further improved it to 0:42 and 0:41.
- On the same level, he also improved the Nightmare Run, first by two seconds to 0:47, then down to 0:42.
- hellbrid - The HELLBridge Easy Run in 0:33, four seconds faster than the record from 2006.
- On the same level, Grzegorz also improved the Nightmare Run to 0:37, an impressive 18 seconds faster than the record from 2007.
- czg01 - Research Facility Easy Run in 1:34, two seconds faster than the record from 2002, and then further improved to 1:33.
- Continuing the theme, Grzegorz also improved the Nightmare Run to 1:39, seven seconds faster than the record from 2002.
- Moving over to an original map, e4m5 The long way was improved to 0:52 on Easy (one second faster than 2004) and 0:55 on Nightmare (one second faster than 2001).
- e3m6 was improved by one second to 0:24, impressive to improve an original map that was standing since 2001.
Next we move over to the Dissolution of Eternity expansion for a few more demos:
- r1m3 Easy 100% in 1:59, 10 seconds faster than the record from 2000, and then further improved to 1:56.
- A large improvement to r1m5 Easy 100% of 35 seconds, bringing it down to 2:54.
- The final demo is the longest one we've had this year. A marathon Easy Run through the whole Rogue expansion in 23:42, 6 minutes 50 seconds faster than the only previous attempt to do this run back in 2001.
Friday, 29th July, 2016 by Radix
A belated 20th birthday party for Quake
To celebrate the recent passing of 20 years since Quake's release date, a group going by the name
Machine Games released an "episode 5" on Twitter.
Max "coolkid" Lundberg was quick to submit Easy Runs of all nine levels in the episode. Here is the run down:
- e5m1 - The Military Base in 0:26.
- e5m2 - The Power Supply in 0:19.
- e5m3 - The Dark Days 1:21.
- e5m4 - The Catacombs in 1:00.
- e5m5 - The Stronghold in 0:30.
- e5m6 - The Underworld in 0:25.
- e5m7 - The Otherworld in 0:46.
- e5m8 - The House of Doom in 0:34.
- e5end - The Year Zero in 0:34.
Who will be brave enough to tackle nightmare? Or the 100% demos... I couldn't find some of the secrets.
Tony Hänninen submitted a few demos as well, mostly from the Hipnotic expansion:
- hip2m1 Easy Run in 0:17, one second faster than the record from 2002.
- hip2m3 Easy 100% in 1:25, nine seconds fasters his own record from last year.
- hip2m4 Easy Run in 0:35, two seconds faster than the record from 2002.
- hip3m4 Easy Run in 0:59, four seconds faster than the record from 2004.
- e1m3 Nightmare Run in 0:23, one second faster than the record from 2000 - notable because we'd flagged the 0:24 as "unbeatable".
- terra6 - Torture Department Nightmare Run in 0:29, seven seconds faster than the record from 2005 and just one second slower than the Easy Run.
