It was quite fun, and extremely fast paced. If you haven't played it, it's $10 on steam for the gold edition. Worth it, even just for singleplayer.

Nice to hear. Won't even consider buying it tho, I just don't enjoy single player games any more :(

Maybe you will enjoy the singleplayer of Painkiller then. It's more like the old Doom games (I and II) with better graphics and physics. Very fun.

Well, I think it's more about me, not the games, I cannot finish basically any game, be it new or old :(

Not that much like Doom/2 anyway, it's just a Serious Sam clone where you kill everything in a room then the door opens to the next.

How is that description not for Doom and Doom II as well? :P

Doom/2 you aren't restricted to being in one room until you kill everything. You move about collecting the keys/solving puzzles et cetera as well as killing enemies.

PK/SS are even more basic shooters than even Wolf3D in terms of non-combat/AI mechanics.

Ah, okey then :P

:P

Kinda annoys me when people compare them, makes me wonder if they have played the games...

I played Doom and Doom II when they first came :P Not since, except at a LAN party four years ago for a competiton :P (I didn't win..)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2249255511139442176

anyone has this in good quality and synced audio?

nice, I have actually watched it on youtube, but it was split in parts and the last one-two were missing, so I'm going to watch this now.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=vi...finition=1

High quality videos (my comp is too slow)

"but when was it alive"

it never was :D

well you know what I mean, at least they played it on a tournament and you could see how it compares to q3\etc.

Right, it was. Forget this ignoring noctis :p

Actually, the comp mod is still in developement! There is bunch of players playin it, that you can find on #painkiller @ Qnet.

it was the most entretaining game i've seen so far imho. Pb was the netcode and some buggy things. Although the graphical engine "havoc" needed a good computer, but now everybody can handle it.

Come on play with us, waiting the new painkiller! (Which will be the next duel game tbh ;))

Yeah, I heard it :) But how is the setup? Is there any program that installs all the patches\mods\etc? What exactly do I need, anyway?

Well, when i asked that kind of questions, #painkiller guys helped me well. You can come.

Or, you have some websites: http://www.pkzone.org and http://www.pkeuro.net .

here all is explained, but its in french: http://60gp.ovh.net/~lanvegash/punbb/viewforum.php?id=74

basically, you need the game, patch it to the last version, and get the comp mod PK++.
Thats all :)

plus me guys! and come to #painkiller ;)

Can I be able to play pk online without buying it? I bought it some years ago and now I can't find it:( And i'm out after the cd key ofc so I can play online! Got so excited when I read about the new pk++ at
http://pkeuro.net/ --> http://pkzone.org/

Would appreciate if someone could give me a working cd key xD

Come on #painkiller , maybe we will able to give you something. Ask here.

Not playable in TDM so it sucks.

lol, i'd never thought about tdm in pk. the stake would break it so bad surely :D. so i suppose it's just as well it doesn't exist!

Stake isn't so bad, just think about how the movement works and the RL/LG/CG on newly spawned players!

When the game was active, we played a lot 2o2 which was quite fun. But i agree that 4v4 MAY be weird.

Let's try guys :)

+ Fun to spec, especially the WT
+ The pace

- The initial netcode was terrible
- Could have done with less jumping. The constant small bunnyjumping you had to do to keep up the speed really wore you out.
- Few to none players

is there any patch that fixes its netcode, or any competitive mod?

there's PK++, but I don't think it changes the netcode in any way.

The netcode has been improved for Painkiller Resurrection. In this Painkiller Resurrection developer commentary video he says "We've also worked extensively on the net code to make sure that....you're still gonna enjoy a nice smooth gameplay experience and get the most out of using precision weapons".

PK++ added some CVars to tweak the netcode better, but its not a re-designed netcode.

I saw this post when it had 17 comments on it and lolled a bit ;)

you ruined it.

good for vo0's wallet