Quake Update 1.04 Patch Notes for PS4, PC, and Xbox – Oct 7, 2021

Quake update 1.04 (Update 1) is now rolling out on PS4. According to Quake patch notes, the latest update includes improvements to user controls, the addition of bot support to multiple Deathmatch maps, improvements to bot functionality, and several bug fixes. Apart from this, Quake patch 1.04 also includes general performance improvements.

Recently, the game was released on PlayStation 4. Unfortunately, since the release, players are reporting several issues while playing the game.

Today’s Quake version 1.04 will resolve a few of these issues. Check out more details below.

Quake Update 1 (v1.04) Patch Notes – October 7, 2021

• Improved analog stick input on controllers – now more responsive by default
• Added deadzone, aim acceleration, exponent and aim smoothing options to tweak gamepad input in the Input Options menu

Map Improvements: Dimension of the Machine

• Hell or Dark Water (MGE3M2): added checkpoint spawns in co-op after traps section
• Grave Machine (MGE4M1): added checkpoint spawns in co-op and fixed pain triggers around pentagram
• A Grave Mistake (MGE4M2): added checkpoint spawns in co-op and pain triggers to prevent falling through and skipping them

General Improvements

• Save game process is faster on large levels
• Hosts are now identified by an icon instead of a color to make it easier to distinguish for color blind players
• Weapon wheel HUD element is no longer cut off on local multiplayer vertical split-screen

Online Multiplayer

• Removed visible game limit in match browser
• Improved Scourge of Armagon client-side prediction

Bots
Added bot support for the following levels:

• The Slipgate Complex (E1M1)
• Castle of the Damned (E1M2)
• The House of Chthon (E1M7)
• The House of Chthon (E1M7)
• The Elder God Shrine (E4M3)
• Shub-Niggurath’s Pit (END)
• The Edge of Oblivion (HIPDM1)
• The Pumping Station (HIP1M1)

• Improved bot melee attack, swimming and weapon selection behaviors
• Added text dialogues for when bots make kills or get killed
• Improved bot handling of elevators
• Improved bot navigation on The Abandoned Base (DM3)

Misc. Improvements

• Added monitor select option

Control Updates:

• Added quick save and quick load key binds
• Added default keyboard binds for the Laser Cannon, and Mjolnir in Scourge of Armagon

Note: Users with existing save data may need to bind these manually from the Input Options menu

BUG FIXES

Gameplay

• Fixed backward movement speed accidentally being set to walk
• Game speed now correctly resets after using the Weapon Wheel
• Resolved a bug that could result in the player getting stuck when jumping out of the water
• Turning off friendly fire no longer prevents self-damage

Audio

• Fixed rare audio crash in Scourge of Armagon
• Resolved issue that caused excessive clipping when multiple sounds play simultaneously
• Resolved an issue in which the wrong audio track was playing during the Scourge of Armagon demo
• Fixed an issue in which Track 11 was playing instead of Track 10 on Gloom Keep (E1M5), The Wizard’s Manse (E2M5), The wind Tunnels (E3M5) and Hell’s Atrium (E4M5)

Maps

• The Silver Key no longer shows up in Hell’s Atrium (E4M5) on Deathmatch
• Fixed an issue in which some decals were oriented incorrectly in Scourge of Armagon
• Fixed a lighting bug in The Door to Chthon (E1M6) that caused the darkened path to be lit prematurely
• Darkened lighting on the roof to restore the original visual effect on Shub-Niggurath’s Pit (END)

General

• Usernames with quotation marks now appear correctly in game
• Spanish episode end slate text is no longer cut off
• Texture smoothing setting restores correctly after deactivating the Quake 64 add-on
• Fixed bug in which enhanced Ogre model would sink into ground plane after death

Online Multiplayer

• Resolved issue when sounds would drop and entities disappear or flicker during online play

Bots

• Resolved issue where bots would not grab needed pickups
• Bots should now see all triggers and doors as shootable
• Bots no longer linger in slime or lava for too long
• Removed Bot support on maps that lack waypoints
• Fixed issue in which bots tried to re-use single-use buttons and triggers

Misc.

• Fixed an issue in which the Max FPS option did not correctly display custom settings in drop down menu
• Disabled GPU culling to improve performance in Dimension of the Machine

• Added thepr_checkextensioncvar andcheckextension (“QUAKE_EX”)function in QuakeC to detect if the mod is running under the updated Quake client
• Added thecl_nocsqc cvar(it is permanently set to 1 to indicate to modders that CSQC is not supported)
• Removed the-heapsizecommand line parameter. It is no longer used in favor of a dynamically sized heap
• AddedFL_NO_BOTSedict flag (Instructs bots to ignore specified object(s) in QuakeC)
• Added a QuakeC built-in for playing a sound on a client:void localsound( entity client, string sample ) = #80;

Added the following QuakeC built-in functions for drawing debug shapes on clients (these are intended to help mod authors visually debug logic in 3D space):

• void draw_point( vector point, float colormap, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #81;
• void draw_line( vector start, vector end, float colormap, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #82;
• void draw_arrow( vector start, vector end, float colormap, float size, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #83;
• void draw_ray( vector start, vector direction, float length, float colormap, float size, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #84;
• void draw_circle( vector origin, float radius, float colormap, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #85;
• void draw_bounds( vector min, vector max, float colormap, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #86;
• void draw_worldtext( string s, vector origin, float size, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #87;
• void draw_sphere( vector origin, float radius, float colormap, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #88;
• void draw_cylinder( vector origin, float halfHeight, float radius, float colormap, float lifetime, float depthtest ) = #89;

• Added logic that resets AI state to neutral when activating the bot navigation editor
• Added bot nav editor fullbright toggle key bind to F2
• Added“CheckForFloor”flag to nav nodes (this can be used for drawbridges, floor traps, etc.)
• Added“CheckForSolid”flag to nav nodes (this can be used for crushers, traps, movable walls, etc.)
• Added ability to place nav nodes in shallow lava

Added the following cvars to change nav editor window positions:

• nav_properties_xpos
• nav_properties_ypos
• nav_legend_xpos
• nav_legend_ypos

AddednavEdit_defaultNodeRadiusto set preferred default nav node radius
Added ability to lock node height in place when moving nodes around
AddednavEdit_defaultNodeRadiusto set preferred default nav node radius
AddednavEdit_waterLookPointDistto control how far away nodes will be placed in front of player when in water

• Fixed an issue in which the save command was appending an “s” to the beginning of filenames, resolving auto-save in mods like “Copper”
• Fixed Alpha not being applied to brush models
• Restored original behavior ofcenterprint, sprint,andbprintbuilt-ins to fix issues with mods expecting arguments to concatenate instead of a string format

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