Carmack's QuakeCon keynote highlights

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Lots of onscreen characters? Outdoor-oriented texture technology?

Oh. Yes.

He did comment while working on Doom3 that he wanted to do outdoors next and had some interesting omnidirectional lighting ideas. Outdoor mayhem ftw!

If they want to defeat piracy this go 'round the solutions are simple. Don't charge quite so much, and release a demo BEFORE the game is released. I'm willing to bet that 90% of the people who downloaded Doom3 around it's release simply wanted to give the game a try and then didn't bother buying a copy since they already had one. If ID had just released a demo a week before the games actual release, rather than two or three months after, they wouldn't have had nearly as serious a problem.

Wow...

"the game's expansive outdoor environments."

That's actually an interesting surprise, coming from a statement made by id Software. I don't think I've actually ever played an id game that strayed very far from tight hallways and... tight hallways.