Quake (1996)

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Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games.

Initial release date: 22 June 1996

Modes: Single Player, Multiplayer Game

Genres: Action, First Person Shooter

Platform: PC

Engine: Quake Engine

Developers: id Software, Nightdive Studios, MachineGames

Publisher: Bethesda Softworks

See also: For the 2021 remaster of the game, using the Kex Engine, see #Remaster section.

Quake (1996) is currently available on Steam. Launch it now* or buy it here.
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Supported Systems for this game: Windows

Steam Deck support status: Playable - More info on ProtonDB
Notice: Includes both the original 1996 version (DOS, WinQuake and GLQuake) and 2021 Remaster (Kex Engine) version of the game.

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Quake was a first-person shooter released in 1996. Its creator, id Software, licensed the engine (now retroactively referred to as id Tech 2/Quake engine) to many companies, including Valve. GoldSrc is based off of Quake code, with its successors Source and Source 2 both retaining some residual Quake code.^[Clarify]

The Quake engine introduced many of the concepts still used in Source today, such as the modern variant of the BSP, the use of a PVS and PAS, precomputated lightmaps, visleafs and brush entities. Early GoldSrc multiplayer (until 2001) was based off the QuakeWorld multiplayer code.

Bugs/Limitations

Bug:Zigzagging... See Matt's Ramblings, The code behind Quake's movement tricks explained (bunny-hopping, wall-running, and zig-zagging

Bug:Wall running... See Matt's Ramblings, The code behind Quake's movement tricks explained (bunny-hopping, wall-running, and zig-zagging

Bug:Bunny Hopping where forward isn't held in the air... See Matt's Ramblings, The code behind Quake's movement tricks explained (bunny-hopping, wall-running, and zig-zagging

Bug:Strafe Jumping where forward held in the air... See Matt's Ramblings, Strafe-jumping physics explained

New gameplay elements

• Rocket Jump
• Grenade Jump
• Power ups
  • Pentagram of Protection
  • Ring of Shadows
  • Quad Damage
• Telefrag

Compilers

Quake also uses three compiler tools in compiling a map: QBSP, VIS, and LIGHT. The code for these was used as the basis of the compiling tools used by the compilers used by the Valve engine map compilers, as seen below:

	Original Quake compilers	Original GoldSrc compilers	ZHLT and derivatives	Source compilers	Source 2 compilers
BSP	QBSP (id Software's QBSP)	QBSP2	HLBSP	VBSP	Unknown (possibly part of resourcecompiler? [confirm])
CSG	part of QBSP	QCSG	HLCSG	part of VBSP	part of resourcecompiler[confirm]
VIS	VIS (id Software's VIS)	VIS	HLVIS	VVIS	Unknown (possibly part of resourcecompiler? [confirm])
RAD	LIGHT, no radiosity lighting (id Software's LIGHT)	QRAD	HLRAD	VRAD	VRAD2/VRAD3

Remaster

Main article:  Quake Remastered (2021)

A developer named Nightdive Studios, Inc. has remastered Quake with new lighting and graphics under the name "Quake Enhanced",^[confirm] and runs on the Kex Engine 4.0 with some code from Quake engine. This remastered version requires^[confirm] Vulkan supported graphics card to play, Windows 10 and later (Unoffically it also works on Windows 8.1, 8 and 7, with only the Multiplayer mode doesn't work as it's unable to connect to it's servers), DirectX 11 is also available on the remaster. OpenGL is listed on the Kex's website.

Videos

2023

Jukspa, E1M1 TAS in 0:17.98 (Quake) beats the E1M1: The Slipgate Complex (with any %) in 0:17.98s (or 0:17.8) but doesn't provide .dem or .qtas files

2022

Muty, Quake Speedrun in 11:42[World Record] beats the game (with an % on easy) with a demo file. Note that the timer jumps around a second after each loading screen so time without loads is lower and around 10:06 according to the video

Matt's Ramblings, Speedrun Science: Beating Quake with code beats the E1M1: The Slipgate Complex (with any %) in 18.667s by using recent differential evolution JADE and custom TASQuake after about 50000000 games but doesn't provide .dem or .qtas files

Matt's Ramblings, Quake path traced in Blender (behind the scenes)

Matt's Ramblings, The code behind Quake's movement tricks explained (bunny-hopping, wall-running, and zig-zagging)

Matt's Ramblings, Strafe-jumping physics explained

Source ports

• Quakespasm - Limit-breaking source port focused on vanilla accuracy. Fork of the long-deprecated FitzQuake. Actively maintained.
  • Quakespasm-Spiked (QSS) - Fork of Quakespasm that can run at higher frame rates than 72FPS without breaking physics.
    • vkQuake - Fork of QSS running on Vulkan, with additional features. No longer maintained as of 9 May 2023.
• TASQuake - a port which allows to record inputs for tool assisted speedrunning (TAS) as .qtas files.
• FTEQW - Source port focused on standalone game development. Notably includes clean-room implementations of file formats (BSP, MDL, WAD3, HLSPR). Actively maintained.

External links

• id Software's GPL Source Release in 2012 - commits are without proper authors, edit history, maps...
• Quake Map Sources - Original uncompiled MAP source files for all base game maps, including an unreleased map
  • Quake Map Sources and Original WADs - Same as above, but with the necessary WAD texture files as well.
• Wikipedia:Quake (video game)
• Wikipedia:Quake engine
• Wikipedia:Quake engine#Games using the Quake engine - for games using the Quake's engine