I’m afraid q4max is what it is - it’s extremely unlikely there will be any further updates. About 8 years back I was maybe a month away from a release with some potentially interesting things but now it’d take me a very long time to get something useful out, and I don’t have that time any more.

As for your bugs:
1, no idea. Could be a superhud bug. Does that char work in q4base?
2. I have not checked the code but the docs state that health/armour settings only apply to CA, CTFS and FT so it’s not a bug. Probably easy to remove the restriction and at this point I doubt arQon would argue too strongly about it any more (Pretty sure it would have been him deciding it should not apply to duel etc ;) however won’t get done I’m afraid.

You don't have source code from the game right?
So you were limited in what you could change?

We are free to change and modify q4max further on?

Q4max is based upon the SDK code which is a subset of the whole source code to the game. It contains a large proportion of the code but not things in the “engine” - rendering, input, sound etc, which is not available under a public license.

The q4max source code isn’t open source and without the rest of the team around to ask permission to release I won’t be making it open source at this time. Therefore you cannot modify it further really (certainly things like 2 would involve changing the q4max C++ code). I can’t see anyone finding time to do mod coding for q4 now.

give us an update on arqon

I’m afraid I don’t know anything more than you do

We found how to change armor / hp values in q4max.

Can you change fonts? Q4max for some reason has low quality fonts in menu ;>

From memory, there are a handful of variables to tweak thresholds at which the font rendering switches between mip levels depending on the font size. If it's set too low, it looks blurrier than it should, but of course you can only go so far with this - texture resolution is the limiting factor.

I don't think we touched these variables, but I think the superhud doesn't care about them at all anyway, so it'd look sharper than the menus. The same low quality you're seeing in our menus is probably everywhere in q4base.

For cleaner fonts, you want to carefully* create new bitmaps at a higher resolution from the original fonts, and since I am guessing these files are not excluded from the pure checks, they'd have to be in a pk4 file on the servers and all clients.

* carefully as in with proper care to subpixel accuracy - for a counter-example, the redrawn, higher res fonts shipping with ioquake3 nowadays have most glyphs placed a bit off compared to the baseline : looks terrible and high res at the same time.

Care to share more about these potentially interesting things? I gave up on the game 14 years ago but I'd totally spend a couple of minutes reminiscing how things could've been, had Quake 4 not turned out to be a complete disaster in so many ways

Thing is it is still a much better game than anything else on the market in this genre

Qlive qc duliabotical? Lmfao

Those games are poop

Quake 3: Arena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DktldmPHo88

The top 3 "new features" probably were going to be:
- Make different gameplays available - I believe I had it togglable between the q4 1.3 / 1.4 / cpm physics, and had it loading the different weapon balances for the different gameplays.
- Recolourable CTF maps to use enemy/team colours and/or user defined strogg/marine colours.
- basic RA4 map support (not multiple arenas at once, but could vote on which arena you wanted to play in)

I think between the first two items there were a few details still to be sorted out that stopped me wanting to release it as-is, and I don't have a log of what those issues were (I think eg. there were a couple of textures still to sort out shaders for the recolouring, but I don't know which maps were affected by it). Another thing missing that I do remember is fast weapon switching wasn't implemented for the CPM gameplay, which I know purists wouldn't approve of releasing it as "cpm" gameplay without it.

I also collected together a list of bugs and other small things that were annoying people (from this thread https://www.esreality.com/post/1706486/if-you-could-have-1-thing/ ).

Have to say I read that thread and it might be a good thing you have not listened or simply did not have free time / energy to fullfill those asks of players.

People wanting lower viewheight / faster weapon switches coming from qlive and q3 cpma, are just feeding the idea to play a clone of their "beloved" game. They were too weak and feeble to learn q4 gameplay.

But let me tell, qlive and cpma duels are by far inferior to q4 own original gameplay, in all matters from speed, and skill, to movement and stuff.

You don't need CPMA air control movement in quake 4 as you have a crouchsliding and rampjumping ability.

Quake 4 has its own kick to the gameplay and its way more balanced and high skilled than insta weapon switched CPMA with 100hp respawn 1 shot your dead.

Back then Q4 played on 91fps on best q4max servers, now we have 250fps mode it is a heaven and earth difference, unbelievable smoothness and mouse input quality.

If I wished for some features it would be minor bug fixes, more mod customizations and a second version of netcode for those who have high ping to be able to play.

ID shitware kind of killed everything by first releasing atrocious Quake Live as the browser game, and then finishing it off by a completely broken console ported Quake Champions.

Still if anyone asks what is the best AFPS in 2020, Quake 4 it is, CPMA goes second, and I would advise anyone to stay away from quake live and QC as you will just degrade your skill and aim into the mud.

What we are planning to do in 6-12 months is to make 3 great duel maps like monsoon, and few maps for other game modes.

Sidenote, thanks again for your work at the time

Thx for all you guys did for Q4.. Q4max was amazing

Another thing missing that I do remember is fast weapon switching wasn't implemented for the CPM gameplay, which I know purists wouldn't approve of releasing it as "cpm" gameplay without it.