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Date: 12/02/11
Posted by: Black Monk
I guess "real soon" means "more than 6 months!"
Doh! Sorry 'bout that, been craaaaazy with RL stuff. Either that or I've been lazy and apparently no one else knows how to post news (glares at the other people who do know how to post news)!

First order of business, you'll get more updates using this thing that I hear the kids are into nowadays called "Face Book" or something like that.

http://www.facebook.com/reactionq3/

I don't actually use social media very much so I'll probably still use this as a platform for random updates. That being said, we've been making sideways progress. Sideways? Ayup! With the random free time of everyone involved, we've enlisted the help of SmileTheory to basically port the renderer improvements that Makro came up with into the renderer that SmileTheory's got sitting in the ioquake3 "features to include Soon(TM)" bin, more or less. This makes it easier not only for us to keep up-to-synch with the ioquake3 code when improvements are made there but also it's easier when random parts of the team disappear for a while due to RL needs.

I think the renderer is just about there for the Reaction-specific features. Plus, SmileTheory of course has many other features that he came up with himself or ported from XReaL or ETXReaL or whatever it's called now. Hopefully we'll have a release this year. We're close. Golly but we're close!

I'll try to catch up on some of the email and video links that popped my way though it's not as easy (or fun) to update the Vault with links. Was a tad easier 10 years ago when the site was more like a CMS instead of now when I have to do it all by hand (Vault, Guild, Backlot). This site's fine but the other three are kinda limpin' along.

Thanks for keeping us in the back of your mind! We appreciate that our fans are still anticipating the next release! :D