Zip Release of AQ2 Paks and DLL
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Some people have been reporting issues with Q2Online, and the old AQ2 1.52 client install is hard to find. I think it's time to make a new easy zip archive of the action directory for people who already have Quake2 installed, containing the basics needed to play.
We're starting a project now to handle this:
Yours is probably a better way to do it for new players and I encourage you to keep at it.
Even so, I'd also like to create an action folder zip that can be dropped into any existing Quake 2 install, such as the Steam, GOG, and RTX versions of Quake II. Maybe I'm just old fashioned. But first I'll clear a few more bugs off the list and maybe bump the version to 2.82.
I can create a 'drag and drop' add-on release tarball/zip for existing installations with instructions on how to launch it (+set game action), it makes sense for RTX and people who love other clients like Yamagi and don't want to install a client just for AQ2.
We have a regular cadence of releases now
https://github.com/actionquake/distrib/releases
This includes Mac M1, Mac Intel, 64-bit x86 Linux and Windows, 64-bit ARM Linux and 32-bit Windows. It also includes a content-only zip that can be used for existing installations as a drag-n-drop install, and server-only files for 64-bit x86 and ARM Linux with q2admin. All are built from source on the aqtion branch of q2pro, the aqtion branch of aq2-tng (this repository) and the aqtion branch of q2admin
If this all fits the bill for a ready-to-go installation, we could consider this issue resolved?
I think since AQtion is released, we can probably close this out?
Hah yeah it does seem less relevant now. New players are almost surely using AQtion rather than unzipping AQ2 into a fresh Quake 2 install.