Hi,
I wish to use instagib mod and I found one that is very old (Q3 Mods) and I assume it is not compatible with the latest release of ioquake, as I receive the error “client/serve game mismatch: baseq3-1/”
Are there instructions on how to fix the old mod’s or should we consider learning how to create mods ourself ? 
Regards,
there are other versions of InstaGib that are compatible, I’m not sure right now which ones because the old links are unfortunately dead (to fileplanet)
afaik there is no “fixing” old mods to update them, unless source is available.
Hey, you could always use AI to look at the old mod code and re-write in new codebase. I was trying to do that with my Freeze Tag code and wrote a blog about it here.
You got exactly what a large language model slop machine can do, waste your time, waste valuable resources of our planet (that were externalized and hidden from you during the process), and produce often unworkable code that didn’t do what you wanted.
I didn’t even realize people thought that way. But what about the coming tide of AI? Isn’t it “only going to get better”? “adapt and survive”? I’m genuinely curious because I’m a software developer and I want to stay relevant to employers.
If the employers are solely dependent on keeping up with the latest buzzwords, lacking in any kind of empathy for the people who are actively being harmed by the externalities of the slop machines, and not understanding that the machines are generating slop and not workable code, then they aren’t people who you want to work with.
It’s always “only going to get better,” just like it did with chatbots and NFTs and coins and every buzzword that has been used as a tool to prop up stock prices for a few years and then disappeared to be replaced by the next thing that compels the infinite growth demanded by investors.
Traditional software development and the skills you use to work on projects made with it have existed in a similar form since at least the 1970s, we’ll be here when the buzzwords are long gone. Real software development skills are transferrable and growable. Learning to be a slop machine wrangler only makes you dumber and inhumane.
I agree, AI is pretty bad on everything right now, and using this technology will only get better on being more “the same” and repetitive.
AI slop will be enjoyed by other AI bots not by us ( is already happening ).
It is a tool, don’t get me wrong, it is pretty good as a search engine when you forget things and it can find stuff for you, from few words you prompt in, but it is useless to actually do stuff that matters. I’ve tried few option for coding and I wasted sooo much time figuring out it was just nonsense.
As a junior it will look that you know stuff, but you will not have the understanding aaand on the next question why did you do that, you will be dethroned.
Also this is about quake engine, use AI as you please but post here the working/relevant response.
Not a big fan to see advertisements on communities
I’m also a developer and working on ml/ai and I guess you can reach my thoughts about this by implementing some ai/ml algorithms yourself.
Going back to this thread, I started learning C and related tech, to understand how to build a mod for this, but I am taking my time with this as it is a hobby . Looking foreword to be able to contribute to this community.
Sorry I understand your “advertisement issue”. I was connecting with the “write old mods” and had hoped AI might do that.
Twenty five or so years ago Quake 2 came out. I was playing it and thought of a mod idea and so I downloaded the SDK. I didn’t know much C but went ahead and decided to make my mod. It took about two weeks but I finally got the core gameplay working. I released on PlanetQuake the mod Freeze Tag and it took off.
The whole experience was a rather grand one because I got to learn C in a fun environment. Now I’ve been at work and I heard people talking about AI and I knew nothing about it as I wasn’t in school anymore. So I feared I’d become irrelevant.
I was posting a link to my blog where I had recorded my journeys to try to figure out what this AI was. I was trying to figure it out by getting it to re-write my Freeze Tag mod. (Basically trying to return to my roots.)