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 Quake 2 - the game we all love was released over 12 years ago, can you imagine? One could say that after all those years, we (the players) have learned the game to the bits, that we know every single secret, every single line of its source code. How wrong would that be, huh?
Yes, even though the game was released over a decade ago, we still haven't got full understanding of our beloved platform. There are still many mysteries around the game that baffle us on daily basis. One of those unexplained mysteries are the jumps of all sorts and movement physics in general.
There is probably not a single player who hasn't tried to get his/her head around the jumps, the proper values of maxfps commands and relation of those two. The most of us have settled for a single, comfortable setting to play on, leaving the issue unresolved (as it seems that different CPU configurations lead to different settings, best fit for an individual player on an individual computer). There are, however, players who took more serious approach. The jumpmod players have researched the issue more extensively, as they have to know how to utilize the best setting to perform a specific jump, in order to complete the maps. Among them is a Pole -  n00k!e, champion of the and arguably one of the best jumpmod players ever.
Turns out that the jump-fps issue has haunted n00k!e in his sleep for so long, that he decided to resolve the issue once and for all, taking a role of an an experimental physicist of the Quake 2 in the Strogg facility. After years of extensive research and countless experiments, he is finally proud to announce that his work has paid off. He's just turned all the data he's gathered into a fine piece of writing, Quake II: Physics, explaining how certain aspects of Quake 2 physics work. If you want to understand the game you love a bit more, or you just enjoy looking at the plots and graphs, be sure to check the paper, .
Quake II: Physics
:: Author: n00k!e
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