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I'm on Linux.

Quake 4 has a native port, which works great. Though, as the Windows version, it's unmaintained.
Prey and ETQW have native ports too.

And I use DarkRadiant on Linux as well. Doesn't have some features I wish it did, but it's a solid and very useful map editor.

And Dhewm3 runs smooth as butter on Linux

And WINE is just amazing. Just a few more years, and it has caught up, completely. I finished Doom 2016 a bunch of times using Proton (the Valve fork) on Ultra and never dipped below 60fps.

I just buy stuff on Steam without bothering to thoroughly check if it runs properly. If it doesn't, it will someday. Unless the developer chooses to encumber it with aggressive DRM. Looking at you Capcom. (Or id, back when DOOM still had it)

not sure if you slowed down the player while looking down ironsights, but I'd say don't.  you're a badass marine.  If john wick doesn't slow down while gunning down baddies, why should you hunting down demons. 

It does slow you down, from jogging to walking. There needs to be a trade-off, and you want the extra precision by walking slower.
But you have a point, which gave me the idea that this would make for a nice unlockable skill, or powerup or whatever.

I'd say don't worry about the laser offsets.  they'd normally be offset anyway, with the idea they're set to be accurate at a set distance.

Depth-wise yeah, but here they're off a bit on the horizontal axis

There's some tweaking left to be done, sure. The laser sights offsets aren't entirely correct either.
Also even when aiming, the 'idle' animation is still played. I should probably disable that, for a steadier aim.

I've actually had iron sights aiming in the mod for a long time, but I basically just dropped someone else's code (from the CED assets pack) into my scripts (back when I had no clue what I was doing) and got distracted by other things.

That particular implementation turned out to be much more elaborate than it needed to be, so after a thorough cleanup and revision of many weapon scripts (many of which were a mess), I now have iron sights aiming with MUCH less code, for all guns (except the big, heavy ones obviously). I'm really happy with the new scripts.

I've had the laser pointers for a long time too, but their implementation was kind of shaky as well. They now work flawlessly, and they can be toggled on and off at will. Before, I combined the laser sights with aiming (think Resident Evil) and while that worked pretty well, it's nicer to be able to toggle it, so it's active when firing from the hip, as a replacement for the crosshair, which you might have noticed is not present









I'm also going over the Quake 4 weapons to clean up and fix those too.

from the C++ code:
kickDir is specified in the monster's coordinate system, and gives the direction
that the view kick and knockback should goso try 0 -1 0 ?