codemasher
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5 years ago I've created a branch :fire::fire::fire: (<- this is a link), that is basically the old WoP source diffed against/merged into the current ioq3 master (as of 29. October 2018). However, it's pretty dirty and contains quite a lot old ioq3 code and the qvm doesn't even compile (i didn't try to start fixing the errors). The client (win64, yay!) however works fine and can already be used as a replacement for the current 1.6 wop.exe -remote/dedicated servers only - you'll see why once you start a local game...
Note: this client is for testing purposes only and nowhere near a release - use at your own risk! wop-1.7-dev.zip
mgerhardy
People keep asking why noone plays the game anymore, and at some point i made a snarky comment that we cannot force you to play it. I realized that it's indeed up to us. We did not just make a game, but the website and forums brought together a small but very tight knit community, all of which got lost when our webserver crashed at some point in 2014. Then i realized that the game is virtually unavailable nowadays, except at SourceForge (ugh!) and ModDB and their clones, who were cool back in the day, but now lock downloads behind ad banners. We failed to properly distribute and preserve it, combined with the malicious actions of a certain padmember, who deleted most of the historical WoP downloads from many mirror sites, including the PadMod for Quake3 (however, you can find a lot of the files somewhere on the web - at your own risk). The silly patch distribution was the icing on the cake, making it extra complicated for people - i'd be ashamed of myself if i had to write a page long tutorial on how to download and install the game... Turns out that patch distribution only works well with full release downloads or if you can provide a reliable autopatcher. We had neither. The WoP source was only available as .zip file (and the 1.2 source has gone lost for some reason) - i think there was never a public repository for it, therefore we have no commit history available and making it super hard for others to do anything on the code.
I didn't have the time and resources to fix the website back when it crashed, not to mention that none of us had a database backup from later than 2012, because apparently we stopped caring. In 2015 i made an attempt to bring it back and teased with archive.org links to the historical WoP websites which was followed by a very ugly episode including the same certain padmember betraying me, among other things (i do not associate with this). Originally i planned to resurrect the WoP website with all its fancy in its original place for the upcoming 9th anniversary of the ioq3 based standalone game in 2016 (and more importantly, the 10th!), but for SOME reason it wasn't bound to happen.
It's 2018 now, and i'm still bothered by all of it. Some of us poured their heart and soul in this game and it deserves better. I want to see people playing and loving WoP again. WoP turns 11 in a few weeks, so i'm going to bring back parts of the old website in the WoP Archive as well as the server browser, i'll be maintaining this repository (there's a brand new dev branch already) and i'm going to make all of the historical downloads available again.
Long live World of Padman!