Okay this is not strictly news, but in the absence of news, it is worth strengthening the community by sharing views and discussing… so here goes:

As we take a retrospective look back on Painkiller, the CPL, what was and what wasnt good about Quake 4 and all the other hopefulls, it is worth looking again at Painkiller with the benefit of hindsight.

I would suggest if Painkiller had come out after Doom3 and after Quake4, it would have been much more successful.

I would also suggest that the two things wrong with Painkiller are simply that the netcode was never finished, and that the stake gun and gameplay isnt great for FFA. If you look at the big games out there, they all have good accessible FFA in common. CS, for example, is all about immediately accessible FFA. In PK meanwhile, the skill level means the game can be frustrating for newcomers.

But what does everyone else think? What is good about Painkiller, and what is bad about it? In playing for money, did most players forget to play it for fun?

Long time no post. As you can imagine, a few things happened. Firstly PK++ went open source so that anyone can work on improving it where I do not have so much time, secondly I do not have so much time spare for PK++ hence the above 🙂 Thirdly I finally got around to fixing the posting so that bots cannot spam all that useful information about things on the net – hopefully this should have fixed it. Unfortunately it means you have to register to post/tag, but perhaps this is no bad thing!

All the best, and happy fragging!

Hello! I would like to inform that the best videos all around the gloebe from various pker’s have been hosted in sys shared Painkiller server.
Here hosted are the singleplayer and multiplayer videos.

After a long hosting i am proud to present them:-)

Lab nurses: (bloodbuster)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/bloodbuster/lab_nurses.wmv

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Painkiller last: (bloodbuster)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/bloodbuster/pk_last.wmv

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Mad Momments: (bloodbuster)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/bloodbuster/mad_moments.wmv

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Painkiller screenshot videos: (bloodbuster)

1) http://www.darkscorner.de/dcgs/PK_Screenshotsallp1.wmv

2) http://www.darkscorner.de/dcgs/Painkiller_SC_Vid.wmv

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Golem Enclave: (peti)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/peti2mtag/golem.wmv

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Hills goldrush: (peti)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/peti2mtag/pk-hills-goldrush.wmv

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Opera with stake: (peti)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/peti2mtag/pk-opera-t1-mq.wmv

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Opera with painkiller: (peti)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/peti2mtag/pk-opera-t2a-mq.wmv

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Swamp ZO2: (peti)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/peti2mtag/pk-swamp-zo2.wmv

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PK town: (peti)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/peti2mtag/pk-town1.wmv

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Snowy bridge: (peti)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/peti2mtag/snowy_bridge_v1.wmv

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Resident Pain: (PainkillerDark)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/painkillerdark/resident_pain.avi

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Faces of Destruction 5: (doughboy1er)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/fod5/fod5.wmv

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Insignia: (z900, xaku, Razorb)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/z900/insignia.avi

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Crazy frags: (wto)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/wto/crazy_frags_by_wto.avi

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Wellcome to Hell: (masp)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/maspingon/wth.wmv

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Pro fragz: (xaero)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/xaero/xaero_profragz.avi

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True Pain: (Razorb)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/razorb/true_pain.avi

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Thor and Necrogiant: (Artas1984)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/artas1984/thor_and_necrogiant.zip

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Abandoned Factory: (kalme)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/kalme/factory.wmv

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Forest_404: (kalme)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/kalme/forest_404.zip

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Hills tanks: (cyody)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/tanks.wmv

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Palace: (cyody)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/palace1.wmv

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/palace2.wmv

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Fun: (cyody)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/fun.wmv

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Factory fun: (cyocy)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/factory_fun.wmv

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Babel: (cyody)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/babel_beast_options.wmv

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/babel_bloody_stair.wmv

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/babel_bloody_corner.wmv

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Surfen3: (cyody)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/surfen3.wmv

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Guardian: (cyody)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/cyody/guardian.zip

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Experiece Painkiller 1: (SYS)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/sys_experience1.avi

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Experience Painkiller 2: (SYS)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/sys_experience2-high.wmv

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5 stars Ruins: (SYS)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/sys_ruinsvideo-high.zip

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5 stars Tower: (SYS)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/sys_towervideo-high.zip

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Mine riding: (SYS)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/sys_underworld-minecartriding-high.wmv

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Lemmings: (greybeard)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/greybeard/lemmings.wmv

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Lemmings 2: (greybeard)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/greybeard/lemmings_2.wmv

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Lemmings 3: (greybeard)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/greybeard/lemmings_3.wmv

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All souls compilation: (greybeard)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/greybeard/all_souls_compilation.wmv

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Camping in Hell: (greybeard)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/greybeard/hell_camping.wmv

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Camping in Palace: (greybeard)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/greybeard/palace_camping.wmv

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Camping in Babel: (greybeard)

http://tombraider.central-game.net/sys/painkiller/greybeard/babel_camping.wmv

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As a small gift to those ultra hardcore PK’ers out there, I’ve released the PK++ source code for further work, or for those of you who are interested in how it works. Given that the use of PK++ by the CPL etc. are long gone, and that the game is unlikely to be plagued by bots etc now, it is safe to do this.

You can find the source code release, HERE.

If you wish to work on PK++, please abide by the licensing, and if you wish to work on it openly through Sourceforge, this can be arranged… just drop me an email at kerberos99@hotmail.com or talk with me ‘Blowfish’ on quakenet irc.

Happy fragging!

It seems Painkiller has made its way onto Wikipedia, the online wiki encyclopedia.

Painkiller is a first-person shooter PC game released on April 12, 2004. It was published by DreamCatcher Interactive and developed by People Can Fly. It attempts to replicate the ‘old-school FPS’ gameplay of Doom and Serious Sam. It has 24 levels of seemingly unconnected designs that include medieval castles, factories and lunaic asylums. Five of the levels are ‘boss levels’ with some of the largest FPS bosses to date. The game takes place in Purgatory and Hell. It is notable for using the Havok 2.0 physics engine extensively. The main character, Daniel Garner, is voiced by Cam Clarke.

Read more about it here.