Gameplay Mod Copper

Conservative in its changes, Copper builds on the good in Quake and adds tweaks to make it all the more tight and smooth of an experience. What may seem subtle at first will have you wishing for all mods to have Copper's changes after playing through it. Very coherent and a joy to play. Almost feels like playing Quake for the first time again, it's that good. Very classic look that is exceptionally well done. The codifier of what it means to he "vanilla+"; all the improvements you never knew you always wished you had.

100% achieves the goal to be an upgrade/tweak to the vanilla experience without going too far and feel "un-quake". All the changes are well thought out and the quality of life improvements and other new features (like the ability to carry multiple keys of the same type) are nice to have, and make it worthwhile designing maps for Copper specifically. It does feel like what might have happened if the guys at id were not burned out and had some more time to finish the game.

Makes old vanilla maps feel fresh again.

I love this mod and the new Nightmare difficulty, but please please PLEASE remove the zombies always reviving no matter what! It's so annoying to explore a completed map with low health (because of a hard final fight) while a bunch of unkillable zombies keep stalking you everywhere you go. It doesn't make me want to stay and look around or do some kind of victory lap, it just make me want to sprint to the exit so these damn zombies can FINALLY LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE! That's not helped by the fact you're no longer swimming in rockets, because of the ogre only dropping 1 rocket now (which isn't a problem by itself, but it definitely make zombies even more annoying, because you can't kill a revived zombie without risking running out of rocket). If you want a compromise, make the zombies only revive once or twice or something like that. Everything else is really good and make Nightmare worth finding!

Big congrats on the release, Lun!
This update brings some really exciting and refreshing updates to gameplay (new NM), and I'm having a blast discovering more QoL changes which only serve to help, not bloat, the mod.
Gonna do a play-through of id1 and some old classics on the new NM now. Thanks Lun!

You will never need anything else. Copper is the beginning and the end. I cannot play without it.

I love every change and mapping for it is a dream with expanded QoL, while not being overwhelming in feature-set either.

Copper has become a standard install for me and playing Quake feels strange without it. Fantastic changes!