Hi, This was the first thing except sticky grenades in this game that made me think "Wtf - is it really supposed to be this way".

The scenario is: You fire a rocket/grenade (its even more clear on grenades) and before the projectile hit something and explodes you take the Quad Damage, the normal rocket you already fired for 0.5s ago magically transforms into a 4xDMG Quadrocket.

My question was as I said earlier:
"Wtf - is it really supposed to be this way"?!?!?!?!?!

Yes. It has been this way a long long time. Even some DM2 tactics guide from the year 1999 clearly states that when you rjump to quad, remember to fire rocket to the lower area (water or spawn) since it will turn into quaded rocket once you get the quad damage.

The quad effect will also die at the same time you die, turning rockets to normal if quad dies before the rocket hits.

Okay, thanks Renzo for the good response.
This would probably qualify to be one of those things that is broken, but since its been there for long and has turned into a part of the game. It would be more wrong to fix it. (I have that pov too)
Am I right?

Right indeed.
It can create pretty nice situations actually

It's special charasteristics of QW and has been like that too long time to get it changed, I'm not really willing to start changing it to other way around. Also I don't think it's a bug but rather "by design".

I agree with Renzo about "in design". It's not a realistic game or how else you'd even get quad damage to your _shells_ with some artifact? I love it! <3

I dont think it was "by design" but rather "overlooked" anyway I dont want to change it either, just wanted to hear some info about it since Its pretty strange

Oh the wondrous secrets of QuakeWorld. Never knew about this.

I wonder if this spawns another "must be fixed because it makes the game too random and unpredictable!" discussion...

Why would it? It's perfectly predictable, not at all random, and has been an intrinsic part of gameplay for years. Just watch how often people fire a defensive rocket down to ng at dm2 just before taking quad to surprise the attackers.

It might not be the most intuitive implementation (ie. most people wouldn't guess how it works first time they pick up a quad), but it's no less valid so there's no reason to change it and many reasons to leave it.

It was prolly by design to save a bit of space. rox have a parent (player) so why bother adding info to the rock (when quad ends / has quad) when you can access that info from the parent ;-)

/me looks a Renzo for confirmation or "no you silly fk" ;-)

It's poor design, you right. There areldy done some fix to this quad behaviour, so popular quad bores was broken since sometimes quader died before damage was applied to opponent(s), so opponent(s) get normal damage and not 4x, so it was like "WTF HOW THIS FUCKER SURVIVE AFTER MY QUAD ROCKET IN TO HIS FACE?!!?!?!?", it was fun part of the gameplay for ages, but fuckers fixed it :<

I can't see why someone whine at this at all, if you are good enough to kill someone with quad his rocket should'nt be able to kill you hence quad is over..

Totally illogical though.

You fire the rocket and it hits, the object that got hit is the one getting the damage first, after that becomes the radius damage and surrounding players suffer from it, including the quadguy if he's close enough.

If we wanted to be funny we could actually do the damage chronologically depending on the distance of the hit. Let's say there are 3 people close to each other and the one is quaded. The quaded guy hits one of the opponents in face due to 1337 rocket skills but is sadly within the radius of the blast and dies. There is one opponent/teammate behind him who suffers only normal damage since he is furher away from the blast than the quaded guy and the shockwave kills the quaded guy first thus killing the quad-effect too.

Well perhaps not, but that would really be funny.

Why is this strange? When you take it youre projectiles are imbued with the power of quad, and its lost when you die? Its not broken, its no bug..

Logic in the realm of the ancient rune spirits.