Yep, little Mickey is deadly accurate with the rail gun and will blow your mind as a flag runner. Well, not quite, but he's seriously good at turning right and avoiding walls. Hey, everyone has to start somewhere.
It might not seem like a gigantic step for fragging-kind, but within science research communities, the work that is being done at Princeton University by neuroscientist David Tank is fairly groundbreaking. Tank has put sensors into the brains of mice and lets them runaround a virtual world built on the Quake 2 game engine. Further, he developed a mini-immersive environment, along with an apparatus to allow them to move freely, but keep their head held in-place to be studied.
By keeping the head fixed, and tracking the sensors in the brain of the mouse, they are able to get readings from individual hippocampal place neurons in real-time from a moving animal. It has never been done before.
Tank modestly notes, "to be fair, more work is needed to nail this down," referring to the findings that individual neurons are fired at varied intensities (staccato bursts). However, Douglas Nitz for the University of California at San Diego was more candid exclaiming this is "an exciting result."
Enjoy the free game entirely made from scratch by AI.
A brilliant standard setter for remasters and re-releases going forward, Quake 2 feels like a love letter to one of the grandfathers of boomer shooters.
Tried the Quake 2 multiplayer on PS4: for a couple of hours last night
Had a lot of fun .
Remasters don't get much better than this. Kudos, Nightdive Studios!
THIS is a remaster. In every way possible. But more importantly in the place that matter most, the gameplay department. The controls feel so much better than the original and it lets the game shine in ways it never did. The shooting is more responsive and the movement much tighter. It also tone down the sliding feeling and the weird Mouse look movement. It just works.
I played the QuakePro mod and while it did good things I found the original gameplay was still quite cumbersome. Not anymore bay bay. This things is near perfect.
NOW I can see why some consider this game better than Quake 1. NOW I see it.
...And it might just be.
Sick ass game fr
No battle pass, no skill trees, just your gun and your strafing ability. Pure gaming fun.
1- This isn't Quake 2
2- I think the mouse is just trying not to fall
you people are dumb.
huh ? i dont get it
This is a really cool snippet of research but I kind of feel bad for the mouse. For those who don't realize what's going on, he has his head strapped into that module and is running on that ball to move. I know I wouldn't like to have my head strapped into an immovable pedestal and have to run around a controller for a virtual environment so scientists could study my brain, haha.
Still, this kind of stuff makes you wonder if scientists are trying to eventually develop stuff that we only see in movies.
haha, I actually expected the mouse to be playing the game. would have been awesome. Very misleading title.