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back to Outward (PC, 2019) today at twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: wandering around the desert region of Abrassar.

wandering around Abrassar (Outward pt. 7)

training, making silver, journey back to Enmerkar

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I'm playing a little Quake Brutalist Jam 3 tonight over at twitch.tv/andreaen.

The new popular Quake mod. I doubt I'll finish it (some of its features annoy me) but I want to take a look, cruise around some of the maps.

a little QBJ3

around 10 maps completed

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more Outward (PC, 2019) today at twitch.tv/andreaen. Will be exploring Enmerkar Forest; I'm hoping it'll be an easier area.

exploring Enmerkar Forest (Outward pt. 6)

Enmerkar Forest, traveling to Levant

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picking up Outward (PC, 2019) today at twitch.tv/andreaen. Will be exploring Hallowed Marsh & trying to survive.

exploring Hallowed Marsh (Outward pt. 5)

struggling in the Marsh, backtrack, Enmerkar Forest

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Adding airsteps to Ironwail 0.8.1

In Quake if the player runs into and is blocked by any sufficiently vertical plane the movement code will re-try the move with the starting position one stepheight up then move the player one stepheight down in an attempt to step over the obstruction. Quake 1 as shipped in 1996 only attempts this stepped move if the player is on the ground. This means that if you jump into a set of stairs and hit the vertical part of a step without landing on ground first you lose your momentum as though you'd run into a wall.

Later Quake games allow the player to step up even if they're in the air. Some Quake 1 sourceports implement this feature as well, often disabled by default. The feature is called an "airstep" in these engines and is typically enabled by setting the pm_airstep cvar to 1. The Quakespasm lineage of Quake engines (notably: Ironwail) do not, from what I can tell, implement airsteps.

That's an issue for me because I'd like to play the new cool singleplayer Quake mods but I don't want to get stuck on stairs. Fortunately this is easy to fix. Ironwail is used for most of these new mods & it's just a couple lines of code. Here's a quick patch for Ironwail 0.8.1 that adds rudimentary good-enough airsteps:

ironwail-0.8.1-airsteps.patch

diff --exclude Makefile -Nru ironwail-0.8.1-orig/Quake/sv_phys.c ironwail-0.8.1-hacked/Quake/sv_phys.c
--- ironwail-0.8.1-orig/Quake/sv_phys.c 2026-01-01 13:04:04.000000000 -0800
+++ ironwail-0.8.1-hacked/Quake/sv_phys.c   2026-01-20 19:17:37.866332969 -0800
@@ -865,9 +865,6 @@
    if ( !(clip & 2) )
        return;     // move didn't block on a step

-   if (!oldonground && ent->v.waterlevel == 0)
-       return;     // don't stair up while jumping
-
    if (ent->v.movetype != MOVETYPE_WALK)
        return;     // gibbed by a trigger

@@ -888,7 +885,6 @@
    VectorCopy (vec3_origin, upmove);
    VectorCopy (vec3_origin, downmove);
    upmove[2] = STEPSIZE;
-   downmove[2] = -STEPSIZE + oldvel[2]*host_frametime;

 // move up
    SV_PushEntity (ent, upmove);    // FIXME: don't link?
@@ -914,16 +910,26 @@
    if ( clip & 2 )
        SV_WallFriction (ent, &steptrace);

+   downmove[2] -= ent->v.origin[2] - oldorg[2];
+
 // move down
    downtrace = SV_PushEntity (ent, downmove);  // FIXME: don't link?

-   if (downtrace.plane.normal[2] > 0.7)
+   if (downtrace.allsolid)
+   {
+       VectorCopy (nosteporg, ent->v.origin);
+       VectorCopy (nostepvel, ent->v.velocity);
+   }
+   else if (downtrace.plane.normal[2] > 0.7)
    {
        if (ent->v.solid == SOLID_BSP)
        {
            ent->v.flags =  (int)ent->v.flags | FL_ONGROUND;
            ent->v.groundentity = EDICT_TO_PROG(downtrace.ent);
        }
+
+       if (oldvel[2] > 0)
+           ent->v.velocity[2] = oldvel[2];
    }
    else
    {

2025 Morrowind Mod List

Screenshot from the game Morrowind, taken on the road heading away from Seyda Neen

After about 6 (!) months I recently finished a streamed playthrough of Morrowind. As finished as TES III can get anyway - the main quests of the base game and the two expansions complete. I played with around 85 mods, mostly sourced from the lists on Modding OpenMW.

After the cut you'll find a list of the mods I used with links back to nexusmods where they can be downloaded. Like the other modded game I played in 2025 I don't recommend this list. It's a better idea to pick one from modding-openmw.com and start from there.

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Continuing Outward (PC, 2019) today at twitch.tv/andreaen. Will be exploring the starting area & gathering some equipment so my character will have an easier time.

exploring, gathering (Outward first playthrough pt. 2)

Steve continues to have bad days

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