It's refreshing to play Quake II again with uncapped framerate. You have to use D3D11 in Windows to avoid very slight input lag caused by Vulkan (if you're on Linux, Vulkan will be snappy instead).

If you want to directly host a game with a client-server connection (without lobbies), you can do that by opening a LAN match and then letting your friend connect using "connect IP" from the game console. Replace IP with your public address. The inbound port you need to forward is 5069 UDP.

This game gets an easy 9.5/10.

i used to play this game back in 1999 on a cracked version borrowed from my neighbour, today i pay to support

Game is okay. Not sure why you wouldn't add autosaves into a remaster. The game wasn't that fun the first time around, I'm not going to play through whole a level second time because I didn't anticipate a one-shot insta kill.