I have a few bud looking to jump into some Quake matches and co-op, but there's a spilt between us on various platforms. I know GOG said the Quake update was coming in 'weeks' but that was a few months (?)/ weeks ago . Just wondering if we'd had heard anything since? A boy needs to rocket jump his pals!

The official thread was from August 20. I'd say that the time passed is around a month and a half

Plus, when there's mention of "days" or "weeks" it's to be read as "weeks" and "months", respectively, now more than ever.

A possible solution to the HITMAN issue supposedly being looked into over "the coming weeks"?
Yeah, right.

Yeah, don't hold your breath!

First and foremost:
- Expect this to be waaaaaaaaaay at the bottom of Night Dive's to do-list! Since hey're not going to make any money from the gog version, as it's going to be a free update, just like the Steam version, they're probably prioritising the Epic version, since the game hasn't been available there before. And even the Epic version has no release date yet, it's listed as "coming soon".

Other stuff to consider:
- Galaxy crossplay is apparently a pain in the ass to get running and I'm aware of at least two cases (Dusk, Ancestors Legacy) where proper Galaxy implementation took 6+ months.
- You'll probably need a Bethesda.net account for multiplayer and add ons (which sucks, but is probably a less egregious violation of gog's former DRM-free stance than Hitman GOTY, as you can at least play regular singleplayer with no restrictions)
- They're generally not the fastest when it comes to bugfixing. A minor issue that could probably be fixed in a few minutes (where the game will play a wrong music track in some levels) hasn't been fixed to this day.
- The quotes from Night Dive (?) staff on Discord that were posted on this forum were far from encouraging

I'd be very surprised if it were to show up later this year (unless they lop off features like crossplay multiplayer- and even then it'll probably take until some time next year).

Pretty impressive promotion for it at Steam.

Makes me itch to get a hold of the update here.
It can't come soon enough.

lol, someone is suuuuuuuper butthurt about this topic! xD

from contacts I have at the kex engine team prepping the update for GOG is low priority as they have shifted full time
into development for Powerslave Exhumed and prepping a general update for the release on steam which will make its way here at some point.

I would say early 2022 at the most
maybe MAYBE christmas but no promises.

Maybe it's just me but I prefer to just play the original.

You still have that option :P

GOG definitely shouldn't have made any noise about this until they knew when it was going to drop. Well, to each their own I guess. I find the DOSBoxed version to be a subpar experience, and setting it up properly with a source port and working music can be a pain. I can see the appeal of just playing something that just works.

Welp, the new version still features the original. The only difference is that the Enhanced Edition creates a new subdirectory called "rerelease", where all the files for the new version go. But all the original files remain.

*cue butthurt downvotes*