Did The Remaster Improve Or Ruin Quake 2?

Does anyone know if they remaster an older game like this do the original programmers get involved?

Weapon Graphics

Anyone else being disconnected from multiplayer games with "lost connection to lobby" error?

Lost connection to host

Severe lack of players and functional list

Can't exit commanders room at research lab

Quake 2 Remaster Combat Speedmap Release

How to add bots?

looking for coop players

I can't start Quake 2. I can't fix it.

Machinegun has no recoil anymore?

[BUG] weapon viewmodels all have weird "whitebox" glow

Why is Quake 2 so easy?

Update 2 - when?