Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Previews

i wasnt interested in this until now...

This game is making me cream my shorts every time I learn something new about it.

And the fact that they are using the Doom3 engine makes it that much sweeter. No fucking 10 minute load times, no shitty programming, it just screams awesome.

When this comes out my BF2 DVD is going in the fucking trashcan.

I really hope they'll add some bots :-(.
One of the problems with Q4 is it was relly hard for beginners to catch up.

Actually looks pretty good:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/openpic.php?name=..%2Fscreenshots_library%2Fdir_305%2Fvortal_pic_152805.jpg

I got a small concern with the new pics. With all the harping on about mega-textures, and seeing into the distance for miles etc thus putting fog out of use, it seems odd that two of the new screenies have... fog.

http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2006/012/reviews/928340_20060112_screen002.jpg
http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2006/012/reviews/928340_20060112_screen006.jpg

And, I just wish that there were more screenshots that showed off the mega-texture tech. In anycase, it's not a big problem to me, and I'm pretty happy reading these comments from shackers since most of you are looking forward to the game rather than a tech demo. The anticipation for this game is so much different to that of Quake 4.

I look forward to this game like no other FPS on the horizon. I truly hope that they have some type of anti-cheat out of the box ...

Quake Wars takes place just as the invasion begins on Earth, some 50-60 years in the future, and pits the Strogg against a combined human army known as the EDF, or Earth Defense Force, which is equipped with near-future versions of conventional weapons and vehicles.

Haha, looks like DNF is going to have to make some changes.

Anyone else notice how much repressed sexuality is going on in this thread?

but what did happen to that? Vaporware now?

I really hope there aren't persistent stats.

It leads to stat whoring, and everone knows it.

Good God this game looks fucking awesome. I will upgrade for this. Give me more please.

OMG.. this is the game im going to upgrade for.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/r/?page=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/interviews/interviews_story.php(que)id=132507

And you were also saying it'll be an advantage to have a three-man crew in vehicles rather than just one guy in one, or three guys in three separate vehicles?

Paul Wedgwood: Absolutely. We're playing with the idea of gunner and pilot in concert - so whether or not you grant people permission to use weapons and how that system works out. But regardless of how the gunnery system works, we absolutely are going to have a system in the game called target acquisition and nomination. This allows a pilot to tell a gunner about a target that he might not be looking at and for the gunner to inform the pilot of targets he's firing at that the pilot might not have seen.

If you take the Titan tank as an example, a guy manning the general purpose machine gun effectively plays anti-personnel role so he stops the Strogg from running up and placing plasma charges on the tank. The tank gunner can deal with vehicles and the pilot can try and get into locations where the vehicle has cover. Like, we'll build tank concealment into the map so you can just drop into these dips and just have the turret sticking out the top. When they start to communicate these targets to each other, they play a much more effective role and we discovered this just playing at our desks.

Two or three of us jumped into a tank and by shouting commands at each other you've essentially got three pairs of eyes. The vehicle becomes considerably more powerful and if you add into the mix the idea of an engineer being on board who can repair the vehicle when it's damaged, you have a really strong, small fireteam in a vehicle.

That's so hot.

I can't wait for this honestly. Probably going to need a new system to run at the detail of these screenshots though.

Only sore point is the mech - anyone else think that is wonky looking?

I want this game soooooo bad. I'm pretty bored of online DM but man this looks hot

So its not really like Bf gameplay where you could capture any point at a time but it is more akin to the node setup like UT ons where you have to capture points to advance, from what I remember of ET it sounds like they are duplicating ET style gameplay.

I sort of like the any point capture as it kept the game fresh since there the game direction could change very quickly.

If only someone could rub my nipples while I read this article...

Holy fuck. I cannot wait for this game. I will probably buy a new computer to run this in all its glory.

Well, it's not english but the screenshots are in higher-res http://www.gamer.nl/viewdoc/2108/1

Someone mentioned this when the game was first announced, but whoever is in charge of releasing screenshots is doing a damn good job. I cannot wait for this game.

ANY PLANS FOR INCLUDING VOICE OVER IP?
Paul Wedgwood: Yeah, VoIP is in already. We have the same kind of 'v' chat we had in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, so you can type letters very quickly and it fills out the whole sentence and sends it as a fast message. We've got the traditional team chat and global chat as well.

This is news (for me at least). Great stuff.

I just finished reading the Eurogamer preview someone posted in FP. Oh. My. God. I had hoped when I first saw it that this would be the game that my entire life of gaming has been leading up to. Now I know it.

There's the expansiveness and vehicles I love about Battlefield, the kickass weapons from Quake, the mission-oriented levels of ET and UT's Assault mode, and the teamplay of Tribes. It really sounds like they're making this the most awesome experience possible. Oh, and the intentional unbalancing of the two sides is something I've been waiting for in a multiplayer game since Splinter Cell. The description of how the Strogg's classes work, like how they use their dead as mobile spawn points and leech health off dead humans actually makes for some differences in the way each side plays, something that's finally going to make playing each side interesting. I'm not bummed about the lack of a commander because it sounds like they've got some good ideas with how the classes operate together. How many Battlefield 2 games have been ruined by the lack of a good Commander on one side, anyway?

Oh, and that screenshot with the guy piloting the chopper from the inside makes me wet.

Who hopes they have Limited lives again?!?! That was one of the best parts of ET....making medics MANDATORY. The only problem I see with it is trying to do it with Strogg. It could be kinda a pain to balance lives with hey way you respawn.

Well I just read through the GameSpot review and all I gotta say is this is MUCH more like what I would have expected from a multiplayer Quake game (compared to Quake4 which seemed very similar to Quake3 when it came to mp). Looking forward to this one. This one I actually want to buy.

I have never been a Bf/Bf2 fan but I loved ET. This hopefully will keep the same type of feel (closer to an arcade game than a sim fighter) and I'll be all over it.

Well it's certainly looking better than it did a few months ago... looking forward to it now.

Enemy Territory rocked so, so, so, so hard. Having that + Quake 4 adrenaline + Doom 3 tech + BF2 vehicles... /swoon

wow. They really nailed the vibe. The shots look amazing....its like almost doome engine 3.5 (im sure it is)...

Concentrated war fronts, mission objectives, real team work. If you've played Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, you'll recognise how different it is to BF2. BF2 is cool, but Enemy Territory is in a league of it's own.

whatever happened to team fortress 2??

the d3 engine with better textures more polygones and water really looks amazing. my guess is you need a strong prozesore and a 1900xt /7900GTX with 512 Ram to run it decent at high details. cant wait to see it in motion.