Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Diary, Delay

I shed a few tears since I was looking forward to playing it. Oh well at least that free's me up to do real work during hte fall and then look forward to this game in 2007. Guess I'll be playing BF2142 after all.

Splash Damage and id spent weeks reviewing the status of Enemy Territory. Weeks?

Create a sandbox mode of play for the competitive crowd “Quake Wars: Battlefield” and make the asymmetrical “assault” game mode for casual pub play, done. The idea of tuning an asymmetrical game for competitive play is nuts, it doesn’t have to be a conquest rip off either, you could have capture points on the map which actually make a difference if defended or not, tech centers, power plants, advanced weapon factories. Instead of just bleeding flag cap points you offer the team who controls the structure small advantages, a slightly bigger rock, scissor or paper.

Better way to go since it'll allow more time to pass from Quake 4's release. It seemed stupid to have the two released so closely anyway.

Delayed games = better potential for it to be a good game.

Just like Timeshift :P

Wasn't it previously set to an August to September release? It's now listed on EBGames.com as 3/1/07.

With a push back of that long, the team must of known for months they weren't going to make a 2006 launch. To miss holiday sales is a big deal, so there must be considerable amounts of work yet to do on the title. Unfortant too, was one of the few PC titles I was looking forward to this year. I can understand from a PR perspective that by keeping a delay announcement under wraps you can keep your title getting coverage as an upcoming title, but still erks me that ship dates are getting pushed around like a 12-year-old red head.

Damnit. I was going to buy a new system just for this game alone. Looks like I'll be waiting to rebuild for another few months.

This serious blows. Looks like Dice won, they got my 50$ fpr 2142 since i have at least 4-6 months to kill.

at least the hardware needed to run QWars will be faster/cheaper by then. /silver lining.

I remember Battlefield 2 was delayed ..and the community rehashed that old saying "they need more time to fix it" ...well more time didnt fix jack all

I'm tired of games being delayed ..that "we need time to make this game shine" doesnt fly anymore ..either gives us "when it's done" or nothing at all till you're 100% sure you'll make your target date

This is one of those times I shrug and think: 'I've waitied this long what's a few more months?' The game can only get better and with their track record I'm sure this is gonna be a good game.

turns out they only had a supertexture and had to postpone until it met carmack's definintion of mega.

ok, i was a serious quake fan back during the q1,q2,q3 era but this game didnt look that great in the gameplay videos from E3 and with a push back that long its going to impress the average gamer at all. this game is sounding more and more like a C rather than an B+.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


On the positive side, it gives some people more time to upgrade their machines. Unfortunately, that segment of the population does not include me.

I know that this isn't really related, but is there a release date for Crysis yet? The further other games get pushed back, the closer they will get to the release of that game. From what I've seen it's going to blow everything else away - at least in terms of graphics and interactivity, which mean a lot in the land of pcs.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3502375929069803475&q=crysis (yeah, bit old, I know)

I'd be shitting my pants after seeing this video if I was making STALKER or DNF. I'm sure they are all very different games, but usually one game comes along and just knocks the bar up a bit higher. God, what kind of crazy increase in quality level must DNF have had to go through over all these years. Boggles the mind. I hope it turns out to be a decent game and isn't DOA being released after things like Crysis.

Still excited about Enemy Territory of course, and I doubt there is any real worry for SD or id, because ET is likely to become the definitive team combat game, but seeings things like Crysis (and HL2 back in 2003/2004) must really put the fear of god into people spending millions on FPS games where graphics are so important.

and the trailer even said 2006. doh!

sounds like they will require an et:qw-test extended beta : )

Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! :(

Although I guess its better than them rushing it out and having it riddled with bugs

There's also two news screenshots on that gamespy article.

nooooooooooooooOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

oofah, this sucks. I at least hope they open up the game to some public testing before the end of the year.....

Well, I assume "push the release out of 2006" translates as 2007.

Oh well, more waiting for me.

and then there was mass mourning :[