Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Hits Golden Status

yessss, so bought

*For the freedom of Earth!*

I've come around a bit since I started playing, but I'm not sure if it's worth a buy. Especially with TF2 looming. Someone put it well in another thread. It's about balance between fast play shooters and slow tactical shooters. I don't think it balances well. They've put slow tactical stuff in that doesn't make sense given the quake fast play-style. I hope it gets a significant patch before release. ET and RTCW were my favorite multilayer games to date, so it has a lot to live up to.

The beta is really dead at the moment, its hard to find servers with active players in the US. Last night there were about 100-200 people on out of 1000+ servers. I'm very curious to see how popular this will be in the end.

I played Beta2. Although the bots were doing weird stuff sometimes the game rocked. It even runs at 25-30fps on an A64 3200+, GF6800GT @ 1920x1200.

I hope they put out a demo before the game is released. Pretty unhyped about what people have been saying about it, so I'd like to try it for myself

I'm hoping this gets released on Steam

Just to give some potential players my perspective, I got in the closed beta (FP beta) on the first day it opened and have played it almost daily since.

SD put a lot of time into polishing the game. At the release of beta1 the game was already fun and quite stable. There were some serious problems with vehicle controls and lag prediction. There were also some serious memory leaks in the server program. It was, however, very fun and at least as polished at BF1942 when it was released. SD has patched the beta 3 or 4 times since then, each time improved the gameplay quite noticeably.

It's very rare, as you all know, for these big FP betas to be anything more than a demo that the devs can apologize for as a beta. SD actually took a lot of the concerns and adjusted the game, while leaving the core elements intact. That won a lot of respect from me.

The game plays fast. This isn't a BF clone. The speed is slightly slower than RTCW and much faster than the BF series. There is a "deathmatch" approach here, but the classes are so deep and tactical that even DM players have a hard time competing with smart players who use turrets, shields, mines, radar, etc. The vehicles are powerful but not nearly as those in the BF series, and there are multiple counters in multiple classes to handle them. Also, you have to stick with the game for a while to get the feel for the classes before you feel very productive.

I have it on preorder and hope it's hugely successful. It's being released just ahead of TF2, which will be it's only potential limitation for PC fps players.

Shack server?

Has this changed? (see link)
I haven't tried any of the betas, but only seen it in videos:

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14139615

Pisses me off as a server admin that they went the route of BF2 with ranked servers. I don't wish to be forced to buy a server from an authorized ETQW dealer and be forced to have no root access to my server. Yes, I could just run an unranked server, but players generally want to play in the ranked servers. At least there aren't BF2-style weapon unlocks.

This game is awesome. For those who haven't had a chance to play in the open beta:

Once the demo comes out, play it with people you know, who know what they're doing. It has a small learning curve that seems to frustrate some players, and the game is a lot less fun if you're just randomly playing team deathmatch instead of actually fighting with your teammates over an objective.

Be aware that it's not Battlefield: Quake. The games have their similarities, but they are their own separate experiences. Outside of the obvious fact that you're shooting and running and driving/flying in both games, there are fundamental differences in the way the games are played.

Vehicles are generally less important and feel more like additional tools and a complement to infantry, rather than vital to survival and viability which is how I often felt about the vehicles in Battlefield 2. You can be successful in ETQW without ever getting in a vehicle if you so desire.

If you don't like it at first, play it for another day. Try a server with a lower player count as well. 24 and 32 player servers are much more chaotic, which can be fun in its own right, but 6v6 makes the class makeup of a team and strategic decisions of individual players far more important. You're also more likely to experience awesome hero-moments where you are clearly the key player who changed what he was doing and turned the tide of a battle. It's a little less chaotic, but there's still plenty of action, and I find it to be a much more satisfying experience overall.

Bioshock is keeping me away from the beta lately, but I'm eagerly awaiting a full set of maps so I don't get burnt out like I did with Sewer.

Any idea on when the Mac client will ship?

This sure took a long time to come out - much longer than the Battlefield 2142. Hopefully that means they've had enough time to polish it up into something really special.

Although a part of me fears that they've had trouble making the game work as a whole.

Any Tribes fan should try the demo upon release. It's the closest thing to it IMO. That and some of the TFC maps. On the surface it resembles BF2142 but it's just so much better than the BF series.

From the beta i would say this is a much more deep and polished game than people think.

The problem is his position in the scale of tactical realism (or at least cinematic realism) vs arcade, it is between both things and some people won't like that style.

Have this preordered, so I'm happy about that. I hope more people give it a chance, it has a lot of depth.

Mouse and keyboard for the win. VEry close to halo3s release date. who cares, as long as its coming out. i think it may be time for me to buy a new computer. Why dont they release a mouse+ keyboard for the 360 to play games. Ive been saying for years, if i had more control with my thumbs over my entire wrist, id jerk off with my only my thumbs. So hard to aim quickly with your thumb. Wish Wii had the power and balls to make a gears of wars game. wii mote is closest thing ever to mouse+ keyboard. ima go drink more crack now.

cool, looking forward to the 360 version. Wondering if its just a close to release as the pc version?