Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Demo Released

I'm scared.. after playing the demo and reading the manual I can see countless hours getting poured into this! They should almost REQUIRE you to read the manual, there's a shitload to learn! Finally, a great team focused game with a tight netcode and solid engine!

I can't believe you guys haven't posted this yet,
http://4newbies.planetwolfenstein.gamespy.com/ETQW/

Obligatory post because I'm cranky,

This game is not BattleField 2. It has vehicles, guns, classes, and levels are based on terrains that are moderately large. But it plays very differently from the BattleField series. You don't have flags to camp, but rather linear objectives to complete; as such, the game moves on in one direction, you can't sit somewhere. Also, vehicles are fragile because of the unified damage mode; for example, a pistol will do damage to any vehicle. And, more importantly, classes and strategy has a much bigger depth that might not be immediately obvious if you're just looking for a run-and-gun game. If you expect this game to be BF, you'll be disappointed.

This game is not Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory. It has guns, classes, and objectives. But it plays slightly different from W:ET. This is because of the sci-fi setting - it features Stroggs and weapons from a time other than when the MP40 was invented - and because of the way the maps are created; they're larger and often require vehicles to traverse quickly. In its core, this game keeps ET soul, but the plasticity of the game is very, very different. The addition of asymmetric classes and deployables really take thing deeper.

This game is not Quake. It has Quake in the name, and follows the classic Quake setting (as a prequel to Quake 2), but it's not as arcadey as, say, Quake 3. The railgun takes more time to aim and recharge, bunnyhopping is not so easy, and you won't be successfull if you just run around trying to gib people away.

This game is not Counter-Strike. It requires some heavy strategy for a team to succeed. A team with good teamplay and average aim can seriously lock a team with poor teamplay and great aim. There's so much that goes into the meta game I can't even begin to explain here. But believe me it's not just pointing and clicking and following a slightly different path or finding a different crate to sit behind.

This game is not Crysis. It's a team-oriented multiplayer game for 24+ players. Yes, graphics aren't as good as Crysis etc etc. The thing is, after you've played with a game for 20hours on a crowded server, graphics is the thing you're least worried about in a game. The game plays smooth on my old computer, and I'm thankful for that. Adding motion blur or depth of field wouldn't be helping.

The truth is, ET:QW is a great game in itself; personally, I was pleasantly surprised with the overall quality and structure after testing the beta. But if you come to it looking for any of the above mentioned games, you'll be disappointed. The game requires time getting used to it; it's not like you'll sit to play it for the first time and be leading the scoreboard after 30 minutes.

This game carries such an heritage and features that it's impossible for it not to get any kind of flak. It's not supposed to be, say, the direct BF2 killer. If that's what you expected, move on, this is not the game you're looking for.

Hmmm...this runs like a slide show on my 7950GT, Athlon FX-62 Dual Core, 2 GB RAM. I assume there is something wrong with my system. Anyone else having performance problems?

Help alt+tabing...

i tried to alt+enter but that doesn't work. It does not put me in windowed mode.
I even tried lowering the res from 1600x1200 to 1280x1024

I have a 7900gts

Soft Particles - is enabling this a performance or a visual gain?

This game runs at 20-30FPS (1920*1200, high details) on a A64 3200+, 6800 GT (overclocked), 1GB RAM. Great job, Splash damage! I will certainly buy this game.

SHACKNEWS.COM ET:QW SERVER IS UP!!!

Shacknews ET:QW Demo
IP: etqw.shackbattles.com
24 Players, Punkbuster Enabled, 30 minute timelimit, no waiting for players.
The usual password in the usual places...

Teamspeak Server IP: ts.shackbattles.com

Fast mirror:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_quakewars_downloads.html

think ill try the Crysis BETA instead :D http://www.fileplanet.com/betas/crysis_key.aspx

how i deplot turrent? seriously. how the FUCK do i drop a turret?!

Great a fresh demo that needs an ati update driver :( Wtf didnt they test this proper on ati cards ???

Anybody found a quick/painless way to enable more bots? Me and my friends were gonna lan it up, but we have no internet that can support +1 players in a worthy location.

I'd like to play this, but the new Radeon drivers won't work and I am unable to boot into Windows.
I can't seem to find anyone else with this problem. Previous drivers work fine. Thoughts?

Here's my video tutorial thread from the beginning of last week; enjoy!

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15065689

Damn it, all of my downloads are starting great, like 1mb per second, or say 500kbps and then they just gradually go down and down and down until I'm at like 50kbps.............wish I knew why. I'm trying mirrors from all over, mostly ones near me tho

On a 20mb connection, will keep trying tho

Don't go in expecting Wolfenstein: Enemy Terroritory because you will be very disappointed. Vehicles, long range weapons, and open maps go completely against what Wolf:ET did, and that makes me sad :(

I must say, after playing 3 or 5 rounds of this game... the sense of accomplishment I got after finally finishing the damn level(as human) is totally unrivaled for me to this day in any other multiplayer game. I literally jumped up out of my swedish office chair cheering.
The sense of frustration on the other hand, if you don't finish it is equally high.

wait...where are the graphic setting in the game?

this is driving me nuts.

haha i put a server up with bots and the bots just started going to town, i find it amusing knowing the computer is just playing itself.

is there a parameter I can add to the command line to let me alt-tab out of the game?

Jesus.. I keep getting a kick for Punkbuster being out of date. I manually downloaded and ran their "pbsetup" and updated but it still drops me. God I hate that thing.

Is it possible to alt-tab in some way?

How do i bring up the console? Can't seem to find it in the controls.

Im a mecury member, anyone else getting really slow download speeds like 8.5kbps slow?

I like it, I was wrong about it taking so long and that meaning it was likely shit, it is a really fun, tight and well thought out shooter. props to these guys, even though it took forever to come out.

It's awesome finally playing with more people, but it's gonna hurt for a while til people stop being smacktards and learn to play - gut-wrenching when only two people are after the objective and the other 12 are deathmatching.

Server up @ 72.37.204.150 !

Anybody have a server set up yet?

So when's the shackbattle?

Anyone has a torrent for it? Torrents should be standard now days....that way I can just queue the download without affecting my TVs series downloads.

I can't decide what is better to play this on. My new laptop, which is a Core 2 Duo, 2.2 Ghz, 2GB Ram, Geforce 8400M GS (only 128 megs, but is DX10), and SSD or my pc which is a P4 3.06 GHz, 1 GB Ram, ATI 850 GT (512 RAM - i think). Any opinions on this? I'm slightly worried about the 128 megs of ram on the laptop card.

I'm downloading the demo, but not really out of excitement but just to see how it finally turned out.

I've been told VOIP got cut and the game isn't really ET nor Quake. It's taken forever to finally come out too :[

If the demo is fun and the shack can beat TWO WEEKS, I hope we can get some regular shackbattles again like the good ol days.

after you get the hang of it you realize the demo map is actually micro sized and way too fast :(

they're still sticking with punkbuster? fuck

Seems cool to me. I wish the controls were a bit more refined though. I don't see why I can't double up some of these functions. There are just so many buttons to keep track of. I've only played for a bit, but I don't see why Enter Vehicle can't be the same as the use button. I just gotta get used to it I guess.

What're the system requirements on this?

Anyone know what has changed since the beta?

Any word on if this requires SM 3.0 vid cards? The requirements seem to indicate I'll be fine with my X800

Just as a quick note, that driver is a requirement for all ATI owners. It is mislabeled as being HD 2xxx only.

- Arnout