Donald, you can play it later this week for free
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Beta
If I said "boom.. headshot!" That'd probably give you a good ideaobsidian wrote:Aren't there supposed to be objective notifications that pop up on your screen? SplashDamage said they really improved on that, making objectives easy to recognize and understand.
Or are people really that dense?
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Just to expand... Objectives are well marked with 'floating' signs that give you the exact whereabouts and distance to/from them as well as whether they have been completed or not (grey = done), so yep we are talking 'headshot' players here that aren't interested in any sort of team play, it's probably a given that public servers are going to be full of people sniping.
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One good thing with BF2 was the achievements/medals you could get, especially the one for stabbing people - it was ideal for going on a n00b pub server and stabbing as many snipers as you could. If you tried to hang around popualar sniping spots you could get 10-12 knife kills every round on certain maps. Encouragements like that are great.
I think it's safe to say that the XP system in QW will reward greatly that kind of thing. hehGrudge wrote:One good thing with BF2 was the achievements/medals you could get, especially the one for stabbing people - it was ideal for going on a n00b pub server and stabbing as many snipers as you could. If you tried to hang around popualar sniping spots you could get 10-12 knife kills every round on certain maps. Encouragements like that are great.
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Not bad, but a little chaotic at the moment.
Pros:
Very pretty; my rig'll run it with everything on high at 1920x1200, and smooth. Very impressed with how well optimised the engine is. Riddla & Foo will probably disagree, but it looks as good, if not better then most everything else on the market at the moment, at least in my eyes.
The two sides are VERY different, and seemingly well balanced too. I was expecting the sides to essentially be identical, but the little differences make them feel unique.
They managed to get water working in the D3 engine finally
Icarus jump packs are the dog's danglies.
Cons:
All other vehicles are piss poor with shit control implementation. Dunno why they bothered with them really.
Sounds are completely borked as pointed out by various others.
Weapons don't have enough heft. These are the wimpiest-feeling id weapons ever.
No audible timer for nades. Yes, the animated crosshair helps, but I miss those audio cues.
Adding vehicles means that the moron spawn-rush from Battlefield is now in an id game.
Crappy experience system is still in place. This has no place in a competetive FPS.
Covert Ops is still a shit class. It's not needed. Just let yer soldier class have a sniper weapon as a weapon choice and relegate this idiotic Fortress throwback class to the junk pile.
It's probably going to be a full price id game, and multiplayer only just ain't worth it. If they were selling it at £20, that'd be worth it, but £40 for a multiplayer-only title ain't happening.
I'm still pretty set on not buying this thanks to the in-game advertising, and I think it's a damn shame that Splash Damage have stolen the credit for a game that Nerve made great.
But it's turned out pretty good, I'll give it that.
It's just not RtCW 2.
Now that'll be a sure fire winner if they use the same gameplay from the original RtCW.
Edit: Oh, and if you're going to implement vehicles, at least make sure all vehicles can be driven by both sides.
And there's no weapon-stealing in this either. That was one of my favourite strategies in RtCW / Wolf ET. Kill an enemy, then swap your gun for his. Because the MP40 and the Thompson had such unique sounds, it meant you could start firing at the enemy from behind and they wouldn't immediately register that it was an enemy shooting them.
Pros:
Very pretty; my rig'll run it with everything on high at 1920x1200, and smooth. Very impressed with how well optimised the engine is. Riddla & Foo will probably disagree, but it looks as good, if not better then most everything else on the market at the moment, at least in my eyes.
The two sides are VERY different, and seemingly well balanced too. I was expecting the sides to essentially be identical, but the little differences make them feel unique.
They managed to get water working in the D3 engine finally
Icarus jump packs are the dog's danglies.
Cons:
All other vehicles are piss poor with shit control implementation. Dunno why they bothered with them really.
Sounds are completely borked as pointed out by various others.
Weapons don't have enough heft. These are the wimpiest-feeling id weapons ever.
No audible timer for nades. Yes, the animated crosshair helps, but I miss those audio cues.
Adding vehicles means that the moron spawn-rush from Battlefield is now in an id game.
Crappy experience system is still in place. This has no place in a competetive FPS.
Covert Ops is still a shit class. It's not needed. Just let yer soldier class have a sniper weapon as a weapon choice and relegate this idiotic Fortress throwback class to the junk pile.
It's probably going to be a full price id game, and multiplayer only just ain't worth it. If they were selling it at £20, that'd be worth it, but £40 for a multiplayer-only title ain't happening.
I'm still pretty set on not buying this thanks to the in-game advertising, and I think it's a damn shame that Splash Damage have stolen the credit for a game that Nerve made great.
But it's turned out pretty good, I'll give it that.
It's just not RtCW 2.
Now that'll be a sure fire winner if they use the same gameplay from the original RtCW.
Edit: Oh, and if you're going to implement vehicles, at least make sure all vehicles can be driven by both sides.
And there's no weapon-stealing in this either. That was one of my favourite strategies in RtCW / Wolf ET. Kill an enemy, then swap your gun for his. Because the MP40 and the Thompson had such unique sounds, it meant you could start firing at the enemy from behind and they wouldn't immediately register that it was an enemy shooting them.
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Mat Linnett
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- Location: The Grizzly Grotto
A mini-patch has been released today for the beta fixing various issues & adding new features such as BOTS. Read more on the added features and fixes here.
Source: Quake Wars Comminity
To grab the update, simply start up your beta client and the in-game updater will do the rest.
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Patch vers 1.1
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CHANGE LIST
- Improved prediction
- Memory leak fixes (mostly for servers)
- Bots activated
- Server browser fixes
- Punkbuster activated
- Fixes for various compatibility issues
Source: Quake Wars Comminity
Last edited by Bugsy on Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I was on a server last night and really got annoyed with flyer drone spam. There's little the GDF can do about it and there is a constant wave of drones, each an instant kill. Difficult to shoot the drones and hard to find the spamming Infiltrator.
So far, that's the only really unbalanced tactic that drives me up the wall. I'm interested in hearing if anyone has found of a good way of counterattacking against them.
So far, that's the only really unbalanced tactic that drives me up the wall. I'm interested in hearing if anyone has found of a good way of counterattacking against them.