Looks like the first load of beta keys for quakewars go out the middle of this week

[quote:2d950]The best part, and I've been waiting five paragraphs to say this, is that Day 1 of key distribution is currently scheduled for the middle of this week. That's right, the first batch of keys for the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Public Beta will go out in just a few days! FilePlanet's ETQW sub-site will be going up that same day.

Now why are we spreading these out over several days instead of throwing all 60,000 keys out at once? Simple: We want to make sure that as many people as possible get the chance to obtain a key and we feel that scheduling a predetermined number of keys to go out each day is the best way to do this. We're also going to be gradually ramping up the number of available keys with each passing day, so as time goes on, more keys are passed out per day. This allows us to steadily increase the load on our back-end infrastructure, making sure we can effectively test that.

Of course, a multiplayer beta is useless if there are no servers to play on. Towards that end, we've been working closely with a select number of Game Server Providers to get servers for the Public Beta up in North America, Europe, and Australia. We will continue to work with GSPs around the world to make sure Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars servers can be found in every major territory when the game ships.

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Already a link on fileplanet to dload it, at an amazingly lame 20k\sec rolleyes:

http://www.fileplanet.com/122489/downlo ... ars-Client

been playing the beta since late last night, will post up some screens and opinions soon. eek:

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Are there any other sites for the key/game?

that link doesn't work for me, jus sends me straight to the 'subscribe or die' section. I'm a free member, will i be able to get the client and possibly a key this or next week?

Well ive been playing it for a while today, graphics are actually pretty nice and some of the scenery in the map looks good.

The game has no stamina and infinite sprint, you can also hop around as much as you like so you can guess how farsical the infantry combat looks, its more of a game of who can hop about like a tool and get a few lucky hits in than anything. Imo the infantry combat also feels a bit "floaty" as well.

For some ultimately retarded reason any armoured vehicle gets affected by almost every weapon, if theres a tank driving by you can shoot it with a pistol or smg and it does damage, the damage a smg does is pretty extensive considering its firing bullets, about 2 magazines laid into a titan tank can drain maybe a quarter of its health bar. Same thing for the strogg walker etc.


The vehicles are pretty ok in the way they handle, theyre not really what i would call battlefield like. You can knock wheels off apc's etc to disable their movement..at least when you're just messing around in spawn, in game as of yet ive yet to see any vehicle get its mobility disabled, people just seem to go for the kill.

The one feature i really like about the game is the anti personnel\ anti air\ anti vehicle structures. Initially they can only be around your base but when you take over other parts of the map you can plonk them further afield. Its something new to this kind of game and something that obviously battlefield has never had. Theyre totally self automated so no need for someone to sit in one for 15 mins guarding an area.


I dunno its the kind of game i want to like but the infantry combat seems more luck orientated than any kind of skill being involved. If it was slowed down some and not so fucking "hoppy hoppy" id say this game has the potential to take a dump all over the bf series. They also need to tone down smg's damaging tanks and other vehicles ffs thats annoying as shit.


Upped a few pics here 1920x1200 maxed settings 4xfsaa 16x aniso

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/etqw/

[quote:3f640]For some ultimately retarded reason any armoured vehicle gets affected by almost every weapon, if theres a tank driving by you can shoot it with a pistol or smg and it does damage, the damage a smg does is pretty extensive considering its firing bullets, about 2 magazines laid into a titan tank can drain maybe a quarter of its health bar. Same thing for the strogg walker etc. [/quote:3f640]


Wow...that's ridiculous. So basically if a tank happens to get in the middle of about 8-10 infantry he will be destroyed effectively without the use of any anti-tank weapons. Developers who do shit like that just flabbergasts me. Instead of relying on your brain and wit to overcome a tank moving into your position, you can just assault him with multiple SMGs or camp until enough infantry respawn to help you destroy it. That eliminates the entire point of having a combined arms type of game. Each vehicle should have the purpose of halting infantry or push them backwards, not simply serve as a large target for being dominated by the class it was designed to impede. It would work a lot better if you had to use your brain to hide or find an anti-tank RPG-style weapon near to counter the tank. These types of games should be all about countering: each vehicle/weapon class should be very effective for a precise situation, and likewise be very vulnerable to a precise situation.

videos of it here: http://www.theoompa.com/Stuff/QuakeWars/

Wicked stuff happy:

I guess the damage meters can be lowered and generally balanced as I recall playing in BF games at the beginning where certain weapons were overpowered.
That is easily changable so it'll be fixed at some point rock:

Graphics look sweet, think it'll be ok on an Ati X850 XT 256mb?

Is it available for download for free members or is it still subscribers only?

Far as i know its available for regular fileplanet accounts now or later this week.

It would run on an x850 but you'd need to scale some stuf back, drawdistance is massive in this game, no "mystical fog" on the horizon like every battlefield map.

Miyagi, i think if you reg a free account with Fp you can get it now.

Can't say you're missing much though. At best its decent, not the BF killer that splashdamage tried to say it would be.

nope still need to purchase their shitty service package...

FP is easily the shitest place to DL ever.

apparently all free fileplanet members can get a key on Saturday, I'll see what I feel like...

God damn server crash, was fucking those cunts over with my pos titan tank. annoy: Ever got a few of those icarus whores in midair who are annoying as shit with those things. the_finger: