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neh
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Posted: 06-19-2007 10:47 PM

am wondering if it looks any good tbh?

I fired up q4 the other day and was pretty taken with how fucking ugly it actually is when I compared it to most of the stuff I enjoy on 360 ...

does it look any good (I know movies etc are up - but all are off screen or grainy) - just wanted a little feedback from first hand play

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Grudge
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Posted: 06-20-2007 09:27 AM

ok, it's started

downloading

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Don Carlos
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Posted: 06-20-2007 09:51 AM

Been watching videos...i wish i was playing this

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dzjepp
It felt good...

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Posted: 06-20-2007 06:41 PM

Grudge you got a paying fileplanet account?

Donald, you can play it later this week for free :kiss:

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shaft
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Posted: 06-20-2007 07:06 PM

I'm a total newbie.

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Grudge
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Posted: 06-20-2007 11:37 PM

yes

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Qr7
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Posted: 06-21-2007 12:35 AM

meh... from the looks of it, too little too late. BF2 / BF2142 anyone?

the only promise that i have for this game in the mod scene. Here's hoping for a decent tribes mod. tribes 1 was the shit.

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DooMer
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Posted: 06-21-2007 02:09 AM

it doesn't resemble the bf games in any form.

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DooMer
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Posted: 06-21-2007 02:16 AM

the only thing that sucks are the retards with no fucking clue. bullshit like having a whopping 6 snipers, but no radar (the thing they deploy to help the team). a bad team in this game can really destroy the fun factor, more so than others... but it's new.

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obsidian
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Posted: 06-21-2007 08:07 AM

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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Kat
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Posted: 06-21-2007 08:36 AM

obsidian 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?
If I said "boom.. headshot!" That'd probably give you a good idea

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obsidian
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Posted: 06-21-2007 10:27 AM

That was a rhetorical question, but yes, thanks.

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Kat
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Posted: 06-21-2007 10:48 AM

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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Grudge
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Posted: 06-22-2007 02:11 AM

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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Kat
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Posted: 06-22-2007 01:55 PM

Grudge 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.
I think it's safe to say that the XP system in QW will reward greatly that kind of thing. heh

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Bugsy
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Posted: 06-23-2007 07:32 AM

Free FilePlanet accounts will be able to download the beta and get keys starting today.

Original post updated with relevant time depending on your location.

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Silicone_Milk
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Posted: 06-24-2007 01:08 PM

Well I like it

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Mat Linnett
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Posted: 06-24-2007 01:38 PM

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.

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d3mol!t!on
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Posted: 06-25-2007 01:12 AM

Mat Linnett wrote:
Adding vehicles means that the moron spawn-rush from Battlefield is now in an id game.
Yeah we did a bit of the moron rush our selves, running over loads of Strogg in the GDF tank before getting blown up ourselves by the Strogg's vehicle rush

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Mat Linnett
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Posted: 06-27-2007 02:37 PM

After more playing, it's good, but it ain't RtCW.

There's just something missing overall, and it's enough in conjunction with the in-game advertising to put me off of the game as a whole.

I think it just doesn't feel as solid as RtCW, and I feel less in control.

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§ìgñå
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Posted: 06-27-2007 03:50 PM

Mat Linnett wrote:
After more playing, it's good, but it ain't RtCW.

agreed. rtcw was/is the best teamwork fps period!

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Bugsy
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Posted: 07-02-2007 07:55 AM

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.

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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

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shaft
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Posted: 07-02-2007 08:51 AM

punkbuster is now enabled. I already was booted twice for wrong version, even after I manually updated.

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R00k
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Posted: 07-02-2007 09:14 AM

cool.

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MKJ
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Posted: 07-02-2007 12:12 PM

stuff a cock in it

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R00k
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Posted: 07-02-2007 12:14 PM

seriously. you've made your opinion clear. there's really no reason to run around bitterly re-iterating it.

if you don't like the game, you don't have much reason to play it, or to post in the ETQW forum, do you?

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obsidian
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Posted: 07-02-2007 03:31 PM

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.

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DooMer
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Posted: 07-02-2007 03:35 PM

the only way is to listen for it, and keep running away if you cant get a good shot. its easy to kill them outside, but pretty tough inside. usually the noob whos using it will freak out and detonate it prematurely if you start shooting at it.

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§ìgñå
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Posted: 07-08-2007 09:18 AM

just an fyi: this website now has a html server list:

http://qwtracker.com/serverlist.php

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shaft
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Posted: 07-08-2007 11:29 AM

havnt been playing much the past week.
oh yeah... with the new patch, if you have xp64 the game crashes to desktop when you enable it. no fix yet.

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DooMer
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Posted: 07-09-2007 06:07 PM

The few servers without bots fucking lag like something nasty since the patch. Pretty much unplayable. I'm gonna blame PB.

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ok, it's started *downloading*

Been watching videos...i wish i was playing this

Grudge you got a paying fileplanet account? Donald, you can play it later this week for free :kiss:

I'm a total newbie.

yes

meh... from the looks of it, too little too late. BF2 / BF2142 anyone? the only promise that i have for this game in the mod scene. Here's hoping for a decent tribes mod. tribes 1 was the shit.

it doesn't resemble the bf games in any form.

the only thing that sucks are the retards with no fucking clue. bullshit like having a whopping 6 snipers, but no radar (the thing they deploy to help the team). a bad team in this game can really destroy the fun factor, more so than others... but it's new.

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?

obsidian 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?If I said "boom.. headshot!" That'd probably give you a good idea

That was a rhetorical question, but yes, thanks.

Free FilePlanet accounts will be able to download the beta and get keys starting today. Original post updated with relevant time depending on your location.

Well I like it

Mat Linnett wrote:Adding vehicles means that the moron spawn-rush from Battlefield is now in an id game.Yeah we did a bit of the moron rush our selves, running over loads of Strogg in the GDF tank before getting blown up ourselves by the Strogg's vehicle rush

After more playing, it's good, but it ain't RtCW. There's just something missing overall, and it's enough in conjunction with the in-game advertising to put me off of the game as a whole. I think it just doesn't feel as solid as RtCW, and I feel less in control.

Mat Linnett wrote:After more playing, it's good, but it ain't RtCW. agreed. rtcw was/is the best teamwork fps period!

punkbuster is now enabled. I already was booted twice for wrong version, even after I manually updated.

cool.

stuff a cock in it

seriously. you've made your opinion clear. there's really no reason to run around bitterly re-iterating it. if you don't like the game, you don't have much reason to play it, or to post in the ETQW forum, do you?

the only way is to listen for it, and keep running away if you cant get a good shot. its easy to kill them outside, but pretty tough inside. usually the noob whos using it will freak out and detonate it prematurely if you start shooting at it.

just an fyi: this website now has a html server list: http://qwtracker.com/serverlist.php

havnt been playing much the past week. oh yeah... with the new patch, if you have xp64 the game crashes to desktop when you enable it. no fix yet.

The few servers without bots fucking lag like something nasty since the patch. Pretty much unplayable. I'm gonna blame PB.

ok, it's started

downloading

Grudge you got a paying fileplanet account?

Donald, you can play it later this week for free :kiss:

meh... from the looks of it, too little too late. BF2 / BF2142 anyone?

the only promise that i have for this game in the mod scene. Here's hoping for a decent tribes mod. tribes 1 was the shit.

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?

obsidian 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?
If I said "boom.. headshot!" That'd probably give you a good idea

Free FilePlanet accounts will be able to download the beta and get keys starting today.

Original post updated with relevant time depending on your location.

Mat Linnett wrote:
Adding vehicles means that the moron spawn-rush from Battlefield is now in an id game.
Yeah we did a bit of the moron rush our selves, running over loads of Strogg in the GDF tank before getting blown up ourselves by the Strogg's vehicle rush

After more playing, it's good, but it ain't RtCW.

There's just something missing overall, and it's enough in conjunction with the in-game advertising to put me off of the game as a whole.

I think it just doesn't feel as solid as RtCW, and I feel less in control.

Mat Linnett wrote:
After more playing, it's good, but it ain't RtCW.

agreed. rtcw was/is the best teamwork fps period!

seriously. you've made your opinion clear. there's really no reason to run around bitterly re-iterating it.

if you don't like the game, you don't have much reason to play it, or to post in the ETQW forum, do you?

just an fyi: this website now has a html server list:

http://qwtracker.com/serverlist.php

havnt been playing much the past week.
oh yeah... with the new patch, if you have xp64 the game crashes to desktop when you enable it. no fix yet.