Quake Wars is awsome

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i downloaded the Quake wars demo yesterday and then played it all day, running 1900x1200 with max settings runs great and looks beautiful, it was also alot of fun i dont see why alot more people are not playing quake wars i had a blast just with the demo and i plan to pick up the whole game tomorrow and really get into it, does anyone here on [H] enjoy quake wars, the only thing that felt kind of weird was the vehicles seems to get destroyed really quick i did not feel very safe using them other than that the game is pretty cool to me:confused:
 
I agree. I've been playing Quake Wars for months now and the community is very much alive. It's extremely fun and it actually never gets old, though I hope new maps come along soon enough.
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I've played it for a bit now since I got my 8800GT at launch which came bundled with it, and like it a lot. It's definitely one of the best FPS games around :).
 
More people play it than UT3. :)
The vehicles are weak compared to BF but it's by design. If you're a good engineer and stay on top of repairs, it's possible to wreak havoc with many of the most powerful vehicles.
The 12 stock maps are a solid effort. They have a lot of replayability. I'm looking forward to an official map pack from splash damage. Eventually the good fan maps will arrive and more people will immigrate from Wolf ET.
 
I love Quake Wars. And Splash Damage by far has the best developer support. They're always posting on the forums reading suggested ideas. We're about to get our 3rd patch, and at first thought, you might think "Third patch, already?! The game's been out for two months!" Well, every patch includes a lot of new features suggested by the community which is awesome. SDK beta is out, so hopefully we'll see some custom maps soon =) I personally love the game, there's much to do!
 
I think the biggest problem is that many people think "durrr it's just a BF2/2142 clone! I ain't playin' dat!!" but it's quite different than Battlefield.
 
I got the game free with my 8800GT. I tried it for a few days but thought it was meh. Theres plenty of better games out now and I expected better graphics from id.
 
I was way into this for about a month, then I got Team Fortress 2.
QW is still fun, but something is up with the aiming. It feels laggy and not smooth at all.
I'm not talking the mouse movement is laggy, I'm talking its like the movement isnt updated on screen. I'm getting way over 60fps, but the game still feels choppy. People look like they are lagging, when my ping is 10.

Cant put my finger on it.
No problem with TF2 though, so I'm mainly sticking to that game. QW is still fun occasionally, but the movement drives me crazy.
 
JohnleMVP said:
Theres plenty of better games out now and I expected better graphics from id.
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There aren't any games that have the unique gameplay of Quake Wars. It's a winning formula with a lot of depth. I think the graphics are good, not awesome, but at least my system can handle it. The upcoming Tech5 game will display eye popping graphics. QW was built on Tech4. Wolf ET wasn't the most spectacular looking game when it came out either. (Tech 3) :D

SD releases the games a few years after the engine debuted. They need a simultaneous launch. I wonder how hard it would be to port QW to Tech5 and update the graphics ? ET:Quake Wars:2009 ?
 
AMD_Gamer said:
i downloaded the Quake wars demo yesterday and then played it all day, running 1900x1200 with max settings runs great and looks beautiful, it was also alot of fun i dont see why alot more people are not playing quake wars i had a blast just with the demo and i plan to pick up the whole game tomorrow and really get into it, does anyone here on [H] enjoy quake wars, the only thing that felt kind of weird was the vehicles seems to get destroyed really quick i did not feel very safe using them other than that the game is pretty cool to me:confused:
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People don't like the game because of its feeble attempt at marrying the class-based leveling system for infantry that was the basis for Wolfenstein: ET and the vehicle system from the Battlefield games. It results in an awkward mess that never quite feels as good as W:ET ever did for the skill based infantry shooter or as good as the vehicle combat from the Battlefield games. The objective based gameplay involves absolutely no teamwork beyond "everybody plant their C4 at once" or "everybody rush the hack objective as Covert Ops". The vehicles also don't fit well into the objectives, adding further to the feeling that they were really just tacked on as an afterthought. Overall, there are better games out there for any aspect that ET:QW offers.

LeviathanZERO said:
I was way into this for about a month, then I got Team Fortress 2.
QW is still fun, but something is up with the aiming. It feels laggy and not smooth at all.
I'm not talking the mouse movement is laggy, I'm talking its like the movement isnt updated on screen. I'm getting way over 60fps, but the game still feels choppy. People look like they are lagging, when my ping is 10.

Cant put my finger on it.
No problem with TF2 though, so I'm mainly sticking to that game. QW is still fun occasionally, but the movement drives me crazy.
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The problem you are experiencing is with the game animations. During the demo, at least, they were only rendered at a staggeringly low 30 FPS, which resulted in player animations and vehicle movements looking very choppy and not smooth at all.
 
Dude that sucks your period key stopped working.

Wait, what are we talking about? Oh, Quake Wars.

I played the demo and had a blast. I haven't yet purchased it though due to the 10+ other games that deserve playing time infront of it. (imo)
 
Yup the game is great!!!!

now that the whining BF* ppl have left and those that can't actually play a team-game (even tho they asked for one) have left, those that know how to play as a team are around

Took a bit but now the general idea is getting around of what has to be done and the tactics involved.

When V1.4 is released in the new year it will re-ballance flyers vs deployables (the most annoying thing atm)
 
sushicide said:
I think the biggest problem is that many people think "durrr it's just a BF2/2142 clone! I ain't playin' dat!!" but it's quite different than Battlefield.
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Thank you! That's all I heard during my beta days on ET:QW servers and couldn't stand those types of people. It really is a great game, shame it's been overshadowed by the UT3/Crysis/CoD4 behemoths.
 
JaYp146 said:
Thank you! That's all I heard during my beta days on ET:QW servers and couldn't stand those types of people. It really is a great game, shame it's been overshadowed by the UT3/Crysis/CoD4 behemoths.
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Fair enought on CoD4 (got some clanmates who wont get QW cause they are into CoD4 atm) but UT3 and Crysis haha, big dissapointments
 
I tried the demo, and to be honest I enjoyed playing UT3 more, so I guess I'll stick with that.
 
It's all I've been playing since I got it. Got the Limited Edition simply because it was actually the same price as the regular edition when I went to Amazon.com
 
krameriffic said:
The problem you are experiencing is with the game animations. During the demo, at least, they were only rendered at a staggeringly low 30 FPS, which resulted in player animations and vehicle movements looking very choppy and not smooth at all.
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So is there a fix for this?
I really want to play the game, but the movement drives me crazy and is very irritating, so I havent touched it in a weeks.
 
hey sorry guys, i got the orange box, gears of war and UT3 instead i also have crysis that came with my 8800 gtx so they will keep me busy for a long time but i will get ETQW at some point probally really soon i will have to see how TF2 is:D
 
bah i miss it already :(

i shall get a decent computer again after i transfer in the fall to play hopefully.

by then i suppose all the balance issues will be fixed, more maps will be out, ETQWPro will be out, etc. i shall be happy when that happens :)
 
Great game.

But the strogg are a little too powerful. The ability to auto-heal by consuming ammunition is a huge advantage.

That - and its hard to find a suicide-ngineer willing to fix the MCP which leaves them a sitting duck. At least in the next patch they will be addressing the MCP repair issues. But I think they are overdoing it, honestly if they reduced the damage the MCP when disabled and noone is inside by about 3x it would probably smooth things out.
 
LeviathanZERO said:
So is there a fix for this?
I really want to play the game, but the movement drives me crazy and is very irritating, so I havent touched it in a weeks.
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Everybody complained about it during the beta, but they said it was in order to reduce the server workload and to make the game run better. So we wound up with animations that are more jerky and less smooth than shit from decade old games like Quake 3 and HL1.
 
Quake Wars is a fun game. I haven't started playing it regularly, but I plan to shortly.
 
ZenOps said:
Great game.

But the strogg are a little too powerful. The ability to auto-heal by consuming ammunition is a huge advantage.

That - and its hard to find a suicide-ngineer willing to fix the MCP which leaves them a sitting duck. At least in the next patch they will be addressing the MCP repair issues. But I think they are overdoing it, honestly if they reduced the damage the MCP when disabled and noone is inside by about 3x it would probably smooth things out.
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i go suicidal engineer ALWAYS. its the main reason i have way more deaths than kills.
 
Quake Wars rocks the socks. I haven't been able to put it down. I really wish more people would play, I'm almost tired of finding the same people in my crosshairs (ranked servers only). ETQW has a steep learning curve that puts some casual gamers off, but its very rewarding once you get the basics down and know what's going on.

Those of you that are have a slight 'choppy' feeling, make sure you release the FPS cap with the basic script command. Its default setting is capped at 30, you can release it up to 120 fps I believe.


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I played a bit of QW:ET early on. It really is a wonderful game. I prefer the team style play over the BF series/style of games. I need to fire this up a bit more. Just not playing many games currently. Maybe after the new year I will log in more.

EDIT: Have they added more official maps? Custom maps out there yet?
 
It came free with my card and I also enjoyed the demo so I played it a bit recently.

I really enjoy it and the "jerky" feel is just because things are capped at 30fps and animations run at 30 fps also, even if you're getting 100+ (with an unlocked frame rate). The animations are very good though - they just don't have real-time bones, physics and other stuff to make them even more smooth, like in UT3 for example.

Last time I checked there were over 950 servers up, so it definitely has a fan base, but the fact that it's not as dumbed-down as COD4 and BF2 probably draws away some newbies who aren't willing to spend more than 5 minutes to learn how to play. You can do all kinds of missions with every class and I really enjoy that. Especially the hacking/repairing/building since I used to play as an engineer in Unreal 2 XMP a lot, but most people just try to kill and not help the team too much...which is normal since most other games don't have anything else going for them.

Here's a quick christmasy video I made from the game:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XhMQ3MyzZTM
(Shows some vehicles and artillery)
 
markt435 said:
i go suicidal engineer ALWAYS. its the main reason i have way more deaths than kills.
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Same here. When I play the computer, I usually hop around from class to class, but when I play online (usually only on ranked servers), I'm 99% an engineer and I'll always opt to repair as much as possible even if I'm being fired at. Sadly, it's usually for nothing because team mates are too busy upping their kill/death ratio rather than covering the engineer and hopping into the MCP when it's just fixed enough to move a bit.

Oh well. The life of an engineer isn't a glamorous one. :cool:
 
I can camp with a cyclops for a solid 10 minutes against anything less than a dedicated GDF offense. I usually deploy anti-arty interceptor for cover. And yeah I rape with the tormentor too. Engineer is definitely my favorite class. Although I'll switch to whatever is needed. Infiltrators are so much fun too. Nothing like teleporting behind someone and knifing them.
 
I'm torrenting ETQW right now because Steam's giving me this gay launch error, "0x03" so I'm going to use my cd-key on a torrented ETQW but it's just stupid I have to go through this.
 
I bought QW retail. The only game I've ever bought on steam was HL2. It's never given me problems, but I should get a discount for no cd or box.
 
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