Enemy Territory IS DEAD this sucks!

Chris2 · 2012-12-03 10:33:16 UTC

ET:QW isn’t as bad you make out, I’m not saying it’s perfect but on the whole it’s playable just sometimes you get killed around a corner or your shots don’t hit the enemy. There’s lots of stuff you can do to make the game run smoother client side too. Also editworld is 1000 times better than GTK, SD did a really good job with the editor, shame they couldn’t fully sort out the engine in time for the release.

rorgoroth · 2012-12-03 11:26:57 UTC

I agree it’s not as bad as I make out but when you play other games so much and then ETQW it’s so noticable that I can’t help but be perhaps a little too negative, I guess.

Any other tricks other then unlocking the fps? I never got it to stop being jerky as hell on an icerink 90% of the time. Also I never looked in to editing on QW or editworld - I may grab the game off of my backup drive later in the week and have a play around and see what that’s all about since you’ve made me rather curious :).

diaboliksmart · 2012-12-03 18:11:48 UTC

Salut Mateos xD

We need the IP !!! Long-life to engeneers ! A ton of servers with rambo-medics are easy to find, but servers for engeneers are the top IMO

Thanks in advance and GL to your mapping work !

Mateos · 2012-12-03 18:26:24 UTC

I don’t really like to advertise, but since you asked for it:
http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/91.121.141.217:27960/

There’s people only the evening, up to full server (24 slots). Maps are well-known (Supply, Adlernest, Bremen Beta 3), ETPro, /kill in fight and abuse protections, classes protections (So not everyone is medic in a team, depends on how many guys there’s).

Hope you’ll like it

diaboliksmart · 2012-12-04 07:03:04 UTC

Thanks Mateos, and Yes, ET is not dead xDD:)

JackPipsam · 2012-12-04 11:26:48 UTC

I still try to play this game when I can.
But having to download a mod pretty much every time I join a server is really keeping me back from playing this game.

Patriotqube · 2012-12-10 07:45:22 UTC

[QUOTE=JackPipsam;412027]I still try to play this game when I can.
But having to download a mod pretty much every time I join a server is really keeping me back from playing this game.[/QUOTE]

I play this game atleast 2 or 3 times every Week, and i dont give c**p about having to download a mod or a map. downloads are small and goes fast.

I have played ET since it was released in 2003 without a stop, i tried other games like QW, BF series and Cod series, but they havent come close at all, so im still on ET.

I cant see why some random people here on forum keep whinning about some small downloads, its actually those that have kept the game alive for all those years, the continuing development in the game is what makes it a fun game to keep comming back to.

And yeah imo many here are random pubbers, idc how many posts they made here on site.

Chris2 · 2012-12-10 08:46:41 UTC

If you don’t mind downloading crappy pk3s that change sounds, skins, UI, models, textures, language and such each time you try connect to a server then good on you. The size and speed of the download has bugger all to do with it, it’s the fact that these mods do bugger all to the game beyond make it retarded, I don’t want to bloody see the UI plastered with the clan logo of the last server I played on, I don’t want to hear low quality sound bites from films next time I press V54, I don’t want the mine flags replaced with flowers, I don’t want this crap in my game and there is no way to filter it out, there lies the real problem, if you can’t see that then you are delusional.

I understand that maps have kept ET alive all these years, I’m a mapper myself but custom content got out of hand years ago, it’s very hard to find the quality stuff in all the crap out there, also who are you talking about in that last sentence? Looking back through the thread, the people with high post counts who’ve been here on these boards far longer than you aren’t what I would call “random pubbers”…

Patriotqube · 2012-12-10 10:40:20 UTC

[QUOTE=.Chris.;413420]If you don’t mind downloading crappy pk3s that change sounds, skins, UI, models, textures, language and such each time you try connect to a server then good on you. The size and speed of the download has bugger all to do with it, it’s the fact that these mods do bugger all to the game beyond make it retarded, I don’t want to bloody see the UI plastered with the clan logo of the last server I played on, I don’t want to hear low quality sound bites from films next time I press V54, I don’t want the mine flags replaced with flowers, I don’t want this crap in my game and there is no way to filter it out, there lies the real problem, if you can’t see that then you are delusional.

I understand that maps have kept ET alive all these years, I’m a mapper myself but custom content got out of hand years ago, it’s very hard to find the quality stuff in all the crap out there, also who are you talking about in that last sentence? Looking back through the thread, the people with high post counts who’ve been here on these boards far longer than you aren’t what I would call “random pubbers”…[/QUOTE]

I actaully dosent care what you want with flags, sounds etc etc, when that is said, im not to keen on that stuff either, but i can see, and hear from many of the players that play every day, that they likes it, so ofcourse some has addedc it to their servers, I would also do it, actually i have a soundpack on 1 of my servers.

What can annoy me is people that just sits on a forum and whine about how they like stuff and especially what they dont like, like the guy i quoted before “I still try to play this bla bla bla”

With a bit of common sense you can easyli find servers without that, the mod used would be a hint in itself.

Stop playing on full jayserver or partly NQ servers, try join some etpro, etpub or silent servers there you would have a better chance of avoiding it

and beeing highpost here dosent mean anything, playing the game every day or atleast some days every week would get me away from calling people some random pubber. but sitting around here on forum and whinning wont do that, and i dont care if people has been here longer than me or has more posts than me.
Whats your gamertag in ET? and how many hours have you played the last year? or do you also spend all your time here on forum making lots of posts on how bad the game is and how the downloads are killing it?

QW is dead btw, was slaughtered when they gave up statssite, if you cant see that then your delusional.

btw here is my Splatterladder Member No.: 463, true it dosent say anything, except maybe that i was playing WET before I joined this forum when brink was beeing made, and not when ET or QW was made, because back then i didnt care

Chris2 · 2012-12-10 11:02:37 UTC

Wow, you missed every point I was trying to make, I’ll try make it simple this time…

Not being able to filter custom content is a big problem for me and for others.

Installing ET is al;ready a big hurdle for newbies, once installed all this custom crap makes it even more confusing.

The people with higher post counts generally have been here for years and contributed to the ET community, not random pubbers.

I never said ET:QW wasn’t dead.

I stopped playing ET and moved onto games that don’t have so many problems and fragmented communities.

I played ET for years and played in fair few clans, it remains my favourite online game.

I’m getting old.

Patriotqube · 2012-12-10 11:27:36 UTC

Which just proves my point, most people i see here on this forum complaining about custom mods soundpacks etc etc has apparently moved on to other games. which is why i cant take it seriosly.

On the servers the reality is a bit different, ppl are actually asking for that kind of stuff.

And sorry for letting it all flow out on You Chris its just that we are people struggling to keep this game alive and spending many many hours in trying todo that. so a thread here saying WET is dead is somehow just so friggin annoying and the game dosent deserve it imo.

I have no clue how old you are but im turning 50 myself in 2 months, and im not the oldest on our website our record is a guy of age 65, many of us are 40+ in age, and we play the game because it is simply the best game still.

Ps. the qw is dead line was just so i could use your word delusional never seen it used in english before. We in Qube was really sad when they shut it down, we always had 2 or 3 servers in it before that

Chris2 · 2012-12-10 11:55:46 UTC

Get what you’re saying and I’m not one of those who are saying W:ET is dead though, it’s great it’s still going and the people who still play it can still enjoy it, I really wish I could get back into it but every time I try I get frustrated, it’s rather hard to find a decent server quickly, I don’t know about others but I still like discussing this game so I stick around, I’m still half working on my ‘last ever’ map for the game too, It’s just a shame the game couldn’t have remained more ‘clean’ but as you say, the players want that stuff like they wanted ranks and stats in ET:QW which imo hurt the game.

Ha I’m only 25, I’m more picky about things as my time for playing is less then when I started back in my teens and generally more grumpy

Kl3ppy · 2012-12-10 16:56:35 UTC

[QUOTE=.Chris.;413454]
Ha I’m only 25, I’m more picky about things as my time for playing is less then when I started back in my teens and generally more grumpy :)[/QUOTE]

Is this you?

Mateos · 2012-12-10 18:08:11 UTC

So I will “contribute” by “whinning on people whinning about whinners”, because I’m wondering if I’m the same forums I use to read everyday >.>

Install the game (By any chance, the one on SD, because the friends who wanted to try the game just found the 2.55 installer on Google), so you have all the PB and stuff ready. How many chances have you to find the game? I mean, the original one, with Axis against Allies doing objectives, with teammates and people who not just shout on “newbies” because they’re lost, not helping, “blablabla”? This is what tried JackPipsam, and he got answers :rolleyes:

The mistake came on the way to express the opinion IMO, because on one side it is intended “general”, while on the other side it is more “personal”, and I’m almost sure the personal one is shared. How many games forces you to download MB and MB of custom stuff, while you just want to play? Do you want to play a WWII Shooter or an other CoD with lot of guns, extra-XP-save, custom ranks only earned by usual players, given btw advantages on other players (And even more on newbies, WT* he reloads faster, have more ammo than me)? I was playing more years ago because I were a pubber, I don’t know how but just killing was making the objectives (~2006-2009), then started to see Medic teams only there to kill (Yeah, no engi FTW), and then I started to loose interest in the game, before finding people playing the game, ET, for objectives and teamplay. Ofc, custom packs… for Halloween, Christmas, that kind of events.

I trust the Mods and Map, not the add-ons, for the reasons .Chris. pointed out.

If I have not explained something enough, let me know ^^’

Patriotqube · 2012-12-11 15:13:44 UTC

Are you on drugs? what you wrote make absolutely no sense to me, except you apparently saying im whinning.

Whats your gamenick? and how many hours did you play in 2012? or are you also to busy writing here

Mateos · 2012-12-11 17:31:17 UTC

Most of the time was on Summer (Accounting degree before and now Computing one), I played a lot offline with map-making and waypoint-making, plus I use several nicks (ETPro, pub servers, scrims). So I don’t have a lot of hours for ET in 2012, compared to previous years, plus the fact I have a public Wi-Fi the week which doesn’t let me play anything online…

It’s not about how much you played, but where and when. If you remove the facades and ETPro match servers, there’s not a lot of different servers to check.

7Killer · 2012-12-12 02:54:39 UTC

i have few post here… May i begin play ET to late…May i begin mod it to later? i don’t know
but i know how to have a cleanned master server, i have make one, for my usage, lazy of facade , fake servers and others ****s…
If a day,ID wanna put few times into our Et more, they can update their master with some “intelligent filter”, if this day comes, send me a pm, i ll share my code for sure…

acQu · 2012-12-12 03:28:20 UTC

[QUOTE=7Killer;413885]i have few post here… May i begin play ET to late…May i begin mod it to later? i don’t know
but i know how to have a cleanned master server, i have make one, for my usage, lazy of facade , fake servers and others ****s…
If a day,ID wanna put few times into our Et more, they can update their master with some “intelligent filter”, if this day comes, send me a pm, i ll share my code for sure…[/QUOTE]

What is your basic idea ? Would be interesting to know (no code, just in words). Also for sure there are some people interested in the code. Me certainly would be

7Killer · 2012-12-13 15:23:26 UTC

idea is simple, a “basic” master waiting for an heartbeat, and add the server into the list since server is alive.
On the other side when an ET client request the master server, it s ask for a server getinfo command at each one to build the server list but getinfo contains few info and “false” info.

Now if the client requests in plus a getstatus command, it has the player list with their respective ping, make some analysis and make more filtering.
Make a connect command, analyse the answer and u would know if you have the a facade…

To achieve that, first i have code a special master, but in the fact ( and that s was i haven’t put it on the public place) , all ( only thing client cannot do, it s guest if a server accept all clients types ) can be done on the mod side, the only thing i didin’t achieve now , it shows the real number of player on the server list , because for the moment i didn’t discover where in the code ( sdk or mod ones) the server list is filled with all the values.

For the best result, master server has to make some filtering, because if its master can know if a server it s a facade, it can know if a server can accept both client type, and add it on the 2 list ( 2.55 and 2.6) , and client has to make some actions to know the true player number.

As i have make with my automatic etkey code , maybe i ll put it on the public place , i ll see…

PS: To the post counter boy, i prefer post quality than quantity, posting to say Hi, or i dont know , i think its stupid overload for the forum…
PS2: I have proposed many times to all mods coders to work together to solve common problems ( like ETKEY, PB drop or ****ed server list…) , maybe this time, they will stop to watch their foots and accept to work together on a common solution, they all have my contact and email, they know what they have to do…

acQu · 2012-12-15 04:34:15 UTC

[QUOTE=7Killer;414110]idea is simple, a “basic” master waiting for an heartbeat, and add the server into the list since server is alive.
On the other side when an ET client request the master server, it s ask for a server getinfo command at each one to build the server list but getinfo contains few info and “false” info.

Now if the client requests in plus a getstatus command, it has the player list with their respective ping, make some analysis and make more filtering.
Make a connect command, analyse the answer and u would know if you have the a facade…

To achieve that, first i have code a special master, but in the fact ( and that s was i haven’t put it on the public place) , all ( only thing client cannot do, it s guest if a server accept all clients types ) can be done on the mod side, the only thing i didin’t achieve now , it shows the real number of player on the server list , because for the moment i didn’t discover where in the code ( sdk or mod ones) the server list is filled with all the values.

For the best result, master server has to make some filtering, because if its master can know if a server it s a facade, it can know if a server can accept both client type, and add it on the 2 list ( 2.55 and 2.6) , and client has to make some actions to know the true player number.

As i have make with my automatic etkey code , maybe i ll put it on the public place , i ll see…

PS: To the post counter boy, i prefer post quality than quantity, posting to say Hi, or i dont know , i think its stupid overload for the forum…
PS2: I have proposed many times to all mods coders to work together to solve common problems ( like ETKEY, PB drop or ****ed server list…) , maybe this time, they will stop to watch their foots and accept to work together on a common solution, they all have my contact and email, they know what they have to do…[/QUOTE]

I should probably analyze facade servers, because i do not know what they send, so i might be wrong in stating that ‘i can send to you whatever i want, when i know who you are’. Means: if i know you are the masterserver and are trying to analyze me, i can give only to you a special answer. But i do not know the full circumstances to what facades really send, so this thought might be easily deminished, but this would be one of my first thoughts.

P.S. and don’t write ‘PM me’. Engage yourself in projects. There is actually some projects which established already a fairly consistent community, with constantly filled IRC channels. Do not wanna say names, because i do not want to speak for someone else, as i am just a small part of these communities, but they are there and they are active.