ET:QW preview in PC Zone

(Sick Boy) #1

During my daily crossings on the internet, I stumbled upon some scans of an 8-page preview of ETQW in this months PC Zone :smiley:

I won’t post links as that’s probably not allowed :twak:

Apart from the screenshots that look WAY beyond anything a PC game has ever done, here’s the important news from the article (as an incentive for you to all go out and buy the magazine (just covering my ass :stuck_out_tongue: ))

GDF vehicles:
Badger Truck : Reconnaisance and Light Raider
Trojan APC : Troop Transport and General Workhorse
Titan Tank : Blowing things up with a massive big gun
Anansi Gyrocopter : Flying around and blowing things up

Strogg Vehicles:
Hog Truck : Scouting, sneaking and causing mischief
Desecrator Hovertank : Full-on War Machine
Goliath Heavy Walker : Intimidation, Striding
Hornet Flyer : Flying Death Machine

GDF classes:
Soldier (machine gun)
Ranger (infiltrator)
Engineer (repair)
Field Op (artillery and other heavy stuff)

Strogg classes:
Tank (heavy weapons)
Infiltrator (fast ,stealthy and mind control)
Constructor (repair, nail gun)
Meditek (gives Stroyent, which can be used for ammo and health)

Lists may not be complete

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(kamikazee) #2

Too late, the link is posted in another thread!

(Sick Boy) #3

I type too slow :frowning:
Anyway, I had another source :stuck_out_tongue:

(kamikazee) #4

Euhm, where’s the allied medic class?
There surely were if I think of one of those earlier screens.

(Nail) #5

hmmmm, nail gun, may have to change my nick :lol:

(DarkangelUK) #6

Was thinking the same thing, being that there’s a screeny with a soldier away to zap a guy on the ground with paddles an all. Maybe they multi-task now, and engineers have fizzled out the fine line between fixing a machine and fixing a person.

(SCDS_reyalP) #7

I’d say that covers the case of the missing medic

(fattakin) #8

I cant seem to find the UK pczone is it still on sale?

(amazinglarry) #9

Hmmm in a lot of these previews I’m reading they mention 24-32 players but they don’t really specify if that’s going to be PER TEAM or SERVER. I know in the preview they said they won’t hard lock the server cap but… well here’s a snippet.

“The goal is to optimize the size and hit Cloud and Wedgwood’s teamplay sweet spot: 24 to 32 players. ‘That’s the best for great teamplay while pursuing each mission’s military objectives as part of an overriding campaign. That said, we will not hard-lock the player limit, and as with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, we’re sure people may choose to run larger servers (many ran 64 player counts) for a different player experience.’ says Wedgwood.”

I’m just confused because when he says ‘teamplay sweet spot of 24 - 32 players’ it makes it sound like each team will be composed of 24 - 32 players. But then later he notes how some players may choose to run larger servers and uses the example of people in ET running 64 player counts, which makes it sound like 64 player counts are large, and the 24 - 32 players per team isn’t the case. (because well, obviously 32 + 32 = 64)

Anybody know exactly how he meant it? I hope it’s really 24 - 32 players a server (as a general sweet spot), but that’s just me. Ihave no objection to larger servers, as they’re fun in their own right… I just hope we don’t need to have 32 players a side for it to be balanced and fun.

(Nail) #10

24 - 32 players per server, ie: 12 - 16 per team is how I’ve always read it

(Wils) #11

24-32 players per server, not per team :slight_smile:

(Gringo) #12

24-32 players per team would = ET:Mayhem Wars

(Nail) #13

ahhhh…you’ve played shirb then :lol:

:nag:

(ParanoiD) #14

Nexus 64 players :). You can see ET isn’t designed for 64 players. You spawn with 20 other teammates, you run, run and run. Then youve reched your enemy which fires a panzer, ur dead, respawn etc etc etc…

12-16 players looks good fro ET:QW I think. Nice teams, you could split up in 3 squads on a team doing different missions i think.

(fattakin) #15

I managed to track down a copy of the mag and have been salivating over it all weekend. Sumptuous to say the least!