ET:QW Wishlist


(Loffy) #81

Where is ETQW?
I want it for xmas.
How hard can it be. Im no programmer, I admit, but…
a) Make a couple of maps.
b) Make spawn-places. So players can spawn into map.
c) Create cool sounds, like “The Stroggs are into the bank!”, and a really, really cool sound for the obligatory machinegun. Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!
d) Make a cool user-interface, with buttons to click on, when choosing classes and teams, for players I mean.
e) Some more stuff.

Did I forget anything?
//Loffy


(etqw.at) #82

> Did I forget anything?

yes, a lot :smiley:


(ParanoiD) #83

That would be great, a skinpak/mod for ET with things of ET:QW like the strogg. I can really image: The strogg have constructed an commandpost :slight_smile:


(B0rsuk) #84

1. No cheesy voice-chat
Historically, the more “badass” a character/side is in a computer game, the more cheesy his/their voice is. Please don’t do that. Strogg voice chat mustn’t be cheesy/pretensious. I mean, if an indy puzzle game like DROD (http://caravelgames.com) can have disturbingly good quality speech for the Slayer, why not ET:QW ?

2. No crossdressers
No agent/covop tricks based on looking like opposite team’s member. No changing uniforms etc. It didn’t work particularly well in Q3F, and proved only marginally useful in W:ET. Pro players never fall for that. Newbie or pub players keep falling for that… and teamkill you. It doesn’t matter that I spam “I’m a covert op” and don’t move towards friendly spawn. When disguised, I more often die killed by a teammate than enemy.
By the way: my suggestion for Stealth skill: similar to Battle Sense, but you get xp for damaging/killing and NOT taking damage for 30 sec. Pretty intuitive if you ask me, and promotes truly stealthy behaviour.

3. Vegetable detection/handling
By default, all inactive players (for a while) should be kicked to observer. It’s a middle ground between voting for kick (happens quite often) and letting them serve as spawn point decoration.
Inactive players are really really bad for a team. Suppose you have two vegetables in your team, and enemy team has 1 more member. That’s actually 3 player difference, yet at first it looks as if everything is ok balance-wise.
I suggest moving such players to observer first, because that way they save their exp (in case it’s not their fault; big lag can happen to someone)

4. No campaigns longer than 3
Split the maps into more smaller campaigns, but don’t make 6+ map campaigns like most lame servers do. Reasons:

  • I believe xp/rank was meant to promote skill/usefulness to team, not patience. I mean, if it was meant to promote only patience, it would be called Diablo. On 6 map camp, General etc no longer impresses anyone. Rank devaluates.
  • if you join in a middle of 6+ map campaign, you’re likely to be owned/spammed to hell by everyone else. Small skill/xp differences don’t have huge impact, but if you suddenly face Level4Heavy Level4Light Soldier it’s no longer funny. Maxed-out skills (for a single class) is common for 6+ map campaign.
  • I eat. Honestly, I do. 6+ map campaign keeps me from eating for at least twice as long.

5. Do something about medics
<rant>
It may look ok for a long-time player, but something is seriously wrong if 50%+ of a team is medics on regular basis. Because compared to them, Soldiers/Covert Ops are pushovers. Unsuprisingly, Soldiers don’t get any respect in W:ET, because about 1/200 or less panzer shots hit a tank. Flamer is situational at best. Mortar may get you nice amount of kills, but is actually so imprecise that these kills rarely matter. You usually kill ones too stupid to run away anyway.
Mg42 is probably best/most reliable of Soldier’s weapons, but you will probably hit “1 of each weapon” cap which is there to deter panzers.
As for static mg42s (which are actually quite good on maps like Gold Rush or Fuel Dump - some good locations, no ammo limit, you can jump away quickly as opposed to mobile) you’re better of with Engineer or Medic.
Another reason: medic is the only class that lets you play absolutely stupid and ignore stealth/safety altogether. Simplest fix to medic would be disallowing them to pick up their own medikits; after all you don’t have eyes all around your head, so it should be hard to heal yourself properly. Besides, medics already have regeneration.
</rant>

More than 1 weapon + reasons to choose them
90% players use Mp40/Thompson, which is the same weapon, really. No, it’s not fun. Non-thompson light weapons rely on suckiness of other underpowered light weapons to win. And I have yet to see someone using Sten well. Ability to keep disguise rarely works; better accuracy doesn’t matter much: no scope, much lower damage, and Thomp40 is probably better at long distances anyway (you can afford to spray bullets)


(Gringo) #85

Dont know if this has already been said as i too lazy to read the whole post but would it be to much to ask for allies and axis? U could have allies vs axis vs strogg. :smiley:


(famine) #86

Selfkilling. Please, a selfkill must count as a death!

Oh, and the medic class is obviously overpowered in ET. In any server i join there are about 8/9 medics per team. They can heal themself in 3 ways, regenerating, healing packs, and the red syringe, and when they get to captain or major they have about 156 health! For fuck sake! They should only get to 120 i my opinion. They have only little and tiny and insignificant disavantage. No ammo, but thats no big deal, cuz when they run out of it (and theres no fieald ops, since the team is full of medics) they swap the weapon or they kill themselves.


(kamikazee) #87

See etpub -> fear. If a player kills himself within a defined amount of seconds after he has been hurt a lot, the death will count as a kill.


(bandit5k) #88

I can vouch for that. My friends computer will not run EA games with out having to rip the disc to iso and then mount it. Even then, that doesn’t work with all of them.

The best way i can see is a login sort of thing. Register your CDkey on a site, you’re allowed to choose a login and password and you have to log in each play session. The problem with this will be like issues in WoW. When the Login Server is down…Everyone gets pissed off.


(FootSoulJah) #89

News on Christmas would be great, would brighten up my day anyhow :slight_smile: as for a movie on x-mas, i would be in tears.


(Nail) #90

thread is for ET:QW wishlist, not how uber leet you are with mortar

[edit: in case anyone coming late to this thread wonders what Nail means by the above comment, I’ve just deleted four off-topic mortar-related posts before this one - Wils]

I wish for more screenies or ingame videos


(Jej3) #91

We need less spam, more skilled weapon, a real antilag, no warping, no bug, no campzor map (like oasis), need a voip, all osp and a QWTV.
I don’t need a pubgame too, 6on6 and 3on3 rox.

Now I need more information in video or picture … ^^


(ChumChum) #92

We need more spam, less skilled weapons, a fake antilag, lots of warping, a huge bug, lots of campzoring maps, we don’t need voip, no OSP or QWTV.
I need a pub game too, 32 on 32 and 16 on 16 rox.

Please don’t post anymore videos or pictures.

Was hoping they may cancel eachother out :nag:


(etqw.at) #93

one more wish, plz update the enemyterritory.com website :smiley:

update it with more pics and ingame-videos :beer:


(B0rsuk) #94

(Can’t delete and post is no longer relevant)


(Nail) #95

you can do that now, 7 in etmain and 8 in etpro

7: seta cg_noVoiceText “1”
seta cg_noVoiceChats “1”
seta cg_teamChatsOnly “1”

8: seta b_textcolorfilter “”


(LOWLUX) #96

I WANT A TEAM SPEAK LIKE UT2004!!! WHEN YOU HIT A KEY YOU CAN TALK TO TEAM MATES!!! OR THE OTHER TEAM WHILE ONLINE!!!


(FootSoulJah) #97

I wish for no capital letters in ETQW :wink:


(ParanoiD) #98

We seriously need to get rid of the capslock…


(DarkangelUK) #99

In-game VOIP would be nice, but an option to mute certain players or all would also be good. Experiences with CS kiddies has proven that in-game VOIP is not always a good thing.


(Nail) #100

I don’t understand the clamor about in game voice comms, on our 18 slot server there is usually at least 10 different countries represented, it’s bad enough with all those languages in open chat, to have it all in my ears would be horrific