Public beta and no demo

([ls.leodavinci]) #1

To that end, a rolling beta is planned for Quake Wars, which will initially start small but eventually roll out the public in some limited capacity. “It’s hard to nail down a date,” says Cloud, when asked when a public beta might start. “We’ll start off with an Activision development team, and then a ‘friends and family’ type of group with all the maps, and then in terms of going out to the public, it would be a limited amount of maps to get feedback on the general types of gameplay and objectives and see how they play out.”

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/enemy-territory-quake-wars/723299p1.html

The interview gave us some very nice information about ETQW, many of us are a bit dissapointed about the gamedelay… But the interview gives us some nice information why the publisher and developer delayed the game, it will only enrich our MP experience more !!! Its not like EA who delivers a game just to earn easy money (BF2… arghhh)… big thumbs up for you guys… a balanced game is what we want, so that we can play for years and still have fun.

and… BETA TESTING … hopefully we can still play ETQW in the fall in a small beta release. Does it mean that there won’t be a demo and a beta instead?

Cant wait to see the quakeon ingamefootage

whoehoeee !!! :moo:

(madness) #2

why don’t you dl the vid from planetquake4 then…the thread below this one : o

(RosOne) #3

I’m no developer but I guess it goes something like that:

blah blah > internal/external closed beta > public beta > demo and/or retail version

([ls.leodavinci]) #4

why don’t you dl the vid from planetquake4 then…the thread below this one : o

yeps… good idea, started the download… but downloadspeeds is low, think everyone wants to have it ASAP :bump:

(taken) #5

I think there will be a demo, but a beta release much earlyer.

(SniperSteve) #6

As long as I can play one map on the beta, or even half a map. I’m satisfied. :smiley:

./Excited

(Black_Forky) #7

I just hope to god they distribute the beta/demo via BitTorrent.

(DG) #8

id seem to like like torrents, but they give the tracker url in .plans which dont get widely disseminated

(jimb0) #9

they will. they will always distribute it via the official torrents. files they release are posted on their http, ftp and torrent servers synchronously. just browse to their torrent tracker and it’ll be there.

and man, they don’t even have .plans anymore.

(FireFly) #10

You don’t need a crystall ball to tell you that there will be some kind of public demo released prior to the game…After all this is a Multiplayergame only…If I had a crystall ball it would say: There will be a public demo and it will only contain the valley map… :smiley: