Send us your favorite ETQW moment / memory!

(badman) #1

Strogg/GDF connoisseurs,

ETQW is four years old and we’re looking for your favorite ETQW moments and memories. They’ll go into a special blog feature commemorating the game’s fourth birthday (along with some stories of our own!) and can be anything from crazy gameplay moments to things that you experienced at tournaments and events. Related screenshots or photos would be awesome, too, but are by no means required.

If you’ve got something you’d like to share, please either PM it my way or email communitymanager@splashdamage.com.

Thanks all!
-b

(Indloon) #2

Wop Wop Wop.

Congratulations Enemy Territory:Quake Wars for 4 years!!

(_KaszpiR_) #3

Great moments:

  1. Nirvana events, especially the one when I managed to kill Hummer with the people in it rushing to the mcom to deliver the disc to the dish. AFAIR it even was added to the official nirvana event movie.

  2. If teams are even then the game is very tense and there are really moments that I guess both sides enjoy. Some games were so good that I was happy because of the whole game even though I was in loosing team.

Not so great moments:
Some time ago we had weekend tournament, the emotions were so high for those two days that it ended for me with neurosis - after 2 weeks I was okay but I had to put away ETQW because of that for about half of the year (and change the lifestyle).

Death due to random spam :wink:

(U.K.Visuals) #4

My greatest moment when i was invited by Spash Damage to the community event back in 2007.
It was great to play ETQW the first time on a LAN with a lot of other ETQW Fans and the Devs.

We set up a game and trevel report for this event. if you’re interested you can find it here:
http://planetquakewars.net/Media/PQW_NET_Media/Spielbericht_SDHQ?page=Gamereport%20@%20SDHQ
http://planetquakewars.net/Media/PQW_NET_Media/Splash_Damage_Reisebericht?page=Splash%20Damage%20Travel%20Journal

Thanks again to Splash Damage and Activision for this great Day

(spng) #5

My greatest moment was playing the Clanbase Nations Cup with Team Italy, i knew some people that still now i go to meet every year. One of my bestest moments on my online gaming experience

(wolle) #6

my best moment.

definitely the first time i logged into the closed beta, followed by the arrival of the etqw poster handsigned by the splash damage crew.

(Dopefish) #7

My favorite moments involved air combat, usually with dommafia. We were pretty equal with our piloting skills. He was amazing with the Tormentor, and I was amazing with the Anansi. There were countless times I would be wrecking the enemy team when I’d look up and see dommafia heading towards me, and we’d end up taking the fight elsewhere having our own battle separate of the ground infantry.

(Snotling) #8

Almost every games are great moments on ETQW but my favourite times are definitily clanwars. Being able to fight with some of your mates, getting your ass kicked by great players and feeling that you and your team are improving in a game providing so much fun is just the best.

Holding Quarry as GDF 10 minutes with just one cell remaining is part of the most epic moments I’ve experienced too! :smiley:

(.Chris.) #9
  1. Mapping & Modding

When someone said on the Nirvana server that Maridia was better than the stock maps it made my day.

Had lot’s of awesome games on the Nirvana server, big thanks to Scrupus and all the other mappers out there.

Was also good helping out a little with ET:QW Pro and with Tribal Wars.

  1. Playing in GN/immortal/TCM

Qualifying for LAN (cdc4) against all the odds was pretty nice, everyone assumed it was default win though, shame we totally failed when we got there :slight_smile: It also indirectly led to one of best nights out that year in Amsterdam. Unlike every other team we never took ourselves seriously which was great, ventrillo was always a laugh, we spent most of time taking piss out of other teams and of each other.

(Raga) #10

+1 :stroggtapir:

(Susefreak) #11

Just general hacking around in the game assets and code and some intense matches on custom maps. Great.

The match that has stuck with me for a long time was my first match on Maridia, when it used to have a turkey skin.

(Violator) #12

Mapping ‘n’ modding for me too - rocking teh EditWorld :). One of the best moments was seeing a full Nirvana server on Estate back in the heyday, and this kind of stuff:

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(INF3RN0) #13

Everyone misses hearing “HOLY SH!T BALLS!” on ETtv of course.

(Kimerex) #14

After sneaking through the Strogg and capturing the data-brain in the Outskirts map, a friend of mine (in the room across from mine) began yelling for help since he was now being chased by every defender in the building. I told him to get to the platform and jump while spamming his “get in” button. From his point of view, he made it to the platform and didn’t see anything, but still, it was either jump or die at that point. Right as he leaped off the roof spamming his enter vehicle button, I went ripping by in an Anansi and managed to get him safely in the gunner seat in mid air. We managed to get to the broadcasting center and begin the upload before any of the Strogg were able to react.

(tokamak) #15

QW got me into so many different bizarre situations that there’s no way I can include them all. So many last second saves, heroic last stands, pure chaos, or brilliant team-work. Escorting a data transfer while in disguise to finish him off the last second, or jumping in a group of enemies only to cause enough havoc for the charge to explode, perfect/lucky artillery and air strikes, simply being so well positioned that you can hold off entire waves or most satisfying of all, well-timed forward spawn captures causing huge delays in your opponent’s attack.

The best matches took place at Formido Friday, it didn’t last long but the community matches were the best, a game gets so much more fun and so much more deeper if you know the players behind each team.

The highlight was a Salvage map where on the first two objectives almost the entire Strogg team went opressor and completely obliterated the outdoor objectives with their violator cannons. Then everyone hopped to infiltrator and started pestering the GDF indoors with flyer drones from the air vents. Great fun and surprisingly effective.

I’ve made a gallery with my QW screenshots. Feel free to use them

(Snotling) #16

Nice pictures tokamak! :wink: Tenth is just too funny, I imagine this poor strogg saying “oh…****…” xD

(singing_fish) #17

uh nice pics tokamak :slight_smile:

Rock QW,
the finest game of all…
>*))))<

(Apocalypse_Pony) #18

My most memorable moment happened in one of the first games I played after ET:QW’s retail release. I was playing as a GDF engineer on Area 22. I had just heard that those evil Strogg had planted explosives on the jamming generator.

I ran towards the icon indicating where the explosives were and started to disarm. Behind me I could hear guns and lasers and explosions everywhere. I took some damage and figured I would just keep disarming until I died. Then suddenly, my life bar began to fill up. I finished the disarm, with a little sigh of relief and turned around anticipating dieing in a blaze of laser fire.

What I saw was a medic healing me with med packs and three other teammates in a semi-circle around me gunning down any Strogg that dared come near me.

At the time, the game did not have built-in VoIP yet. This coming together happened amongst strangers on a public server, without a word being spoken. This being the first game I had played from this company called Splash Damage, I had never seen anything like it.

That’s when I knew SD had made something special and I had found the game I had been looking for since I first learned you can play video games with people over wires. Coincidentally, it’s also when I became a huge fan of SD. :smiley:

(Loffy) #19

One of the coolest thing in Enemy Territory QUAKE Wars ™ for me personally is the fact that you had a really nice beta-thing going prior to release, and that you let a couple of beta testers include their cfg’s on the discs. Pull down the menu and type exec loffy [then Enter] for example.

This will be my forum post number 2,000. SD is a great and well-oiled entertainment producing machine. Focus on staying afloat (i.e. in the business) and bring us more stuff please!

(Seze) #20

Quarry… last 30 seconds of the round.

Strogg had just cleared any defenses we (GDF) had left. I was the last alive player in the ship and saw about 7 Strogg approaching, including the carrier of the last Energy Cell.

“Well, that’s it…” I thought. “We need a miracle to hold that last push.”, when suddenly a Dark Matter Cannon hits the entrance of the ship.

Seven Teamkills for the poor Oppressor and GDF won the round. :slight_smile: