Some thoughts on ET:QW

(meisterbrau) #21

engies have other abilities to get kills then only the main weapon. landmines can be quite fun to get kills.

jawohl! have you?

we need an enginier!

(ParanoiD) #22

Well just got kicked from a server as engineer. I was doing the job, just planted a dyna at south gun on oasis. I start to run away heading for north. Then some stupid medic (i think) calls a vot to kick me, everybody started voting yes and i got kicked. The reason: Noob medics who play ET because its free and a cool game want it to play like CS to only kill and get good ratios instead of teh meaning of the game: teamwork…

(B0rsuk) #23

Yeah, there’s the price factor. Compare Warcraft3 forum (pay once) to World of Warcraft forum (subscription fee). The latter has so much more polite people it’s not even funny.*

I must say I haven’t seen it go as far as vote-kicking a player who cares about objectives. Sure, there are idiots (NOT newbies - newbies don’t play like that and are far more defensive. These are, in fact, ‘pr0’.) who insult people who “ended the map”, but they’re a fraction at best.

  • Disclaimer: I never played, or wanted to play wow. I visited the forum out of curiosity and choked on my food.
(Gringo) #24

Thats the most popular excuse ive heard for people just " curiously" lookin at wow. It being the only one tho.

There are arseholes in every sphere o life. I guess all u can do is avoid that server or try and hunt all those players down who kicked u and extract painful, bloody and merciless revenge, hahahahahahahahahaha :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

(B0rsuk) #25

Look, I don’t own the game, ok ? Neither my friends do. In fact, I use GeForce2 Mx, if it tells you anything.

By the way: I vaguely remember something from ET:QW reviews… something about making all classes not equally strong, but equally desirable. Sounds intriguing.

(Dazzamac) #26

I play ET because it encourages teamwork. My hope is that QW will continue to encourage it as much. removing the K/D ratio’s at the end would help get rid of muppets who bitch at you for completing a map because they haven’t got their 50th kill yet.

(Corbie) #27

eh… I appreciate that some people are idiots who dont know how to play and only care about their ratio…

but for those of us that DO know how to play and still like to see what their K:D ratio is… I hope they keep the stat in.

(Ragnar_40k) #28

Your so negative - didn’t you see what happened to ET when you use competition settings?
Instead of improving things they removed stuff until they are back to RtCW …
So instead of removing K/D ratio, why not add stuff which awards teamplay? Or which awards fast map completion (e.g. give a bonus for the next map, like an additional forward spawn)?

(kamikazee) #29

I believe campaigns will choose the next map based on the result of the prevous one from what I remember from some post…

(Dazzamac) #30

I’m not negative, I just don’t like asshats. I fully agree with rewarding teamplay as much as possible and I would prefer that people would rather try to set a good time in a map rather than rambo it. Unfortunatly thats an ideal world were there is an iq test to see if your too stupid to play a game before you can buy it . :banghead: :twak:

(ParanoiD) #31

I completely agree on Dazzamac. In ur avatar I see an engineer, so i guess your one just like me. I already posted the same idea. But I also think its teh problem that ET is free so everybody is gonna play it to kill instead of buying CS/BF2 or something where you need to do that! I hope these ppl will think about it before buying ET:QW over another game. Some already told me yesterday that RTCW2 would pwn ETQW (maybe only killing, not as much teamwork?). At least those were the ppl who kicked me for doing objectives for the same reason, they wanted more kills… While thats the best thing of the game in my eyes. Just connect to a server you don’t know sometimes. See only new people and start working together with them in a team from the 1st seccond to the last seccond in the time you play.

(Dazzamac) #32

Unfortunatly I’m not always an engineer by choice, I would like to try the other classes more more but I always end up engineer or field op purely for the fact that nobody else is bothering with the objectives. It’s good if you get a server with people that can follow orders, its even better when you get a team of intelligent people that know the map well and you can work together like a well oiled machine with little or no communication. You just know your role within the unit and you get it done, when everyone knows their role you don’t need to call for medics/ammo/engineers.

(amazinglarry) #33

I’ve played quite a few rounds of ET and I’ve never seen anybody bitch about not getting their 50th kill yet. I’m in it for the stats AND teamwork. I’m a rambo medic yes, but I only rambo cause nobody else sticks with me. Most engineers etc. in pubs have their own way of doing things and don’t feel it necessary to follow medics around leading the way. Of course, there’s no one way to win a map but that’s just why I’m saying, I’m accused of being a rambo. I like to go balls out, it’s just my style. (That’s why it’s tough for me to play CoD2, cause everyone’s sneakin around, though the game is a blast if I’m not playing it just after I get out of ET - I can’t adjust to the gameplay speed differences)

In any event, I’m definitely a team player. Rambo medic or not, I go out of my way to raise people and give them health. I do my job as a medic but I love killing the other team too. That’s why I need my stats… need reassurance that I did a good job :wink: Stats are also fun too cause when I go engineer and get like a 1:23 ratio, but get the final plant, it’s fun to taunt the other team. “Yeah, I suck but you still LOST bitch!”

Besides, taking out the Stats and leaving in just the XP is a pretty bad idea, because there’s far more people concerned with XP than ktd ratios and accuracy. If you’re going to take out one, you gotta take out the other, so leave them both in. OR make them RtCW style as Ragnar suggested a few posts up.

(Joe999) #34

do they have that info from a gipsy or did they feed eliza with some random words like eg “rtcw2 pwn etqw” and she told em? or did they just count the number of characters in both words? if so, then tell em that etqw is written et:qw, so both games are equal now :smiley:

(ParanoiD) #35

No ET:QW > RTCW2 ofcourse. they said RTCW2 would PWN ET:QW. I would be happy if they would get RTCW2 as we wont see those noob medic rambo non objective players anymore :slight_smile:

(amazinglarry) #36

Well screw RtCW2 anyway. As far as I know RtCW2 will be out on the 360 before it’s out on PC’s… which = severe lamesauce by my estimation.

I’m not a fan of that move as I’m a diehard PC guy, and I always feel like I’m playing some cheap ass port if games are first made specifically for consoles and then ported to PC. Plus I kind of feel that us PC gamers are just an afterthought, even if that’s really not the case.

ET:QW will pwn all, and even if it doesn’t… I will move into a state of blind fanboi denial and maintain that it pwns all. QW FTW

(kamikazee) #37

Note: I think this was not true for GTA: Vice City.
Unlike GTA: San Andreas, it was certainly improved over it’s console brother.

Worth noting: They did the reverse with RTCW. RTCW:Operation Resurrection became RTCW:Tides of War on the XBox and strangely, at least some XBox guys liked it.

(ParanoiD) #38

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I totaly agree with u on that. EA is best of all to make crap ports to the pc. I hope ET:QW will PWN every game and only PC. It would great to see all ppl like wtf, its not on my xbox360, but that thing is so great. I really hate the consoles as well. I miss my keys, no mouse…

No the PC is great. I started of with the commodore 64 when i was 0-6 years. Then weve got a 386, had to ask my dad the commands in dos, and after 1 or 2 times i could load up games myself :P, I had to do it for my brother and sister as well… Then a PII 350 MHz when i was like 10. And now ive got an Athlon xp 1800+. And Ive learned much about pc’s trought the years which i like. Games on PC are so much better to me, better picture on a nice monitor thats not far away from you and sharp, not a stupid PAL TV… HDTV could be better, but I like the games on PC better. You can tweak them, easily get mods, other maps etc.

Hopes for an xbox360 virus over xbox live so all xbox360 owners will be stuck with a fucked up console. A PC can easily be virus scanned or if even worse a format. A Xbox can’t, and those lazy gamers don’t know any shit about how it works.

(Joe999) #39

well, i got an xbox360 and must say in the first week i played a while, now it’s gotten dusty and i’m back again at ET.

M$ screwed it up again. you can’t even use the console as a media center. i mean: if you want to play videos, you can only stream them over a windows media center pc. i say: if i have a windows media center pc, why would i want to stream the videos over the console? :bash:

anyway there are games which are awesome when you play them on the console like e.g. king kong or kameo. it’s an awesome experience if you play them on a 2m hdtv screen with 5.1 surround sound :smiley:

but as it’s mentioned above, EA screwed it all up for the 360: nfsmw is stuttering like hell when you play it, fifa sucks anyway, nba live got raped and most of the features (compared to other consoles) are cut out of the game in order to get the game ready for launch, etc. etc. etc. EA sucks. btw: BF2 sucks.

and regarding rtcw2 on the console? i don’t know what bit id that they release the game on 360 first, really don’t know. can’t be money. or can it? hdtv on a large screen with surround sound pwnz everything, but for an ego shooter i need a mouse and keyboard to get full experience. but M$ has locked that out for the 360. it sucks when you hear something behind you and after the 1 second it takes you to turn around you notice you’re already dead :bash:

(Dazzamac) #40

Hopes for an xbox360 virus over xbox live so all xbox360 owners will be stuck with a fucked up console.

Nah it came pre installed, most 360’s didn’t make it as far as xbox live before they died and scratched the discs and threw up blue screens and overheated and melts the plug socket. :rofl: