The Wolfenfiles: Researching Wolf: ET's Maps, Weapons, and Vehicles

(badman) #1

A new blog post has been added:

The Wolfenfiles: Researching Wolf: ET’s Maps, Weapons, and Vehicles

A big part of creating our games is the research that goes into them to ensure everything is consistent, plausible, and authentic. Much of this falls to our Lead Writer Ed ‘BongoBoy’ Stern, who first joined the company during development of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory to handle writing and research duties. In light of Wolf ET’s 9th anniversary, we thought it’d be fun to share some Wolfentrivia with you, including the events (many of them real!) that inspired the missions in the game, the weapon research, and a few other, previously unknown development nuggets. Take it away, Ed!

(Paul) #2

10 years ago… unbelievable… That pictures totaly finishes it, all of this really reminds me back to the good 'old days!

(sMiRZz) #3

plz make a new ET!!!

their is something that actual fps still didnt stole and what make the game awesome its this HEADSHOT sound bro !!

(Solaart) #4

Ah… 9 years and still the best fps ever…

(Indloon) #5

In that picture,what gun is that man holding?

Is it Sten?

Too bad that in that time, there weren’t UDK 3, otherwise we coulded see this epic game in better quality( textures, polygons count…)

:penguin:

(Paul) #6

[QUOTE=Indloon;401003]In that picture,what gun is that man holding?

Is it Sten?

Too bad that in that time, there weren’t UDK 3, otherwise we coulded see this epic game in better quality( textures, polygons count…)

:penguin:[/QUOTE]

That’s a MP 3008

(Indloon) #7

Interesting, why didn’t SD add that weapon into multiplayer? Looks cool enough

Btw MG42 weights about 11kg, how the hell they used it in WWII??

And why didn’t ET have shotguns? :smiley:

(amazinglarry) #8

I want more whiteboard map drawings immediately! We got one of Radar not too long ago, and it was so much fun studying it and finding things that either made it or didn’t. I could waste many hours looking at them - awesome stuff!

(Gir) #9

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, was originally planned as a full-fledged expansion pack for Return to Castle Wolfenstein developed by Splash Damage. The single player component of the game was never completed and thus was removed entirely.

I would like to know about this “Single Player Component” that was never completed, and how ET branched off RTCW.

(Salteh) #10

Hah!

I remember killing Ed of Ed of Ed of Ed on Oasis - my favourite map! :slight_smile:

(Connector) #11

Is it not possible for SD to finish those cut maps, maybe for next year’s anniversary? :slight_smile: Or, if impossible, at least make them available to modders to finish? Of course, some brandnew maps wouldn’t be rejected either…

(Nail) #12

all the rights to W:ET are owned by id Software/Bethesda/ZeniMax, they would have to be hired by aforementioned conglomerate, and I believe they’re busy developing a more successful independent developer program, wait and see, I’m sure you’ll be at least intrigued.

(Miki) #13

I’m wondering if there are any other ‘jokes’ or ‘fun facts’ out there.

A house in a map based on someone’s real house; textures made based on someone’s walls/floors/roofs; …

I didn’t expect that all maps were based on real events/locations and I’m really wondering to see the never finished maps.Thanks for sharing :wink:

(DrAlexTobacco) #14

That’s not an MP 3008 - That’s an M3 ‘Grease gun’.

(Connector) #15

Huh? As far as I know, anybody can make ET maps using the assets provided. Why should the originals devs be forbidden to do so?

(Mustang) #16

Haven’t played W:ET in 5 years…

goes to look up vsays

(Mateos) #17

They can’t do so on their own, as Nail said it belongs to iD, so SD have to ask iD.

(dommafia) #18

Does SD know we would rape murder and pillage for a ET LIVE/QW LIVE or specially QW2? :frowning:

(nUllSkillZ) #19

Nice read.
Thank you very much for the Wolfenfiles.

(dutchmeat) #20

Aha SD has revealed the secret docs, quickly bring them to the radio tower!

How much of the SD developers/employees still play/recently played ET or any other of your games(ET:QW, Brink) ?