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(BMXer) #81

Watching VODs and ET:TV matches on gamestv.org. Anything with Tosspot was a blast to watch.

(zim) #82

Before I get to my favorite moment I’d just like to get this out of the way. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory changed my life. It sounds silly but it’s true. W:ET introduced me to what would become my passion; modding & mapping. When I was 16 I discovered this amazing game and I also discovered that I could create my own maps and modify existing parts of the game, I absolutely fell in love. I spent endless nights learning how to create my own maps and how to manipulate various things. This newly found passion inspired me to pursue a career in the game industry. So here I am, a few years later, a first-generation college student majoring in computer science making it happen.

To choose a single moment is probably impossible because every match was an immeasurable amount of fun. But I’d have to say I had some of my most memorable moments on the custom map Minas Tirith. The Minas Tirith map was an hour long epic battle filled with gut-wrenching attempts of trying to plant dynamite at each door to secure another floor.

I don’t know how many times it happened but there we were, the top level of Minas Tirith struggling to steal and secure the final objective. I managed to sneak past an entire team of 25+ players and steal the objective. Now here’s where one of my favorite gaming memories happens. I was on my way to secure the objective so I could end the match and score a win for my exhausted team. I’m sneaking along side a wall, alone, without cover. I’m trying my hardest to avoid the Allies and do my best Snake impersonation.

As I carefully inched myself further down this treacherous bottle neck, I glance down at the chat window. I see a lone message, “Have a nice flight!” and from behind I hear the charge of a panzerfaust. As my lifeless body flew what must have been a thousand miles away into the air, I could hardly care about losing the map due to how hard I was laughing.

Thank you guys for this awesome game.

(th0rn3) #83

The most amazing moment? I cannot single out any moment because the whole thing from the start was amazing. This was the game that inspired me (like many others) to create.

I remember seeing the game for the first time on a local TV show about computers which included a gaming section. At that time it looked like a fun to play game, but it didn’t strike me too much (now that I think about it, it may still have been in development and the show featured early gameplay videos). Second time I encountered the game was shortly after it’s release. I remember reading an IT magazine my grandpa used to buy when I saw game reviews. And there, in the first place, was Enemy Territory, marked as a free game. As we didn’t have internet back then, I set off to my favorite internet cafe to download it, and to my surprise, they had the game already installed.
First map I ever played was Goldrush. One thing I can remember as it was yesterday - those spinning counters in the limbo and weapon selection drop-down menu (though it opens up, why is it still called a drop-down menu?). My first ever class was soldier (probably because I didn’t know that I could choose other classes), I chose a flamethrower as it was the only weapon in stock and off I went. After burning myself up a couple of times, getting fragged here and there, I hogged the stationary MG42 covering the bunker entrance and started shooting everyone on sight, which got me kicked for team killing (hey, back in Doom everything that moved was considered an enemy). After that I decided this game wasn’t meant for me and I quit.

My second coming was a few years later, somewhere around 6th grade. I was reading old magazines in the attic, when I stumbled across that same magazine that featured Enemy Territory. Remembering how good-looking limbo menu was, I decided to give it another try and went ahead and downloaded the game. That’s when I got hooked. I played it night and day, my school attendance dropped to something about 40%. Right after being driven to school, I used to go straight to the bus stop to go home and play instead of sitting through school. It was pure awesomeness, I have no regrets.

I don’t remember how I got into mapping, but I have to say, this was the best community ever. I was around 13-14 years old and I was the youngest ‘mapper’ around the forums. Of course, my maps where awful: no caulking, no skyboxes, no vis-blocking, but for me those maps were awesome. I am sure you would still be able to find some of my oldest posts around here featuring my, what then seemed to be, awesome maps and stupid questions. I owe a big thank you to the community, which didn’t tell me how ****ty my creations were and which always stayed positive and constructive and only because of them I didn’t put down my tools and I became what I am now. As a matter of fact, some of those people are still around and I hope they remember me too :slight_smile:

So that’s my story. Thank you for the awesome game so many people enjoyed and still enjoy to this day. Enemy Territory will always remain the best and most competitive game I have ever played. Live long and prosper!

(stealth6) #84

When you click weapons the menu drops down? That’s why it’s a drop down menu :smiley:

This sounds very familiar for me too :smiley: Loved that MG.

Hear, hear!

(Mateos) #85

Hum maybe I will try my luck as well :smiley:

Mine would be on MLB Egypt. I was an Axis Medic, there were 1 or 2 minutes left, at the end of the map.

We got through the enemy lines to the objective, and I was the single living, so I took the objective.

The server was tweaked so I was not able to heal myself… Even more epic.

So I run the best I could, and I made it!

But…

goldbar_holder
{
	spawn
	{
	}
	death
	{
		wm_announce "^4Axis got away with the gold ^d!!!!!!!!!!" 
		wm_objective_status 7 0 1  //  return it to the River huts
		wm_objective_status 7 1 2			
		[U][B]wait 2000[/B][/U]
		trigger game_manager checkgame
	}
}

trigger checkgame
	{ 
		wm_setwinner 0
		wait 2000
		wm_endround
	}

And, you guessed, I secured it at the very last second. So the final score had an American flag >.>

(Gir) #86

One of my other favorite moments was creating my First Mod :slight_smile:
it was so simple, Axis Have A Red Plier Allies Have a Blue Pliers.

(rorgoroth) #87

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I like that, I really like that :smiley:
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(TheMajorNL) #88

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Gotta love that sound of a panzer flying right past your head at 500km/h shortly after seeing it approach you straight on from an incredible distance.
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(retsy) #89

what sticks out the most for me is… i couldnt tell the difference between my own guys and the enemy and i spent the first hour of the game killing my own teammates before i figured it out :stuck_out_tongue: derp

congrats to SD on your 9 year wolfiversity :>

(Joe999) #90

I had lots of favorite moments. They were mostly all the same: Coming home, joining my favorite server with frends and playing and having fun together for countless hours. And we did that over many years. This free game gave me more fun and entertainment than any other game I’ve ever played before or after. It’s my all time favorite #1.

(bruzzer-texas) #91

My favorite thing about ET is that rare moment when random players that you don’t know begin to help each other to complete the objectives. Random strangers that get together to accomplish a goal for no other reason than to just get things done.

As we all know this rarely happens with strangers…but this one time, on x-mas night 2005 I was playing and there was a lot of non colored names (noobs), and I thought great…I gotta do this all on my own. They were all beginners and had no idea what to do. But they knew how to be meds and help the engineer (me). One guy started to follow me to obj on Oasis and was trying to help. Soon about 3 other joined in. Long story the entire team was medics and engineers. no fops, no soldiers, just tons of meds and engineers.

People were literally waiting outside the spawn to go in groups. Honestly I don’t even think that they were really shooting, just reviving like their lives depended on it. The axis couldn’t stop us and really I don’t think anything would have stopped us from winning. All of us…every single person playing on allies that night was a die hard team mate that did what they were supposed to do. It was magic. It was like the way the game should be played.

I waited for the moment for a long time and it happened only once, and it happened on x-mas night.

It still reminds me that in real life, it takes dedication and teamwork to accomplish a task, and as we all know it’s hard to find the right team. But on the magical night, the team just found each other.

Thanks to the guys that played that night if you are reading this. I hope you all are doing well.

bruzzer-texas

(Mateos) #92

(A bit late for the prize but I guess people can still post their best moments)

(badman) #93

Thanks to everyone for sharing your favourite Wolf: ET moments - it’s been great fun reading this thread.

And the randomly chosen winner of the signed RTCW Platinum Edition is… lakersforce! Congratulations, sir!

Once again, many thanks to everyone who entered. We’ll have more SD/game swag up for grabs soon!

(Mateos) #94

Congratulations lakersforce :smiley:

(UJERebel) #95

Damn ;D congratz and show a pic when you get it :wink:

(stealth6) #96

Congratulations!

This thread brought back many memories.

(Runeforce) #97

So unexpected! :smiley: Pictures will come. In the meantime, here are some of my ETQW CE.

(tokamak) #98

Congratulations Lakersforce! A deserved victory at last.

(Runeforce) #99

It was random, so I don’t know about deserved. :rolleyes: And HEY Tokamak, I will BEAT your BUTT any day on the battlefield (or at least draw a 50/50) :slight_smile:

(TheMajorNL) #100

Congratulations! Be sure to handle it with care. And if you ever want to sell it in 45 years or so, just contact me :smiley: