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It's interesting that the ET:QW Public Beta just kicked off two days ago. I  Aspyr's timetable is directly dictated by how that progresses. They can't very well finalize their version until the Beta is finished, right?

Is anyone else here going to try to get in on the beta when they open it up for non-subscribers tomorrow?

Mr. Happypants wrote:

Nope, I ponied up for the first round of keys mid-week.

It's still very Beta though, not very optimized graphics, and granted I'm not running dual 8800GTS cards or anything (single 6800GT/256 PCI-E actually) but I had to turn everything to Low just to be playable. Be alot more interesting to see the Demo version out, hope it runs more smoothly or I'm looking at more hardware updates.

Good gameplay however. The ET crowd might not embrace it as a suitable replacement, but it's a nice addition to the genre.

Nice. I didn't grab a key today, I was helping a friend with his car, but I'm going to get a key tomorrow.

What's the gameplay like? Compare it to another game that we've probably all played (Battlefield?)

Aqua OS X wrote:

akb825 wrote:

a genera never before seen on the Mac

I'd mention something sexual, but the last time I did that in Games the thread was locked.

No need anyway, already covered.

Mr. Happypants wrote:

Be alot... nice addition to the genre.

Be alot... somewhere near Camelot? [/spelling Nazi] Games, the chimera of genera.

Booksley wrote:

Nice. I didn't grab a key today, I was helping a friend with his car, but I'm going to get a key tomorrow.

Better hurry...

» Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Beta Keys End Sunday

If you want to get your keys for the beta version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Sunday will be the last day you will be able to do it. The beta for the upcoming Splash Damage-id Software-Activision multiplayer shooter will give out the final beta test keys at Fileplanet sometime on Sunday for anyone with a free Fileplanet account. Exact times on when the final keys will be given out will be posted on the game's official community site.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=16151

Doyathink there'll bealottamods?

Mr. Happypants wrote:

Booksley wrote:

What's the gameplay like? Compare it to another game that we've probably all played (Battlefield?)

Nah, definitely not like BF2, it's alot faster, owing itself more to the Quake style. (I bow to no grammar Nazi!)

This is what happens when AMC shows Braveheart once too often. Impressionable people... anyway, thanks for helping me recertify. Need to be called a Nazi occasionally to stay on the rolls, even if it is spelling and not grammar (alot, a lot ). But, of course, there is a price.

I dub you Mister Camalot, as in

Mister Camalot wrote:

I like to push the pramalot.

Last edited by Bat (2007-06-25 5:15 am)

I'm crossing all fingers and toes, look to the skies and says a little prayer in hope that ET Quake will be UB

They haven't "all" been UBs. UBs have only been necessary since the Intel switch; and like the Moto 68k/PPC transition, at some point support for PPCs will end. A fair number of new games are already Intel-only.