Anyone else playing the Quake Wars (Beta)?

No because most people here don't pay for Fileplanet subscriptions and those that do should lose a testicle.

It's available for free.

But apparently it assumes that it's impossible to lower graphics settings, because my above-average rig was rejected.

I just started playing about an hour ago. So far it's quite fun, but I'm afraid that my system is a bit dated and it doesn't run that great for me.

So the free keys are given out daily... eh.

Holy ****, holy ****, holy ****.

If I post my fileplanet login and password on here for a few hours, could someone sign me up when it's open? I've got to go somewhere for the next couple hours. I REALLY want to try this, and I have the system specs for it now!

Oh, I just realized it's open TOMORROW. And is that in the AM?

YEAHHHHH.

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

GRAHHH.

When does Day 5 begin?

This is starting to piss me off.

On Day 4 it was originally 12PM and ended up being moved to 2PM.

Well I can't even be mad that I've been waiting all day because they haven't even vaguely specified a time.

I'm upset because I really want in on this, and they're taking forever to announce it.

BETA OPEN

GRAHHH. I can't even ****ing download it!

Stupid File Planet's download manager won't work! It keeps telling me I need to update, then it won't ****ing update.

Rob, get the filename and punch it into filemirrors.com. Also google for file mirror search engines and try others.

Its working now.

I'm downloading at my max.

I got it in.

I'm in. Hopefully File Planet's servers are good for awesome speeds after the wait.

I'm underwhelmed. It's just a generic war shooter. It reminds me of battlefield, which I guess is good, but it's not the war shooter it was made out to be :-/

I was getting really good speeds, in the 500-700s then at 73.4% downloaded, it just stoped.
I watched the speed drop from 600s to 100s to 50 to 0.8 til now it is just a "?"

That makes me angry.

[edit] tried it again and this time it only got to 41%
my connection sucks.

So far I would agree. It's still fun, but not as revolutionary as they made it out to be. I think it's going to be a good game for clan play.

I've wondered why people thought this game was a big deal since the first screen shots. It's even worse than I thought, even for a beta. There's just no potential there, it's just not fun. It's exactly like Battlefield 2142, but worse in every way.

I get this;

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Failed to open server license code file for reading.
couldn't exec 'etqwconfig.cfg'
execing 'localization/english/defaultbinds.cfg'
couldn't exec 'etqwbinds.cfg'
execing 'autoexec.cfg'
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
...initializing QGL
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
...using GL_ARB_multitexture
...using GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
...using GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
...using GL_ARB_texture_compression
...using GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
...using GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
maxTextureAnisotropy: 16.000000
...using GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
...using GL_EXT_texture3D
...using GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
...using GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
...using GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
...using GL_ARB_vertex_program
...using GL_ARB_fragment_program
...using GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test
...using GL_ARB_point_sprite
...using GL_ARB_occlusion_query
...using GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
...using GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
...using GL_EXT_blend_minmax
...using GL_ARB_multisample
...using GL_ARB_shader_objects
...using GL_ARB_vertex_shader
...using GL_ARB_fragment_shader
...using GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow
...using GL_ARB_shadow
...using GL_ARB_depth_texture
...using GL_EXT_timer_query
X..GL_GREMEDY_string_marker not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc not found
---------- R_ARB2_Init ----------
Cg available.
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FATAL ERROR: Image '_default' was generated with internal format 0x83f0 but GL returned 0x83f2
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--------------- BSE Shutdown ----------------
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Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...releasing DC
...destroying window
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Shutting down performance queries
Image '_default' was generated with internal format 0x83f0 but GL returned 0x83f2



Googled the message, got a solution that doesn't work.

So I can't play.

Graphics aren't everything. I would guess that the game was designed to be played on a broad range of computers (it's semi-playable on my 2 1/2 year old desktop) and that they're aiming at the serious clan players that are always looking forward to the latest and greatest id software titles. I'm personally glad to see them venturing in to this genre. We must also keep in mind that it's still in beta. I wouldn't call this game revolutionary, but it's definitely better than BF 2142 (the objective system is superior, etc). I think this game is going to be relatively popular amongst serious FPS clans. I also appreciated what Carmack showed off at the most recent WWDC07.

I was hopeing that'd be a case of graphics > gameplay, but it's not. Infact, I'd go so far as to say that the gameplay makes the graphics look good.

You are missing nothing, rob.

1. It's a Beta
2. I really don't see what you guys are talking about aside from a little lag, I had alot of fun playing this. Maybe thats because I found a REALLY good spot to snipe from, though.

I gotz. Contact me on Xfire if you want to play.

It looks like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on steroids, which isn't surprising seeing that the game is the successor.

People keep trying to say "its like ____ game". It is like Enemy Territory and Quake 4 combined. That's the idea. Just how Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was Wolfenstein combined with the "Enemy Territory" gameplay.

I play as [kenjarvis]dozer if anyone sees that name I usually play medic.

Bump again for the most fun I've had in an fps in more than two years.

Definitely a must-buy for me. A W:ET clone no doubt, but it brought back so many great memories and demonstrates the potential for many more. Long range rocket launcher direct-hits are just so beautiful. Poetry in motion

Also: if you have a powerful rig, you can use the command "r_megadrawmethod 0" to substantially improve the graphics. Apparently it uses a much more taxing rendering engine and the game looks much more up to date.


I'm "Boomba" if anyone wants to friends me.