Quake Wars Beta Released!

I thought it was open to subscribers AND 60,000 public people.

My bad.

It is open to the public tommorow!

Nah, no chance. I'd rather wait for the final, polished product rather than play a unbalanced, buggy build and experience it properly. From what I've heard from current testers it is indeed quite rough, and I've never personally played a beta that didn't piss me off a fair bit with its issues even though they're inevitable.

Quote from dux

Woop installing

I wanna do that too?

How?

Why? Quake sucks!

Well i don't have any fileplanet account, so it gonna be hard to join you

But if i can get a free cdkey when the beta will be open to non-subscribers, then yes, i'll try it

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Why? Quake sucks!

This is more like BF2 with Quake characters and with less ERROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not more like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, then?

But yeah, this really isn't to be considered a sequel to any of the Quakes as such. I can see that easily confusing a lot of people though, considering how ambiguously games are titled these days.

Timeline-wise, sure.

It kind of sits in a weird place of its own though. I mean, is Enemy Territory: Quake Wars really part of the Enemy Territory series or the Quake series? Does Enemy Territory: Quake Wars play more like the original Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory or does it play more like Quake? But if Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory played like Wolfenstein and Quake Wars: Enemy Territory plays like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, does that make Quake Wars: Enemy Territory linked with Wolfenstein? And what of the man with the spotted shirt??

Any screenshots?

Srsly though the quake universe never did anything for me. Boring plot, gloomy boring maps, boring stupid space monsters, boring stupid space guns. And I thought q3 arena was the most boring-ass repetitive deathmatch action I have ever experienced.

But I'm open-minded so maybe this one will be more fun... so yeah screens plz!

http://uk.media.pc.ign.com/media/748/748377/imgs_1.html

Yeah, as ifO has demonstrated the main problem with Quake Wars is that people are going to see the word "Quake" and immediately associate it with dark, gloomy deathmatch. The reality is it's best compared to Battlefield and Team Fortress, and possibly even Tribes 2 (it has limited jetpacks and supposedly you can ski to a limited extent like in Tribes )

It's not really that strange. The majority of the hardcore audience are most likely pretty aware of Enemy Territory and its popularity and recognize that id is just shoehorning their already popular team based game into the even more popular Battlefield-esque free roaming genre. So they're full aware of what this game all about.

Anyone else is just going to see this as another open-ended multiplayer game with vehicles and wouldn't have any idea of the connotation's held by the Quake games.

Or maybe I just have a lot less faith in the general gaming public.