there’s a 30 minute video of the beta on my youtube, which you’ll have access to by clicking on my name.

I’ve always played an infantry role in ladder and league teams in Battlefield games, and after the release of BF2, my role felt more like a useless appendage than an integral part of a team.

While there are vehicles in ETQW, they’re fewer in number than in the Battlefield games, and there are numerous methods of dealing with them, from squad weapons to deployables.

I think this game will pull its players as time goes on. Once the hype of Halo and other games dies down, you’ll see folks migrating over.

I can also entirely agree with you on the aspect of skill/experience/items of BF2142. My immediate thought when playing was “wow, this is all pretty even.” Considering I got it day of release in this country, I got to see the evolution of the game when people unlocked more things. Sufficed to say, before a lot more detection, the Spec Ops route for Recon was a real blast…literally. I just don’t see where balance issues come into it. Unlike CnC3, which has balance issues coming out of its ears, nothing in that game strikes me as giving one person and unfair advantage over another, apart from the experience as mentioned previously. If anything, I think the two sides are a little samey in what they can do and is a prime example of your notion in the podcast of “two sides with re-skinned models that are the same”.

When I eventually upgrade this PC (likely starting with a ram boost up to 1gb) I’ll likely have a higher priority with the graphics over other things, but at the mo, it isn’t that much of a consideration. With Orange Box, CnC3, BF2142 and all the other games I play on here, the need to get new games and worry about graphics isn’t too high. It’s the same notion with the consoles I guess.

Its a shame though because ET:QW has decent requirements (I don’t mean to be picky but anything less than a 9800 is too old these days and you can buy a decent card on generation newer for less than $100 US – I’m not sure what the GB price is). The gameplay is very team and objective oriented overall – which makes it a good LAN game.

I don’t detest 2142, I own all of the Battlefield games, I just find that 2142 has some balance problems centered around the vehicle usage and the experience system that was carried over from BF 2 keeps new players at a disadvantage because they only get starting weapons and abilities while vets get better choices due to experience and that can quickly lead to one sided matches.

I think TF2 and Halo 3 are overshadowing a lot, and we just have too many titles all appearing at the same time this year – which is good for some but bad for most of the developers and publishers. The irony is that it is an artificial, industry created crisis all centered around the holiday season.

But as for Enemy Territory, I think that the game will find its fans, and I might even be one of em, because I have been a Quake fan from the start.

Right, that aside, main point. I was interested in getting it as I thought it would be something and discovering my graphics card falls just below reach (9600, 100 off) I came away and to be honest, didn’t feel annoyed or upset or disgruntled or anything along those lines. What I mean by this is, there was nothing for me to really say “Joel, go to the PC shop, upgrade your card and then go and get this game, it’s worth it.” It was more along the lines of, “Well, you COULD go and upgrade your card…or you could not.”

There was absolutely no push to get this game. There has been little to no advertising, its release has been overshadowed by many other big games (that game, Orange Box etc.) and the only news I’ve seen about it is either on here or scarecily on 1up (or any other games site). Fact is, I don’t think the game will do well purely because not many people probably know it exists.