Worth Reading: The True Fate of ET

The game Quake 3, the mod, Q3F a type of mod based on the classic game Quake Team Fortress. Who? Q3F Dev Team (AKA ET Dev Team)
A Little history on the team brining you enemy territory...
The team had made a decent port of TF Q3F wich had lasted for about 3 years with an ok community, with about half the size of the community of unreal 2003. The mod was ok untill the released a new beta, Beta 2. You could tell by playing the demo the team had made the mod strictly for the public gaming POV. The maps were huge and re done with lots of fancy eye candy that took up major FPS that frankly the community didnt care about because the game wasnt all that great to begin with. They had hyped the mod to be the new beginning of Q3F and it ended up ending it. (www.pq3f.com, 10 clans max maybe that still compete?)It was the biggest let down for me personally because I enjoyed Q3F B1, I honestly did dispite what the rest of the community though, but the second the spammy, oh man was it spammy, b2 was released I immeditly moved on to RTCW. The Q3F dev team had proved they really did not care about the clan aspect or community of the game.

RTCW Team
Now you could imagine my reaction when I found out that the same team that killed my beloved Q3 Mod was going to be working with my beloved rtcw game, but I figured maybe I would see what they could do. Well I predicted right because you guessed it the map the released was none other then tram, and we all know what a great map that is. Yet another failure by the Q3F Dev team. And in that map tram you could honestly see where they did not care about the clan aspect of the game and were more concerned with the pubbing aspect, and believe it or not the clan aspect of rtcw is what keeps it alive.

RTCW ET
Well after two let downs how can you blame me for what I think ET is going to be. A spam fest. And it finnally confirmed it when I found there was going to be land mines, grenade launchers, and a bunch of other gay bullshit. In my opionion ET is going to make or break the rtcw community (break...)and ill almost assure you that. Maybe there is that part inside of me that hopes they will prove me wrong and not ruin my favorite game.

In A Nutshell
Basicly what im saying fokes, for your own good, is don't get your hopes up about this game/mod or whatever ID is going to call it. Because I think it is going to be the biggest load of spam horseshit ever. Oh yeah and one more thing, check out the guys who run #planet-rtcw they have some guys with a q3f background, they will tell you all about teir favorite team and what they predict ET is going to be. Not a flame really but just a word to the wise, dont get too excited.

xait lol u loser... gg 10 hour story post that no one is ever gonna read.. god knows i sure didnt

good game.
Post edited by Xaith at 3/13/2003 8:26:54 PM

wow you think your smart or somthing? cause that comment really displayed the true stupidity within.. i changed my name cause when i joined a different clan after narf. I wanted a different name. everyone in the fucking world knows kevlar=dorito.. and JUST TO let u know since you apperently dont know already.. Im well known as dorito]narf[
no one really knows who eod is and there for they would most likely assume its a diff kevalr/ i was just makeing it simple... and further more i dont wanna see any more hostile rants..

"and further more i dont wanna see any more hostile rants"

damn dorito take a chill pill

thanks Xaith for enlightening history. It really puts into propsective the trainwreck that is ET.

Hmmmm,

That post now scares me. Cause I hate Tram myself and hope that ET doesn't ruin Wolf. Not in a top clan or nothing but I like playing the game and I like most the ppl. I hope these guys don't ruin Wolf and all the clans. =/

thing is, with an OSP for ET all weapons can be turned off/on. get rid of the lame spam shit, and keep the good shtuff and classes. what makes wolf fun is the gameplay and team play. i'm not sure how ET could ruin the gun battles, but as long as its based on the same engine it should feel similar. plus all the new maps cant suck, there only needs to be a handfull that get used for competition.

but even if its not used for competition, it'll be a welcome diversion from wolf. and how can you complain about FREE?

Yeah I'm not that excited about ET either... I don't want to have to go prone for the accuracy I get crouching.

i thought you can still crouch too, meaning that crouch may be the same and prone may even further highten accuracey. but who knows?

that would be ok... except that crouch pretty much is as accurate as it gets.

I am a little wary of the game myself, but I am willing to give it a try. Not that anyone cares what we think individually but collectivly I think we can make our feelings heard and if, I say again IF ET does suck....well then we will still have the regular version right?

What gives me pause is the whole way it was handled from its creators. I mean its a Stand Alone with new single player setting, Oh wait, its now been pushed back, oh wait again....its NOW MP only and been pushed back again!! I haven't even tried it, even tho I was looking forward to it but I am ALREADY shell shocked from all the BS trailing it ALREADY!! Oh well lets give it a shot and see what happens.

The game will be free lol what can you ask more ?
I think they might be some uber weapons that we will start to hate fast but for the rest, it rocks

Originally posted by: Xaith

The Q3F dev team had proved they really did not care about the clan aspect or community of the game.

you could honestly see where they did not care about the clan aspect of the game and were more concerned with the pubbing aspect, and believe it or not the clan aspect of rtcw is what keeps it alive.

yeh i agree, i'm a long time moh player and the clan aspect i believe is central to the whole moh community and without it i think the game is dead. But EA turned a blind eye to the game after it was released, the same way you might turn a blind eye to a console game after it is released. In fact, i don't really think any companies really act like they are aware there is a whole clan/competitive community at all.

i think in like 5 years they will catch on though and games that are incredibly full of cheats and completely unsupported (EA, moh) won't be succesful and games that are supported and work well for match play and are even fun to watch people play (kinda like watching a sports match) will be succesful so companies will have to catch on...