ET Quakewars Demo Released

SplashDamage and Activision have today released the demo of ET:Quakewars the long awaited installment in the ET series. After a private beta and two open betas the game is nearing release and this will be the last free installment!

QuoteIt's finally here! The Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars demo has been released and is available via the mirrors listed below. If you haven't been keeping up, you can find out all about the demo in this developer blog. You can also check out our Valley map guide for details on the demo map along with a few tips and tricks


Mirrors
Yahoo
Quake Unity
Nvidia
Official .torrent


4Players.de
ActionTrip
AUSGamers
clubic.com
eXp.de
FileFront
FilePlanet
Fileshack
FileSwap
GameDaily
GameDemos.de
Gamers Hell
Gamer.no
GamesFire.at
GamesWelt.de
GameZone
i3d.net
Internode
K-Files.de
Multiplay.co.uk
PureGamingNetwork.de
Strategy Informer
Turkey Files
Worthplaying


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adding more mirrors
The hitreg has improved!
omg, a multiplayer game with working antilag and hitregistration. I MUST BUY THIS GAME
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If demo has soo many bugs i don't want to see full version.
gonna give it a last chance
first beta sucked so hard
Waiting for the ETQW defenders (Sainted mostly) to say the demo/full game looks nothing like the beta. At least that was their only arguement when defending the piece of shit that ETQW beta was.

ps: dont flame ETQW, they will say you only dislike it because it is different from ET.
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It's not allowed to talk negative about ETQW, plz be more positive.
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indeed or it will be deleted
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It's nothing like the first beta. Pretty similar to Beta 2 although it's gone through loads of improvements since.
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Yeah, I can imagine they did a complete overhaul and totally changed the gameplay...
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I didn't say they had done a complete overhaul. They've tweaked certain aspects and improved the performance a lot since beta 2. The new spawn location for GDF really balances the map out as well.

You should play it instead of whining about it. :)
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They might be wrong but who says you're right? Untill now no one knows the answer so there's no point in arguing.
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You allways say such smart things :(
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Cuz i'm grown up now, living on my own and studying in Nijmegen :P
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What are you studying there?
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"Tandheelkunde" :P
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like someone needs to defend qw :D
I hope there are not too many players from the et community changing because there are mostly retards.

but I have to admit that most old men from bf2 are even more retarded in their own way :D
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Finally!!, Ya Rly ;)
downloading...
gimme a decent pc and I'll download it
map still sux! :D
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anyone got a link?
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FUCK VALLEY :)
the mouse feels like laying in a bath of jelly...
OR IN AN ASHTRAY
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i cleaned my mousepad... well and turned it by 180° :P
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Now that I've tried it with some decent FPS, true. :X
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Look out for Jimmy McNulty!
McNumpty more like ;)
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ATI hotfix nubs
horray \o/

but still. valley = shit. hopefully it won't scare all potential buyers off :( there are better maps that comes with retail!
'it will be better in the future'

i like that argument. thats what they kept saying about Q4.
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my argument is that valley sucks - which it does. and i really don't understand why they picked that map to represent "their game".

there are better maps, more suited maps for competitive play and i know that for a fact. just sad that the devs let the competitive scene down by not using one of those instead of valley.

valley needs restrictions even on public to become a decent map. that will come in time, i'm sure. just not while it's still only a demo.
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If I add another Z you'd take the whine to an even higher level? :D
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I guess you havent played Quake 4 recently then in comparisson to vanilla Q4.
Parent
Still worse than Q3!

Maybe it's because the engine used is an abomination :c
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Q4 1.4.2(?) is pretty good. In a state which it should have been released.
Parent
1.3 was the real 1.0 version together with q4max, this q4tv thingy is just an addon
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I guess I have to wait another year before I touch the game again. Atleast ETmain was fun to play.
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Yes, and it did get much much better.
Bad point :)
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The game will die before it gets fixed.
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oh and the update don't works on my ati ;(
So who actually cares?
And who cares that he cares?
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and who cares that you care that Lighning cares?
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Absolutely ridiculous. Still has the same mouse bug that has been present since the first beta.
What do you mean? The mouse "lagging" more or less (resistance?!?) when moving it? Happens to me :x
Though i dont really care too much about it as the game sux anyway =)
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When you start the game and your on the login screen my mouse continuously moves to the top of the screen. You drag it down and it moves straight up. Makes creating an account of logging in a 10min job but it's fine in game (Well was in Beta 2) nothing happens... :s
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Seems to be a bug on your side :\
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have the same when my wheel is plugged so try removing any similar devices
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Already ordered 7 copies of teh gamz0r - all of them going for fans-since-beta1 and few from demo.

As for me - I fucking love this game! <3
gonna see if this game is worth buying....
omg its the jehuty from Orange bullets 2k5?!
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it is sainted =)
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I suck at this game.
No, in every game.
Parent
Lies! I used to pwn at Deus Ex back in the day. MoH:AA was fun too.
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http://files.netgames.lv/zivs/ETQuakeWarsDemoSetup.exe (NetGames)
You can add this one to mirrors also. :X
ty for link 2MB/sec ^^
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it's a lot better than beta1. Movement and shooting are pretty nice and comparable to what we've seen in original ET. With some nice config and competition mod this game will own:).
I agree with you and I must say that this is the 1st time when I've enjoed playing this game.
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ye it's pretty enjoyable on ffa servers, hovewer, it still needs some polishing.
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yes its hitting a fuckin lot more than on the beta1/2, body's tracking is as easy as ET on mid/long range
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[-] imo, perfect games are fun to play !
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But he does have quite a valid point about Q3 + WT :P
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Yeah, FEAR showed what a real world tour game should look like. RIP esports.
Parent
point proven about bitter :D
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Well, some people have dignity.
my mirror: http://194.169.192.141/chaplja/ETQuakeWarsDemoSetup.exe

if someobody downloads it from this one, please report some speeds
Does this include wh?
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Just played it a bit and it aint that bad :)
1.6 ghz duron, fx5700 and 768 ram.
any point even to try? :/
and my one... ?
2.4 intel p.; geforce 6600; 1gb of ram
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yeah you might get away with it on a low gfx config
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u might have one? ;o bcoz actually i didnt tried beta yet neither this one ;p
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Options => GFX => Details: low => strg+alt+^ => writeconfig lowgfx.cfg => done
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i went better with tuning it by menu than using this tweaker tool :<
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I tried beta 1 with a relatively similar computer, I could get ~30fps apart from the relatively common drop to ~2fps when something big happens.
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beta1 was AIDS
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and demo isnt ? :(
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my mouse doesnt respond the way it should in this game :/
and i get shit fps even at lowest
The game needs a very good PC to run 100% smoothly.

Not sure about your mouse problem though.
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pentium 4 3.4gig, 1gig em, saphire x1600pro.

But imo when u make an fps game, smoothness on medium spec pcs should be an absolute priority. Or atleast make sure that evrything runs smooth with certain settings, cuz in the end most players that play the game seriously dont rly care how mind boggling things look.
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Your PC specs are not medium anymore, they're very low.

I run on an AMD dual core with 2gb of ram and an 8800GTS and it doesn't even run perfectly. I need to get myself an Intel core2duo and some new memory.
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if those specs are very low, they need to fix the minimum requirments
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In other words, pub games ftw?
I'd like to call them pop-games. Its like trying to convince mozart that britney spears is one of the best artist of our time because millions of peons bought her records.
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Downloading now 7xx kb from yahoo mirror.

I played the beta and didn't like it mainly because of the jumping in a 1v1 like CS:S I hate that shit so annoying, if you do that in ET your dead.
Well if you do it in a clanwar in ET:QW you are most likely dead as well, but hey I'm most likely dead never the less!
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So because Q3 (in your example) is not supported by sponsors and its not popular makes its a bad game? So it means MTV is showing best music, and WoW is best and most competitive game ever created?

To continue your statement about Q3, do you have any better 1vs1 game than Q3 in your mind? FEAR 1vs1?

popular=good?

GTFO, seriously

I'd rather played game that noone cares about than pieces of shit like BF2 (which is popular).

I am not saying QW is a bad game, it's a great public game, I myself enjoyed playing it. But competitive? Duckroll.

Also you are wondering why people call it piece of shit on a website that has been build up on RTCW/ET? Well because it is a piece of shit compared to these games.

What we (people who love RTCW gameplay) have in future? At first QW was a great opportunity...but as we can see now, it failed to deliver. Ofc some people (will) love it, some (will) like it, but in a core it has nothing to do with ET/RTCW. Dont be suprised by dissapointed players.

So whats left after QW for the RTCW gameplay crowd? RTCW2? Will see, but I have big doubts....as gaming now is developing in a direction of pubgames...some, like you will love it, some wont, woohoo
MTV is showing best music :(
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Played it, much better framerate and netcode. But still, it's not similiar to ET/RTCW :(

I'll wait and see what happens on mod development front, maybe something good will come out.

Pretty playeble on XP1700@1800mhz, 1.2gb ram, and 6600GT (stock).
You actually get stable (doesn't drop below ~15) FPS with a 1.8GHz CPU? That would be some performance improvement indeed.
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I didnt play with showfps 1.

I had fps drops even below 15 I think, but it was playeble on a public level without a problem.

(1024x768/all settings on lowest in hud/no cfg tweaking)
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The difference being that the RTCW/ET community has and always will work to keep their games alive unlike the eSreality lot. Their just as lazy as the cs players in that respect.
Dont like Valley too much :(

*4 stages (most maps got 3)
*Biiiiig map (most are much smaller)
*MCP Stage
Cool maybe i will test the lousy game when i get home :o
Quotebut it's great fun to play and great fun to watch already

Not for everyone!
Yes, because the ESR crowd doesn't want anyone to play their game.
nice censorship... to censor a comment with a funny association.
Are you talking about Ass cencor ?
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No, they don't. They want a dm game, which they consider to be the cream of the crop, that
a) finds mass appeal and
b) is actually good
[e.g. a good engine with good performance, good netcode (something that seems to get worse with every new generation of games), a well thought out game concept by people that actually know what they're doing]
"So who plays a Q3 1on1 on the original q3dm6 with vq3 physics? Noone does, Q3 got OSP/CPMA and proq3dm6. Were they included from the start? They weren't."
OSP is vq3. Just like in RtCW all OSP did was adding features that made the game better useable in competitions (stats, brightskins, ...).
There was no CPMa? There was no Urban Terror, no Q3F, no Threewave, etc. when Q3 was released. There was no warsow when Q2 was released!

I doubt the game won't change too much. You've interviewed one of them! What did he say? 'We're making the game we want to play' (paraphrased). And didn't he say that the final game won't be changed (too much)? Only bugfixes, etc.?
And what is a mod supposed to change, when two different worlds (game communities) collide and both want to move the game in different directions? Look how long it took ET to be what it is today.

And the biggest flaw about ET:QW is that it is a multiplayer-only-game build on an engine designed for a single-player-game. You just can't change that. It simply doesn't feel as clean as f.e. the q3-engine. And it never will. (just like q4 will always fell 'clumsy')
HEPL PxL?


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I watched few matches from qcon, and i merced a bit(2-3 games) for wArning in beta 1(:D).
The game is terrible for anyone who doesnt like bf2...
Even more, the sad part is, it's not only me thinking this, today i read the comments on local latvian torrent tracker where this demo is being distributed, and even the casual gamers who usually play games for fun and with gfx to highest thought its quite a shitty game and reminds them too much of bf2 :(

Face it, most ET:QW players dont even like the game, they see perspective in it(big tournaments/prize money), and that's mostly the reason they play it for.

In other words, this is the Painkiller of team games...
I didn't like the BF2(142) demos, I bought Joint Ops: Typhoon Rising and Joint Ops: Escalation just to race arround with the vehicles and to experience 150 man online combat, but I didn't really like it.

Yet I really like playing ET:QW..

And what you are saying is just.. wrong. There are thousands of happy casual players from games like Battlefield, W:ET and other scenes.
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I liked painkiller games to watch. Great fun.
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Actually opinions differ from bithack.lv and file.lv comments :) So I believe you've checked only file.lv ^_^

Call me a nazi or whatever, but you probably noticed that the biggest whiners (omg bljat gavno, parodie na BF2142 tolko huze raza v 4, etc, etc)there are russian speaking ones. Most latvian speaking are appreciating the game and actually having fun with it :)
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INFONLY Demo server
Quakewars.no #3 INF ONLY: 81.166.125.10:21000
played it now and I have to say that I prolly won`t touch it again till there will be a good mod for it or till the vehicles get removed.
try one post up :P
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Did that, and agree without vehicles it`s playable, although the distances are too big.
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any good public servers?
did you even watch quakecon et:qw?
Quotethe only good games were made in the past


True.
sticking with rollercoaster tycoon
loops4lifeyo
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really wish it will be much better than the beta(s)... played them both, way too laggy mouse movements at least on my comp
i cant install it :(

somthing with my firewall
you ain't missing a thing
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played it

uninstalled it
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I'll try it in a year or so. Everybody sais they will fix it in patches etc ...
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Stop using the same arguements over and over again.

-Its a beta, final product will be totaly different and 10 times better
-Its different and new. You just hate it because its not ET.
-Noobgames are goodgames.

Can you accept the fact that ETQW just suck donkey balls? Tbh, i play other games and some actually interest me. I remember civ4 and oblvion to be awesome games, but somehow most new games just ... suck? I played beta over a week, I forced myself to watch three / four Quakecon games. I'm sorry I didnt like it.

I dont mind commercial companies making games that appeal to a big as possible audience. Just dont try to convince serious gamers that the game roxors. I you dont like it it must be you who is too elitist to enjoy the game, just like Mozart won't like Britney. We care about fast / solid gameplay and a smooth engine (30fps animations - 60 fps inputs ... even carmack called it a horror). If you make a game for noobs dont try to sell it to an ESR, xfire community as we dont give a flying fuck about fancy graphics and slow gameplay.

And feck off with using the same arguements over and over again. Get over it. Any serious gamer will say the game is ok but nothing special. Yeah yeah. Its a beta. I only hate it because its different from ET. I have played to much good (read old) games to be able to enjoy ETQW.

Ofc you defend the piece of shit that ETQW is. You work for Giga. Just like xfire.be you have all the reasons to say the game is teh pwn.
Well actually not, but you are saying that leagues pickup games which are fun to play and I don't get that point. Who's opinion is that? Yours?

In my opinion games that are perfectly balanced and tweaked for professional gaming are fun to play, still anyone doesn't pick CPMA CPM or ET to their world tours.

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And my personal opinion about ET:QW:


First I thought that ET:QW is not suitable for professinal gaming becouse it contains too many random variables and big spam guns. One doesn't need to be a veteran to drive the cyclop somewhere and spam around the map and get lot's of kills.

I started to hate the game after I got beaten by some guys who just drove tanks, APC's, Tornmentors or w/e to my teams spawn and I noticed that skills one needs in ET doesn't mean anything in ET:QW.

Still I don't say that the game will suck for ages, there's always some developement and it might go to better way. I just don't feel like this would be the game I like.
Aint too bad tbh, similar to the difference between RTCW and ET when ET was released. Need to cap the vehicles and a few of the other "omgipressthisbuttonandeveryoneonthemapdies" weapons..

Always gonna get some bitter kid whining because he hates the game and doesnt want everyone to move on without him.. oh well. It does fucking wreak of BF though, meh.
Kinhell, how's it goin mix!!?

Don't think i've spoke to you in about, 3 years?
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Heh, time flies! ..Especially when you're skiving from work :E
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crappy battlefield game :<
QW Rockz
Can anyone help me? I cant find the ATI Uninstall Driver Utility shown in the instructions in order to install the new driver
NVM i got it to work, and although my fps were low, i still didnt like the game way too futuristic for my choice, and vehicles are a disadvantage. Good luck to the ppl who will play it though
OMG this is SO crap :S
played it about 15min and then uninstalled
Battlefield:QW :up:
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