GameArena, a service provided by the biggest telco in Australia, and home of Australia's Wolf:ET community, recently had a short Q&A with one of ET:QW's senior designers, Ed Stern, who worked on Wolf:ET.

Taken from Q&A:

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"GameArena was recently afforded the opportunity to quiz the developers of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for a bit of juice on their hotly anticipated multiplayer first person shooter. So we hit-up the gaming community and put together five questions pertinent to online gamers and FPS aficionados which have now been comprehensively answered by Splash Damage Senior Game Designer, Ed Stern. "

The Q&A includes questions such as how ET:QW will differ from BF2, what the netcode will be like/being better ready for online play than Q4, anticheat and whether or not ET:QW will strive to include popular community (Bani) provided features such as a competition mod and ETTV.

Q&A session can be found here

Earlier today Clan SoF announced their move to Austrian multi-gaming organization cdap.

ex-SoF will now be known as cdap - oddjob

Following their Eurocup qualifier exit to cdap - #stfu?, oddjob jumped on the cdap. bandwagon.


Excited about the move, clanleader cdap.Ste had the following to say:




cdap - oddjobs lineup will remain the same:

Baggiez
Ste (cl)
Marvel
bullsmilk
Leon
Tango


We wish both the best of luck for the future.


#cdap
www.cdap.net

Paul "Locki" Wedgewood is the Lead Game Designer and Managing Director at Splash Damage. Who is also responsible for creating Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Paul had a short chat with "Firingsquad" about the upcoming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

A welcome sign for all ET and RTCW enthusiasts comes in the shape of full mod support by Spashdamage and a vision for equality amongst the classes, with vehicles not dominating the battlefield.

Here’s a few extracts of interest:

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ETQW’s character class structure is similar to Wolf ET. Both the Strogg and GDF feature infiltration, assault, defence and support roles. However, a significant goal for the game is that the GDF and Strogg don’t just look different, but more importantly, play different. All of their tools, abilities, weapons and vehicles reflect their different technology and culture, so their asymmetric capabilities dictate different approaches to combat.

After Team Beta already showed up their skills to continue to the semi finals in the ESL Winter's Play-Offs, we are going to GIGA, to present you the quarterfinal match of Team Helix and Vicious and Evil to your home televisions.
While Team Helix recived a forfeit win against euthanasia in the last round, Vicious and Evil showed their power against the other Finnish squad - Glow Gaming, formerly known as a-link, with a 4:0 on ettv.

Ready up for another main event in ET's history.

There is no time for drinking a beer on this saturday night. At GIGA Free For All, iTG's FlyingDJ will travel up, to visit cologne and the GIGA Studios as Co-Moderator to present this ESL Match at 22 cet live!

· The Match
Team Helix vs. Vicious and Evil
Time: Saturday, 06.05.2006 at 22.00 cet
Radio: no
Television: YES

· Livestream
Check out, that you join the giga livestream, even if you don't understand a word, we need a mass of viewers. Join up with your winamp or media.
· Media Player
· Winamp
· GamesTV.org

TeamWarfare League is pleased to present Battle of the Beach III, a Return to Castle Wolfenstein tournament. This event marks an epic return to the RtCW community by many familiar players and provides a great opportunity to those who have stuck it out, continuing to compete in one of the most successful team-based on-line games.

[*] Sign-ups begin today, May 2nd, 2006 at 6:00PM Eastern
[*] Sign-ups end on Saturday, May 6th, 2006 at 11:59PM Eastern (rosters lock)
[*] The tournament will begin on May 8th, 2006 at 9:00PM Eastern

Yesterday the Belgian Eurocup team xtrazone announced its move to multigaming clan cZar.

You might recall this clan for its succesful CoD2 team in the past. With other squads in Warcraft3, CS, BF2, etc and a healthy financial base this new home is quite fitting for the ambitious team that was xtrazone.


Ofcourse very excited about their move to a somewhat famous name as cZar, teamleader cZar|dNzl had the following to say.






Their line-up will remain the same, being:

dNzl
snot
lioco
mesq
kevin
acid
guest

Best of luck to both sides in the future and a happy cooperation!



Related:

www.cZar-gaming.com

#cZar

Battle on the Beach III pre-tournament teaser…

An unofficial pre-tournament bragging rights match.

TWL has announced that the third sequel to Battle of Beach will be set to go on. This tournament will involve 32 chosen teams composed each of 6 players to battle it out bracket style on different maps with each match consisting of 5 stopwatch rounds. This will hopefully be the precursor to summertime's Quakecon.

TWL's last 3 season Enemy Territory champs, United 5.et, will face TWL's last season rtcw champs, Teh Birdz, for an unofficial bragging rights match. This will be played on the 2002 game of the year Return to Castle Woflenstein.

This game will be held on Thursday 5/4/06 at 10:00pm est (04:00 CET) on the map, mp_beach. This game will provide a shout cast by radio itg and wolftv for all you fans out there.

WTV IP: 67.18.221.194:27970
Shoutcast: Radio iTG



More information about Battle on the Beach III and the pre-tournament teaser, please visit: www.planet-rtcw.com

And the changelist:

Notable changes since b7c:
[*] Boost exploit fixed. Now the clip barrier is part of the map.
[*] Improved command map. Better colors, more accurate.
[*] Improved mapscripting. In particular the voice overs when the door controls are destroyed also say "construct the command post" if its not up.
[*] Improved textures. Doorcontrols, wood....
[*] Asthetic aditions/improvements. Window frames, basement railings, fuse boxes, exhaust fan... etc
[*] Additional lighting tweaks.
[*] Steps clipping fixed. Stepping into: Transmitter rooms, CP spawn room, CP level from bridge.
[*] Spectator start moved. Now closer to the open grass area at the start of the map.
[*] Additional clipping. Some boxes and all the signs and things attached to teh walls have been clipped so you cant stand on them.

Thanks to all those involved.

I've lost count of all the cups/ladders which are now using adlernest, it's great to see ET embracing a new custom.

Leagues Officially Using Adlernest_final

[*] ClanBase
[*] Warleagues
[*] GameArena (,)
[*] Get-Liga

Some pics of changes:
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My next map is well underway :D

It's the start of the first matchweek of Enemy Territory EuroCup XIII, and time for the announcement of the groups for this season. As stated in the initial announcement, the twenty clans participating in this EuroCup will be split into four groups of five teams. These teams will then battle it out for supremacy over five weeks in the group phase before the two best teams from each group proceed to a double elimination playoff!

The groups are now viewable on the ClanBase site, and we have some cracking games for you in this first matchweek.

To launch the EuroCup XIII season, we're starting off with idle.ee vs Vicious And Evil on Wednesday at 21:00 CET in what promises to be an electric matchup between the semifinalists of the last EuroCup and one of this season's most hotly tipped new teams! Other highlights this week include one4one.GoodServer vs underscore on Thursday and the first high profile war for two highly anticipated new teams - Azure Fate vs demiurge on Sunday!

Full coverage will, as always, be provided by gamestv.org with shoutcasts of the hottest matches from the talented casters of RadioiTG.

See all the details over on ClanBase.com!

After a lot of troubles in the Benelux-cup, tonight is the big night!

EC-invites artificial will be taking on Hyperion Gaming in the premier division-final.

matches played by art:
4-0 vs gravity
1-0 vs dtk
4-0 vs dkTrp
4-0 vs intense
4-2 vs Mortal

matches played by HP:
4-0 vs cs3r
1-0 vs dHb
4-0 vs FDNL°1
4-0 vs dtk
2-4 vs gravity
4-0 vs FAC
1-0 vs Ovr


match-info:

artificial vs Hyperion Gaming
Event: Benelux-cup Div1 final
Date: Tonight @ 20:30
ETTV: here
SC:here


Other then this, there are 3 other matches to be played in this cup.

cs3r.Routiniers vs gravity.et
Event: Benelux-cup Div1 lower-final
Date: ???
ETTV: none confirmed

eXile vs waco gaming
Event: Benelux-cup Div2 final
Date: ???
ETTV: none confirmed

Apocalypse.nl vs Supplicium
Event: Benelux-cup Div2 lower-final
Date: ???
ETTV: none confirmed


for more info on these matches:

ClanBase
GamesTV
benelux.et