Quake Wars

[taolurker]

There's actually an easier way to disable the bob-roll, and it was right in the game options... but that would be too easy for some people.

Newbies guide

[Mrbloodworth]

I am having a great time with this...Its basically a rehashed Wolfenstein game, with new graphics ETC..and LESS BUNNY HOPPING, if your doing that...stop.  They have added a COF "like" system to the game, and some really fun vehicles.

[bhodi]

Did you say vehicles? I'm so there.

[Mrbloodworth]

Did you say vehicles? I'm so there.

Yeah, they are paper thin however, but really fun..me and my friends that normality run marauders (PS) are using some of the same tactics and owning people...Quite fun.

[LK]

Played it on a not really top of the line machine but fairly decent.  Was extremely sluggish, probably only getting 15 FPS though at 1280x1024.  GDF seems to have a helluva time getting the MCP to move forward with so much Strogg Spam.

I hope it runs better on my home system.  I'm spoiled by console 60FPS performance without having to spend several thousand dollars.

[Mrbloodworth]

Played it on a not really top of the line machine but fairly decent.  Was extremely sluggish, probably only getting 15 FPS though at 1280x1024.  GDF seems to have a helluva time getting the MCP to move forward with so much Strogg Spam.

I hope it runs better on my home system.  I'm spoiled by console 60FPS performance without having to spend several thousand dollars.

Not sure what your rig is, but some friends and i installed it of a group of computers ranging from "The suck" to "Uber" and it ran well on all of them. The graphics seem to scale really well. Maybe it was the server you were on? On "The suck", graphics were equivalent of wolfenstein.

[LK]

It's getting around that time that I should buy a real computer from someone like Alienware or the such.  Considering my system has been a hacked illegal-OS'in' system for about 5 years, and that the hard drive and specs are starting to get behind the times, it might be nice.

Any recommendations?  I figure I can get it installed and ready to go by the time Quake Wars comes out.

Oh, and it'll be nice to have two computers for a change! Not sure what to do with the current one though.

[Trippy]

Start a new thread if you want hardware advice. Also, need to know your budget.

[Musashi]

Dude the Strogg jet packs bring new levels to bunnytard.  I just spent like at least 10 minutes on one not dying once.  People like died, and stuff.  Of course, when people figure out you can target them with anti air, that will be over.

On another note, wtf is the engineer's automatic repair bot thingey and how is it used?  I seem to unlock it, but I don't know how to use it.  I think I've seen one flying over a gun emplacement, but I can't get it to do that for me.

[LK]

I couldn't get a bead on the Icarus while I was playing the demo.  That might change once my new super rig gets online (I was probably getting 15 - 20 fps when I was playing on before), and I can follow things more smoothly.  But dayam.

[Kail]

On another note, wtf is the engineer's automatic repair bot thingey and how is it used?  I seem to unlock it, but I don't know how to use it.  I think I've seen one flying over a gun emplacement, but I can't get it to do that for me.

I believe that it's the alt fire (right mouse button, for me) for the repair tool.  You should get a "lock on" chime like you're aiming a missile at the deployable, then once it locks, you fire.  For the Strogg, anyway, that seems to be how it works.

I think the game is kind of fun, but man, it seems like they couldn't be any more generic if they TRIED.  Generic human soldiers with generic classes.  Generic weapons (shotgun, machine gun, rocket launcher).  Generic vehicles (tank, APC, motorcycle thing).  Generic alien adversary with the exact same weapons as the generic humans, but renamed so that you don't know what the hell they are (instead of the Assault Rifle you get the Lacerator, which is the same thing, but you don't know that until you try to use it).  Generic objectives ("go here and hold down the action button").  Meh.  Artillery/airstrike spam and sniper fire are amazingly annoying.  It's a solid game, but there's nothing there that's unique enough to really get me hooked or anything.

[Musashi]

Yea, I got the recticle, but I must have been spamming the left mouse button.  Sweet, thanks.

Between that jetpack, the deployable guns, and mines, engineers are a good time. 

It's a good mix of the old ET and newer shooter features, I think. 

[LK]

I was smitten when they had voiceover work to let you know when you got upgrades and ranking up.  Warhawk didn't have that shit, bothered me to hell since I was spoiled on Battlefield 2 "You've been recommended for a promotion."

Basically the "Ding" I like to hear.

Call of Duty 4 seems to have more of this.

[Azazel]

Just downloaded it via Steam. Will be checking it out either later tonight or tomorrow sometime...



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[taolurker]

You need to open the game seperately from Steam?

[Azazel]

No idea. it was downloaded via steam, and appears to be exactly like evry other one of the million Steaming games...
finding the icons and trying them gives:

This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.


fuck that noise. Just nuked it.

[Miasma]

I just installed steam today myself and I downloaded a demo of the Sherlock Holmes game and am getting the exact same problem.  I deleted some blob file and then deleted everything but steam.exe and one folder like some of the support suggests but neither did anything.

This is a pretty lousy first impression.

[Big Gulp]

It's a solid game, but there's nothing there that's unique enough to really get me hooked or anything.

Welcome to every ID game in the past 10 years.  ID doesn't make games, they make engines.  Not very good engines at that, considering how Source and especially Unreal have stolen all of that revenue.

I hate to say it for a company that was so important in gaming, but if a game comes out from ID I can pretty safely ignore it and not miss much.

[Miasma]

It's not really from id themselves, it's from splash damage, a group who made some nice mods for their games.

[taolurker]

No idea. it was downloaded via steam, and appears to be exactly like evry other one of the million Steaming games...
finding the icons and trying them gives:

This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

fuck that noise. Just nuked it.

I would think this has something to do with Steam installing it, and would try installing again from one of the mirrors. I got mine from Shacknews.

[Strazos]

Wish I could give it a shot, but my old AMD 2700+ is a bit below minimum specs. 

[taolurker]

Wish I could give it a shot, but my old AMD 2700+ is a bit below minimum specs. 

My older machine was able to run the game fairly well on Low settings (it's an AMD XP 1600+  ), and I'd say as long as you have the RAM and vid card to overcome it it shouldn't be any hinderance.

It looks alot prettier on the heftier machine, but IMO you should have no problems.

[LK]

It's running fairly well on my system, and it's not top of the line.  Everything looks pretty decent at 1024 with Custom settings for the video card.

I found an awesome server, Church of the New Epoch, where apparently I'm a Messiah on there.  Five guys rushed me with shotguns and Lacerators, but they must have not been using their scopes and have the aim of Storm Troopers, because I took out all of them so fast with my Covert Ops Scoped Rifle.

Oh yeah, so ready for this game.  I can't wait to try out the other maps.  Quake Wars is the first game in a long time where I've A) played it almost non-stop for several days B) been good at it C) been so good at it as to dominate the scoreboard at the end.

Feels much better to fuck with people on QW than Warhawk.

[Musashi]

I hope the have a map that's a decent update for the Gold Rush map from ET.  That map was awesome.

"Get the gold!"

[Mrbloodworth]

Dude the Strogg jet packs bring new levels to bunnytard.  I just spent like at least 10 minutes on one not dying once.  People like died, and stuff.  Of course, when people figure out you can target them with anti air, that will be over.

Thing is, its a confined bunnytard. AA can take it down, as well as a simply trusty rifle. And the only thing they get to fire are grenade like red things that are easy to avoid.

I enjoy the segregation of bunnytards in this game =)

[Chenghiz]

I hope the have a map that's a decent update for the Gold Rush map from ET.  That map was awesome.

"Get the gold!"

Especially when the Allies would spam artillery into the courtyard incessantly, making it impossible to do anything. (That was the one thing I hated about ET)

[Falwell]

Dude the Strogg jet packs bring new levels to bunnytard.  I just spent like at least 10 minutes on one not dying once.  People like died, and stuff.  Of course, when people figure out you can target them with anti air, that will be over.

Thing is, its a confined bunnytard. AA can take it down, as well as a simply trusty rifle. And the only thing they get to fire are grenade like red things that are easy to avoid.

I enjoy the segregation of bunnytards in this game =)

Or get the quick lock on upgrade for the rocket launcher. It's one of the most gratifying kills in the game.

[tazelbain]

Something wrong with this game.  It's a FPS that is fun spite the fact that I am horrible at FPS.  Their must be a catch, will the final game require steam or something?

[Sairon]

In my eyes it's a cheap mans battlefield. The graphics are really bad and the engine really slugish as already mentioned. I haven't found anything at all in there that's better than the latest battlefield.

[LK]

I like how they have their mission system setup, such that as a class you are able to see which objectives are available and receive more awards for doing them, like taking out a turret or hacking items.

Loads of fun to go behind enemy lines and start f'ing with their artillery and stuff.

[Trippy]

In my eyes it's a cheap mans battlefield. The graphics are really bad and the engine really slugish as already mentioned. I haven't found anything at all in there that's better than the latest battlefield.

If you are fine with the BF control-point objectives and don't prefer the Enemy Territory mission-style objectives then yeah it's basically just BF with different graphics.

[Miasma]

The graphics are really bad

I think it's a wonderful statement for gaming in general that stuff like this is considered "really bad", it means the "really great" graphics must be heavenly.

[Kail]

I think it's a wonderful statement for gaming in general that stuff like this is considered "really bad", it means the "really great" graphics must be heavenly.

I'd be surprised if those are shots from in-game.  At the very least, they're staged, and I'd be surprised to hear they weren't pre-rendered. I haven't seen that last pic's animation at all, and while the other stuff looks not bad, I cringe at the thought of the hardware you'd need to run it with a decent framerate.

I can't speak for Sairon, but my main issue with the graphics doesn't stem from the engine, but the design.  I mean, look at those pics.  Does anything there really scream "Quake" to you?  Or anything other than "Generic Alien Invasion Sci-Fi"?  I've seen this stuff before, in about a dozen games.  It's very bumpy and shiny here, but it's just so damned generic it hurts. 

[taolurker]

I personally like it, but it's more because of the things I liked about RTCW and BF combined.

I would've probably been trying to beta/pre-order TF2 if it hadn't been for this game (free-download no BS FTW), and now I'm actually pretty torn over which will get me to spend money first.

[Miasma]

I can't speak for Sairon, but my main issue with the graphics doesn't stem from the engine, but the design.  I mean, look at those pics.  Does anything there really scream "Quake" to you?  Or anything other than "Generic Alien Invasion Sci-Fi"?  I've seen this stuff before, in about a dozen games.  It's very bumpy and shiny here, but it's just so damned generic it hurts. 

That's the second time you've called it "generic", it's a first person shooter, I'm not sure what you are hoping for from this genre...  It's always going to boil down to one group of polygons shooting at another with textures varying from WW2 to aliens to terrorists etc, etc.  There isn't a whole lot of room for innovation, at most you can make the groups of polygons be vehicles instead of people.  At least there is more to QW than capture the flag.  You can deploy artillery, antipersonnel turrets, radar, shields, third-eye cameras, hack computers, build outposts, steal uniforms, turn dead players into Strogg spawn points and more.

And while I'm sure they made the soldiers pose for the last picture that is definitely the in game engine.  If you have a widescreen monitor you have to make sure to go into options and change the resolution to 16:10 from 4:3 or else it looks screwy, also turn on at least 2x AA.