QW ET

FYI there is a newer Beta client available for Fileplanet subscribers but I’m not sure if they have any keys left.

After playing it for some time yesterday I had a few gripes…

1. When you exit the game the etqw.exe runs in the background hogging your resources unless you kill it in task manager.
2. When you change viedo settings you have to restart the game, and deal with the above 😮
3. The game plays fast like quake always did – that was good indoors, but hard to shoot people outdoors.
4. The weapons… they’re all pretty samey bar the odd one.
5. The higher graphics settings look inferior to say, HL2 (Deathmatch), but seem to take more system resources.
6. It is pretty hard to get teamwork going – always is the case in public but this game doesn’t seem to facilitate team play as well as it could or probably should have.
7. Eugh… those custom coloured names are back 🙁
8. When you unlock improved talents it doesn’t remember it? Must be server only :O Sucks!

I also have a few likes too 😛 I like the fact…

1. the medic sucks at killing and is good only for revivng and healing – none of that high points crap!
2. each class can order a different structure (aa/at/ai/radar etc) so someone has to be that class for your team to get buffed

I am overall disappointed but hopefully they can iron out the kinks and make the game worthwhile after all, but seeing as it’s so close to reelase, probably not 🙁