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ET -
Phone Home, Teas Ready
I doubt there will ever be a new film in these charts, maybe its because lord of rings is in colour and you cant have any sort of technology in films to have it in an all time list, its gotta be black and white, have umbrellas and generally be made before any of us were born. As for ET himself anyone with a glowing red finger has serious problems, I shudder to think where he must of been poking that to get it that red. In the films defence it has been a while since I saw them, but ET is still scary. In fact im not even sure ive seen its a wonderful life, maybe just the start of the thing and the singing made me sick. Anyway you probably didnt come here to talk about et the movie, or maybe you did, who knows. One thing for sure is that enemy territory was an expansion pack and now it is a full game... New Features Engineer Depending on where you read your news theres either a new engineer or the current engi is updated, and one most interesting features is that engineers can build, suppose thats going to be a nightmare to script, but you can build bridges and I guess anything the mapper has in mind, unless its a case of a few items like bridges, guard towers and the like he can also apparently make mounted guns. Its an amazing feature really and hopefully it will work out well. You can also plant mines in which people cant see but you will be able to, I imagine they will be limited supply otherwise it would get crazy, probably have 2 or 3 I would imagine. Also comes a grenade launcher as a new weapon for the engi, but no spanner in sight :(  We can see above the bridge outlines where you still need to build  I think this is an engi planting a mine, its not 100% clear Covert Ops/Spy The sneaky class enters the fray, ala tfc the spy can disguise himself as the other team, theres no details to whether or not he will be able to faint death and lie on the ground playing dead, but still a spy is a welcome edition I think, you just cant beat a good old stabbing in the back. But, a few people might not be happy with spies and you can see in tfc people sometimes complaining, only really because its so sneaky, one thing from tfc we dont want though is hw guys! Another feature of the spy is that he can spot the engineers mines, so the spy is a spy in the true sense, he can sniff out danger with his binocs. Apparently in the new ET you can go prone (lie on ground flat) which seems odd to me, (although im all for it) the game is a bit fast paced for that but it will mean better snipering (doubt that is actually a word, but hey!), because lets face it the sniper in rtcw is not very much fun and everyone likes to sniper, so ET has implemented a new sniper rifle, which maybe the spy can only use, I have read that the solider no longer has the sniper rifle so I guess the spy is the only person who can, I dont see why theres no pure sniper class with one of those helmets with grass, leaves and vines on (you think they'd get told off for having grass in their helmet's) but there you go. Soldier Class One thing thats new for the solider is that the sniper rifle will be replaced with the paratrooper sniper rifle from the sp game of rtcw and he will also get a machine gun (omg hw guy!) so maybe a hw guy is imminent, the scourge of tfc maybe entering the wolf era, *sobs*. We will just have to wait and see how powerful he is, apparently though you will have to lie down, hopefully you will have to deploy the gun then it wont be like the horrors of the hw guy for tfc, although some people do like him but I dont see ET being like that, effectively the soldier might be seen as the machine gunner class and sniper class in one. Skills System I guess this is one thing that makes it a lot different from rtcw, you build up skills the longer you play a class, but only over the map time, so say if you play as a spy your sniping ability will improve over the map time, apparently this can go onto the next map if its like a cycle of maps so thats interesting. Engis will also be able to build better etc, and I would guess medics will be able to heal faster since thats there skill. So its an impressive system, although if you join the server mid map your going to be at rather a disadvantage. New objectives Also on the new features list is new objectives, with things such as escort and hostage rescue and protecting various people, only slight worry here is protecting people is not really much fun, as we have seen in the popular cs mod, probably 90% of people didnt like escorting a vip so hopefully ET will differ from this to avoid it being a server killer. I myself like vip maps but if most people dont I think you have to go with the majority. New maps Fifteen new maps are reported to be included, but they are tricky fellows so im betting some of these will be from the single player converted over, but splash damage are working on the maps so maybe not, although just about all of there maps are single player wolf ones converted over, not saying this is a bad thing just how it is. Hopefully we will see more variety in the maps, maybe some African ones or jungle ones would be good, there is a deserty one being made apparently, one thing medal of honor did was keep the map themes varied where as rtcw mainly went for a grey dark depressive look for most maps.  New overhead view Also talked about is a new commander style viewpoint, so you can see where everyone is, if you have played tribes 2 you will know in that it has a similar feature. You can also have both the map on screen and your view apparently, so you can see where you heading and what not. Bots Gray matter are working on the bots, so at least its not "lets have everything scripted" nerve, I myself am wondering since so much of quake 3 code was left in rtcw that he has used the bot code from quake 3, I think the bots in quake 3 are pretty good so hopefully there up to that standard, with the game being complex with classes its a pretty big task making the bots good, so we will have to wait and see, it is good for us mappers though hopefully, it means in theory at least more people will play our maps because they can with bots and we can test with bots too. Vehicles I have heard that there are vehicles but I dont think you can drive them, which to me is a massive let down considering battlefield 1942 has them, as will hidden and dangerous 2 and other war games that keep coming out are meant to have them, so I would of thought it only right that ET has driveable vehicles, but it doesnt look like we will have, however you can jump on them as shown below, I guess its going to have scripting tank movement in the map below, something which you can already do in rtcw.  Conclusion Currently this is all the information there is about ET just about and the release date is set to "later this year" or "Christmas" I would think they would rather release at Christmas like wolf was, rather than early next year. I think ET looks really good, you can see why they have decided to make it a full game, there implementing a lot of new features, but then again this still could of been an add on, at the end of the day its still rtcw with new features so in most peoples book its an add on, the new classes however seem brilliant and the skills system seems interesting as does going prone, the only downside is are they really going the whole hog, say there was no rtcw, in todays climate with so much competition in ww2 themed games driveable vehicles really makes the game stand out from the crowd, but I guess we cant have everything! but I think we can all look forward to an vastly improved rtcw going by the name Enemy Territory.  ET, down right pr0nographic |
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