Giving ETQW another chance

-|ScottFree|- said:
In the word of Roy Walker: I say what I see.. I don't like what I see and I'm not impressed.
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Dont worry...I am not debating it....I feel the same!

I just think some of the details in the graphics are amazing...extremely highly detailed textures....but then you look at the ground...and its just a green/brown blurr. All in all it doesnt look right. This might get better with other maps...maybe less foilage will help.
 
Personally I like the little I've seen of it so far, the UI looks pretty decent and the graphics aint bad. Aint particularly played it properly though yet. Might be worth noting that your fps is capped at 30 by default, need a few console tweaks to unlock the fps. If you're dropping any frames with the 30 cap the game is going to stutter and feel like crap..
Theres a post on the official forums explaining the cap and unlock - http://community.enemyterritory.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2042
 
I don't understand why some people with 8800GTX cards are getting crap framerates?

I run at 1440x900 with these settings and framerates stay between 45-60....the lowest they go is 35 or so even during heavy firefights.



This is with my 7900GT@675/900
 
Ah thanks Mixeh, guess I should've done some research myself. Will have a play around and see what gfx settings I need to lower to get a steady 90fps.

edit: or maybe 60 fps looking at the settings gurusan uses, I don't really want to drop anything lower than 'Normal'
 
z0mbi3 said:
Heh. What do we do?!
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Flip a coin?

Really dont want to cancel my pre-order but Ive just picked up a Nintendo DS lite and the time Ive got to play games on the PC is more limited now. Only playing Q3 and GTAs atm, so Im thinking its either ETQW or TF2, so I guess my decisions pretty much made for me :(

Cant afford to dedicate the time to both...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
mart981 said:
Ah thanks Mixeh, guess I should've done some research myself. Will have a play around and see what gfx settings I need to lower to get a steady 90fps.

edit: or maybe 60 fps looking at the settings gurusan uses, I don't really want to drop anything lower than 'Normal'
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Its an ID game engine....usually they are capped at 60FPS....Quake, Doom3, Prey....all the same. If it is capped...there should be a way to unlock the capping. Can anyone confrim that you can get more than 60FPS??????????
 
meh, still don't like it. A non buy for me I'm afraid. It's a shame though as it has some really great ideas and on paper is exactly the king of online team based FPS that I should love but imo it's horrible. Didn't even get to the end of a round last night. (I have spent a few hours with the last two betas so I think I've given it a fair go)

Main gripes...

Just doesn't 'feel' right, now I know that's subjective and I can't quite put my finger on it but it just feels horrible to play. Not sure if it's to do with this whole 30fps physics/60fps animation or whatever it is they've done with it.

Don't like the pacing. It seems like they've gone for a fairly fast paced twitch FPS in an engine that can't cope with it, it just doesn't feel fluid enough.

Personally don't think the gfx are that great, don't like the style, don't like the colour palette.

Hate the sound.

Hate the strogg.


Do like....

The mission/objective ideas.

Scoring system.

Class system

Deployables and some of the other weapons.


Think I'll stick with BF2(142) for now and see what else is on the horizon.
 
Can't get the demo to work, I just get this:

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X1900XT with latest drivers, E6300 @ 3.0, 2gb, Vista x64.

WTF is wrong?
 
Right, it starts now I've intstalled 7.9, but now the mouse pointer just moves to the bottom of the screen of it's own accord, so it's impossible to click on anything in the menus.
 
DreXeL said:
Right, it starts now I've intstalled 7.9, but now the mouse pointer just moves to the bottom of the screen of it's own accord, so it's impossible to click on anything in the menus.
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Have you got a joystick attached? I've had problems like this with other games when its plugged in.
 
Damien. said:
Ive downloaded the demo, going to try it tonight.

Ive also cancelled my pre order due to some peoples feedback on here.
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Erm shouldn't you try the game yourself first then see if its worth canceling the pre-order rather than basing it on what other people think? :o
 
had my 1st go last night, by the 3rd game i was top of the boards! wicked game, so fast paced, wish i had a better comp for it
 
LinkZ said:
Have you got a joystick attached? I've had problems like this with other games when its plugged in.
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Cheers, that sorted it, unplugged my wheel and it was fine.

Quite impressed with the game actually, looks nice, runs acceptably (perfectly playable maxed out at 1680x1050 6xAA) and is a lot of fun. I'll be picking it up when it's released :cool:
 
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toxic said:
Its an ID game engine....usually they are capped at 60FPS....Quake, Doom3, Prey....all the same. If it is capped...there should be a way to unlock the capping. Can anyone confrim that you can get more than 60FPS??????????
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yup just unlock it. try these cmds..

seta com_unlockfps 1
seta com_unlock_maxfps 90
seta com_unlock_timingmethod 0

few other useful cmds..

seta com_showfps 1
seta com_allowConsole 1
seta r_displayRefresh 85
seta g_fov 110
seta g_decals 0
seta m_smooth 1

EDIT: http://community.enemyterritory.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2042
 
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