Enemy Territory replacement?

glitch · 27 Apr 2006 at 11:56

For a couple of years I've enjoyed playing ET on my laptop, partly because it's a great game and partly because it's about the only one that runs really well! Now I've upgraded my rig to something nice and powerful (7900GT, etc etc) I'm wanting to have a bash at some of the latest games that are out there.

But what, if anything, is closest to how ET plays when online?

With ET I much prefer to play a support role and co-ordinate a team rather than run around and shoot everything in sight. Sure I can hit a few headshots if I need to, but I'm usually the Medic that's keeping everyone topped-up or the Field Ops that is keeping them in ammo. What I really like about ET is the fact that you have to use a mixture of all the character classes to win a map and you can't simply win (well, unless you defend) by killing everyone on the other side, over and over again.

Battlefield 2 has been recommended to me as the closest thing to ET in terms of structure - how accurate would you say that statement is?

glitch · 27 Apr 2006 at 12:26

Okay, that sounds pretty promising.

As you say, much of it sounds down to the qualities of your teammates (I've lost count of the times I'm the only person going for the objective and not running around shooting everything) but I like the idea of the squad system - is it more rigidly enforced that with ET or is it again something that is down to the players to control?

glitch · 27 Apr 2006 at 12:55

Isn't RO more of a deathmtach type affair? I wasn't aware it has different character classes that all had specialised skills.

On Steam now though? Last time I checked it was still a UT2K4 total conversion!

glitch · 27 Apr 2006 at 15:37

Thanks for all the replies, I might be tempted to give BF2 a go if I can get a cheap copy, but from the comments it would seem that ET is still king - at least for the way I like to play. I like the sound of BF2 but the flag affair doesn't really get me excited in the same way that the building/destroying/capturing/escorting does in ET. I'll probably still end up giving it a go though!

One question: if I was to buy a second-hand copy of BF2, is there anything I need to look out for? Can CD keys be blocked, thus rendering the game useless?

KraniX; I'd forgotten all about UT2K4! You've just reminded me I've got a copy lying around - good work, fella!

glitch · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:42

Tony Soprano said:
For the guys still playing ET - is it still as popular and are there still good servers about?

I've had about a month off, but I was using a list of about 6 servers all running ET Pro and using a core of the main maps with a few additional ones tagged on (Venice, Caen, etc). If you get a good squad together it can be quite interesting.

=[2D]= used to be my fave though: 81.27.99.18:27960

Only gets switched on at the weekends, but it's usually full of people who want to play tactically.

glitch · 28 Apr 2006 at 10:52

PS. If anyone does still play ET and wants to try and get a regular session going with some names from OcUK, shout em out and we'll see if we can find a time and place.