Enemy Territory:Quake Wars

**Ruslan74** · 10th January 2006

You must have heard of this Quake 4 Teamfortress lookalike to be out this year from ID? Here are some meaty bits from a hands on report from the CGW magazine :

* Human Classes: Field ops (fire support/machine pistol), Engineer (defense and support/shotgun, mines & traps), Soldier (duh/machine gun, LAW rocket launcher), Medic (support/ assault rifle &grenade launcher) and Ranger (sniper).

* Strogg Classes: Tank (your basic stormtrooper/Bosonic Orb gun), Oppressor (heavy weapons and lightning gun), Constructor (engineer/nail gun, EMP charges), Meditek (medic/unknown weapons) and Infiltrator (sniper/rail gun).

*Just from looking at the screens, Marines have tanks, helicopters, mobile radar, anti-air guns, mechs, fast attack hover fighters and amphibious assault vehicles. They don't talk much about the Strogg, but I assume they will have similar units. Except they ARE the vehicles. I think...

* Strogg have an anti-gravity jetpack type unit.

* id is looking to bring ET to other properties, possibly Doom.

* No plans to support bots, although there are some single player training missions.

* There's some sort of XP/ranking system similar to Battlefield 2.

* As far as tech stuff goes, they are using the Doom 3 engine. But a lot of the changes to make Quake Wars more of a multiplayer friendly experience has been done in-house over at Splash Damage. Expect 32 player games.

Looks like there could be some more interesting online battles to be fought in 2006!

**doobiwan** · 11th January 2006

looks like Battlefield Strogg Wars. . . .

**Ruslan74** · 11th January 2006

i wonder how the Bosonic Orb gun looks and sounds like....

**Ruslan74** · 14th January 2006

a recent preview of the game available from Eurogamer.

And a small snippet of what megatexture actually means :

"You mentioned the MegaTexture technology there and how it's being used with the Doom 3 engine. Could you give us a few more details on that?

Paul Wedgwood: During the early part of the project we realised we wanted to be able to render these huge outdoor areas and John Carmack is undoubtedly the best graphics programmer on the planet. He proposed, and then devised, the idea for the MegaTexture, which is a single unique texture that covers the entire landscape.

It's 32,000 pixels by 32,000 pixels, it creates a six gigabyte source file which we then have to compress to ensure good disk space usage but actually only ends up using 8Mb of video memory on a video card. We took this basic implementation of the technology and then started developing it further so we had it working on a 3D mesh, we introduced a single parallel light source for lighting, the ability to put other models and things on the landscape, foliage, tools like mega-gen which generates the texture, geometric texture distribution, the road tool that lets you just plop roads down along a route."

So there, at the next social gathering you could sound like an MIT graduate by mentioning it.

Check some of the newer screenshots here which are really mouthwatering, specially the detail on the medic. woot!

This snippet taken from the preview at IGN.COM :

"But what really makes Quake Wars interesting is the additional of deployables. Almost everybody has a function of some kind that can help the whole team. For the humans, the Field Ops and Engineer classes do most of the deploying -- things like radars, defense turrets, artillery, strategic missiles, and airstrikes. The Soldier can mount his rifle or his LAW rocket launcher on certain objects and allow other players to use them -- even players from other classes. The Ranger, a stealth/sniper class, can disable or hack into enemy deployables, and even the medic can set up supply stations."