It's not WW2 this time. It's the futuristic Quake 4 environment. Get ready! As the invasion begins, players choose to battle as one of five unique classes in either the EDF (Earth Defense Force – humans) or the barbaric alien Strogg armies, each augmented with specialist weapons and combat hardware. Troops utilize over 40 conventional and futuristic vehicles, deployable structures, and defense systems like quad-bikes, tanks, and alien walkers for epic ground assaults; or helicopters and anti-gravity ships to lend firepower from the air. Throughout each battle, teams establish bases, deploy defense structures, artillery, radar, and advanced forward-command systems into enemy territory while constructing and demolishing obstacles to speed progress and gain a tactical advantage over the enemy. With realistic dynamic lighting and shadowing from headlights, searchlights and even the moon, battles can be fought during the day or night; while accurate simulation of the atmosphere,...
This is a patch from 0.1a to 0.1b. It allows for windows and linux clients/servers to all interact happily. This should be downloaded and installed by everyone. Unzip it to /etqwdir/ as per the 0.1a install. Thanks to uv-hannes for compiling this for us!
Wheels of War Alpha 0.1b
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Changes:
This patch allows linux servers and clients.
Installation:
1) Unpack the windows 0.1a build to your Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars directory.
2) Unpack the 0.1b patch to the same directory. "game002.pk4" should now
exist in /etqwdir/wheelsofwar/.
3) Run etqw with the command line arguments:
+set com_usebinarydecls 2 +set fs_game wheelsofwar +set g_usecompiledscript 1 +set si_pure 1
Have Fun! Report bugs and errors on our forums at Wheelsofwar.co.uk
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This version is a very early alpha release. We expect that you will find bugs,
and you may feel that the gameplay is not up to the quality of which you
expected. Zombies, stunts, upgrades and more will be added in time.
We have decided to release this early as community involvement is high on our
list of priorities. We believe instead of having a long closed testing phase,
by releasing early and frequent releases we can take your comments and
critisism on board quickly and allow a higher quality game when we eventually
come to release the 1.0 version.
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free) and do things you never thought possible.
Message just in from the Carnage Council:
EVERYONE needs this patch, patch up.