Many newcomers of the mappingbusiness tried their best and achieved some remarkable results! The ESL is proud to present you the seven entries of their mapping competition.
Looking for a good reason to load up "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" once again? Well answer me this question!
When your surrounded by the fallen and there is no one left to recruit, just how do you replenish a decimated army on the brink of collapse?.. Well, for "Deathshead", the temporary answer is simple! You animate the dead to re-stock the once strong Axis Infantry! He has combined the forces of science and the super-natural as a quick fix remedy and feels this is the right, or should I say "Reich" answer to the infantry shortage problem!
His more permanent solution is just now coming online and is one that Allied "Agent Blazkowicz" will find even more disturbing than the first! "Cloned Troopers", under Axis mind control, have been generated at the "X-Labs" facility and who better to clone than our hero "Agent Blazkowicz", one of the Allies best commandos now sadly at the disposal of the "Axis of Evil". Bear witness to "Hell on Earth" as the fallen are "Re-Animated" once again and pressed back into Axis service! The "Officers" and "Black Guards" will make sure that our hero "Agent Blazkowicz", will have his own private "Hell" to deal with!... They seem to know his every thought!!!
Hey! Ever wonder what it would feel like to be "Hugh Hefner" and have 3 beautiful women "Follow" you around where ever you go? .. Well here's your chance! As an added mod bonus, I have altered the "Inge Sister's" or "Village Girls" scripting so that they will be enabled to "Follow" you about, if you so wish! Once they see you and play out their intended scripting roles in either level of "Village1" or "Village2", just shoot off a gunshot sound away from them and they will be triggered to "Follow" you around! Once they catch up to you, they will pause and stand idle again! You can either leave them behind or fire off another shot and they will continue to "Follow" you as you wish through the whole level if you want! You will notice that when you fire off a gunshot sound, I programmed them to give you a little finger to mouth "SHHHH" sign as if to be "Quiet!" I would recommend using either the "silencer pistol" or "silencer sten" ( found after meeting "Hilda" at the "Officers Inn" - Village1 ) to do most of your "Follow" activation as these weapons are nice and quiet and won't draw any unwanted attention once fired! The "Village Girls" now give the "Elite Guard-Honeys" a run for the money! ... So the next time you play "Return to Castle Wolfenstein", don't leave "Eva" behind stuck in her room to sulk, take her to a hotel... To visit "Inge" of course!!!
In Cooperation with Splash Damage, ID Software and File Planet have we some nice candies for you today. We have also 10 VIP-Keys for the public beta of ET:QW to give away. A special concession about these keys, they are valid for the whole public beta period and guarantee an official beta key. Well, the question you would ask might be: Where and how to get these much sought-after keys? Quite simple: You help us to fill our ET:QW forum with content. That will be screenshots, videos and most of all your first impressions, which you can deliver here. Professional criticism and suggestion for improvements can be made in the official Quakewars Community - Forum or at File Planet - Quakewars Feedback Forum. It would be fairly circuitous to hand them over to the developers. Of course we are open to a basic discussion in our forum.
For the 10 tickets there has to be at least a free FilePlanet account. With that you can exchange your tickets into public beta keys, which will open the QuakeWars World to you. Well, if there is interest in these Vip-Keys and if you are also willing to fill our forum up, you should post your ET-nickname, hardware specs (processor, GPU and RAM) and a valid E-mail-address here in this thread. You will find first impressions of quakewares and public beta ingame-screenshots here.
These PR campaign will be closed at Saturday (23.06.07) - 12.00 CET! All winners will be informed on SL-Mainside and get a E-mail then with VIP-Key and more instructions about File Planet Registration procedure. All SL staff members and partnersides are excluded from this contest. There is no right of appeal.
Good luck, your sl-Team!
UPDATE: Contest closed! The winners are in short intimated!
Our Partner Site PlanetQuakeWars.net has got 10 VIP keys for the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Puplic Beta to give away. To use this beta key you don't have to be in possession of a Fileplanet premium account. Besides this the VIP keys are valid during the complete beta period. On the top of everything you nearly don't have to do anything. Apply in this thread by PlanetQuakeWars.net with your system specifications and your email adress (could be spambot secured). With some luck you will participate in the open beta without any skirmish. We wish you to have success!
"The game once again pits you as American Army ranger BJ Blazkowicz against a whole passel of Nazis for some first-person shooter mayhem. This time around, major plot elements of sci-fi and occult black magic keep this game from reminding you of Call of Duty: World at War. When you take into account the science fiction and the mysticism, calling Wolfenstein a good WWII game is like calling the original Indiana Jones a great WWII movie."
"Blazkowicz is undercover on a Nazi ship when he slips on an admiral's jacket and finds a strange amulet in the pocket. In a moment of fear -- which wasn't shown tonight -- Blazkowicz wields the true power of the medallion; a power known as the Veil. Now, the Veil is another dimension that's existing on top of our own and can't be seen by the likes of you and me. When Blazkowicz activates the Veil -- the amulet is in the lower left corner of the screen and has a meter showing how much juice the dimensional wormhole has -- the screen turns to a creepy shade of blue, things start floating around, and little creatures can be seen by our hero. Of course, these effects aren't all purely eye candy; with the medallion activated, Blazkowicz can slow down time and scream around the stage waxing bad guys who are now brightly colored."
At long last, we are delighted to confirm the impending Enemy Territory:QUAKE Wars Public Beta. The ETQW Closed Beta has been going extremely well and yielding excellent results. We want to give more people the opportunity to give us feedback on the game so we’re going to open a Public Beta with 60,000 slots available. This way we’ll be able to test many more combinations of hardware, RAM, CPU, graphics card, drivers etc. than we’ve been able to ourselves, and also get a better idea of how the game plays for the general gaming public.
The Public Beta build will consist of a single map named "Sewer", which is part of ETQW’s Pacific Campaign. Set in Japan, the map revolves around a Strogg base hidden in, well, a sewer. It’s an interesting mix of outdoor and indoor, vehicle and infantry combat, deployables and counter-deployables and good old-fashioned FPS combat.
If you’d like to help us finish ETQW, we’d really appreciate your participation. If you want to just play a game for free you may find it a frustrating experience. This Public Beta is not the Demo - it’s not the finished game, but an opportunity to get feedback from a large group of people while testing stability and performance on a wider range of hardware combinations. The Public Beta will also collect some information on your hardware configuration, so you shouldn’t apply unless you’re comfortable with that.
When the Public Beta opens, participants will be sent their unique license code that is required for play. As we don’t have the infrastructure necessary to download tens of thousands of clients, we’ve asked FilePlanet to help us distribute these license codes along with the beta clients.
A fixed number of beta slots are being set aside for Fileplanet subscribers, so if you already have a FilePlanet subscription, you’re in the front of the queue. The rest of the slots will then go to those with free FilePlanet accounts. To be clear: You don’t have to pay anyone anything to participate in the ETQW Public Beta. It’s up to you if you want to pay FilePlanet for use of the improved download services they provide.
We will reveal more details on the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Public Beta, including the official start date, in the near future. Hope to see you all online very soon!
You should be able to download, according to what you have just readed, the ETQW Beta Client at FilePlanet, here:Download Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - Beta Client. However, I am subscribed at fileplanet with a paied account, and I cant download nothing .
With the latest amount of cups and storys written in ET's very own history it's time to get a new session up and to rumble the scene with a straight amount of events in our very own Enemy Territory's 1on1, 2on2, 3on3 and ofcourse 6on6 competition area. When you expected a hot summer with hot nights we will bring you even more of this with hot maps and the definitely best config settings on earth. Again, we offer a free amount of slots for our 6on6 and 3on3 Competition. We will devide a free amount of teams in each division to give each the chance to do their best based on results achived in the ESL and latest results in other competitions.
6on6 The king is dead - Atleast the former line up of the current VAE and former 141.et team who is still on the very top of our last series ranking with winning against n1ce.it, a new season can bring a new team up to the top. According to the choice of playable maps in the past, we have decided to take in the one and only dusty and spammy map in ET back into our pool. For everyone who thought karsiah is playable, we will prove you how playable the old Oasis is. With removing Frostbite and adding Bremen in the latest version, we hope to bring you up some hot games with much of fun playing the cup on your own.
::Sign Up Open: 22.06.2007 Start: 24.06.2007 Structure: 3 Stages Teams: Not Limited Divisions: Not Limited
Stage 1 Groupstage 6 Teams in each group 4 or 8 groups each division 1st advance to playoffs 2nd and 3rd in Qualifier
Stage 2 Qualifier 16 Teams Single Elimination Bracket 1 Match and the winner is qualified for the final playoffs
3on3 With multikulti winning against teh smileyz in the last season letting elite and sTREETFIGHTERS right in the back, a new season can bring a new chance for those who didn't get on the top yet. With a new chance of winning, we have also included bremen as a 3on3 map to keep the map pools as similar as possible.
::Start: 24.06.2007 Structure: 3 Stages Teams: Not Limited Divisions: Not Limited
Stage 1 Groupstage 6 Teams in each group 4 / 8 / 16 groups each division 1st advance to playoffs 2nd and 3rd in Qualifier
Stage 2 Qualifier 16 / 32 Teams Single Elimination Bracket 1 Match and the winner is qualified for the final playoffs
Not so major competitions 2on2 is the future! Right away nearly one year in the past we have started our international 2on2 ladder and bringing some teams up to have fun playing et together with their best friend. To keep this in mind for everyone, we'd like to present the one and only 2on2 cup. Best regards Aim is the one and only thing that matters - NOT. In a tactic shooter like ET even 1on1 players have fun finding tactics and playing a shooter to do their best on the most wanted deathmatch and objective maps.
Rules With a new season, a new config gets released - not really. We will stick playing with the European config set until we find new settings to shock the whole scene together with the et-cup crew and other organisations who are willing to cooperate. One major thing most of the people have to watch is the screenshot-rule. Within the ESL and in official matches, screenshots for GUIDs and Rounds have to be uploaded on the website. Not doing so can follow in penalty points. Also, with forcing autorecord, every player must have ineye demos if they are requested. Admins can request demos randomly as well as the opponent, who does not need any reason for requesting. During the first stage of each cup, there will be one match each week. The maps will be forced and the teams have to agree on a date right before the start of the matchweeek. The admins will force a date if noone agrees. If a team is unable to show up due to problems, they are allowed to use their wildcard before the starting time of the match.
Where is the god damn IPS? According to questions coming up each week, we are not allowed to give any details about a second edition of the ESL IPS for ET yet. Please stay tuned and stick praying for us getting atleast one major online tournament with prize money back up soon.
Coverage With GIGA2 and GamesTV.org we will bring you the hottest action of the most important matches live every week's Tuesday. In addition to this coverage you can feel free to request your very own ETTV on the GamesTV.org website. In addition, we will bring you the recent updates right here on Crossfire to keep everyone uptodate about the summer's one and only ET series.
Additional note for banned players The reason to ban by MBI / MBL entrys (with different other matches in the check) is easy preventing a banned player to keep on playing. To be save, we stick banning them for everyone with a suspicious entry. Still everyone can appeal his ban by submitting a support ticket: Support form After the 4 weeks, the ban can not be apealed anymore - the cheater rehabilitaion will be the only possible way to go afterwards, this will take 3-4 months.