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Since the idea of setting up a community server such as the one setup by Dave for TF2 last month.. I've been seriously contemplating the thought of perhaps trying out an idea of mine.

So, there's this FREE multiplayer game with classes much like TF2 but based on "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" (WW2) that was released a few years back in 2005. It boasts a built-in XP gaining mechanism that rewards players as they play (either by kills, completing objectives, support tasks) with neat perks which gets reset at the end of the campaign to be started anew. The game is very easy to learn and the class balance is excellent.

I think we should try it out and I'll spearhead this operation, at least at the beginning.

I've setup an easy to follow installation guide with all the files necessary to properly install and patch the game. I also took the liberty to upload it to Gamefront and it's ready to download.

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21512857/ET_zip

Obviously being a game that is several years old, this means a lot of posters with older gaming rigs should actually be able to join us during our friendly game nights.

Of course, the game nights will not occur on the same nights that the TF2 server will host its events andI think we can easily start with one weekly game night (which one is still to be determined as I need to perform tests and see how interested people can be).

For the short term, the server will also be hosted locally off my secondary rig and my broadband internet access should be able to allow 12-14 players to connect and play without any problems... if not more. If the idea proves popular, we may procure a game server for our needs.

So, how many of you would be interested in trying this out? Many of us will be n00bs to the game and I'm more than happy to assist you in your learning process.

I'll also require some help in setting up the server (making sure my firewall allows connections, testing it out... etc)

Nice to read :

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory/Ranking

A gameplay video (mind you it's from a very good player but you can see what it plays like... I also suggest lowering or even muting the music)

I think we can handle this. I know how big you are on the game. Just set up an Event and I'll approve it.

At first I thought you were trying to bring back Quake Wars, and I was ecstatic!

Now I'm only highly interested.

Oh I loved this game back in the day... so much fun, though I think we'll need plenty of people. 12-16 is definitely the sweet spot.

For the un-initiated, here's a breakdown of how the game plays. First, the classes.

Soldier: Your basic run and gun fighter. Can use heavy weapons (MG42, Flamethrower, Panzerfaust, Mortar) to fight off the enemy. MG42 is an accurate machine gun if you go prone and deploy it, Flamethrower is self explanatory, Mortar fires indirect explosives a long way but uses energy, Panzerfaust shots rockets that use energy. Leveling up gives you more ammo, faster recharge of energy, higher speed, and an additional MP40/Thompson.

Medic: Self explanatory. Medics can toss med kits out, revive dead players, and regen their own health. Leveling lets them do it much better and use adrenaline on themselves. Uses MP40/Thompson as primary weapon.

Covert-Ops: Spies with lots of tricks. Have unique weapons (Sten, FG42, Sniper Rifle), silencers, and can drop satchel bombs to blow up some stuff. They can also steal enemy uniforms, drop smoke grenades, and detect landmines with their binoculars. Sten is a silence SMG but can overheat, while the FG42 is a fast firing, inaccurate gun when fired from the hip, but is a decent rifle when the scope is used. Leveling up lets them backstab, have more ammo, aim better while sniping and use bombs/smoke more often.

Field OPs: Commanders of the battle. Can drop ammo for allies, drop smoke to trigger a powerful airstrike, or use their binoculars to call an inaccurate artillery strike. Uses MP40/Thompson. Leveling lets them use their abilities more effectively and detect disguised enemies.

Engineer: The most important class. Engineers can build stuff to complete the mission, blow up enemy constructions and walls with dynamite, defuse dynamite, and place and remove landmines. The can use ether an MP40/Thompson or a rifle that does better damage and can fire off rifle grenades. Leveling up gives you more grenades and rifle grenades, a flak jacket, and the ability to do their job better.

The general idea behind each level is that your ether attacking or defending a location. If your attacking, you need to complete objectives to advance your assualt (like repairing a bridge, escorting a tank, stealing gold) until you finally complete the job. If your defending, all you need to do is hold off the attackers for a set period of time.

Along the way on each map, you can capture spawn points and construct radio spawns to make the assault easier.You get XP for kills and using the tools of your job.

I think that's all you really need to know.

AshburnerX said:

Oh I loved this game back in the day... so much fun, though I think we'll need plenty of people. 12-16 is definitely the sweet spot.

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Thanks for the details. As far as people, ya, about a dozen will do. It's a good game, had a lot of fun with it back in the day... then WoW took over my life.

The game is free, old and easy to run on older rigs. It's also a lot of fun.

As far as the events go, it's a question of how many people would be interested in playing this... maybe for next Friday? Should give people ample time to download and setup the game and on my end, I'll test out the server settings. I will need at least 1 person to help me out. (aka connect to my server with me and test out the settings)

Oh god, ET is my crack cocaine.

Played this a bit my Gifmaster?

Jay said:

Played this a bit my Gifmaster?

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Had my own server running, [FOAD] clan website and everything. OH, the memories.

Same!

So, want to help me out and test this shit?

Oh gods. If I'm about, I'll pop and murder death kill you a couples (hundred) times.

The bunny hopping. Dear god, the bunny hopping.

Mein leapen!

Playing it now, most of the servers are heavily modded and ether full of suped up bots or no one. It's an entirely different game. I hope we play vanilla or only slightly modded.

AshburnerX said:

Playing it now, most of the servers are heavily modded and ether full of suped up bots or no one. It's an entirely different game. I hope we play vanilla or only slightly modded.

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Agreed.

Yep.

I guarantee you it shall be vanilla as fuck for a long long time. I'm not complicating anyone's life. Since the server won't be constantly up and only set to play solely for game nights there won't be bot support.

Anyways, I'd like to setup a testing session (see how the server runs, if my firewall allows outside connection, settings) sometime soon, possibly on Monday night. Is anyone available to help me test? Maybe we can have our first game session next Friday night around 8 PM Eastern (5 PM Pacific) or slightly later if needed.

I saw 1 person downloaded the package... WOOT. How did it work out for you?

I was the one who downloaded it. The only tricky bit is the Punkbuster stuff: You need to input the command line manually or the program gets wonky and won't let you advance. Otherwise it's fine.

Remind me the command line?

Jay said:

Remind me the command line?

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I'm sorry, the extraction folder location. You can't use the "browse" thing to find where to put it, you need to type it in or it can glitch up.

AshburnerX said:

I was the one who downloaded it. The only tricky bit is the Punkbuster stuff: You need to input the command line manually or the program gets wonky and won't let you advance. Otherwise it's fine.

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etkey.org. Download the installer, will do it all for you. I had a long post that had a walkthrough for peeps, but the internet apparently gobbled it up.

Holy crap, I remember this game. This is the game I hid in an obscure folder on the family computer and played whenever my hyper-conservative no-violence-in-games-allowed parents went out of the house. I LOVED this game.

Count me in. A thousand times yes.

Is anyone available tonight to help me test out the temp game server?

9PM ish Eastern?

Yep. PM me the details.

Will do when I get home. It shouldn't take too long.

You're on my Steam right? You got Vent?

Got Vent, may not have you on Steam. Look for Ingoodhands on Steam.

I got you on my Hal4Um group list.

I'll hit you later tonight. WITH MY MP40.

It is with complete and utter unsurprise that you're using a small gun to shoot at me.

Thanks Adammon for testing it out. Things went very well. Server is stable and we played a 1 on 1 campaign. I gotta kick off this rust!

How does Sunday look like for you people....?

Even those who never played this, trust me, it's a lot of fun and I promise a quick tutorial to help you learn or relearn.

We can also help troubleshoot anyone having problems. It's a pretty tried and true codebase.

I hear that we're doing this on Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!! I'm in. What time, yo?

Still up in the air, I don't want to make it too late or too early. Feedback of people who can attend will be appreciated.

How does 7 PM Eastern sound? (That's 4 Pacific, 5 Mountain and 6 Central I believe)

My goal is to get at the very least an hour of gaming with cool people from the forums and at least 8 players or so (though less is possible)

BTW, my goal was to steal Adammon's pants all night long. I was highly successful.

I did indeed end the night pantless

I've never played this before. To be honest...I'm not really interested. I think it's largely because I like the aesthetic of TF2 and the varied classes.

I'm on Vent, Jay.

THREESOME!

But maybe not for long.

This sounds kind of fun! Count me in!

I'll happily serve as the 'easy target'. Come and get me.

LittleKagsin said:

This sounds kind of fun! Count me in!

I'll happily serve as the 'easy target'. Come and get me.

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SOLD!

mr_thehun said:

so would my PING kill you guys?

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Dude, you're totally welcome to play with us. If your dictatorship allows you to play outside the country....

As long as it's that late, I SHOULD be able to make it.

Friday at 9 EST works for my schedule; hopefully the game will too. I'll mess with it this week.

EDIT: Woops, didn't see things were changing. Sunday's no good for me. I'll test it anyway so if another time comes up eventually, maybe I'll be in.

Schedule that bitch, Jay! Played a little tonight and it's seriously kickass!

Here's a great guide for your experience levels:

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory/Ranking

I endorse this event, and pray I can make it!

Adammon said:

Here's a great guide for your experience levels:

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory/Ranking

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We can also play on Friday night at 9 PM Eastern. We'll call it, try out time.

I do recommend folks to read up on this a bit as well.

This looks like a lot of fun... I will try my best to be there on Sunday. No promises though (I have two young kids with chicken pox so it's going to be a shit-tastic week).

I'm going to get annihilated.

It's all fun and games until Jay steals your pants.

I hate that I don't have a schedule that would allow me to participate on this.

Adammon said:

It's all fun and games until Jay steals your pants.

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I was a dedicated pants-stealer myself, back in the day. It truly is the most enjoyable class.

Speak for yourself. I find there's nothing better than jabbing a 6" needle into the chests of my teammates.

What's the point of jabbing something into someone if they have their pants on still?

Played around with the server.cfg.... should be able to have a full campaign now with all official maps.

2 more dodos before we play some Community ET. Let's be honest folks, you want to be there Friday night, nice and early! If you can't make it, we'll play again Sunday.

Jay said:

2 more dodos before we play some Community ET. Let's be honest folks, you want to be there Friday night, nice and early! If you can't make it, we'll play again Sunday.

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Any way to get some practice in before that, to know how the game works?

Install the game, check online servers that are available and see if you can find a game or two.

HOWEVER, not that a shitload of servers have AI bots and a ridiculous amount of mods on them that cause connectivity issues.

I could however setup the server to go online maybe... Thursday night for a few hours.

I will definitely be there Friday night. Sunday maybe not. I have a gig Saturday night that will run to almost 4 am.

Whoa whoa whoa, when did you come out of retirement

Server's up in case you want to try it out : 76.69.187.69

I'll leave it up a couple of hours.... see what happens....

Bumble the Boy Wonder said:

Whoa whoa whoa, when did you come out of retirement

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It's not a DJ gig, it's a paid gig for my improv comedy troupe. Think "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

I demand to see more of good ol' "Lemme Tell Ya" Dave

1 more dodo

Alright, server will be up as of 8 PM Eastern tonight to allow people to connect early. Let's have some fun!

I'll post my IP address when I get home.

We'll be using Ventrilo (check this sub-forum's sticky for details on how to connect)

For shits and giggles, post if you can make it or not, build some hyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyype.



Tonight, Adammon's pants are mine.... MIIIINE

Adam's off to Regina for a funeral, no Internet for I

I'll be there, and I've had no practice and never looked into how to play.

I expect to be mvp

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Ravenpoe said:

I'll be there, and I've had no practice and never looked into how to play.

I expect to be mvp

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Make sure to connect earlier on, to make sure your install goes fine.

I should be there as well.

I did edit your event, Jay. You had it starting in about 2 minutes instead of tonight.

The hell, I posted it at 9 PM Eastern.

Jay said:

Make sure to connect earlier on, to make sure your install goes fine.

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I won't be home from work until 8pm eastern.

Should be on.

....there will be cake

Yeah, it's Friday so I don't think I'll be seeing any guildies from SWTOR (especially since they bungled the 1.2 patch), so I should definitely be there.

.... I'll be working. *weeps openly*

Is the Punkbuster update required or can I just have installed it as-is and the game?

Quotemander Prime said:

Is the Punkbuster update required or can I just have installed it as-is and the game?

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Punkbuster tries to connect to specific servers to check and see if your game is valid. Unfortunately, those servers no longer exist, so it's needed.

We may be getting an ET server and that has the anti-cheat on it. Not Punkbuster, but anti-cheat.

I meant to take part in this, but this day has just been to full of suck.

Server is up : 76.69.184.61

Join Vent if you'd like to chat or need support.

I'll be on in about 15 minutes.

Good game guys!

We have 8 players on.

I'm sorry I had to bail. The wife and kids came home and I'm trying to make an effort to be with them and not online all the time.

Sorry I also had to bail; not for same reasons, but similar.

I'll try to understand more how things work for next time.

Dave said:

I'm sorry I had to bail. The wife and kids came home and I'm trying to make an effort to be with them and not online all the time.

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Man, just pop a headset on them and let them join the fight!

Haha. Haha. Haaaaaaaah.

Offtopic: That's why one of my "Dealbreakers" is not being part of the gaming world. I just couldn't sit playing games for 2-4hrs knowing my sig other was just sitting around doing somethingelse. Then again, I did it for 6-7yrs, and fought about it constantly so that's my motivation against it.

Don't forget folks, we got a game setup for tonight.

7 PM Eastern - 4 Pacific.

Let's have some fun.

Who's excited??!?!?

Alrighty, I'm pretty sure thats 5 PM my time, but, just got the go ahead from Nate that we will be home!

I hope lots of people can come play tonight, I would like it if you did.

May or may not have a conflict that just came up. Will know later.

I'm coming tonight! Sorry I didn't make the friday thing but I was busy wandering the Las Vegas strip in a drunken haze.

For those inclined. The server is now up.

76.69.184.61

Feel free to connect to vent to join the fun... and to ask for help of course.

I'll be on around 7ish.

I'll be on after dinner.

I guess in the meantime I'll be winning the war for the allies singlehandedly.

I'm horrible and am just downloading the game now - hopefully everything goes well. =^^= I'll probably hop on vent in a few.

We're in and waiting for more people to come join the fun!

You guys are all studs and champions for putting up with my horrible FPS skills. But thank you! I had fun and will hopefully get better in the future....

At least you got that one kill!

All right, fuckers!

You could take a bullet while wearing that thing, man

Awesome!

We were only 7 tonight but fun we had.

Next game... next Friday?

Most likely I'll be in on that one. Gives me a week to download and start doing some learning.

Shegokigo said:

Most likely I'll be in on that one. Gives me a week to download and start doing some learning.

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Basic FPS experience has served me well as far as learning the game so far. Now it's just figuring out the maps..

Man, for some reason I thought the game night was at 9pm eastern. I log in and everyone's gone!

Aww... was hoping that folks would be on when I got off work. Ah well... I will attempt to get my rig up and running, although I will definitely not be able to be in at the start... and I'll have to get in on it the week after next, as I'm working overnight next weekend.

Bumble the Boy Wonder, you will always have a special place in my heart as my first kill. And even more special since...you were my teammate.

So Kaggie, when are you available for Jay's Boot Camp?

Friday night? YESSS?

9pm eastern Friday? Because I don't get home until 8

Jay said:

So Kaggie, when are you available for Jay's Boot Camp?

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Ah, sorry, I forgot to answer you! I'm horrible. I'm not sure if I'll have anytime this week or weekend to go through Boot Camp. Maybe next week?

I hope everyone lets out a sigh of relief that I will not be there to gundown my own teammates. =^^=

I can bump it back an hour.

How does 9 PM Eastern sound?

Think we can have 10 people on at least?

Jay said:

I can bump it back an hour.

How does 9 PM Eastern sound?

Think we can have 10 people on at least?

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I'll be there, killin nazis

I should be able to be there... getting my ass kicked...

At least now I know how to join the game and not be a spectator (took me about 10 minutes to figure that out... go me).

9 PM TONIGHT!

Who'll be there?????

Just waiting ATM.

I'll try to be on; can't promise to stay long. Not feeling great, but it'd be nice to do something fun.

Chatting on Vent, waiting on peeps!

Ah well...

Dammit, I forgot!

2v2 wasn't enough; they doing Diablo III now.

I forget, because I don't get home until late, and decompressing from work makes me forget.

we not doing sunday this week?

No plans were done. I lost motivation when only 3 people showed up Friday. Sorry.

I can attempt to setup for next Friday.

oh ok, no problem...

Alright, game this Friday night!

Kindly post if you can make it!

Man, I wish you guys would do one of these not on a Friday or Sunday. The two days I'm most likely to not be anywhere near glued to a computer in my free time (unlike the other 120 hours a week).

I'm constantly unavailable on Saturday nights. What time do you suggest?

My days off just got changed to Thur/Fri, so it looks like I MIGHT be able to make one of these sessions!

Now, to get my desktop up and running...

Desktop up. Working on getting stuff downloaded.

Awesome.

Who'll be there tomorrow night?

I'll show up. Hopefully it's more full this time.

I'll be around probably post 9 pm central as I have to work tonight.

TONIGHT TONIGHT.... I take your pants... TONIGHT

Dave Bumble the Boy Wonder Frank Bones LittleKagsin Soliloquy
AshburnerX Adam GasBandit Quotemander Prime

Azurephoenix
Officer_Charon Ravenpoe Shegokigo mr_thehun

9 PM! Server should be upish around 8:30 PM. EASTERN

Newcomers are welcomed to join.

Edit your post so everyone knows that it's EASTERN TIME.

I will be there this time!

If I don't forget!

I'm helping my parents tonight, but I might be done by then. If I am, I'll definately join!

Run for your lives everyone!

Don't think I can make it tonight.

mr_thehun said:

Stupid Chinese reverse holidays.

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Ha, I read that as 'Stupid Cheese reverse holidays' and I was going to be all, "Hey, now, cheese is wonderful!". But, no, I get it now.

I have to put this new hard drive into my pc and reinstall windows/everything else and I don't have much motivation to do anything.

Frank said:

I have to put this new hard drive into my pc and reinstall windows/everything else and I don't have much motivation to do anything.

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Mass Effect ending still got you down?

You miss the part where his girlfriend cheated on him and used him for a free trip to Vegas Jay ?

... what?

That was a bit of drunken anger and it's not quite as bad as all that but I'm still pretty down in the shitter. Also I hate typing on this fucking netbook.

Damn Frank, sorry to hear.

Moar people!

Computers back up and running in full again. Downloading game for next time. Stupid hard drive.

Hey, are we playing again tonight? I have a friend coming over and so I may or may not be on to play. (Its the last week of school, finals start monday so we are kicking it hardcore). I guess I will tell him to bring his laptop just in case.

I was not able to log on yesterday, and next week is date night (Sorry, Jay, you're hot and all, but it's not gonna happen, mec.)

The week after, however, should be all gravy.

I never heard hide nor hair from anyone, I assumed we lost interest....

Same. Last I heard, Jay was going to try a new night, but he may be dropping this since Diablo 3 is out in a little over a week.

Oh Hell... forgot about that...

Diablo 3 has very little to do with anything.

You guys decide which game night is more suitable for you, we'll see if it'll pan out or not.