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Screaming Lunatic writes "Woohoo, Return to Castle Wolfenstein has finally shipped. Check this story out at Yahoo. You should be able to buy it at the regular gaming shops. I highly recommend buying it rather than hacking it, as noted in Graeme Devines .plan file." CD: I am seriously flashing back to the Apple II game with a similar name, hope this doesn't suck like daikatana.
Man, I'm surprised how long this took to hit /.
Well, I've been playing the demo for two weeks and IT ABSOFRIKKENLUTELY ROCKS.
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
yeah, right, not one single hack. fools.
It must be really hard producing a sequel of such a classic game after such a long period. They will be judged against people's rose tinted rememberances of the original Wolfenstein 3D. And no matter how good it is, people will say 'Ahhh I enjoyed the original more.'
It's also hard, because the FPS genre is not new anymore. Can RTCW be a better game than Deus Ex or Counterstike? Maybe. But whatever it is it will be hard for it to be revolutionary.
That said, I'm sure I'll buy it as soon as it hits the shops. Just as soon as I finish Civ 3 that is!
*r
--- My dad's political betting
I think most /.ers will agree that the multiplayer test map was very promising. I heard complaints about the "mod-ness" of the game play but really feel that the graphics are well put together. And from what I understand, the single player action is even more promising. Cross-site link me to the Geek Wish list. This is definitely on it.
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
I didn't know the Apple ][e game was in colour! I only played it in monochrome green.
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It's bloody expensive! $54.99 at cheapest for the card-board box $64.99 for the tin. Most places are more though! Sorry, $50 is my limit for games. I'm yet to buy rogue spear because it's still $40 and that is just to much for a game nearly 2 years old!
I have played the test though and when the price gets lower...I'm all there!!! It is just awesome! The flame effects are unbelievable! Not to mention...linux compatibility! I just wish they had done like Neverwinter Nights is going to do and do a simultaneous release with the binaries all in one box. Oh well. It plays, that all I care about!
Derek Greene
How crap will it run on a 600Mhz Athlon and a Matrox G400?
I played the old dos game a long time ago. That rocked. I can just imagine it now...
Release date must be set for the end of eternity!
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
For those of you who are wondering the minimal requirements, it works fine here on both my Tiger K7 and my trusty old BP6 with 366Mhz celeron and geforce2MX 400, I can play at 1024x768 with compressed textures, high details, but I've putted the display to 16bits (anyways, it's not like you'd notice a big difference from 16 to 32 in a fast-paced game). It's smooth, it rocks...
:) but for single player and 10-20 people it works okay... worse case scenario, you reduce the resolution from a notch.
:)
Of course if you're planning on joining a 40 people server you might want a bigger cpu than a Celeron 366mhz
As for the graphics, it's about like Q3A (same engine) but there are a lot of visible changes, one that you will notice right away is the details on the characters, and also all the motion, probably John will step in and talk about some of the aspects of the design, it looks like motion capture applied to the characters. The graphics aren't a big step up like from quake 1 to quake 3, but the overall mood and gameplay is really good. When I first played the demo, I thought that game would really suck because of the respawn time and the choice of weapons, but when you get to know it and get a well-balanced team that knows how to play, the level, and use special habilities like medic, or engineers defusing,etc.. it's really starting to get addictive. So to anyone who didn't like the test, do like I did, play it a bit more, and if you like the quake style and the RTS style, wolf is a good balance of both.
The single player is good, when I read the interviews, I was expecting a "max payne"-like story line in between each level, it's not as good, but the mood is really there and the levels are really nice. Like I said, it's not a Revolution, but it's an evolution. It's worth to buy if you're into that kind of games.
Hope this is useful to anyone out there
Remember folks
So it isn't worth rushing out to buy and install it. Before you're half way through, the first patch will be released and your savegames will be rendered useless.
Wait for the inevitable 1.1
Hmmm... I think the base ignorance here is self evident... move on people... nothing to see here.
I remember playing Return to Wolfenstein on the Atari. Kickin game... 80x40 resolution, more in depth, and harder without being impossible.
Inconceivable!
ok, so the demo ran fine under wine(x)... anyone know if the full version does?
Saw it on some of the darker corners of usenet today - incomplete of course.
:(
Sigh...wonder if the final release will lock up my machine like the tests
Really? Care to share with everyone else where you found this "demo" that you've been playing for two weeks? I'm especially interested since no demo has even been released yet.
You people disgust me!
We all try very hard. Thanks for noticing.
And thanks for the chuckle.
Steve M
If you'll play Civ3 with it's Kenny G style music, you'll do fine with Wolfenstein 3D and ID software's GREAT music history. (NIN? Rob Zombie? I LOVE ID)
The full game was released on a Malaysian server 3 weeks ago. Other pirate sites have been lecching it since then and distributing it to the public.
Saw a copy of this at Electronics Boutique last night.
-> Capt Cosmic <-
Happy Reading.
Let's all go there.
I hear the whether is nice this time of yeer.
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
I can't wait to play. The flame thrower is a wicked weapon, but Kingpin did it first to my knowledge.
Kingpin is easy to describe: Imagine Q2, heavily modified to be more visual than Q3, more violent and "realistic" than any game I can think of off the top of my head.
RTCW looks about the same as Kingpin, in some respects, but takes it one step further.
Can I hear a "Mein Leibin!" (I think that is how it's spelled).
Is it too late to recommend this for the "Geek Gifts" catagory...I want it!
If it is not on fire, it is a software problem.
well, this is certainly a cool game and i'm glad to see it finally hit shelves but if you would like to see some bleeding edge rendering techniques in the field of real-time graphics then go check out the ATI launch demos. these demos were just posted today (a few hours ago i think). you will need a Radeon8500 to run the demos. personally i find the nature demo to be the most interesting, the water looks comparable to what you might see in a pre-rendered sequence. also, the skin in the rachel demo (rendering nice looking skin is a classic computer graphics problem) looks pretty close to what you might see in the final fantasy film... except at real-time frame rates. of course my opinion is more than a bit biased. :)
Was there not a Linux demo of this before? I seem to remember playing it... Did id drop it?
Hmmm. I just saw this at my local BestBuy today. And here I thought I simply missed the release announcement on Slashdot . . .
.). However, suppose the keygen has produced a key that has been posted on the Internet and shared. I doubt that id would just say, "Oh, that's yours? Well, we'll just take it off of the list of banned keys." Hopefully, the customer could fax a copy of a receipt or something and get a new key mailed if this was to happen.
Regarding the CD key banning, there's something I'd like to point out: what happens if you buy a copy of RtCW and the CD key that you get has already been blacklisted? Say someone uses a keygen. Keygens come up with apparently valid keys which can be used to install software/etc. However, the same CD key could very well also be sitting in a box on a store shelf somewhere. This happened to a friend of mine with Diablo II (although they do not blacklist keys; he just couldn't log on because of it), and Blizzard killed the other guy's account (seems justified . .
On a side note, I'm surprised at the note that Graeme Devine had something to do with this. Last I heard of him was in the interview at the end of the 11th Hour strategy guide. Good luck Mr. Devine, wherever you are.
I found a link to a pretty good review of RtCW while scanning Fark today.
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:-) It is really not breaking new ground with different player classes and objectives but I think it is the first big name game (read: going to get a boatload of press) that incorporates objectives into the shoot and slash multiplayer scene.
http://www.newsgeek.net/article.php?sid=964&mode=
If the Multiplayer is as cool as this guy thinks it is I could be digging myself out of my two year deep Counter-Strike rut.
I didn't do the multiplayer test. Does anyone else have any input on how cool/lame it is?
(/local/home/curiosity)-#who -u|grep thecat|cut -c 44-49|xargs kill -9
The Game rocks!!!! I bought it yesterday. The single player is better than average(good story, graphics and gameplay) but the multiplayer is the best out there. Combining the best parts of Team Fortress Classic(characterization and strategy) with Plot and Objectives. Plus smooth play, cool weapons and Huge maps!!!!!!!! Definatly worth the more than average new game price in my opinion.
"as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee" - Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. (One man's humorous is another mans flamebait)
Although, the characters are supposed to be much more detailed in the full version, especially in single-player mode--I'm assuming that they may leave character models less complex for multiplayer mode for better performance, although I can't confirm this yet.
But overall, it looks like it'll perform pretty well. And there's always the details settings to adjust for slower systems. I know one game that'll really spank all current systems will be Doom 3. :P
Does anyone else here @ /. get all misty-eyed when remembering best of the first FPS', Wolfenstein, Doom, Heretic, ROTT, Descent... oh the number of hours wasted at college, at home, at work.. er.
/.ers out there rewriting some of those classics with the same gameplay, but all the newest features.
With the newest set of games showing up, with T&L and 100's of voices and polygons coming out the wazoo, does anyone but me still fire up Descent or ROTT just to get some serious thrills and log absolutely mindless, continuous fragging time...?
Are there any
I don't need my Descent missions to be more complex, I just want them to have 21st century graphics!
Really? The first demo or the second demo dont really exist then?
Oh buzz off. Give it a year and few will even remember about the act but historians. Get on with life already. There have been acts committed in the past, and there will be in the future. Some by people outside the US, some by those inside the US. Heck, the US might 'accidentally' bomb another Chinese embassy -- but I'm sure you got over that one in a big hurry.
Rod Taylor
He probably meanst the test1 and test2 single map "demo". Huge download.
The map is something like a recreation of the beach landing from the movie Saving Private Ryan.
Boats arrive on beach, Nazi MG42's mow the soldiers down. Rinse, repeat.
Uhm, hold on a sec, perhaps it was before your day but Wolfenstein 3D was NOT the original! The original was "Castle Wolfenstein" for the Apple (not Macintosh here, we're talking Apple II IIc kind of Apple).
Check the link from the front page to see what the real Castle Wolfenstein looked like.
Man, I loved that game... :)
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
I care about two shits about the hearts and minds of a bunch of spear-chucking desert monkeys...
Bring on the Nazi killing, and on with the castration of retards telling me how much I need a video game after one of thousands of 'terrorists' attacks in recorded history...
I give two shits, really, I do...
of course, those of us who don't run windows pc's appear to be SOL. grrrr.
/me goes back to q3a.
Karma only matters to me now and zen.
The nazis were inhuman monsters. It's OK to mow them down.
Germany can never make reparations for what they did. Hell VW and Porsche are where they are today because of slave labor by the Jewish people that had the reward of incineration when they were no longer useful.
The Enola Gay should have flown over Germany instead of Japan.
I am not kidding.
While somone else guessing a valid key can happen, it's not likely to happen.
From my understanding/recollection the keys are generated in a huge batch, then only a small fractions of the tens of millions of possible keys are randomly selected. So a key must meet a mathematical formula to be valid gamewise (probably similar to credit card numbers and barcodes having check digits) and to play online you need a valid key for the game AND it must exsist in an authorization server.
What has happened are production snafus where the valid cd keys did not work when you tried to install the product. This happened with a small amount of the keys in the Team Arena portion of Q3A gold which bundeled Auake 3 Arena with Team Arena in a single box. The solution was first to email your key to Activision and then they setup an automated form.
On a side note I wonder if this message could get me arrested in the states because it breaches the DMCA?
Classic. Now real world historical events happened "in Saving Private Ryan".
Neither of the Demos would run on my box with out crashing, and i paged through the READMe looking for a workaround but was unsucessful
First thing, if they were alive they would be having a grandole' time playing wolfenstien, and watching Cowboy Bebop. Whats the point in living life if you dont enjoy it. A close friend of mine died Friday in a car accident, and im trying my hardest to get back to living normal. This includes shooting up americans running up a beach, and i enjoy it.
Ok lets say i do stop doing anything fun because of all the people who died. Then terroists won!!!!!!! That means ive given in to what they want, they want us to be miserable. That is what they are tryin to do to us. I am not squandering my time, im living life the way God wanted me too, I am enjoying it. You can have fun sitting and watching the CNN waiting for them to have a new video of Bin Laden, but im going to have fun.
Oh and by they way we arnt in a war against Islam, someone hasnt wathced CNN close enough. Only morons think that, we are at war with terrorists. Islamic people did not do this, terrorists did. I know plenty of Islams and they would take effence from what you said, and i do. Islam is a great religion, that does not support violence, get your facts straight you racist pig.
This is going to be SUCH AN AWESOME GAME! I'm going to run to the store first thing tomorrow morning (if they're actually open on Thanksgiving) and buy it. Awesome.
Oh well.
I actually picked it up yesterday right before class.
The guy at Software Etc was still unpacking the boxes.
I'll confess, I never bought a single PC game in my life. And after playing the tests, I was already sold. (I remember playing Wolf3D, becoming unbelievably sick not more than 10 minutes.)
I had a shoddy G400 Marvel (for games? yeah right.) I went out and bought an MX400 card just for Wolf. (But I wish I had some kind of GF3... 'cause the game is simply stunning.)
So the game itself. The single player and multi-player are literally two different games. If you've played the test, and though mp_beach was huge... yeah right. I think that's the smallest map in the game.
I'm finishing up mission 2 for the single player mode. I don't know what to compare it against since I haven't played the likes of Half-Life or any other story based FPS.
I think it's too awesome though.
Sorry for being vague... but those who have played other FPS and RtCW... could you enlighten me if this 1 player story mode is ground breaking?
Seems like it to me. (Oh, I have played GoldenEye and Perfect Dark on console... but I can't compare it... since the control on the computer is so much easier.)
How dare you, how dare you (words escape me) you monster.
I have a lot of jewish friends, even family. I for one do not see anything wrong with demonizing a demon. It is what it is.
Hitler killed 300,000,000 people in interment camps. 1 person makes it a murder, 6 people a slaying, 20 people a serial killer.. Let me tell you, once you've killed anyone, your soul is shit, you're going to burn in hell, you are a demon.
What? do you think we should have a game that simulates b-17 food drops over afghanistan? To show our children that we should be KIND and be GENTLE because there are collateral causualties? I watched 7000+ people lose their lives in front of me on TV and let me tell you, IT HURT. If this was 1942 it would be bugs bunny cartoon instead of a video game, portraying hitler as a doofus.
So I suppose because south park had a episode WITH BIN LADEN and south park is a CARTOON they are DEHUMANIZING bin ladin. Well great, even if we have to hunt him down for the next 30 years MY KIDS are gonna grow up thinking bin ladens life is as insignifigant as an insect. And I like that, I want my kids to have no apprehension if they were ever put in a position to kill him. I would praise my child for pulling the trigger on the gun that kills him, I really would.
In closing, I would like to say one more thing, encourage your children to play FPS games, because in the future wars will be fought remote, FPS is a good simulator of that.
Graeme was hired by id software a while ago, over a year at least, maybe longer.
It got plenty of "QA". Did you not notice the 2 seperate tests? This took care of a significant portion of the bugs. And the in the first demo release I never encountered a bug.
The first was Castle Wolfenstein, a great old game originally for the Apple computer (as in II, II+, IIc kind of thing, not Mac).
For those looking to re-live the past, a copy is available here.
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
and as far as realism who wants that in a game?
however, i still like CS better. The weapons kind of suck and are inaccurate compared to CS.
I can't be the only one here who uses cracks of my favourite games (that I've already bought) just to avoid having to swap CDs all the time. In fact I have a laptop without CD drive and this is the only way I can run games on it.
The CD-key is similarly annoying. I can see the point if they are going to check for online gaming, but why do they insist on needing it for single player games? (I rarely game online at all) Even for online gaming, they can only block 2 people trying to connect to the same gameserver with the same key - they could do this just by storing a serial number that the game uses on each CD, avoiding the silly mistake-prone key typing.
I can't understand why they keep using these methods of "copy protection", when they obviously don't work and the games sell huge amounts (the good ones anyway).
(BTW, I'm sure the game is great, I can't wait to relive the glory days of SS impersonating and grenade throwing I used to have in school.)
LOL. Yeah, some of us would say that it's a recreation of so-called "Normandy Beach", but whatever suits your fancy, I guess.
The first real first-person-shooter game (sort of), would rightly be Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss. I think it would be the game that started the FPS revolution, except that Wolfenstein 3D and later, DOOM, brought the revolution into full gear.
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
Noticed this in comments from several people who've bought the game..
The whole point of this game is the fighting and shooting.. especially in the single player scenarios. For some reason, the enemies don't even flinch or jerk when you shoot them.. and apparently this ruins the fighting experience.
Either way, from all the things I've heard, I'm put off buying it now, and $50 is too much. Perhaps I'll wait for GTA3.
mogorific carpentry experiments
heh, not a Mac audience here I know, but just curious (as I am a Mac/Linux zealot). This was my first 3D game I played ever (hmm, not counting a wireframe flight sim that ran on $30K workstations back in the late 80s :)).
Regards, and have a happy thanksgiving !
Winton
I'm always amazed at how well this works. Every time you post this, you get half a dozen bites. I struggle to come up with material that gets 2 or 3 responses, but anyone can just repost this and rake it in. To whoever came up with this: I salute your genius. I hope that one day I will have skillz like yours.
As the guy above pointed out, there will be a Linux client download available. So you're not really SOL. But I put a provocative subject line on my post anyway to get people to consider this.
You see, I'm glad that there appears to be one primary platform for computer games. I don't cae that it's Windows. It could just as well be Linux or Mac or whatever for all I care. But I do care that most new computer games are developed for one given OS.
You see, unlike the console world I don't have to have 3 or 4 different expensive bulky boxes in order to be able to play all the cool new releases. I just have to have one expensive bulky box. And I don't have to boot to 3 or 4 different OSes either--I just run Windows when I want to play a game.
Now, sure, I wish all games came out for every OS. Who wouldn't want to be able to just use whatever he likes, be it a Windows or Linux PC, or a Mac running either OS X or OS 9, and run any game he wants? But that will simply never, ever, ever happen, because there is no money in eating into your thin profit margins to make ports to every OS and architecture in existence. Instead, most developers pick the most popular OS--the one with the most users, that is--and code for that.
The result is a unity in the PC gaming world that will probably never come to the console world. I'd like to be able to just buy one next-gen console, and play all the console games on it. I wish I could buy either a PS2 or Gamecube or even an Xbox and use it to play Luigi's Mansion, Munch's Oddysee, Soul Reaver 2, DOA3, and all the other cool console games that are coming out. But I just can't and that's that.
Comparing it to the PC gaming scene, I'm glad I wouldn't similarly have to have Linux, Windows, and a Mac just to play most of the cool new games. Instead, just having a good PC running Windows means I can run almost every cool new PC game I could want. Rare is the really cool game that's Mac or Linux only. Almost all come out for Windows, and almost always first.
Would it be nice if the primary PC gaming platform were Free Software? Of course. But it isn't and I'm fine with that as long as I don't have to boot between many OSes or worse yet keep several different boxes to play different games. Windows 98SE can play almost every game ever written for the PC from the DOS days of the early 80s to the present, and of that I'm glad because I can and do play many of them, old and new. I'm glad that, as outdated and technologically weak Win9x is, it has kept almost-perfect game compatibility. It's like if Nintendo offered a machine which played all games from every console and region from the NES on through the Gamecube. AS a man who likes his games, I think it's perfect for what it is in that respect.
Now of course soon games will start to be targeted for a newer platform. I wish it were Linux or something else free and Free, but it will be WinXP and again I am fine with that as long as it maintains the sort of unity of platform we enjoy in the PC gaming world. Again, we are lucky that it isn't how it is in the console world, where there are several major platforms with exclusive games, which completely change every few years and with the exception of the PS2 completely break all chance for backwards compatability.
Complain all you want, but we have it easy. I'd never complain about having a near-universal gaming platform with nearly universal backwards compatibility. Neither Nintendo nor Sony are any better than Microsoft either when it comes to corporate behavior, so I count myself lucky and look at the good in this PC gaming platform.
Chasing Amy
(We all chase Amy...)
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws"-Tacitus
From the link about CDkeys:
So, I don't have a CDKey and download a CDKey generator to get one, and it is actually a virus attack to steal my good cdkey? Does this seem like a stupid statement to anybody else, or if it is true, don't the CDKey authors seem stupid? Who would write CDKey generators to steal CDKeys, when most of the people who try to use them want them because they don't want a CDKey? Am I missing something?
-N
Oh waaa waaa waaa!
Have you all gone soft? No no we can't do this now. No no shouldn't do that now. I would've done it before, but not now.
Sure the WTC attacks were terrible, but hey, life goes on. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get back to living your life.
It's very simple. Because John Romero wasn't involved. As soon as JR gets involved, the suckiness levels get set to #define MAX_SUCKINESS 65535
So, unless the suckiness variable was set to anything lower than MAX_SUCKINESS, only the involvement of JR can set it to MAX_SUCKINESS.
Uh, would you consider Marathon sorta ported to Unreal?
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Apparently most of you haven't tried DOD for Half-Life...
If you had, you'd see that the company contracted on to create the multiplayer (practically as an afterthough) pretty much took all the cash they could muster and spent it on copying and improving DOD as much as possible.
At this point, as far as I can see, DOD still has better gameplay as Wolf does.
DOD is at the maturity level CS was at around beta 6. And though it has less players, it's arguably more original and fun than CS. Most people who try it get addicted very quickly, as long as they're burnt out by CS. If you're still a newbie to CS and haven't clocked two years of it, maybe DOD won't turn you on as much.
OS X only demo was out a little while ago, Mac final version *very* soon, like a month or two. :)
Sure beats waiting the 3 years in took to get AvP!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Keygens come up with apparently valid keys which can be used to install software/etc.
What's this keygen magic you're talking about? Castle Wolfenstein's key system would have to be cracked first. Yeah, you think that because the cracktool is "close enough" it might "just work"? Granted, you don't need the exactly right screwdriver to drive a screw, but software doesn't work like that. Computer security isn't a fuzzy science, as you seem to think.
I welcome the final version with open arms. After countless hours of eye watering playing of the same map over and over again in the Wolftest I feverishly await the full version. :)
Start of game. Engineer. Detonate the walls. Change over to a lieutenant and wipe out the snipers. Followed by playing the medic to wrack up even more points. Alla end up with the most points at the end of the map. That is so very old now that I am sure most of you that have played the WolfTests often are knodding your heads.
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Umm... the chances of a keygen working online, after being generated by one of the few pirates who would try it online, is, ah, nearly astronomical?
In the even such an unlikely thing occured the person would probably take the game back. One or two lost customers is a good tradeoff for not having a robust support system in place for used keys...
This would be at least one of several classic scenes for a movie someday. The grandma teaching kids how to play doom. or is the local champion, or something. classic
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
If you care about the future of Linux gaming, please, please wait and buy it from Tux Games. If you buy it from your local Best Buy or whatever, if just looks like another Windows sale, but if you buy from Tux Games they will see that it was sold from a Linux games retailer.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
I won't comment on the rest of your post, but this much had to be said about your statement that "Hitler killed 300,000,000 people in interment camps"
Three hundred MILLION people? You're claiming that Hitler killed 1/8th of the Earth's entire population during WWII in death camps?
Kind of hard to believe. Let's not play revisionist history here...
300 million?!?
Us and European military losses were approximately 7.7 million.
Civilian casualties were approximately 19 million, 6.7 million Jews, or roughly 64% of the Jewish population.
I cant even imagine 27 million people, all together.... what a waste.
I give this game 5 stars for my ass pucker when I am ducking around a corner from the enemy. The single player advernture is awsome! The 70 I paid ( out of the standard ) was well worth it! I have not been able to pull myself away for 2 days now! There goes turkey day!!
Have fun all.
sunadmin@fuse.net
Things that are good:
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Now, for the comparison: Halflife versus Return To Castle Wolfenstein. What if RTCW came out the same day as Half-Life? I would be VERY impressed with the image quality in RTCW over Half Life and the high res textures would be amazing. However, I would still choose Half Life as a better single player game, because the variety of monsters is what made that game so amazing. RTCW seems to have some surprises in store for me, but nothing too exciting yet.
As of the first four missions (each containing four levels) of the game, I would rate this game 7/10. It's a good FPS, but it borrows more ideas from the genre than it gives back to it.
Not to be a smartass or anything but people who worship Islam are called Muslims and not Islams.
Anyone still playing ROTT out there? Can it be played online?
Why the hell isn't there a planetROTT.com or something like that?!?!
Ludicrous gibs is the prase you are looking for
Come on people - ludicrous gibs! How cool is that! Name me one other game with such finely balanced and eloquent textual description - not to mention the baseball bat and dog mode
I can't believe I did not recall Flamethrowers in Blood 1/2...yet remember "It burns, It burns!" from B2...
Sheesh, selective memory strikes again.
Oh, and on a funny note, I've gotta say that all this talk of flame throwers is getting me hot.
Or maybe this thread needs a special +1 flamebait?
(insert rimshot)
If it is not on fire, it is a software problem.
The terrain used in Private Ryan is not the same as Normandy beach.
RTCW Test1,2 had terrain similar to the movie, not the beach.
So does it run on Linux?
Spare me... most key gens are legit and work... given the very wide range of possible keys, and the rather limited (in scope and context to the above statement), very few people ever find their client locked out because of a duplicate key. There are already several ISO and haxored copies out there and available as I type this (hehe, just got off IRC).
Typical scare tactics. About the only copy protection scheme that I have even seen work for a short while and as intended is FADE, and it is now quite broken.
Oh yeah, text hanging in your view. That makes it so much more lifelike!
The only reason that argument even begins to make sense when the Anime nuts use it is because they dub OVER the original voices with no-name voice actors. Here, the English was the original.
This is really a lot more realistic. BJ (the main character) can speak German, so this is what it would feel like to be him, hearing the guards talk and understanding them.
Hogwash! I used to run Q3A on a Celery 300A with a GF2MX plenty fast! The MX really shines on slower processors.
(cut and paste from my site)
Well I just got the game and let me say I am impressed. The graphics in the game are phenomenal - similar to the multiplayer test but with a lot more details. There are cobwebs on archways, skeletons bones littering the floors, and characters even blink when giving a speech talking. The nice thing is that game has little details that didn't have to be added, but were. The so far plot is interesting and easy to get into.
Gameplay is balanced and fun. It feels like a cross between Halflife and the Wolfenstein levels from Doom. I just started and have already observed a few interesting features.
I fought my way into a room with a wooden floor. Some of the floorboards were missing and you could see under you. Unfortunately, the nazis could also see up. They let loose and opened fire as wooden chips started flying. When they shot the right place, part of the floorboards just shattered! It seems like a small touch, but it was very impressive to look at. In my opinion its the small things that can help make the videogame.
So far, from my first impression the game gets an A+. A more detailed review will be given in about a week when I have played the game further.
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Sounds good to me.
AFAIK, it's impossible to generate a real key that works online. Your key is verified at id's master server when you try to join a server. You may generate a valid key (56bit des) when you play single player, but it's not gonna fly online. Do some research on Quake3 being 'cracked' if you want proof. Q3 online was uncrackable, as is RTCW.
"Castle Wolfenstein's key system would have to be cracked first."
Guess what it has. You just can't use it online.
So fucking what ?
It doesn't matter how many people Hitler managed to annihilate.
What truly matters here is how much Jews and other "victims" can get out of various institutions for their "martyrdom" (yes, even IBM is not immune from their greedy little hands) and huge numbers of supposedly dead people are helpful in cases like that.
Why does nobody object to iD maintaining an internet database of activation keys, but all get up in arms with Microsoft does it?
I know plenty of Islams and they would take effence from what you said, and i do.
I know plenty of Muslims and they would take offense at you calling them "Islams."
And besides, you spelled offense wrong... and "I," and that's just in one sentence. Amazing!
-Toad
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- It ain't easy, being green.
Tram Design released his Generator map for the full version today! Get it at tuxbox.by-a.com or at tramdesign.cjb.net. Also tuxbox has the binaries for linux if you need those to play the test. The new map does NOT work with the test.
From my experiences with the multiplayer test, I observed you inflict more damage whenever your target has his back to you. Even if you aren't taking care to be quiet, if you run up behind someone with a knife you can cut them down in one or two shots from full health. Compare that to half a dozen or so required if you strike them from the front. My most often used multiplayer tricks, therefore, are to (1) hide around a corner and wait for enemies to run past you, exposing their back, and (2) never flee with your back to the enemy.
"Or if you're really impatient, buy it now and bring the receipt back later within a few days."
Wouldn't work. Most stores will not give you your money back on opened software. Exchange usually.
I too have been playing the demo and love it!
BUT - hehe, the local software etc here is raping people for it, 59.99. Get a clue SE this is why(among other reasons) you dont sell much pc software anymore. Suggested retail is only 49.99! If developers would charge $15-20 for games they would not need to protect them as more people would buy them...
I picked up Cstrike for $15 even though I can download everything I need for it. I would gladly pay that amount but I will not pay $50+ for any game PC or console. I dont care what it costs to develop! Sell it in a DVD case, I dont need the big box, put the manual on the cd whatever but price it reasonably...
Warning to geeks. YOU could be like that little old lady when you get older. Nothing worse than a has-been trying to recapture their youth.
I'm really surprised to read Graeme say "no known cd-key generators for Q3A exist" while I personally have used at least one, successfully. Please dont flame me to death for pirating Q3A, I've tried it for a couple of days and then went back to good ol' TF2.8 - much more fun for me in coop multiclass than just fragging around :)
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I had some trouble getting an Apple IIe emulator working in Linux, but I finally got to play Castle Wolfenstein using YAE. You can download it from:
/ rom_images/apple_iie_rom.zip
/ apple_2_for_windows/apl2em/apl2em.zip
http://quark.netfront.net:6502/
You'll need APPLE2E.ROM and DISK.ROM:
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/emulators
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/emulators
But to unzip that second file, you need an old version of info-zip (since the new ones don't support 'shrink'):
ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/OLD/src
The game seems pretty tough. I've figured out some of the keys; does anyone have a full listing?
Remember to rename the exe file to 'quake.exe' to squeeze out a better frame rate!
--jeff
ipv6 is my vpn
Disregarding the individual stages or parts to each mission, is there a full count of all the missions? I'm on 4 now, and I'm hoping it goes much, much higher... :)
So far so good, the only downside is that I got shafted by Electronics Boutique on the price, but when you're individual demand is high, and price is inelastic, well, you're willing to pay $59.99.
At any rate, at least the game runs without the need for a no-CD crack. All this business of CD keys seems rediculous to me. Companies are trying to protect themselves from rampant piracy. How many times do you install the game that typing a CD key is so incredibly painful? I mean, you did buy the game right?
On a more personal note, I'm enjoying RTCW so far. The view bob is making me a bit sick (which is unusual) but that usually means I'm really into the game. It also means I lose track of time and play until 2 AM when I have work the next day. But the animation is very nice, and the graphics are visually appealing (although not "revolutionary"). But best of all I get to kill hordes of evil Nazis. It really doesn't get better than that, and it never gets old either.
I'm looking forward to Medal Of Honor as well.
And for any Gray Matter employees reading this: Great work! I hope to see some new multiplayer map packs soon!
me too.
well, if RTCW uses the exact same "never hacked" authentication system Quake3 had, they're boned :)
I've had and seen several cracked versions allowing me to play on any multiplayer game without caring about the cdkey at all (dont ask how).
Anyway, the game has been released and is available on your favorite w4r3z b04rd. I, for one, will go straight to the store and buy it, it's really worth it and I'm pretty sure it'll be the next killer game.
More soon.
FIn
## W.Finlay McWalter ## http://www.mcwalter.org ##
Most stores (namely CompUSA and Best Buy) will refund your money for the price difference between the initial price and the advertised one within 30 days of purchase. Or at least they used to till about last summer (the last time I made a purchase before an ad came out for a piece of hardware). I'm not talking about returning the game, but getting a refund for the advertised price. Considering the usual Christmas season, this can amount to hundreds of dollars if you purchase a few games ($60 is the retail price many stores are selling RTCW at, usually the following ads on similiar games such as Quake 3 are $30-$35 either a week or two later). Figure you purchase 4 or 5 games for friends/family/yourself, then you net a good pocket of change to buy that Dreamcast or whatever.
But I blame JonKatz. Why?
Isn't it always his fault?
Heck, the original had subtitles in it.
And the original was in German, too-- "Aus Pass!" and a gun usually learned one which button to hit...
...I thought for the longest time that the enemies said, "Froynlaven!" when they died. :)
I visited the Activision web site and found the "concepts" page.
;-) instead of wandering for hours in order to find a key/keycard/crystal or whatever amount of pixels...
What I enjoyed most was the supersoldiers'groowth tubes... This somehow reminded me of AlienIV, when Ripley#8 finds out about Ripleys#1-7...
I hope that the W3DII scenery will finally be breakable, this time, so that you may just play in grind-core mode by exploding walls with your infinite ammo'ed bazooka (hence the subject of this mail
This'd then be a real virtual world instead of a guided tour like most others which required you to go through several steps to a level's goal...
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Another game that recently came out is Aliens vs Predator 2. Whoohyo! It's really quite amazing. Yeah.
Personally I have been playing Q3A for over a year without having a cdkey. Playing online just fine. So obviously there is a fatal flaw in the q3a cdkey scheme. It's a custom job not released into the wild. What more can I say ... well there is alway's "I'd like to do a nice deed to the game makers and tell them how it's done for the smal price of free q3a, team arena, and RTCF" =]
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The only keygen I ever saw for Quake 3 wasn't a generator, it was a VB app that had a list of keys that were valid. If you kept hitting 'generate' you'd notice that the keys would be the same and in the same order. Eventually I'm sure they all got added to the banned list.
Nobody every managed to make a key generator for half-life that would work online either.
If it's anything like my schools old login system the * password should get you past the door.
the tin box is really cool and it comes with a small free poster of all the characters
IIRC, This was a problem after Q3 was released. With people using other people's legitamate keys. You had to call Id and they would issue a new key... or I could just have a horrible memory :P
I don't recall if they added more sayings in the sequel Beyond Castle Wolfenstein...
Castle Wolfenstein
written by Silas Warner
Muse Software
Not jerry lewis :)
You dirty allied pigdogs! You will be annihilated by the rebirth of Das drittes Reich! With the stahl-willed effort of the Kommendant Deutsches Endlösung all your week-willed software projects will be exposed as the futile jew-led Communist failuresthat they are!
Sieg Heil!
How is this offtopic? Did someone put some cannabis in the turkey this year?
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rclspaan/Assets/rtcwdutch.jp g
It reads: voor uw eer en geweten op! - tegen het
bolsjewisme. De Waffen-SS roept U!'
The original(real) poster reads:
'Nederlanders, voor uw eer en geweten op! - tegen het
bolsjewisme. De Waffen-SS roept U!'
The poster is authentic but i don't think a dutch poster should be hanging in a german castle in germany
How about trying to write a review, instead of saying, gee hope this doesn't suck like XXXX?
Would the editors do that if Linux 2.4.XX came out and they said hope this doesn't like Linux 2.0?
Jesus Christ, it's almost unbelievable to think these guys actually get paid to write this inciteful commentary.
Does anyone know if this is built to take advantage of multiple processor machines like Quake 3?
:) :)
I picked up my Tyan Tiger MP yesterday.
It's amazing to see that Graeme actually stuck with the game industry after such a catastrophe with the fall of the company that tamed the CD-ROM for gaming. See Haunted Glory [gamespot.com] for the misadventures (and silly pictures) of Mr. Devine at Trilobyte.
What I wish to know is what ever happened to Rob Landeros? Last thing I can find on him is quite depressing. [justadventure.com]
Here's to expecting more good things from Graeme,
-Rob
Obviously, Graeme thinks the people who read his
Picture me sitting here with my brand spanking new downloaded copy of RTCW. I run a keygen.
Oh no! That evil virus attack just sent my valid Wolf key to some insideous pirate! Except it didn't.
PIRATES USING KEYGENS DON'T HAVE VALID KEYS.
He used this same stupid assed scare tactic when Q3A came out. It was stupid then, and stupid now. But at least he added the evil terrifying file corrupting ability bit.
I'm tempted to just download the game and play through the singleplayer game for the heck of it.
Traditionally, id software has been the only major game manufacturer to contiually support joysticks in their games. However, I have heard in many newsgroups and posts that this is not the case with RTCW. I think that this is sad.
Surely, the VAST majority of gamers use the k/m combo. But I contend that it is a small matter to add (or continue) joystick support. I have always used a joystick in gaming (did the Atari 2600 have a k/m? No. It had a joystick). Notwithstanding the inherent ergonomic nightmare that using a k/m presents, the joystick I use (pantherXL) is superb--a trackball on the left for looking and aiming, and a joystick on the right for movement. 14 additional keys around the stick and trackball can be bound to what normal k/mers would use. I never even have to reach for the keyboard.
I guess I'm in the dwindling minority of gamers who still use the joystick. If id won't support us, I see a dark future ahead for joystick users.
My other complaint with Half-Life is, the sound effects are the cheesiest I have ever heard in a FPS, they're absolutely terrible!
Other than that, it's an excellent game. So far, my favorite part of the game was killing that giant tentacled monster. That was great, and truly original in an FPS.
I'm really looking forward to playing RTCW.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Quoth Lenny Bruce: "There's nothing sadder than an ageing hipster."
The first computer I got had Rogue Spear. I think that's it, a Wolfenstien progenitor. 2D pixel Nazi shootin'!
:-D
Now, one night I downloaded that Wolfenstien demo, you know the one. It's been all over Gamespy. Well... I've been killin' Nazis for 2 hours every night on the same map! Did I mention on the same map?!?!!!
War is HELL. Let's go! Shnell shnell!!! Watch out for turkey dinners.
Can you see vital signs in hexadecimal? If not, it's a waste of bits.
I wonder how long it'll take Germany to ban this game. (There are laws against the display of Nazi symbols here in Germany. I just never could figure out why it's okay to show a movie with Nazis in it but the Swastika had to be blanked from the Battle Over Britain game box.)
I've been looking for the original Apple II version many times. You found it!!
Cool.
Aren't you people getting tired of this type of game yet?????
Uhm.... if there's such a thing as a valid key... then obviously it is possible for it to be generated. It may not be likely, but it is possible.
Or haven't you heard of things like Deep Crack? You know, EFF's computer that broke a DES message in under 24 hours? In theory, if you piped the keys Deep Crack ran a brute force attack with into a brute force attack against id's master servers, you would sooner or later have a valid key.
It is possible. Think.
In my opinion, you should buy it here, as
TuxGames is a really reliable site
It will show that you support Linux community :)
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nico
Nico-Live
FYI - While I have been a linux user since '94, and all but one of my PCs is running Linux today, Jesus is far more popular with _this_ computer geek than is a free operating system and applications. :)
But Herr Heisenberg, how does the electron know when I'm looking?
The MX is a piece of crap. A GeForce 256 is better, and it still runs crap like shit on a celeron 450MHz.
I hope you feel better now that you got that off your chest. Don't worry, we won't hold your crazy belief system against you. Still, rating some imaginary being above a concrete, free, use-it-today operating system? Some people....
Silas started it all.
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts:
127.0.0.1 authorize.quake3arena.com
and q3-key isn't verified.
(dosen't work in rtcw)
i only used 'islams' because that is what he used in his reply, i wasnt thinking, and for the 'i' thing, fuck you.
That said, I do largely agree with you. As much as I dislike Microsoft and Win9x (and NT for that matter; not used 2k, ME or XP), it is nice to be able to walk into a shop and barely even have to worry about system requirements, let alone exact matching of OS and hardware.
...)
...:-)
Uhum You didn't buy a game for a long time since in that case you would know that for any game you buy you have to tripple check the hw requirements (Pentium2/3/4, Mhz, 3D Accel...) and software requirements (DirectX 5/6/7 win95/98 not win31
P.S.... don't worry about this glitch in you're thought's... you're not the only one. The MS marketing department spent billions in making people think this way
You forgot:
"Kamarade" ("I surrender")
Disclaimer: I don't know German, but I remember the soldiers in Wolfenstein would say this when you stick them up.
Remember the AI of Wolfenstein? If you keep your pistol hidden and then pull it out when you are right next to a soldier or even an SS, the enemy would raise his hands and let you search him.
After which you shot him. Or used the knife in BCW.
Bye the way, Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple ][ was the FIRST computer game I ever bought. And it was still one of the most playable. Except for Three Mile Island. Now that game was a bitch.
144l. ph34r my 133t l3g4l 5k1lz!
I don't know if you would call RTCW "Hip"
Smell the multi-platform goodness...
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.