C&VG have an interview with one of the lead designers from Splash Damage. Here's a snippet:

How do the persistent character promotions work and the rewards system for continuous play?

Paul Wedgwood: In Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory we had a campaign system and experience points were accrued for the duration of the campaign and rewards were retained until the campaign finished. The everything restarted again, and that's important because gameplay effecting rewards, if they have any real value, can unbalance a match. Our general feeling is that we want to pursue persistent character advancement but that gameplay effecting rewards should be campaign length and status rewards that tell people how good a player they are, how good a leader they are, are the persistent elements.

Some more ridiculously awesome Enemy Territory: Quake Wars screenshots have also been released, showing off lush visuals from this Doom 3-engine powered shooter.

Very cool.

Havent really played any FPS since S3 (Maybe 4?) ET. Looking forward to playing this when it's out.

f*** me dead, those screenies look mad as hell!

They should restart it and make it more like the Warcraft universe though but still keep it as a FPS.

how f***ing good is this (hopefully) going to be?!? RTCW dudes and Doom3/Quake4 engine. Good times ahead.

but wuill it be good enough to drag people away from WoW?

yer looks f***en awsome. pity it wont be free like ET :(

rev that just sounds retarded

asifff its gunna look that good!
they must be screens from the intro movie.

words cannot describe how i feel towards this game

but wuill it be good enough to drag people away from WoW?

haha, we don't want the WoW freaks.

I am looking forward to this game almost as much as the NRL season. Now thats awesome.

Tis looking good, I wonder how it will play.

mother of f***. thats some sexy s***.

serious hardware upgrade is imminent.

asifff its gunna look that good!

I think it could come close (if you've got a good enough PC that is). A lot of the detail in those screenshots seems to come from shaders and Normal/Parallax mapping; If you look at the models themselves, they're not particularly high poly.

Parallax mapping is the win, have a look at this page for an example of Steep Parallax mapping, its pretty impressive stuff, shaders that can make flat textures look incredibly 3d dimensional.

Count me in on this action !

Khel, that steep parallax stuff is amazing. Its got me farked how it can generate shadows on the brickwork when its taken from a flat map. Nice stuff.

I might be in the states during the next E3 in May. I'll be looking forward to checking out more info on this game then :)


last edited by E.T. at 19:09:53 16/Jan/06