The development blog over at the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars website has word that a new and improved beta 2 will be upon us shortly. It is practically the same version as the one shown during E3.


New features include:

A new map, Valley, which is slightly bigger than Sewer and has four additional GDF vehicles: the Anansi Attack 'Copter, Bumblebee Transport Chopper, the Platypus Assault Boat, and the Mobile Command Post

A LOT of bugfixes and finetuning. This covers most weapons, items, tools, vehicles, deployables, and the user interface, including fixes for uncapped frame-rates, improved server administration functions, interaction with objectives, better weapon spread modifiers, vehicle firing rates, better sniper scopes, more consistency between weapons and their UI components, better fire support, improved deployables, and smaller tweaks like time-stamping for messages from friends, and tweaked special effects.

Improved bots

Improved prediction and player physics, improved vehicle physics and controls (Wohoo!)

Improved interface, improved audio and improved game performance

Only downside of this patch is that you'll have to download it all over again. Let's hope this beta justifies buying the game a bit more. But yes, we know, a beta doesn't represent the full game...

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