Talk:Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Add information on how much experience you get for each action.
Add more internal and external links.
Add screenshots.
Add information on popular third party maps.
Add a section for generic map elements: vehicles, collectible objectives, major (permanent) destructibles, command posts and other constructibles/destructibles, team doors (including mention of uniform usage!) -- Perey 14:30, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Are ET game screenshots copyrighted?

I don't think so --Ignignot 14:01, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)

Disputed changes

Battle Sense and binoculars: This is one I'd intended to test myself, but the most recent edit states that players 'can now also spot them with binoculars' (emphasis mine). Has the game changed lately? Or, as I suspect, is this an ETPro alteration?
Stabbing in/from the back: There was nothing wrong with the original wording; indeed, 'stab in the back' is the more conventional phrase.
MG42 crouch/lay: The alteration is incorrect. The soldier must be prone to deploy the MG.
Seawall Battery objectives: The 'and' is misleading, as it groups two separate objectives (the assault ramp and the bunker).
Gold Rush objectives: The edit 'with the truck'/'with it in the truck' seems redundant, and I think the older form reads better.
Würzburg Radar objectives: Again, 'and' has replaced punctuation, misleadingly grouping objectives. (The defence of one entrance does not hinge on the defence of the other, for instance.)
Fuel Dump objectives: Both gate and grate are correct, referring to separate targets.

I'm changing the MG42 and Fuel Dump entries now. If there's no discussion on the others, I'll edit or revert them after about a week. -- Perey 11:22, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Just go ahead, it isn't like this is the evolution page or something. --Ignignot 21:59, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

on the Seawall Battery map, the objective of capturing the bunker and constructing the assault ramp comes hand in hand, what's the point of constructing the ramp if you are not going to get the bunker?!? -__-
- Easy: slip a small force in behind the defenders, who continue to spawn at the bunker (and are thus further from the gun controls) if they're not alert.
concerning the 'and' operator, and simiply groups similar things in nature together, defending this entrance is the same as defending the other entrance.
- It's not. If this were an itemised list, they would be separate items.
stabbing in/from the back...-___- need i say more? who cares it's one word, go ahead if you want to reverse the change.
with the truck/with it in the truck ... OKAY

if you feel THAT strongly about how the original wording 'sounded better', then go ahead i cannot stop you from altering it anyways. Have fun. — LegolasGreenleaf 03:04, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Hey, no point being defensive about it. Sure, several points are minor and pedantic, but the same can be said of the changes themselves, no? I don't 'feel THAT strongly' about them that I didn't invite some discussion first. -- Perey 11:22, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think it is important to remember the Be Bold rule in wikipedia. Just make the changes, if someone really doesn't like them then open up discussion. Also, maybe the objectives for each map should be put into an itemized list? I should have thought of that when I first wrote the section. --Ignignot 14:51, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

- Sometimes being too bold may have led a few misguided people to vandalize some pages, notably Wayne Gretzky's page, the great hockey player. If you were to take a look at its history, you'd be surprised by how many times trolls have BOLDLY modified the pages...lol... — LegolasGreenleaf 02:59, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Expansion or standalone?

Please read the News & Press archives at [1]. Enemy Territory had a chequered development lifetime, being variously conceived as a standalone, an expansion, commercial, free...

In any case, the reverted edits are wrong. It was at times (for instance, at the point when single-player was cancelled - see February 2003 at the above site) intended as an expansion to RtCW, even if at other times before and after it was meant as a standalone. And it is certainly in no discernable way set in the Wolfenstein universe. I have yet to visit any castles, foil any supernatural plots or shoot anything non-human in ET! (Unless one counts Medic-revived players as undead...) -- Perey 00:09, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)