Well gentlemen... are you ready to play some old school gaems?! ONE THAT'S FREE TO DOWNLOAD?! AND AVAILABLE ON WINDOWS, MAC, AND LINUX?! You better be, because I got my very own Wolfenstein Enemy Territory 14 man public server running on a NYC server farm. And its time for YOU tonight, and tomorrow, and for the rest of time, to resurrect this old beast and start playing online with friends! Have you never played Wolfenstein Enemy Territory before? NO? Well, let me help you with that.

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory was a free multiplayer component developed by Splash Damage shortly after the successful release of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and its quickly growing multiplayer component. If any of you ever played RTCW MP you can imagine the same thing, but with more classes, and more objective focused multiplayer maps. This game was basically Team Fortress on steroids, and at the time actually enforced the use of the classes more so than TFC did. It also paved way for other games to put their attention towards objective focused multiplayer more so than before.

So how do I get into all this jazz? Well first things first you need to download it! And you can do that here...

Location to download files (for windows, mac, linux) - Be sure to download 2.60 & 2.60b patches for windows. For MAC its 2.60c & 2.60d: http://www.fileplanet.com/93620/0/section/Return-To-Castle-Wolfenstein:-Enemy-Territory



Well now that you've got your files, let me give you a run down on this game and how it plays. WolfET basically has the gameplay speed of Quake, and Battlefield. Strafe jumping is open game, along with trick jumping off of objects. The movement will take some time to get used to, but if you have experience of moving around in quake you will probably pick it up faster than others.

Ok, well lets get down to the class system. In Wolf ET there are 5 classes. The Soldier, Medic, Engineer, Field Ops, and Covert Ops. Each class has a specific role and advantage which is set up in a way that it actually enforces team work in game. Each class also can choose a weapon kit, while only a few classes have more than one weapon in their field kit at the start of the game, other classes will unlock more weapons as their XP increases during the objective play. Lets go over each class so you can understand how they work before you dive into the game.



Soldier Class - "I AM A SOLDAT!"
The soldier class is a rather basic class, he is the ground pounder, sir spam-a-lot and the over all general purpose class of the game. The soldier is one of the few classes that has multiple weapons that can be chosen for its weapon kit at the start. You can choose from either the MP40(Thompson), the Panzerfaust (bazooka or piat?), the Flame Thrower, the MG42 (30cal), or the Mortor. Most of the time I see players use the Panzerfaust / Mortor or MG42.. rarely soldiers use the flame thrower or the MP40/Thompson because they are useless compared to the other weapons available to them. With these weapons the soldier can clear out rooms, defend a base, or suppress the enemy with excessive damage while the other classes on your team try to break through objective points.

Medic - "ARGH REVIVE MEE!"
The medics are ..well... medics! Their weapon kit is quite simple with an SMG / Pistol & Grenade, but their specialty equipment is what makes them so fantastic. Medics have the ability to heal and revive players on the battlefield, which is something battlefield 2 adopted from this game. Medics in WolfET can drop med packs on the ground for players to heal and regain health. They also can run up to players and stab them with a needle to revive soldiers that have been shot down by the other team.. as long as they are still kicking on the ground, the medic can revive them. It is always important to have a decent 1/3 ratio of medics on the battlefield, they can become the life support of an assault or defense tactic in winning the map.

Engineer - "We Need a engineer!"
Engineers are an essential part of WolfET, you NEED them to complete the objectives. Their basic kit consists of the SMG or Rifle w/ Rifle Grenade. Their specialty kit consists of TNT, Landmines, and Pliers. The basic use of the TNT is to destroy objective points, once tossed on the ground you need to arm it with the pliers, and the only way to disarm it is with the pliers. The land mines serve their purpose for defending objectives, or side objectives. The pliers you use to capture objectives or side objectives. Side objectives server as forward spawn points, or the use of defense weapons (mounted machine guns). The Pliers can also be used to repair secondary objectives, or main objectives (such as a tank that you need to escort). Without an engineer on your team, your victory is lost.

Field Ops - "FIRING FOR EFFECT!"
Field Ops, oh field ops, my beautiful beautiful babies. This is my class of choice, these guys are the onslaught of the battlefield. Equipped with a basic SMG and Pistol, their specialty kit screams chaos. With a smoke grenade, ammunition boxes, and binoculars the engineer is one class you WANT to have on your battlefield. Smoke grenades? Pffff what can they do!.. Nothing much other than leave a marker for a plane to carpet bomb the battlefield!!! However, the only use these grenades have is outdoors.. indoors the pilots cannot see zee target! Outside of the wonderful air strike you have the Binoculars which provide artillery strikes, these hit randomly in an area in which you called it.. a simple zoom in and click will suffice for the artillery strike. On top of this you have your ammo boxes which can be dropped on the field for your team mates to get ammo, or for yourself if you are such a greedy whore.

Covert Ops - "ENEMY IN DA SKIES"
Or enemy in disguise as it really says :P. Covert ops are, you guessed right, the Spy's of Enemy Territory. They have a wonderful sten gun, sniper rifle, or assault rifle as their starting weapon, but also have the ability to disguise themselves as the opposing team! But not so fast there mr spy, the only way you can disguise is by taking the uniform of a dead soldier on the battlefield ;), you will have to work for your stealthy efforts! Covert Ops are also equipped with a smoke grenade that can be used to move through or blind the enemy. As this class you will also get a satchel charge pack that you can use to destroy certain objectives or just in general blow some enemies body parts across the map.

Important Feature: Every class has a 'specialty stamina bar' that applies to the use of their specialty items. For example.. using your air strike grenade as field ops drains your specialty bar completely dry so you cannot spam the effect, or switch to artillery immediately and call in more chaos. It also limits the ability to drop the ammo cans.. so you will naturally need to wait for your special stamina bar to recharge before you can use your other specialty items.. don't worry tho, it doesn't take that long to recharge ;). Each class has this same effect, medics, engineers, covert ops.. so pay attention to it!



Well now that you guys have some understanding of Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, its time for you to download, install, and get ready for a weekend of classic chaos! The server I have up is a 14 man server on a vanilla version of Wolf ET, no password is needed so here is the IP 66.55.149.13:27960. A simple way to connect to the server is just pulling down the console with the "~" and type /connect 66.55.149.13:27960 and it will connect you! If you go through the server list the name of the server is ENEMY IN DA SKIES! (or as some server programs will list it as ^1ENEMY ^2IN DA SKIES (for colored names).

Game Time!
Game time will be around 5/6pm EST tomorrow, and will go on all night long. You can reach me via steam my user name is 'dyslixec' but I will show up as bw-//WastelandTraveler. Or you can get in the Dtoid IRC and contact me through there. Either way we are going to have one hell of a time playing this bad boy on a server in our realm of control!

Time : 5/6 PM EST
Server : 66.55.149.13:27960
Reason : TO BLOW SHIT UP

If you want to get a sense of what Wolfenstein MP/ET is like, take a look at this video, its one of the best productions of Wolfenstein MP out there, and while WolfMP is slightly different from ET, you will still get a sense of how insane the combat can get if not more so with ET