Anyone else waste their money on Quake Wars??

COD4 i like the look of Quake wars before i played the beta its a waste of time

Nope! played the demo and it was awful, so glad I didn't. Sucks that you wasted money though

Team Fortress 2 = Team Rock, Paper, Scissors using source engine.

I actually liked the tighter team integration of quake wars, good for a group of mates but fairly pointless on a random server. It's a smaller game in scale than Battlefield 2142 so that all the combat centers around the objectives and not around the 5 silos or captured areas or half stuck on ground while the rest assault the titan. You need to treat it as a team game to get the most out of qw:et i feel.

That seems like a problem with games these days. Multiplayer is important, but too much emphasis on teamwork makes the game completely terrible on random pub servers. Just look at Savage 2. That game has all the potential to be incredibly fun and amazing, and they combined the RPG/RTS/FPS very well. The only problem is, they really made it like playing a first person RTS. It's like getting to play first person StarCraft. Your entire team needs to work together, and often times you end up playing as a marine against an ultralisk. The simple fact is, the marine is going to die. In an RTS, that's fine because it's just another unit to you. But an actual person is playing that unit, and most online players are selfish douchebags only concerned with saving themselves and getting kills. So they run away, don't help their team, and the team loses. Games that understand that most people are idiots and only concerned with self-preservation tend to be more successful, and fun for everyone. I'm sure if I had 10 other players constantly on ventrilo and ready to play Quake Wars as an organized team, I'd have fun with it.

I only played the demo but I didn't think it was too bad.
I was almost going to get it since I saw it really cheap somewhere but didn't have the time to play it.

But yes, teamplay is important. I've seen a lot of people just going for kills and then losing the game. Ah well, I suppose you get that in most games.

Yeah, san pedro... i think that i just need time to let it soak in

actually..that happpens a lot. i dnt like a game, but then i get used to it.

but i do wish that the servers were more populated like bf2142

I like QW, but I don't think it's as accessible as other FPS. As others have said, teamwork is much more important. A coordinated team is a blast to play on, though - there are just so many diverse roles to play, unlike in a game like COD4, where you're either rushing, sniping, or something in between - in Quake Wars, you have those roles, but along with those you have people calling in artillary (which is implemented much better than in CODIV or BF), setting up and maintaining turrets, healing, throwing down shields to absorb a little firepower, and even sneaking around in disguise, sabotaging enemy structures, placing mines, and backstabbing.
Unfortunately, the game engine is not nearly as well developed as CODIV or HL2. It's not even as well designed as BF2, and in my opinion BF2 is just clunky (especially when compared to a truly polished title like CODIV).

If you're having trouble finding a fun game on ETQW, switch servers until you find people talking, then follow someone's directions. There's not much quite as fun as working with 10 other people to hold off coordinated attacks, and it's a refreshing change from BF2 and CODIV to have a map that you play in parts - in BF2 and COD IV you usually can be anywhere on the map and still find battle, but ETQW requires you to to focus on the objective at hand.

mattc speaks the truth. Another thing that might help is playing defense first. I think it's a lot easier to learn strategies and work as a team playing defense (especially a technician who sits near objective passing out stroyent and making spawn hosts). You might also want to focus on one role for a while to get good at it.