Welcome to the latest edition of Snap to Grid, our semi-regular showcase of community maps and mods for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. As always, MC-mappa Terry 'Salteh' Seidler is here to give you a guided tour of some of the latest happenings in Mapping Land.

Fully living up to its 'semi-regular' label, Snap to Grid was last seen several months ago, just before going on the world's longest Mediterranean pleasure cruise. A lot has happened since, so let's dive right in with an extensive look at the latest version of Contruction Site, which has come a long way since we first featured it earlier this year. Continue reading »

Welcome to the latest edition of Snap to Grid, our semi-regular showcase of community maps and mods for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. As always, ETQW Mapping's MC-mappa Terry 'Salteh' Seidler is here to give you a guided tour of some of the latest happenings in Mapping Land.

This month, we pay a visit to Greece, venture deep into Steedium Mines, and do some work on a construction site. And because nothing is complete without giant robots, Mechs make an appearance thanks to the 23rd Century Warfare modification. Continue reading »

2008 seems ages away already, but there’s still some unfinished business to take care of. Welcome to the latest edition of Snap to Grid, where ETQW Mapping's full-time King of the World Salteh takes a look at the community's latest and greatest mapping concoctions.

In this installment, brush-building machine Chris brings us another map with a remake of the popular Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory map Radar, adding to his already impressive collection of Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars levels. We’ll also find out what Joe999 has been doing with some of his spare time. Continue reading »

Here's another installment of Snap to Grid, our regular look at up-and-coming user-created content for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. In this latest edition, ETQW Mapping's Managing Director and professional gorilla impersonator Terry 'Salteh' Seidler takes a look at beta 2 of Maridia, another effort by well-known brush-building machine Chris. Read on for a full walkthrough of the map, several screenshots and the obligatory download link. Connoisseurs of user-made maps should also keep an eye out for the Custom Map Nirvana events every Sunday featuring the latest and greatest maps made by the community.

Over to you, Salteh: Continue reading »

Please step behind the yellow line and mind your limbs, another edition of our ETQW user content showcase Snap to Grid is about to arrive!

This week, ETQW Mapping's Chairman and world-famous duck collector Terry 'Salteh' Seidler takes a look at the latest beta version of After the War 3: Nightraid, an earlier version of which was featured in the second installment of Snap to Grid. This latest version features all the objectives along with a few other tweaks - read on for a full description of the map, along with screenshots and download information! Continue reading »

Snap to Grid, our regular look at up-and-coming user-created content for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, is back with another installment! This week, ETQW Mapping's lead singer Terry 'Salteh' Seidler focuses on Spirit Speedway, a map for the hotly anticipated Wheels of War mod for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, and its objective-driven twin Free Spirit City. To top it all off, Salteh also manages to update us on the progress of three of the most popular user-made maps currently in development for the game.

Without further ado, here's the latest edition of Snap to Grid: Continue reading »

Snap to Grid is back and this time it's personal! This week, ETQW Mapping's fearless captain Terry 'Salteh' Seidler takes a look at the alpha release of Donnovan's Retake of the Andes map for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars and checks out the latest alpha release of the highly anticipated Wheels of War mod. To top it all off, the saltiest of Terrys even throws out a challenge to all the aspiring zombie crushers / destruction derby participants out there in the form of Wheels of War's freshly added global lap times leaderboard.

On to the words: Continue reading »

Following up on the smash hit that was the initial installment, ETQW Mapping's Terry 'Salteh' Seidler once again deploys his all-seeing editing community observer telescope for another episode of Snap to Grid.

In this latest chapter, we take a look at the very cool Dusk mod, which seeks to combine the thrill of being chased by a horde of hungry Strogg zombies with the excitement of getting the heck away from them. There's also a round-up of some of the maps currently floating around the editing forums, complete with download links and such. On to the words! Continue reading »

The QUAKE Wars SDK was released about five months ago and people have been working hard creating new content for the game. Most of you will have heard of the Wheels of War and ETQWPro mods, but what about maps? Good news! The first few maps have already reached beta stage and are nearing completion. With all this new content on the horizon, we thought it would be a good idea to dedicate a new series of blog posts to it.

Enter the supremely cleverly titled "Snap to Grid" written by Salteh of ETQW Mapping fame. In this initial installment, he'll be taking a look at Comm Link by zig-zag and Meltdown by Chris. Continue reading »