| Tales From The Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Beta |
 Tales From The Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Beta Mon, 9 July 2007 Dev comes clean about the Beta issues
 The public beta is blowing the bugs out of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars While gamer feedback seems largely positive, there is an underlying issue with the PunkBuster service which is starting to frustrate gamers. Essentially, PunkBuster is not allowing many people in the Beta to automatically update their PunkBuster files, which results in them being booted from the server. Badman states that the dev team is working closely with PunkBuster creators Even Balance to resolve these PunkBuster issues. Badman also gives players a workaround for this issue:
Sometimes firewall software, such as Norton Internet Security or Windows Firewall, can block outgoing PB packets and thus prevent your computer from talking with the master server. If you do have a software solution like that running in the background and are having this particular problem with PunkBuster, try either adding the PunkBuster services to the list of allowed programs or disabling the software temporarily, and see if PunkBuster updates itself.
If that doesn't work, you can update your local PunkBuster installation manually by doing the following. Please note that this is a workaround and not an official fix: Grab pbsetup from the Even Balance website and run it. Add Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars and let pbsetup choose the game path automatically. Add Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars again and this time provide the following path (please note that this will only work with English versions of Windows XP; you will need to adjust the folder names appropriately for localized versions of Windows: \Documents and Settings\YourUsername\Local Settings\Application Data\Enemy Territory Quake Wars Public Beta\ Click "Check for Updates" and let it update both locations. - Badman's Blog The blog also went on to reveal that a Beta 2 is in the works which will introduce another new map for players to test out. For more information on the Beta or PunkBuster keep your eyes tuned to the ET community website.
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