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RTCW: Enemy Territory Full Version Released
bani writes "Following just a month after the test release, Enemy Territory has finally made a full version release! You can download the Linux and Windows versions for free, it does not require the retail Return to Castle Wolfenstein product in order to play.
Hats off to Id+Activision+SplashDamage for giving the community such an excellent 3d FPS, for FREE!"
Update by J : Id has set up a
BitTorrent
for the downloads. And if anyone needs a Mac beta-tester, I'm available :)
I despise having to have an account for places like this, and when you do get through its usually slow as hell.
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Any Mirrors???!?!?
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
If we had a bittorrent we could help each other out...
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Still I thought the ET test game was excellent and I'm looking forward to this. IMHO, Wolfenstein just kicks the shit out of the likes of UT2003 with their flashier visuals simply because it is not one tedious fragfest with everyone bouncing around like kangaroos.
Isn't red title bars with a "see any problems" link what subscribers see on new stories? Must be a cock up of somesort if normal readers are seeing that...
Anyone who is a gamer on a Mac has long since unplugged the one button mouse and connected a mouse with three or more buttons and a scroll wheel.
This is a rather silly reason not to port a game to MacOS X...
Either these companies are very smart or very stupid, I personally would have bought this game in store for a max of $50 which I'm sure other people would have as well and therefore increase revenue for the companies, but the fact that they are giving it away will really get the word out on them as well and give them the image of a "gamers gaming company" so when they will charge players for thier next big hit, people will remember the name and buy in (I know I would). Either way, Kudos to them for having the guts to give it away and make many MANY gamers very happy :)
Thanks guys!!!
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A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
It probably won't be long before Gentoo (aka Gentoo Games) releases a LiveCD version for those of us who want insane frame rates! *Drools*
"Pardon the cynicism, but has anyone checked this for spyware?"
Not bloody likely is it?
Id software have long shown a commitment to both gamers and linux, and this gesture is nothing but designed to garner goodwill - why would they risk it for something thats worth jack shit anyway?
Including Spyware which would inevitably get discovered is completely at odds with what they're trying to achieve.
feh.
However, I'd still like to see a quality open source FPS sometime.
Hopefully, keeping it closed may slow down the cheats a bit.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
but don't give them the ability to have their voices heard any louder than a regular joe.
/. already gives those with UIDs a louder voice than the anonymous coward; why shouldn't those who help pay for the site get a louder voice?
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Why not?
In RL, courtesy gives the host a slightly louder voice in a topic of conversation (especially one with thousdands of participants.) No reason the same can't be true on
Its fantastic that they are releasing it for free, and I'm very grateful that development took place for GNU/Linux and win32 concurrently. However, I'd still like to see a quality open source FPS sometime. It is important to note that this is still "free as in beer", not "as in speech".
Well, you are very welcome to write one and donate it to the comunity.
Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
The only way to prevent cheats is to encrypt all data packets between the client and server...
And that still doesn't solve the problem, because you still have to trust the client program. If the cheaters have access to the program, they can have it generate any encrypted packets they want anyway.
Better would be to not let the client know anything that it shouldn't know: transmit all keystrokes/mouse movements to the server, and then have the server send the screen to display back. Of course, that's quite impossible with current bandwidth and processor/graphics card limitations.
Of course, that still won't spell the end of cheating. By the time we can do that, it will probably be easy to have a program that watches the screen and generates mouse movements accordingly, or something of that nature. It's an arms race, and the cheaters will always win.
This is, of course, the reason why I usually don't play games online any more. (Well, one of the reasons. Foul-mouthed twelve-year-olds is another.) It's too bad that the single player game of ET didn't pan out.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
it gives subscribers the opportunity to have louder voices because they can comment before other people, and those first comments are usually modded to 4s and 5s.
Sounds like this is the point, actually. And if you're one of the folks who cares about karma, then you'd have another reason to subscribe.
I doubt it'll have much of an effect though. It appears that from the recent spate of postings provided by newer users for our reading pleasure, the Weekly World News crowd has arrived in force - and they care not a whit for karma.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
I'd started to say something sarcastic here, but let me say it straight. Blizzard is the company that threatened legal action against b.net, which was free software that let people play together on their lans without talking to battle.net. A battle.net emulator, essentially.
/.ers will remember who their friends are.
I realize that it could be used to play warez copies of WCIII, and that battle.net could not. But it was pretty clear that there were substantial uses other than facilitating the enjoyment of "pirates."
I wrote them and told them that, my shelf of blizzard games notwithstanding, that I would never buy another blizzard product. I'm standing by that statement, until they either change management or issue an apology. I hope other
Id has released many quality open source FPS games for Free. Perhaps you meant modern quality open source FPS games, but surely you must realize how unlikely this is considering the large development costs of these titles.
Quake 2 remains one of my most played games ever, and I am absolutely thrilled that id released the full source to that game. To me, quake2 is about as quality as it gets. Sure it's a little outdated now, but the basic physics and gameplay still appeals to me.