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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 :)
Quality, free 3D FPS games. What is the world coming... I smell armageddon.
YES!
Its official!. Michael is colorblind!!!
Green, Purple, RED!! GAAA!!!
Rapid Nirvana
I smell armageddon.
put your shoes back on.
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/BT.html
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!
In Canada, we don't fancy things like socks
Am I sending an email to "Daddypants"
"Really officer, it's not about kiddy porn"
I'm very excited by this news. Not only is it free but it is available for Windows AND Linux, already.
Now, why is the story red? It really looks wierd on the front page, and probably on games.slashdot.org too since that color scheme is purple.
Devil Ducky
MY peers would get out of jury duty.
http://news.gametab.com/files/wolfet.exe.torrent
I haven't tried it yet, so download at your own risk.
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are here: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/BT.html
->www.chuma.org, ranting and Newtons, what more could you want?
let's try that again:
another link
Mike
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.
There seems to be a glitch in the Mat^H^H^HSlashdot system, or perhaps they are attempting to lure more subscribers by showing off the features of the system.
I noticed, along with this game, that Unreal Tournament 2003 also was released for Win and Linux simultaneously with the Mac version (of UT 2003 anyway) coming out much later. I know that Mac games are always later to market but does anyone have a theory (or even an actual reason) that Linux versions come out along with the Win version? Is development for the Mac platform really that much different now with OS X? Just curious.
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>Hats off to Id+Activision+SplashDamage for giving >the community such an excellent 3d FPS, for FREE!"
Special thanks to fileplanet.com for hosting the linux version.
And as a token of our appreciation we will slashdot the hell out of fileplanet.com. Thanks once again guys.
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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RIAA/MPAA: MY GOD? YOU'RE USING BITTORRENT! PIRACY PIRACY PIRACY!!!! Friendly Neighborhood Geek: But, the game is free. How am I pirating it? RIAA/MPAA: Game? What game, it's a moving image with sound files, that means it belongs to us! We're talking to our lawyers right now! Friendly Neighborhood Geek: Ok... time to put up another firewall and set my pgp encryption to 4096 bits.
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I've found OpenGL games to run just as well under Linux as they do in Windows, if not marginally faster. And that's with Wine as well as Linux native. (All the Quake 3 based games I have tried work perfectly under Wine, fully hardware accelerated. So does Counterstrike)
Sounds like you don't have hardware accelleration set up properly (or at all). Your best bet is with an Nvidia or maybe ATI card (I think the Nvidia drivers are slightly more polished than the ATI drivers at this point but I'm not entirely sure as I don't use an ATI).
I'm seeing 106.96K/s from AU - not bad... wget http://files.ausgamers.com:81/wolf/enemyterritory/ et-linux-2.55.x86.run
Yeah, but I'm getting 234 kB/s off of bittorrent :). My, I love how it's the only thing that actually gets faster as more people hit it. Reminds me of the scene in the Matrix Reloaded where Neo is fighting the fifty agent smiths, only without Neo or the agents or the cool computer generated background.
As a long-time RTCW addict, I can tell you this much -- The original RTCW in multiplayer mode is enough to keep you hooked for months. I mean, come on... Any game that allows you to shoot someone in the face point blank with a high powered rifle, drag their body off into a dark corner, set them on fire, and jump up and down on their chest while stabbing them in the face... What more could you ask for?
Bowie J. Poag
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 main thing with games is that they tend to be one offs. You take an engine, add artwork, music, gameplay, AIs, multiplayer servers etc - and then that's it. The upgrades are small. The improvements that can be made without disrupting the other playeres are minimal.
I wish I wasn't feeling so lazy, maybe I could articulate it better. But I don't think the incremental patch model would apply well to games. I'm not going to have any hangups about paying for them, nor playing them, regardless of how open the source is.
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