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Urban Terror To Go Stand-Alone With Enemy Territory
RogeR writes "Silicon Ice Development, authors of the popular Urban Terror mod for Quake 3 Arena, will be porting their mod over to recently made modifiable PC title Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. They have been discussing this for a while now with id Software and Splash Damage, and have decided to move forward with their plans. Basically, this means Urban Terror will, when conversion is finished, become a free stand-alone game, using Enemy Territory's beefed-up Quake 3 engine. Oswald, the project manager, said: 'Those people who complained of legit keys or not being able to find Quake 3 - rejoice, you will be able to play'."
How many ways does this rock, let me count the ways...
i just did some poking around, and didn't see anything about mac support in Wolf:ET...
:(
i liked playing UT on my old Rage128 mac
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
while somewhat similar I think that urban terror, with not much of a userbase now, will explode with this info. being free it should go crazy at Pc cafes' where they usually have illegal copies of halflife anyways, now they can support a free good game. dundundun
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Will there be a linux port, since there is a linux port of ET?
I roomed with a guy who had Quake III and played the Urban Terror mod for a while. It wasn't popular then (two years ago), and I'm wondering if it will be popular after the release of the port.
Personally, I didn't think it was all that great then, when all I had was a Mac (which couldn't really run the mod) and hadn't seen CounterStrike. It was interesting, but it didn't reach out and grab me, even though I did (and still do) tend to prefer FPSs.
Still, if there've been revisions since then (and there probably have been), and if the ET engine can provide them with better graphics (and it can, from what I've seen), I can see it becoming popular, which would be a good thing for me; I get another game (for free (as in beer)!), it takes some of the population pressure and some of the cheaters away from CounterStrike, and might add a good spark of competition, too.
Right now, I'll just wait and see what happens. Hopefully I'll get to try it out when it's released. Hopefully, they'll have a Mac port, so that I won't need to rely on my currently-broken PC in order to play any of my favored games. (I admit it, I bought the PC for gaming purposes.)
~UP
Eat the Path.
Which castle wolfenstein has been open-sourced?
The fantastically old Apple ][ game?
The really old ID game that predated Quake 1?
Some new version I've never heard of?
Troll? Hysterical. Obviously, whoever modded this down has never played q3ut. :)
Who owns the ET engine? If I understand correctly, it's a modified version of the Quake III engine... but will the Urban Terror people get to decide which platforms it comes out for, or will the Wolfenstein or Quake III people be able to tell them what platforms they will release for?
Will there be a Mac version, because there's a Mac version of Quake III? Will there be a Linux version, because there's a Linux version of ET? Who will decide this, in the end?
IANAL, but it seems that it might help to be one, in cases like this!
~UP
Eat the Path.
Quote from the announcement: "The Macintosh users are a bit uneasy, since there is no support for ET."
So I guess we can stop speculating.
I really liked playing Urban Terror on my Mac some time ago.
Yes, it seems now impossible to purchease a copy of Quake III, so their move seems to be clever.
Yet, maybe they don't know how many of the players are/were Macintosh (or Linux???) users... I got the impression, quite a lot.
We just lost a great game.
I don't need a signature.
Buy two! You don't even need to leave your house.
I went to their website because it sounded cool, but the only info I could find is that it's a mod for Q3A...
Well I already KNEW that. I want to know what the storyline is about! I read the FAQ and the "Background Information" portion of the manual. Apparently nothing on their website tells you anything at all about what the point of the game is.
Is it just Q3A with different weapons (in other words, pointless)? What the hell is it?
In post-9/11 America, the CIA interrogates YOU!
Am I just an overzealous fan, or am I right to say that UT and ET being bundled together is just as exciting as DoD being officially endorsed by Valve (as an FPS fan, of course)? *Sweats in anticipation*
Urban Terror is my favorite FPS mod right now. I'm very happy to hear this news, the community, while appropriately sized, could use some more players. Also finding Q3A can be challenging, so it's hard for new people to get into the game. CS-like popularity would detract from the gameplay experience, I think. I try to convert CS-folk as often as possible, having developed a certain aversion to CS sometime around Beta 6 trailing long-standing discontent with the direction weapon balancing was going. It's pretty much AK vs. Colt vs. AWP these days, with little variation in the bulk of the game. I find a lot of variation in load-outs in Urban Terror.
Although there's no storyline, but it's pure gameplay gold. It also has some of the best netcode I've ever seen (or lag-compensation code, I should say.) With low packet loss, it's perfectly possible to pwn with a 700 ping.
Question: what are the spec changes (if any) for the standalone version? What kind of graphical enhancements (if any) are there?
Try and Ban me now Bigpond. No more quake keys required ;)
This is a pisstake right?!