Slashdot Mirror
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'."
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
------- ?
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.
If you clicked the link above, you would have seen download links for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
Neither the Quake 3, Enemy Territory/RtCW engines are open source. The only source that is available is for the game code. To give you an example, the game code is what sets the number of mines you can lay, and how the mines operate (being detected by spies, blowing you up when you step on them). The engine code is the renderer, input, et cetera.
Check out ioquake3.org for a great, free, First-Person Shooter engine!
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.
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!