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Enemy Territory Fortress Mod Arrives
Rogerpq3 writes "Enemy Territory Fortress (ETF), a port of the Quake3 mod Q3F is now available for Enemy Territory players. ETF is based off the Team Fortress concept: 10 unique classes and a ton of very cool weapons along with some killer maps. The mod includes many game types like CTF, Reverse CTF, Single Flag, Capture & Hold, Assault, King of the Hill and Duel. To play the mod, all people need to do is download Enemy Territory and the latest patch which are both free. You can find a list of download mirrors for ETF here."
http://tracker.planetetf.com:81/torrent.html?info_ hash=1ddbd7b24f92b287cc4ab386b83d2bbed18d128d
Not sure why this mod got posted up on slashdot considering it really isnt big news but at least its not a repeat. Check out ETF related stuff here
http://etf-center.com/
really, we want TFT
Booooring
For all those interested in free online FPS's, there is a free game similar to Counter-Strike called "Americas Army: Special Forces" which is put out as a srecruiting tool by the US military, and can be downloaded here: http://www.americasarmy.com/
AA:SF is great fun, and Linux and Mac clients are on the official site as well. The graphical quality on most missions is not as good as HL2, but still decent nonetheless.
Something to play while I wait for TFC:Source to be released ;)
Oh yeah, and THANK YOU for using coral cache links- those sites would probably die rather quickly.
Excelent game, based on quake TF. Diferent classes that were supoused to have diferent speeds in game, but with the bunny hopping stuff all of them can move at the same (ultra)speed, that's sad. No need for recons, the hwguy's can mode at their speed ...
Server is down. Anyone have a link to the patch on SplashDamage?
Linux with kernel panic...
MadPenguin.org
Has anyone actually clicked the Wikipedia link?
Not pleasant and totally off topic!
Auto-check your UK lottery lines
there goes the Wikipedia Enemy Territory article...
With this and True Combat: Elite (very playable even if still at testing stage), it appears that ET is the "sweet" platform to write mods to. The mod automatically gets the largest posible audience, including people who don't want to pay to play the mod and people who run Linux.
Not that ET itself is outdated, of course; it's still as addictive and as ass-kickin' as ever.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
So when is Q3 gonna be open sourced. I am patient since they don't have to release it at all, but I still wanna know when.
QWTF4LIFE!
It was actually a very detailed and well written article on the game.
and with the ice storm outside, i don't really feel like going anywhere. what better excuse to play games?
No sig for you!!
Luckily someone managed to revert the Wikipedia article before too many people saw it.
Perhaps before posting a story with a link to a Wikipedia article, the Slashdot editors could e-mail the Wikipeople to place a temporary lock on the mentioned article. That would be the best compromise between allowing anonymous, open group collaboration whilst countering the trolls.
As the great philosopher John Gabriel theorises, the large audience and relative anonymity of the internet can make good people do bad things.
Please take note. Although this is better news then Russia websites posting urban legends, this is still not what Slashdot is about. Slashdot has a games section where very few of us (well more them since I do) read.
Please take note of this and post it in the right place in the future. You're becoming (AKA already are) a joke, the slashdotters are starting to greatly dislike you, to the point where we're going to start calling for your job at this rate.
Please just go away or take note of how slashdot works.
Alphonse
I like muppets.
WIth all those links in the story, there were no ones to screenshots.
C'mon, screenshots!
michael has always been a joke. He has, in his tenure here, posted stories in the wrong section, posted broken URLs, posted goatse links, posted blurbs with multiple mispelled words, blatant plugs, stories duped ONE AFTER THE OTHER(!) and stories that have been archived instantly, allowing no one to post. He calls himself an "editor" but all he does is rubber-stamp submissions that might look good on the front page. He'll hit anyone who he disagrees with with a bitchslap to knock their karma down, and has massmodded entire threads down to -1, Offtopic regardless of content. Let's see if he does it again here.
Although ET is free and this mod looks pretty cool (the game is damn fun on it's own anyway), I've always hated Quake 3's netcode. Now, granted I'm usually playing it on dial-up, but it's the only FPS engine doesn't ever seem to run playably. I ping around 220 in most games, and that's perfectly fine to me, but with Q3 based games I stay above 300 AND I get the connection problem icon in the upper corner 90% of the time.
What I am waiting for is the http://urbanterror.net/port to ET. I've been playing the UT mod for quake3 for ages now and it's the best playing mod of all times. Those guys don't really care about how good it looks. They just want it to play great. And in the end that's all that matters.
Sure it don't look as flash as COD, but the gameplay is primo! Plenty of awesome maps to download. TC:Elite mod is coming along nicely, and now this? Excellent. :-)
Download it and see what it's like firsthand :)
Very wise of them to not put up screenies, that's just _asking_ for a slashdotting.
i dont know what that is but it really needs to be changed it's a huge picture of animal genitals
i want to puke
Here are some Australian mirrors:
Enemy Territory
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/6569
Enemy Territory v1.2 Patch
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/8274
ETF Mirror List (Not Australian but linked to for the list)
http://etf-center.com/mirror.html
Have you metaroderated recently?
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Looks like the server got Slashfragged.
The game source is available, but has anybody tried making it linux build friendly like the q3a game source?
if I may...
India Base
65.125.236.90:27962
already up and running ETF, 16 players in the server as I write this
runs some great servers, and one of their members (5anny) was actually the ETF project supervisor.
are available there http://www.etfgame.com/shots/ for the classes http://www.etfgame.com/shots/classes/index.shtml, weapons http://www.etfgame.com/shots/weapons/index.shtml, and levels http://www.etfgame.com/shots/levels/index.shtml.
It looks like etfgame.com took these links off of the homepage, probably because they're serving the 200MB mod as well.
I am currently working on a selection of maps, to be used in conjunction with ETF which focuses on several minigames instead of CTF/duel and is meant for small playerloads (2-4 players) :
A quickish-thrown-together flash-vid showing off some of the maps can be found here : http://members.lycos.co.uk/nosoup4u/ETF_Minigames_ Teaser.htm
Hopefully this gets modded up, but if you don't have the Enemy Territory, here's a link to id's tracker:
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com:6969/
FYI Windows users want WolfET and ET Patch 1.02.
Linux is labelled much better (et linux 2.56).
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com:6969/
as someone who was "forced" to give up on qwtf and play q3f, I'll have to say,, this is much more like qwtf.. and that is good.
come to, etf.railbait.com, etf-2.railbait.com even..
believe me, becasue my uid is 61.
whee -Me
CPMa owns all.
The flash grenades go off so fast that they usually blind the thrower as well... Not to mention the fact that they are just annoying. ie They don't challenge, they frustrate.
Bots are of the usual foxbot type: 100% accurate with weapons that don't have a delayed ordnance. Even grenades on a short fuse are thrown perfectly... (Unfortunatly the UT guys are the only ones I have seen to date that make an acceptably "human" AI.)
You can camp INSIDE the enemy respawn safely.
Sentry guns don't "pin movement" with their minigun; so the rockets are useless. Even a HW guy could outrun the rocket.
The graphics are overestimated. I ran high quality with as much detail on as possible on a laptop with a Radeon Mobility 9000 32MB and received an outrageous frame rate.
It's not bad, kudos to the guys who are making it. But it's got some time to go before I could spend allot of time in it.
Ha, ha. Very funny, guys.
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
"Some of you (and clearly the bad guys are among them) don't always remember
that this game, and all accounts and derivative products, are the property
of the United States Army. When you tamper with the game, not only are
you breaking the EULA you're misusing Army property - and, worse, you're
misusing US Army computer programs and equipment.
Tampering with software and servers owned or used by the Army is cyber
crime.
In the early 1940's, Japan learned an important lesson - "let the sleeping
giant lie." We may not react swiftly, but when we do it's with unstoppable
force. The Army has partners that deal with cyber crime as a matter of
course. These include not just various Army IT departments, but also the
Department of Justice, the Secret Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
It's going to get uncomfortable for some of the bad guys, but you know
what? They brought it on themselves. Knowing this anyone who continues
to be bad is just plain foolish. Keep trying, though. Sooner or later the
bad guy will realize we've known about him for a while... and by then it's
too late.
Allow me to speak directly to the bad guys for a moment: When you get banned,
know that we know and have records showing you were doing something that's
a violation of terms of service, breaks your EULA, and also happens to
be against the law. We know who you are, and can track down where you play
from. We have incontrovertible proof you
did something illegal. The Army is angry, and we're coming for you."
I like the last sentense : "The Army is angry, and we're coming for you." Wouahow.
still not gonna make you USians run from Iraq this coming summer like puppies who doo-dooed on the carpet. Fusion weapons and mechas are nice and all, but they dont exist and you wouldnt know the start button from the anal hole anyway. Fools.
I don't know why there is no direct link for ETF Linux installer on /., as I guess there is a lot of Linux users here.. shtml _ hash=b8d4a22cce906b1ad88b58ba4433af725807ba4a are available.
Though, the mirrors page http://www.etfgame.com/files/mirrors/etf_10_linux
and torrent http://tracker.planetetf.com:81/torrent.html?info