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Enemy Territory Fortress Mod Arrives

Posted by michael on from the real-men-do-it-with-flamethrowers dept.

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."

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  1. Torrent Link for the ETF mod by tayhimself · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

    1. Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod by syukton · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Not sure why this mod got posted up on slashdot


      Because it's free. Enemy Territory is free, the mod is free. Free is good, slashdot likes free.
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  2. AA:SF is free and fun by astebbin · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:AA:SF is free and fun by pavel_987 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I remember the good 'ol days of AA. (only 3 years ago for me)

      I really loved that game. But in my opinion they committed such an atrocity that I couldn't play it any longer. They censored the word "camping".
      Surprisingly it took me a couple of weeks to figure this out, but once I did I stopped playing the game immediatly. No true hardcore gamer will stand for this.
      At heart I guess I always knew that this was just America's propaganda and attempt to entice the youth to join the army. But I never expected them to go this far.

    2. Re:AA:SF is free and fun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just don't get caught cheating otherwise the Feds will kick down your door and step on your pet turtle.

    3. Re:AA:SF is free and fun by wertarbyte · · Score: 2, Informative

      I prefer True Combat: ELite (http://truecombat.com/intro.php), which is a counter-terrorism mod for ET. It's quite realistic, you have to aim using the iron sights of your gun, it's a rather sneaky gameplay compared to the bunny-hopping-rocket-fireing-grenade jumping gameplay of ETF. TC:E is still only available as a test version, but be sure to give it a try.

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    4. Re:AA:SF is free and fun by Aardpig · · Score: 3, Funny

      I really loved that game. But in my opinion they committed such an atrocity that I couldn't play it any longer. They censored the word "camping".

      Of course they did. You know the US Army.... don't ask.... don't tell....

      wink wink

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  3. ET, the free game platform? by ultrabot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:ET, the free game platform? by AntiNazi · · Score: 2, Informative

      http://www.truecombat.com/intro.php link to true combat: elite

    2. Re:ET, the free game platform? by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 2, Informative
      "The mod automatically gets the largest possible audience, including people who don't want to pay to play the mod and people who run Linux."

      As far as I know, people with a Mac can't run ETF (or ET for that matter)

    3. Re:ET, the free game platform? by wertarbyte · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Not that ET itself is outdated, of course; it's still as addictive and as ass-kickin' as ever.

      Agreed, IMHO ET is far more interesting than counterstrike: I like the complex missions, the different classes, and how you earn new capabilities (Akimbo colts anyone?). I hope that there will be an successor to that, free or not.

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  4. Re:/.ed... by teh_dg · · Score: 2, Informative

    both ET and the patches are on the id FTP, and about all of the usual download sites (and plenty others too). Try activision's rtcw site, and click the Enemy Territory tab at the top, there are several mirrors for both ET and the patch listed there.

    A better (IMO) list of mirrors for ETF is here at PlanetETF, also including the torrents which have been posted already.

    ET is about 260mb, and ETF is just over 200mb. Not an awful lot to download for essentially two completely free multiplayer FPS games.

  5. Re:Gross by WoBIX · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check the revisions of the page.

    Someone edited the Wiki page to say "Slashdot Sux" and put some hand drawn porn on it.

    But it being a Wiki, it was quickly reverted to the original content :)

  6. Wikipediadot by BlastM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Wikipediadot by the+unbeliever · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Slashdot editors have proven time and again they don't care about what happens to sites they link.

  7. Screenshots? by British · · Score: 2, Interesting

    WIth all those links in the story, there were no ones to screenshots.

    C'mon, screenshots!

    1. Re:Screenshots? by teh_dg · · Score: 3, Informative

      There is loads on the etfgame.com website but it was giving up even before the release, with all the people refreshing the page or whatever.

      But anyway I cobbled some together from what I already had on-site from news-postings etc - ETF screenshots.

  8. What I am waiting for is... by HanB · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  9. "Enemy Territory" best game ever! by grolschie · · Score: 2, Informative

    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. :-)

    1. Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever! by wertarbyte · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yeah, I acknowledge the skill of those who can, but I hate it, it really kills the gameplay if someone jumps up the beach at battery, or jumps over the wall in oasis, or enters the fueldump without a covert ops. I don't think that this is the way the map is meant to be played.

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  10. Here are some Australian mirrors by Agret · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

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  11. Screenshots by J_Omega · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  12. whoot.. by Roland · · Score: 2, Interesting


    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.

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