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Not that ET itself is outdated, of course; it's still as addictive and as ass-kickin' as ever.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