RTCW: Enemy Territory Full Version Released 350
bani writes "Following just a month after the test release, Enemy Territory has finally made a full version release! You can download the Linux and Windows versions for free, it does not require the retail Return to Castle Wolfenstein product in order to play.
Hats off to Id+Activision+SplashDamage for giving the community such an excellent 3d FPS, for FREE!"
Update by J : Id has set up a
BitTorrent
for the downloads. And if anyone needs a Mac beta-tester, I'm available :)
Fileplanet ! NOOOOOOOOOO! Mirrors? (Score:4, Insightful)
I despise having to have an account for places like this, and when you do get through its usually slow as hell.
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Any Mirrors???!?!?
Please post a BitTorrent (Score:2, Insightful)
My guess as to why it is free (Score:5, Insightful)
Still I thought the ET test game was excellent and I'm looking forward to this. IMHO, Wolfenstein just kicks the shit out of the likes of UT2003 with their flashier visuals simply because it is not one tedious fragfest with everyone bouncing around like kangaroos.
Re:See any problems with this story? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Win/Linux Games...Mac? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is a rather silly reason not to port a game to MacOS X...
**Jaw Drops** (Score:5, Insightful)
Thanks guys!!!
Gentoo Soon (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:no such thing as a free lunch (Score:2, Insightful)
Not bloody likely is it?
Id software have long shown a commitment to both gamers and linux, and this gesture is nothing but designed to garner goodwill - why would they risk it for something thats worth jack shit anyway?
Including Spyware which would inevitably get discovered is completely at odds with what they're trying to achieve.
feh.
Re:however (Score:2, Insightful)
Hopefully, keeping it closed may slow down the cheats a bit.
Re:Yes, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Why not?
In RL, courtesy gives the host a slightly louder voice in a topic of conversation (especially one with thousdands of participants.) No reason the same can't be true on
Re:My guess as to why it is free (Score:3, Insightful)
The cardinal sin as far as I was concerned was the motion sickness inducing design to the game. I really hate games where you spend a lot of time spinning around, wandering back and forth through bland levels of twisty staircases, or corridors to hit switches to open doors and things of that nature. At the end of a level I'm just about ready to throw up. Postal 2 suffers the same problem but even worse and I just can't stand games like that.
I don't have that problem with multi-player where you have objectives and spend most of the time fighting towards it, or other FPS games such as Grand Theft Auto so I can only attribute the problem to unimaginative and tedious level design.
Re:however (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, you are very welcome to write one and donate it to the comunity.
Re:however (Score:3, Insightful)
And that still doesn't solve the problem, because you still have to trust the client program. If the cheaters have access to the program, they can have it generate any encrypted packets they want anyway.
Better would be to not let the client know anything that it shouldn't know: transmit all keystrokes/mouse movements to the server, and then have the server send the screen to display back. Of course, that's quite impossible with current bandwidth and processor/graphics card limitations.
Of course, that still won't spell the end of cheating. By the time we can do that, it will probably be easy to have a program that watches the screen and generates mouse movements accordingly, or something of that nature. It's an arms race, and the cheaters will always win.
This is, of course, the reason why I usually don't play games online any more. (Well, one of the reasons. Foul-mouthed twelve-year-olds is another.) It's too bad that the single player game of ET didn't pan out.
Re:Yes, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Sounds like this is the point, actually. And if you're one of the folks who cares about karma, then you'd have another reason to subscribe.
I doubt it'll have much of an effect though. It appears that from the recent spate of postings provided by newer users for our reading pleasure, the Weekly World News crowd has arrived in force - and they care not a whit for karma.
Max
Re:Win/Linux Games...Mac? (Score:3, Insightful)
I realize that it could be used to play warez copies of WCIII, and that battle.net could not. But it was pretty clear that there were substantial uses other than facilitating the enjoyment of "pirates."
I wrote them and told them that, my shelf of blizzard games notwithstanding, that I would never buy another blizzard product. I'm standing by that statement, until they either change management or issue an apology. I hope other
Re:however (Score:4, Insightful)
Quake 2 remains one of my most played games ever, and I am absolutely thrilled that id released the full source to that game. To me, quake2 is about as quality as it gets. Sure it's a little outdated now, but the basic physics and gameplay still appeals to me.