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'."

urban terror vs counterstrike

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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

Re:urban terror vs counterstrike

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How many of those PC cafes did you see running Enemy Territory? There's no reason to believe that a free mod to an already free game will somehow start appearing in places that the free game didn't.

Mixed Reaction, Here.

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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

Re:urban terror vs counterstrike

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You missed the point....entirely.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory != Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

WtCW:ET was a free game from the get go. There are no illegal CD keys to worry about. There is no legality problem that this new mod is going to magically solve. If the game the free mod is being based on is already free and it isn't showing up in a lot of places then why would the poster to the parent of these comments think that the mod would somehow manage to show up in those same places?

no mac support...

[koi88]

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.

What is Urban Terror?

[cthulhubob]

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?