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."

Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[tayhimself]

http://tracker.planetetf.com:81/torrent.html?info_ hash=1ddbd7b24f92b287cc4ab386b83d2bbed18d128d [planetetf.com] 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/ [etf-center.com]

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[teh_dg]

Not sure why this mod got posted up on slashdot considering it really isnt big news

Well, it is more or less another free game. And it works on linux...

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[syukton]

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.

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, speaking of free, ID software had a history of open sourcing their previous-generation game engine shortly after the release of their current-generation one. I mean, it wasn't long after Quake 2 hit the shelves that Quake 1 was made open-source. Again, after Quake 3 came out, the Quake 2 engine was open sourced.

What happened? DOOM 3 came out some time ago, but there hasn't been any word as to when we can expect the Quake 3 engine source to be released. (Or has there?)

It would be great to see the

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[xactoguy]

Here's [armadilloaerospace.com] the reason. In brief: Games are still being released using the Q3 engine. Carmack doesn't feel it's fair to release the source until after those projects are release, which is understandable.

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[Tim C]

Just look at the amazing things that have happened to the quake 1 engine over the past few years. It's _vastly_ superior to what ID software were selling a few years ago!

That's true, but fair's fair - at the time Q1 was released, it was state of the art. The improvements have been possible because the art moved on.

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[Ride-My-Rocket]

>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.

What was the middle part again?

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[Kentsusai]

Yes free is good! Right on! Publish all the free stuff you can /.

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[andalay]

Linux torrent seems down.

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[Saeger]

So I dl'd and installed it (the linux version), but their ingame serverlist [etf-center.com] has been down for hours, and the two gameservers posted are down as well. Maybe later.

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[wertarbyte]

Just use xqf (http://www.linuxgames.com/xqf/). It's a really nice and comfortable game browser for a lot of (really a lot of) games, enabling you to browse the serverlist, filter it by custom criteria, look for friends playing. I can't game without it, since most in-game server browsers simply suck. Give it a try.

Re:Torrent Link for the ETF mod

[pranay]

Not sure why this mod got posted up on slashdot

Not sure why this post got modded up on slashdot!

Re:Friends don't let friends play Team Fortress.

[kwandar]

I was thinking perhaps they play Empire Deluxe Enhanced Edition instead, like I am these days! :)

(No association with www.killerbeesoftware.com other than as a VERY hapy Empire player!)

Re:Friends don't let friends play Team Fortress.

[glrotate]

Not to mention it was a common saying in the Quake 1 days. It was a line used by the Thunderwalker CTF guys.

Re:Friends don't let friends play Team Fortress.

[MBraynard]

whelp, just remember to meta-moderate daily and fix the problem.

Re:... and I was modded off-topic.

[Jim_Callahan]

Ha, ha. Very funny, guys.

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Re:AA:SF is free and fun

[pavel_987]

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 th

Re:AA:SF is free and fun

[Saeger]

So spell it "c a m p e r", "c4mper", "camp3r", "camp-er", "kamper", or any of the other ways you have to to get around those lame censor-nazi rules.

If I find myself on one of those types of auto-censoring servers I make it point to stick around and fvcking swear more than I normally would. I just can't stand the language nazis.

Re:AA:SF is free and fun

[Boronx]

Why did they do that? Do they want to support campers?

Re:AA:SF is free and fun

[black mariah]

Yes. In the Army they're generally called 'snipers'.

Re:AA:SF is free and fun

[Aardpig]

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

Re:AA:SF is free and fun

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:AA:SF is free and fun

[wertarbyte]

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.

Re:AA:SF is free and fun

[wormeyman]

Americas army is not like counter strike at all! americas army has much more tactics involved.

American Army speaks about cheaters

[kinsoa]

"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

Re:

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Re:Bunny heaven is back

[bdogg0582]

try playing it bunnyhopping is relative to the class' "vanilla" speed. a hwguy will NEVER go as fast as a recon

Re:Bunny heaven is back

[Pxtl]

Other engines have TF games that don't suffer from that - I'm fond of Team Fortress UT, for example. Hell, even later StarCraft patches provide a Team Fortress mod. Still, its nice to see Team Fortress available for a free-as-in-beer game.

Still, I want to see a free (as in GPL) FPS with the kind of mod community that the closed-source people get, without having to look at fossils like Doom and Quake 1.

/.ed...

[TheMadPenguin]

Server is down. Anyone have a link to the patch on SplashDamage?

Re:/.ed...

[teh_dg]

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 [activision.com], 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 [planetetf.com], 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.

Re:/.ed...

[TheMadPenguin]

Awesome! Thanks bud. I got em

Gross

[TheBadger]

Has anyone actually clicked the Wikipedia link?

Not pleasant and totally off topic!

Some dick just changed it.

[krudler]

It was actually a very detailed and well written article on the game.

Re:Gross

[TelJanin]

I got a page about the game Enemy Territory. What on earth did you get?

Re:Gross

[WoBIX]

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 :)

Re:Gross

[Kethinov]

From the page...

This page has been protected from editing to deal with vandalism. Please discuss any proposed changes on the talk page.

I suspect this may become a more and more popular trend and Wikipedia becomes more and more popular. Schools may start to demand that pages on certain topic be locked before children do research.

Wikipediadot

[BlastM]

Luckily someone managed to revert [wikipedia.org] 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 [penny-arcade.com], the large audience and relative anonymity of the internet can make good people do bad t

Re:Wikipediadot

[the unbeliever]

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

Re:Wikipediadot

[Spy Hunter]

The easier fix is to edit the article but not change anything, then link to the version in the page history. The page history can't be edited, so the link is permanent. OTOH, this goes against the Wiki spirit, because this would discourage Slashdot visitors from improving the page as well. (the edit link would be gone, and improvements to the current version wouldn't show up on Slashdot).

Re:Wikipediadot

[jeffdsimpson]

Actually the edit link is still there and if you edit the old version, it becomes the current version. Wikipedia is set up this was so as to make it easy to revert vandalism.

ET, the free game platform?

[ultrabot]

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.

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[AntiNazi]

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

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[Xii]

Yes and Urban Terror is coming as well. There is a problem in that there is no Mac client, though.

http://www.urbanterror.net/ [urbanterror.net]

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[teh_dg]

True. At least two people have offered to give it a go (IIRC, some guy from Aspyr in his free time, and an author of one of ET's biggest mods, ETPro), however either id or Activision isn't giving them the code they need in order to do it, which is kind of understandable since they'd need to give them all of it.

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[jonwil]

Since RTCW and RCTW Eenmy Territory are (AFAIK) essentially a modified Quake 3 engine, once the source code to that engine is released, there is a lot less reason for ID to hold back releasing the source code to RCTW and RCTW:ET.

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[88NoSoup4U88]

"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)

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[Jagasian]

Actually, the original Quake would be that platform as it runs on old and new hardware, PCs, Macs, Linux, Solaris, Xbox, etc... You also get to play the real Team Fortress, as opposed to some clone.

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[syrion]

The original Team Fortress was really a horrible hack. A great mod, yes, but a horrible hack anyway. Quake could barely handle some of the maps, like canalzon. It's also quite ugly without doing some serious engine customizations, and it's open to hacks and cheats. Furthermore, the Quake engine itself is clunky. I still play custom Quake maps, but there are some really bizarre problems: try strafing while moving forward, for example. I prefer TFC to ETF and Q3F, though. It just feels more profession

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[TheLink]

Uh, what's the problem with strafing and moving forward?

BTW isn't ETF/Q3 open to hacks and cheats too? Autoaim ruins most of these games anyway - even if people don't use it to aim - they can use it to find enemies.

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[Jagasian]

Yeah, the movement physics in Quake and especially Quakeworld are wonderful! They are no where near realistic, but that isn't the point, they are very fun. You can do all sorts of movement tricks, to gain speed or help dodge things. It adds an element to the game that is missing from other FPS games. The most dedicated group TF players are the Quakeworld TeamFortress players. They have been playing TF longer than anybody else.

Take a look at some of their frag/trick videos. Great stunts, great frags,

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[wertarbyte]

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.

Re:ET, the free game platform?

[wed128]

Not nessesarily. I solely run linux and own legit copies of several games, including UT2004 and Neverwinter nights. It's not that we don't want to pay to play games, it's just that we seldom get the oppurtunity to.

its saturday

[aztektum]

and with the ice storm outside, i don't really feel like going anywhere. what better excuse to play games?

Screenshots?

[British]

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

C'mon, screenshots!

Re:Screenshots?

[teh_dg]

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 [jolt.co.uk].

Netcode, ughh

[SnowCrashed]

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.

Re:Netcode, ughh

[peeon]

I would not necessarily say quake 3 netcode is the problem. Call of Duty is based off the same netcode and my lag is not extreme as wolf:et. CoD is playable, while Wolf:ET is not. Wolf:ET only game that gets major lag through dialup even if you change your settings to 56k and decrease the 'rate' to '1000'. I think the punkbuster client might be the issue, but I don't know.

Re:Netcode, ughh

[SnowCrashed]

I actually experience nearly the same thing in Call of Duty... However, it's not *quite* as bad.

Re:Netcode, ughh

[s0l0m0n]

If you are talking about ET, try tweaking the fuck out of the .cfg files.

It made a big difference in my game experence.

[MS]jones

Re:Netcode, ughh

[leathered]

Q3 has the finest netcode of any game I've played. Granted it's more friendly towards broadband connections, but it's the only game you can confidently snipe with the railgun at a moving target two pixels wide at the other end of the map.

As for UTxxxx's netcode, all I can say is that it's very suspect at times which is a shame as they are all good games, even the best players moan about the netcode and how they missed what they thought was a sure shot.

Re:Netcode, ughh

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

I'd just like more configurable netcode. Q3 is probably the most reliable (well, next to Q1, But considering the added complexity of the models its understandable).
CounterStrike is pretty much unplayable if someone on the other team is on a bad connection. They skip around very hard to hit, yet can still kill you all the same. As someone who even relied on the sv_unlag that allows dialup players to play for years, I say get rid of supporting dialup users. Its not fun to play on dialup. Its not fun to play

Re:Netcode, ughh

[Andy Dodd]

My netcode rankings:
Classic QW is #1, period
Q3 is second, behind by quite a bit

UTxxx is waaaaay behind both of them.

What I am waiting for is...

[HanB]

What I am waiting for is the http://urbanterror.net/ [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.

Re:What I am waiting for is...

[RichiP]

Have to agree. When I stopped playing UT, I wasn't exactly tired of it (just moved to other games). It'd be nice if someone actually ported it to the ET engine.

Re:What I am waiting for is...

[Kagenin]

Totally! UT Rocked! I friggin loved that mod! It played so damn well, the maps were decent, the weapons were rad... the gunsight feature was totally damn cool... I always liked UT a lot more than CounterStrike.

Re:What I am waiting for is...

[WWWWolf]

They don't care how good it looks? But still, it looks pretty damn good =)

Yup. Urban Terror rules. The only bad thing about Urban Terror was that last summer, every time I went playing Q3A, everyone was playing UT and no one was playing Q3F. I hope ETF will have more players.

But I wasn't complaining. Urban Terror's popularity is completely justified. Really great playability.

Re:What I am waiting for is...

[Andy Dodd]

Yeah, Urban Terror is lots of fun.

Although I preferred Q3F, unfortunately Q3F is basically dead, no one plays it anymore. :(

"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[grolschie]

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. :-)

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[Boronx]

Am I the only one who can't stand a WWII shooter where the dominant play style is bunny hopping?

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[grolschie]

Do you mean "trick-jumping"? While many do it, it takes skill and *most* cannot do it well.

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[wertarbyte]

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.

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[qoa]

It's entirely possible to enter the fuel dump without trickjumps or covert oper or even grenades. Who needs them when you can just stand outside of the door and wait for a nice axis to open the door so you can run in? No shots required.

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[wertarbyte]

OK, I consider this "Using an enemy uniform", even if the enemy is still wearing it :-) I have no problem with this kind of infiltration, but trickjumping just kills the gameplay.

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[qoa]

The tricky part is getting onto the roof behind an unknowing axis before that door closes. An alternative is to plant all 10 of your teams mine's by the far side of the depo, then waiting for your bar to charge and planting at the defenses. If you get lucky the mines will protect your plant long enough for you to get into the dump.

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[grolschie]

How do the allies get on roof to the left of the main gate to depot (upstairs from axis spawn)?

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[qoa]

That's a difficult trick jump that I've never made without using a grenade on myself as I jumped. It's from the exit to the tunnels along the side of the level. I've made it twice with the grenade. Check here [et-trickjumping.com] for videos of it.

Re:"Enemy Territory" best game ever!

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Probably not, but theres also tons of people like me, who get bored out of their mind with your average WW2 game(And lets face it, there are a lot).
Then RTCW came around and threw some zombies and a flame thrower in the mix, and made a fun game rather than an interactive documentary.

Here are some Australian mirrors

[Agret]

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

Re:Here are some Australian mirrors

[Agret]

Sorry about reply-to-own post, I found an ETF Mirror for Australia.

http://www.planetquake3.net/download.php?op=viewdo wnloaddetails&lid=2152
Click on Australia you will get it off Pacific Internet :)

Re:Here are some Australian mirrors

[superpulpsicle]

I got ETF from fileshack.com. There is currently no line. I was expecting to wait for hours in the queue, and my wait time was 20 seconds.

Re:Here are some Australian mirrors

[Agret]

I understand lines help regulate bandwidth but I personally find sites with no lines to be much better. I think they should just cap their downloads to 50kb/s or 100kb/s max depending on the current load and remove lines. Will make the system run much better for everyone :)

The Splash Damage site is down...

[Anonymous Coward]

...for urgent maintenance. Normal service will resume as soon as possible. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Looks like the server got Slashfragged.

et source

[Faust]

The game source is available, but has anybody tried making it linux build friendly like the q3a game source?

Screenshots

[J_Omega]

are available there http://www.etfgame.com/shots/ [etfgame.com] for the classes http://www.etfgame.com/shots/classes/index.shtml [etfgame.com], weapons http://www.etfgame.com/shots/weapons/index.shtml [etfgame.com], and levels http://www.etfgame.com/shots/levels/index.shtml [etfgame.com].

It looks like etfgame.com took these links off of the homepage, probably because they're serving the 200MB mod as well.

Re:Screenshots

[teh_dg]

I can never quite fathom slashdot comment scoring. Posting links to a site even while stating that they do not work is considered as informative as it gets, while posting a link that works [slashdot.org] is only a little bit informative.

Re:Screenshots

[J_Omega]

Oh, they work. The links just weren't readily available from their main page.

What better time to

[88NoSoup4U88]

plug an upcoming mappack in the making ;

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 [lycos.co.uk]

Official Bittorrent Tracker For Enemy Territory

[Anonymous Coward]

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com:6969/

whoot..

[Roland]

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.

Re:whoot..

[Roland]

and good typing skills are stupid, but beer = good.

ETF Linux download

[Errabes]

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.
Though, the mirrors page http://www.etfgame.com/files/mirrors/etf_10_linux. shtml [etfgame.com]
and torrent http://tracker.planetetf.com:81/torrent.html?info_ hash=b8d4a22cce906b1ad88b58ba4433af725807ba4a [planetetf.com] are available.

Re:TF2

[Anonymous Coward]

really, we want TFT

Are you new?

[Slash Watch]

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 m

Re:That's great.

[Xenolith]

It'll be awhile... read Carmacks blog... http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent %20Updates

Re:arse

[arkane1234]

Quiet Saddam.. back into your cell. Computer time is over.

Re:arse

[SkyWalk423]

I never have mod points when I need them! Parent is +1 Hilarious.