Due to a large upgrade to our service network you may experience 'loss of service'.

Services Affected:

While we will try to minimize the downtime it will be impossible to eliminate it totally.

Thank you for your patience.

After creating successful maps as ut4_kingdom and ut4_kingpin, Papyruny has now made the ultimate jungle adventure with ut4_raiders!



You may recognise Papyruny's talent in above pictures, Frozen Sand certainly did, and so we are very happy to announce that he accepted our invitation to join the development team!

Please feel free to commment and welcome Papyruny in our forum!

Q: Is Urban Terror staying free to play?
A: Yes, it is.

Q: Are you guys dropping linux support?!
A: No. We'll be releasing simultaneously on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Q: What about security? You guys took a while to patch the ioquake rcon holes.
A: We'll be able to stay on top of server exploits now that we have some staff dedicated to the problem.

Q: What about open sourcing the server code?
A: The terms of the licence we're using prevents us from doing so. Server admins will no longer be able to modify the server code.
However, we share many of the concerns pointed out by server admins so tools for server management and customization are being developed.

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We have found a new concept artist for our beloved game Urban Terror!



Frozen Sand's newest team member; la 25806 is a very talented illustrator, designs maps, and of course loves to play (with) Urban Terror. Employed by well know French cartoon productions as a cartoon artist.



Please feel free to welcome Nounou here

UCL is about to start it's first 1 versus 1 Knife League. So if you ever wondered whether you could survive with only the knife? You now have the chance to find out!

Sign up here

The Universal Cyber League will be hosting a 1vs1 Knife Only Cup with knockout rounds starting December 13th.

You are also invited to suggest or create a match map for this event.
You can post your ideas in the UCL forum, or if you prefer comment here.

Frozen Sand is proud to announce that two more coders have joined the team to work on the next release of Urban Terror.



Please welcome mister 25379 and monsieur 14041 !

Amanieu is an engine coder and has spent a lot of time programming for various Quake 3 related projects, such as XreaL and Tremulous. AbsolutelyNoOne has been in software development for over 20 years under Linux/Windows, and has done a couple of mods of Q3 so he is familiar with Q3 game code. They will be working on engine code and game code respectively.

With the acquisition of these two excellent programmers Frozen Sand has effectively doubled the number of coders on the team.
Obviously they have been put to work straight away! :D

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Hi folks, Frozen Sand here with some important news about the next release. Firstly, Urban Terror 4.2 is still coming. It’s got new maps, new visuals, new weapons, a new renderer and of course, the passport anticheat. It’s got the most new content and features since the original 2.0. Pretty amazing seeing it was supposed to be just a nice quiet patch done sometime last year. Everybody loves feature creep, right?

To be able to do all that, Frozen Sand is going to ship as an official Q3 licensee, forked properly from the 1.32b Quake sources. The GPL stuff we’ve made public releases of (IoUrbanTerror 4.1 and IOBumpy) will still have their sources available, but there won’t be another Q3/GPL’d Engine Urban Terror release. From the next version on out, Urban Terror will be its own standalone game with its own engine and no longer a mod. This means we can do the tech we want instead of having to keep backwards compatibility with vanilla Q3.

With all these changes, this is a new era for our game, and it can't be simply named 4.2. We have decided to publish this next major release with a fully new name:



Urban Terror HD (Beta 1)

Q: So when is 4.2/Urban Terror HD, coming out then? We’re going to have to wait forever now arn’t we???

A: Before you freak out, this actually means we can finally ship Urban Terror HD sooner rather than later, because we’ve been debating the correct way to resolve the GPL issue and still release an Anticheat for over a year now. Lots of time waiting gave us lots of time to keep adding features. But now beta 1’s feature set is locked in stone, and we’ll be doing public QA testing with our new standalone game and engine sometime between now and Christmas.

Please feel free to comment here !

The first FTWGL Fall-Winter Triathlon Tournament 2010 starts on November the 7th.

Match dates will be Sundays and Tuesdays at 9:00PM EST.

First map being a 12 minute round of team survivor, second map being two 6 minute halves of capture the flag and finally if needed a third map consisting of two 6 minute bomb halves.

With a $100 USD in server payments to the winning team! More information here

Signups close on Friday, November 5th.

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The Second Season of the Latin American League begins on sunday 24 of October!
After the excellent Latin American Nations League, the second season of UrTLA - Teams League is also looking to be great.

This season UrTLA has made some changes:

And much more!

Check out the UrTLA website for more information here

Please feel free to comment here

Urt jumpers is taking jumping seriously and is now starting their first season of a Jumps Competition.

This competition is open to anyone from Beginner to Pro, with a duration of 6 months.

Sign-ups will be open from the 18th of September and will be closed at the end of the month.

For more information: