Urban Terror

Fun Over Realism

Sunday the 27th of March at 15:00 CET, Urban Zone will be hosting a KNOCKOUT tournament. The event will be streamed on twitch.tv/urbanzone and the reigning Crimzon will be defending his belt.

It's been over a year now since the last edition, and as France just won NationsCup XIX with flying colours, Urban Terror's eSport scene needs some more challenges in the go!

Competition wise as an event KnockOut is two hours of non-stop action where rules of fair play become a suggestion and where rules are broken by but not limited to shoutcasters narcing out campers as well as players not able to handle the pressure and intentionally lemming off of tall buildings if just for the shear entertainment value. Nothing better than participating or watching the broadcast to get a good picture. :)

How can you sign up?

Signups will be done through the Urban Zone website, this news post has all the details. The first 15 to reply to this news post get a spot. If you aren’t one of the lucky fifteen, don't get discouraged and sign up anyway – some people always drop out and you can take up their place.

Please find more information on Urban Zone KNOCKOUT tournaments here.

This coming Sunday on March 13, 2016 the Finals are on deciding which Nation is best of the XIX's NationsCup of Urban Terror.

You can follow it all Live by stream on www.urt-tv.org.

Coverage

You can find all of this year's Nations Cup Highlights and full matches that were streamed in this playlist, including the full match of both semifinals.

Same goes for the news coverage made by The Urban Times, please find here any content they posted related to this Nation's Cup.

In anticipation of the upcoming release of Urban Terror 4.3, we would like to offer a short overview of what the community should expect from it. Firstly, however, we would like to add, in a bit of a gloomy state of mind, that with the release to come we will bade farewell to Urban Terror 4.x and ioQuake! Since the future releases will be developed using the new Unreal Engine 4 and will bear a new name, we expect 4.3 to represent the final Urban Terror 4.x release, as well as the final one using the venerable ioQuake engine.

The Urban Terror 4.3 release will be focusing on introducing a new game mode, a bunch of new weapons, along with various other additions and improvements.

What's happening to the maps ?

The default map list was pruned for this 4.3 Urban Terror release. More specifically, the test maps, the third-party maps, as well as those maps which proved to be seldom played within the community were removed from the default installation package. Of course, they can always be downloaded separately by those who grew to appreciate or perform well when playing them.

AbbeyCTF, Ambush, Commune, Company, Crossing, Harbortown, Horror, Maya, Prague_v2, Snoppis, Toxic, Tunis

As with every aspect of Urban Terror, we expect each of the listed maps to have nostalgic supporters. We apologize to those who could be disappointed and kindly ask them to download them separately from map repos now.

In order to avoid downloading an unnecessary custom map to play Kingdom in TS mode, the official version of the map has been updated with the RC6 layout in the said gametype. The new level benefits from the latest graphic improvements realised along with new music added in the tavern area.
You can enjoy a quick preview of the update throughout this short clip:



More to come regarding the new game mode and other improvements in 4.3. Stay tuned!

While the Nations' Cup is subtly reaching the exciting stage of the bronze and grand finals, the Urban Zone League announced this weekend the opening of their regular season signups.

Once again, teams will be able to face one another in Bomb & Defuse, Capture The Flag or Team Survivor.

Take a glance at the signups; some very promising and old school teams have signed up already.

The show will be at the rendezvous !

Divisions will be supervised by experienced league Administrators and Referees who are always willing to lend a hand and answer any questions that you may have, they can be reached via PM on the site, or through the Quakenet IRC channel #Urban-Zone

Seasons 26/19/11 might be the first ones played on the new Urban Terror 4.3.

Signups are open until March the 6th 2016, so make sure your team is enrolled and ready to play! (Only 5 spots left for BOMB league already)

On the 27th and 28th February 2016, the BST Team will be inviting you to enjoy this year's UrT Weekend adventure.

The event is open to the entire community with the goal of gathering as many players as possible, in order to have fun, meet new people and meet old friends.

On these days, players will be able to join freely six different Urban Terror servers with multiple game types.
You can vote for your favourite modes here.

Last year over 600 players joined the event, let's see if we can smash the record this year!

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