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Urban Terror
The 27 Days of Terror: Day 16 - Standalone Version
With id Software releasing the open source code for Quake III Arena during 2005, this opened the door for many exciting changes in future versions of Urban Terror. One of those changes was the possibility to bring Urban Terror to new gamers who never experienced the mod "back in the day." Every passing day it becomes just a bit more difficult to find a retail copy of Quake III Arena.
One reason behind the port of Urban Terror to RtCW: Enemy Territory was to take advantage of the fact that Splash Damage built it as a full, stand alone game. PunkBuster even provided anti-cheat support the game, which generated it's own, unique key that could be used in conjunction with PB. This option had not been available to the development team prior to this open source release.
We have successfully created a stand alone client for Urban Terror, using the urbanterror.exe and not requiring gamers to install Quake III Arena. This version has recently been released to the Quality Assurance Team and is undergoing testing. Urban Terror is still a mod and will be fully compatible with both Quake III Arena and our stand alone, urbanterror.exe.
One area we are continue to develop is that of the anti-cheat for the stand alone client. Since this version does not require Quake III Arena, there is no PunkBuster support for it. That could potentially open the door to all sorts of nasties we dealt with prior to their support coming online for Quake III Arena. This will mean that urbanterror.exe clients will not be able to play on PB supported servers, while the Q3 mod clients can play anywhere.
We are still working on possible solutions for some type of anti-cheat when used with the urbanterror.exe, as well as taking suggestions from the community and QA Team. But rest assured we will have two versions of Urban Terror available for download on release day and gamers will all be able to play on servers not running PB.
One reason behind the port of Urban Terror to RtCW: Enemy Territory was to take advantage of the fact that Splash Damage built it as a full, stand alone game. PunkBuster even provided anti-cheat support the game, which generated it's own, unique key that could be used in conjunction with PB. This option had not been available to the development team prior to this open source release.
We have successfully created a stand alone client for Urban Terror, using the urbanterror.exe and not requiring gamers to install Quake III Arena. This version has recently been released to the Quality Assurance Team and is undergoing testing. Urban Terror is still a mod and will be fully compatible with both Quake III Arena and our stand alone, urbanterror.exe.
One area we are continue to develop is that of the anti-cheat for the stand alone client. Since this version does not require Quake III Arena, there is no PunkBuster support for it. That could potentially open the door to all sorts of nasties we dealt with prior to their support coming online for Quake III Arena. This will mean that urbanterror.exe clients will not be able to play on PB supported servers, while the Q3 mod clients can play anywhere.
We are still working on possible solutions for some type of anti-cheat when used with the urbanterror.exe, as well as taking suggestions from the community and QA Team. But rest assured we will have two versions of Urban Terror available for download on release day and gamers will all be able to play on servers not running PB.
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