[dritominous]

After all of the problems with the updater, myself and many others can't even play UT anymore.

So, I HIGHLY suggest that the Urban Terror team starts making distro specific packages, like .deb files, for UT.

1. It's more stable

2. It's standard

3. UT will reach more people when you actually put it into the repos.

Anyone else agree? Opposed?

Please discuss this.

This post has been edited by dritominous: 05 March 2013 - 05:29 PM

[Aoleu]

I saw a lot of hate on the forums about this updater, but why? what kind of problems this updater creates that you can't even play UT anymore?

I am on Ubuntu 12.04 and using closed source drivers from AMD(for performance reasons), and beside the official problems posted by FS about their updater, I never encountered any issue with it.

I personally like the idea of an updater, if there is a new content I hit update and everything is up to date, and the game updates itself in the folder witch I specified not through my entire system. The updater creates the oportunity for developers to be able to bring new content over night and I think that the players will be more pleased to update their game through an updater then to --uninstall curent version, download a new version then install the new version -- everytime time when there apears a new content small or big.

If you don't like the updater because of bugs, then why not demand from FS to deal with those bugs(which they do).
If you don't like the updater because of some sort of personal preference, why? I personaly like it.

I don't know why is there so much hate towards this updater like it's some kind of broken concept?

[dritominous]

I see your point about the fast updates. Conceptually, the updater is a sound solution. It's just that it's so buggy!

I mean, this sort of thing should just work!

I don't know, I'm probably just being a frustrated prick.

This post has been edited by dritominous: 06 March 2013 - 10:46 PM

[FS Barbatos]

We're still working hard on the updater to improve it. We did a beta 1 of updaterv3 a few weeks ago and we'll launch a beta 2 soon.

[dritominous]

That's good news, and thanks for the response!

BTW, nice work with ioq3. (Saw your GitHub profile)