[=KRH=six6]

Well, I like the steam integration very much. It's always nice to be able to see when your friends are online in an easy way.

[6th|Clear]

KarlMariaSeeberg, on 25 February 2015 - 03:12 PM, said:

Wow, this sucks. I have no interest whatsoever to have steam running on my machine. The nice thing about urt was the easy way in, not much to do, download and play.

Even the addition of the auth system did not change that much, hardly comparable to steam anyway...

I wish you'd stick to a more obstacle free approach

To be fair, for most people, Steam is the most obstacle free approach. It's very easy to press install, wait for the DL to finish, then press play.

[Drizzt]

Barbatos, on 25 February 2015 - 02:49 PM, said:

Urban Terror accounts will be linked to Steam accounts. We won't force you to have a Steam account but not having one will mean that features like matchmaking, achievements, friends system, etc. will be turned off in-game.

We plan to use the Valve AntiCheat (VAC) in Urban Terror HD for clients that have Steam activated. It means that if you are caught cheating by VAC, your Steam and UrT accounts will be permanently banned.

The UrTHD game updates will be handled automatically by Steam but we will continue distributing .zip files of the game on our website as well.

I like the integration with Steam, but if someone want to cheat on a public server, he only needs play without Steam? It's unfair, if Steam have a anti cheat, why not make mandatory play with Steam account?

[FS Barbatos]

It will be up to the servers admins to decide if they want to enforce the use of accounts on their servers or not.

That way everyone will be happy (I guess?). Non-authenticated people will be able to play on servers that do not enforce authentication and authenticated people will be able to play everywhere.

[=KRH=six6]

Are there any ideas about general "official" servers or will there be community servers only?

[MsT*|tintir]

Some more questions:
Will you make community maps, i.e making an official map with the communities ideas, like Dice is doing with Battlefield 4?
Will you make player skins special, i.e having logos, emblems etc. on your chest or other places. Some you can achieve via Steam, and making you looking unique?
How will the custom hair thing work?

[FS BladeKiller]

You will want to play authed to increase your notoriety so you can get the custom hair, holsters, belts, boots, gloves, badges or whatever we make available. If you play with basic noriety you will only be able to use the basic gear. etc. We will be able to make one off player models not just different clothes on an existing one but you are going to have to earn something like this by winning a Knockout tourney or something. We shall see if we can do all the things we have on our wishlist. I hope we can because it will be a lot of fun for everyone.

[KarlMariaSeeberg]

BladeKiller, on 25 February 2015 - 09:37 PM, said:

You will want to play authed to increase your notoriety so you can get the custom hair, holsters, belts, boots, gloves, badges or whatever we make available. If you play with basic noriety you will only be able to use the basic gear. etc. We will be able to make one off player models not just different clothes on an existing one but you are going to have to earn something like this by winning a Knockout tourney or something. We shall see if we can do all the things we have on our wishlist. I hope we can because it will be a lot of fun for everyone.

lol .. for me urt hd is clearly headed into the wrong direction .. imo you are aiming for stuff the game does not need: useless make-up content, awards and achievments .. if i was mean, i'd claim you guys are blinded by ue4's light .. urt should be as pure as, i don't know, tetris or hotline miami (gameplay-wise)

from here it seems like you do what is offered instead of sticking to your own vision .. or at worst the average, mediocre, off the rack fps-game actually is something you'd call your vision for urt..

i guess i am more looking forward to 4.3 than to urt hd now..

[Drizzt]

Barbatos, on 25 February 2015 - 06:32 PM, said:

It will be up to the servers admins to decide if they want to enforce the use of accounts on their servers or not.

That way everyone will be happy (I guess?). Non-authenticated people will be able to play on servers that do not enforce authentication and authenticated people will be able to play everywhere.

Well, right now (4.2) is like you say, but the problem (I think) it's about servers allowing people play with and without account at the same time.

Almost all servers use mixed mode, maybe that's why so many people playing without account.

BladeKiller, on 25 February 2015 - 09:37 PM, said:

You will want to play authed to increase your notoriety so you can get the custom hair, holsters, belts, boots, gloves, badges or whatever we make available. If you play with basic noriety you will only be able to use the basic gear. etc. We will be able to make one off player models not just different clothes on an existing one but you are going to have to earn something like this by winning a Knockout tourney or something. We shall see if we can do all the things we have on our wishlist. I hope we can because it will be a lot of fun for everyone.

Perhaps this helps that people want to get an account to play. I hope so and that majority of the servers run with anticheat, but seeing the current situation where only people with account is under the gaze of anticheats , I foresee servers full of cheaters (more players, more cheaters, many) if the ways to enter a server, are like now.

set  auth_enable                                        "1"   // Set this to 0 to disable the authentication system (more informations on www urbanterror info)
set  auth_notoriety                                     "0"   // Minimum notoriety level to be able to connect to your server. 0 allows everyone to join

It's only my opinion, I don't know if someone more think like me on this thing

[FS Frankie V]

KarlMariaSeeberg, on 26 February 2015 - 12:56 AM, said:

lol .. for me urt hd is clearly headed into the wrong direction .. imo you are aiming for stuff the game does not need: useless make-up content, awards and achievments .. if i was mean, i'd claim you guys are blinded by ue4's light .. urt should be as pure as, i don't know, tetris or hotline miami (gameplay-wise)

from here it seems like you do what is offered instead of sticking to your own vision .. or at worst the average, mediocre, off the rack fps-game actually is something you'd call your vision for urt..

i guess i am more looking forward to 4.3 than to urt hd now..

Quoted for truth.

Dam rights we as a team are 100% in love with Unreal 4 as 90% of the issues facing Urban Terror falls on the other side of obsolesces by design. Nothing is working the way it should as far as the ideas of adding in new features that directly support the ideals and suggestions made by the “community” as a whole.

Epic is the first company in a long time that is even interested in our ideas as to what we want to achieve for the next 15 years as compared to the relationship that once was id/FS that full filled the need to have the engine designer available but it should be clear to most that even id has become yet another victim of OBD.

And

As always we as a team are interested in the ideas presented by the community and more than willing to implement them if they fit with in the fabric of design over personal preferences, look how well that concept works for Linux, yet where we are we can't get to where we all hope this great game will be one day with out change that some may feel does not fit with in the ideals of doing it the right way.

Yes

I agree there are time that we don't know what the hell we are doing as getting it done the right way takes a lot of failures figuring out how to do it through discovery that makes all of the individual parts fit as the sum total of all it's parts.

What is clear.

Top of the list is the “community” wants to see more players yet the ideals are “fix it but don't change anything” seems to be the stronger argument that adding fluff to a 15 year old game will introduce our efforts to a fresh community with 21st century expectations as to what makes for a good game beyond the first impression.

So

To give you the opportunity to state you mind and intentions as to the “right” direction by all means feel free to tell us your views as to what you expect that direction should be as to getting to a year from now,ten years from now, or even another fifteen?

On the other hand.

If all you want is what will get us to tomorrow then you’re out of luck and as I already said we can't get there from here.

Of interest.

Since we made the engine switch not one person has asked us why we switch engine in the first place as it seems that “some” are more interested in telling us that it was a bad idea.