Urban Terror

Fun Over Realism

FS OhJay: Hey everyone!  Welcome to the new edition of 'OJ sitting in a chair'! Apologies once again for the lack of a quality heading but the creative titles department hasn't shown their faces since the last time so I'm really just winging it at this point with the title creation...  Anyway, it's been a minute since I have written a blog, and I know I promised to be more regular with them, but between r […]

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A new addition to the team!

Many hands make light work as they say and with such a huge project we are always on the lookout for talented individuals that would complement our team and help us move forward just a little bit quicker.

Today must be our lucky day!

We have found one of these talented individuals that wouldn't mind coming aboard and donating some of his time - and he was the only person to have ever completed the gruelling 6 week long FS boot-camp that is mandatory for all new members - so we kinda have to recruit him now. Anyway, without further ado please welcome the newest member of FrozenSand, Isopropanol!

Iso's work will primarily be in the area of coding, which tells the computer what to do for the game to be played. He has the important task of working with HappyDay, Barbatos, and Arasseo making the game run as it should and fixing the bugs the alpha testers report.

On a personal level, this useful gentleman has been part of our community since 2013 and is both an avid player and server admin. His main professional focus has been developing for business for the past two decades - in his spare time dabbling in a few Android games here and there. This is his first foray into PC game development, but that won't stop him moving forward with full force!

A regular in the support channel on our official discord, Iso is often one of the first people to come to the rescue when things go wrong - as they tend to do when we mess about with our computers, right?

If you see him around be sure to say hello and wish him well with his journey into Urban Terror 5.

Stay tuned for our next new news!

Honourable mention to Krasus who is here too but never got his own welcome post.

DO YOU LOVE TO JUMP?

Season two of the Urban Jump Tournament is about to begin!

This competition will be run over 5 weeks where players will be intensely competing in timed maps to see who can win the crown.

With 10 new maps, it's set to be an awesome experience for the competitors and also those that like to watch them complete these amazingly tricky maps.

There are no sign-ups per se, it is run by our friends over on the pugbot server through discord so get over there and check it out!

Click on the forums link below for all the information you'll need to get started.

Check out these awesome highlights from season 1!

Good luck everyone, and may the fastest win!

Thank you to everyone that filled out the survey and showed interest in joining our group of alpha testers! The survey is now closed.

It's now time for us to start the process of evaluating the survey results, and with nearly 500 responses hopefully all our testing needs will be met.

From here we will work out who best suits the positions, and then contact people accordingly. There is only a certain number of people needed so we do apologize if you didn't make it - please remember it isn't personal.

As we go through the results the people chosen will be contacted and gradually added as we need them; the people that unfortunately didn't make it will also be notified as a courtesy.

If you want to know more about the development process and you missed OJ's blog explaining a bit about it, click here.

We really appreciate all the people who submitted the survey and are willing to help us test Urban Terror 5. Keep the artwork coming for Battle of the Artists and we'll keep you updated on the alpha.

Keep your eyes peeled for our next new news!

Urban Zone's next tournament is almost upon us with another season of the Winter Cup about to begin!

This year however we are starting the year with 2 competitions - 2020 Winter Cup and Rogue Cup #1.

As always the Winter Cup is a 5v5 BM/CTF/TS competition that already has 16 registered teams with 8 spots remaining. Rogue Cup is a new addition, dedicated to a community member 'Rogue' that passed away recently - it's a 2v2 TS competition which currently sits at 23 registered teams and counting.

Our condolences to Rogue's family and friends.

Registrations close Jan 15th so slightly late notice (but better late than never), so get over to the Urban Zone page to sign up!

To register your team and see what teams are already registered, click here.

Have fun and we'll see you on the battlefield!

Just a little update to our Battle of the Artists competition

Hopefully you guys are hard at work on some artwork we can put into our maps - keep them coming we love all the entries! We have a little addition for you though, and this comes in the form of soda cans! INVIS has stretched his imagination to the limit and has come up a little short to fill his vending machines so he thought you guys might like to help.

In case you are a little lost, we have vending machine throughout the maps and those vending machines are filled with products...as they usually are. However we can't use legitimate products from every day life of course. Feel like you have the can to make Invis' vending machines shine? This is your chance!

We are adding this to the existing competition so it all comes under the same banner - everything is the same as far as the rules and regulations are concerned. Except for this you will also need to include all fonts you use and they have to be your own. These fonts can be the free fonts that come with windows, or any other fonts that are CC0 Licensed. You can also find some fonts on DaFont but make sure they are listed as 100% free (as shown in the pic) - we aren't down for copyright infringement so any hint of that and entries will be disqualified.

I have added an example file from the man himself in the form of an INKSCAPE template which has some instructions and comments in there to help you along. To download the template file click here, its attached to the forum post down the bottom but that doesn't seem to work for everyone, OR it's pinned to the mapping channel in discord. You will also need to download Inkscape for free and learn to use it. It's relatively easy - Youtube is your friend.

Also something we forgot to mention last time we are using the hashtag #battleoftheurtartists, so if you want to upload your entries to social media we can find them if you use that tag. As some social media sites won't allow .svg files just post a jpeg with the hashtag and a download link to the file/s.

Invis has added some really useful tips in our mapping channel on discord if you'd like to check them out too here

A copy of the guidelines and copyright licence can be found here

Good luck!

FS OhJay: Hallo everyone!  I know you haven't heard from me in a little while, and I'm terribly sorry about that, but i've had my hands full supervising these guys recently... making sure everything is done right you know... I turned my back on them for a second the other day and before I knew it they'd turned FrozenSand HQ into an inpenetrable fortress and were hurling water balloons via catapult from the […]

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FS OhJay: Welcome to the new edition of 'News with OJ'!  Wait a second...I've just had word...we have a new title!  Welcome to 'OJ typing things!'  Really? That's what we're going with?  Those responsible for sacking those other people have just been sacked.  We will try again next week. Hard to find good help in the 'Creative Titles' department. No wonder they are down there in the basement.  Yes I k […]

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