Old Favourites for 4.1

We are releasing all the maps that were updated for Urban Terror 4.1 including Docks, Swim, Ricochet, Uptown, and more.

These maps do not meet our quality standards that we have planned for Urban Terror HD, so we thought it was best to release them in an update pack for Urban Terror 4.1 !

We have also included the updated player skins that were tested months ago in 4.1. We hope you enjoy playing some of your old favourites in 4.1 while we work on.



WARNING This update can break compatibility with 4.1 servers. Request the admins to update their servers.

FTW Gaming League has started signups for Season 4.

While we are not ready to test the first Mac and Linux Alpha versions of Urban Terror HD, we don't want to hold back on stuff that really needs testing, so without further ado, here is Urban Terror HD Alpha 0.3.



Thanks to you, the community, testing we could implement some code fixes very quickly. You should always report any bug or unwanted behaviour you find in our special forum, and not try to fix it yourself!

Alpha 0.3 changes:

Read the full changelog for more information.

We were not sure what to expect of Public QA testing.

But the launch of Alpha Test 1.0.1 went very well and we received lots of excellent feedback.
Thank you all for trying it out, including those of you who did not manage to get it to work!

The Urban Terror developers have been busy getting things lined up for the next Alpha release.

Obviously, there has not been time to get all of the reported bugs fixed... But many improvements have been made:

Updated Code, Player Skins, Spas, Suburbs, and more.

You will find Alpha2 more friendly to the less powerful computers, yet faster newer systems will be strained to max of their capacity.




We're aiming to patch the alphas fairly regularly, the current prime todo list looks like:

Engine Side:

Gameplay Side:

Support Side:

Content wise:
Alpha1 isn't even close to the final content we have lined up for the Beta. You're missing the new sniper rifle, the male player models, the proper player animations, the proper player skins, and a heap of missing features. We'll also be chopping and changing the map selection a fair bit.


Please report your experiences in our special forum, however we ask you to take into consideration that this is still very much an unfinished product.

Public QA is here!

For years one of the biggest problems we've had is who to let test our development versions of the game. People feel left out, leak our files, and generally there's this undercurrent of drama about the whole thing. Even more embarrassing is that we still miss bugs, almost in direct proportion to how big the release is.

So! We're doing things differently now. The next version of Urban Terror is going to go through a public alpha cycle, so anyone who is brave enough to join the adventure will be able to do so.

A Warning, though. This is an Win32 ALPHA build with brand new engine technology, so there will be lots of problems and it simply might not run on some computers. We also do not have our MAC and Linux builds done, or have the passport integration or anticheat ready to go. Stuff is broken and alot of the art is placeholder.


We've set up a forum to gather issues, and our team will be promoting stuff to our internal bug tracker as it comes up. If you like bugs, try this alpha build, read the readme file and follow its instructions.

Consider it an adventure.

Merry Christmas,

Team Frozen Sand

As we are getting closer to launch day, we thought it would be nice to let you know a bit more about what to expect.

Currently we are testing the release version for Public QA testing and are fixing the last bugs to get it ready to let you all try it as well.

If you are interested in testing or just want to check out what's coming next, you will want to try this Public Quality Assurance version.

The Passport will not be enabled yet, so no need to worry about that for now. This means that Anti Cheat will also not be available for Public testing.

To whet your appetite we wanted to show you a preview of some of the new weapons our artists have created:





Feel free to comment here

Frozen Sand has asked Unifiedtone to join the team to create music and sound compositions for Urban Terror.

Unifiedtone is a composer and audio engineer with years of experience using Logic Pro for composing music, creating sound effects and mixing audio.

Here is a short sample of some current work in progress pieces that Unifiedtone is working on for Urban Terror:



Please feel free to comment here

Players

Please change your cl_master value by entering the following line into your console.

cl_master "master.urbanterror.info"

If you want to set this in a config you can use the following.

set cl_master "master.urbanterror.info"

Custom builds can not at this time be fixed by the above method. The maintainers for these builds will need to fix the error. They have been emailed!

Server Admins

Please edit your server configs to change the master servers that your server sends heartbeats to.

set sv_master2 "master.urbanterror.info"
set sv_master3 "master2.urbanterror.info"


After this is set you must restart your server. Quit it and start it up again. The changes are only done on a FULL restart of the server process.

Why?

Due to a change in our network setup the .net DNS has broken and we are unable to fix this. Until everyone does this the ingame browser is effectivly broken.

Thanks!

Due to a large upgrade to our service network you may experience 'loss of service'.

Services Affected:

While we will try to minimize the downtime it will be impossible to eliminate it totally.

Thank you for your patience.

After creating successful maps as ut4_kingdom and ut4_kingpin, Papyruny has now made the ultimate jungle adventure with ut4_raiders!



You may recognise Papyruny's talent in above pictures, Frozen Sand certainly did, and so we are very happy to announce that he accepted our invitation to join the development team!

Please feel free to commment and welcome Papyruny in our forum!