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Urban Terror News
Urban Zone Winter Cups
Good news everyone! Urban Zone is holding two competitions this winter. The Winter Fun Cup will be dedicated to fun, chill and relaxed games and the teams will be able to choose the mode they want to play. The Winter Pro Cup will be dedicated to serious and try harder players, the teams will only be able to choose the same map once, like in league div1.
For more information regarding game type, rules and to sign up please vist Urban Zone.
Urban Terror Security Update
Urban Terror players!
Vulnerabilities found
Several vulnerabilities have been detected within the game engine and may be used by malicious entities to alter your game experience. We've made the necessary fixes and it is highly recommended to update your game clients as soon as possible.How to update?
There are two ways to update your game client:• Launch the UrTUpdater which is located in your Urban Terror game folder, it will automatically download and update the necessary files
• Manually download the files from here and put them in your Urban Terror game folder
Information: Game servers are not affected by those vulnerabilities, but it is also recommended to update your servers with the new binaries.
Stay safe and happy fragging!The Battle Jump tournament
It's been a long time since the Urban Terror community has put together a proper jump related event. To remedy that, Sachka and Hugo are organizing the Battle Jump competition, hosted by Urban Zone, and everybody from beginner to skilled jumper is welcome to participate.
There will be three different divisions in which people with the same skill level compete against each other, on maps with matching complexity and difficulty level. The goal is to be the fastest in your bracket to finish the maps.
The tournament will span several weeks and multiple maps will be played in each division. To participate, it is necessary that you are using an Urban Terror account and that you are registered on the Urban Zone website.
For this first edition of the Battle Jump Tournament, the organizers offer 50 € to the winner of each division. In the next few days you will be able to access the rules as well as the official list of maps that will be played.
Good luck and lots of fun to all the participants!
Promotional video
Schedule
• October 18 - Contest rules published on the Urban Zone website
• October 21 - Registrations open on the Urban Zone website
More information
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Urban Zone Knockout 2017
Urban Zone is hosting a new KNOCKOUT event on Sunday, May 7th at 15:00 CET. The event will be streamed on twitch.tv/urbanzone and the reigning champion, Crimzon` will be defending his belt from 2016 (video).
Signups will be done through the Urban Zone website, this news post has all the details. The first 15 to reply on Wednesday, April 26th at 12:00 CEST to it will get a spot. But if you want to "skip the queue" you can subscribe to Urban Zone's twitch channel here. Aside from supporting future streams you'll also reserve a spot in the KNOCKOUT tournament! If you aren’t one of the lucky fifteen, don't get discouraged and sign up anyway – some people always drop out and you can take up their place.
Join us on the Urban Zone Discord server,
Happy fragging!
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Urban Terror 4.3.2 Release
It's been a long time since we announced this update but, with all our efforts being directed to Resurgence, it took us some time and dedication to leave the fancy Unreal Engine 4 development environment to push one of the last updates of the ioQuake editions of Urban Terror.
We hope that you will enjoy this small 2017 update in which we tried to fix the most important bugs known in 4.3 along with a few enhancements for the new GunGame and InstaGib modes.
Changelog
Engine• Build optimizations, full SSE/SSE2 support on Windows
• Locked sv_fps & snaps back to 20 #348
• New cl_mouseAccelStyle 2, with logistic curve for smooth and limited accel #54
• Updated Q_CleanStr to discard multiple color code prefixes and fixed broken COM_GetExtension #63 #38
• Fixed 'stopserverdemo' being called on clients where the command doesn't exist #63
User Interface
• Scoreboard columns sorting update: KAD columns now reads KDA (kills, deaths, assists)
• Added assists to player sorting (K>D>A) on scoreboard
• Renamed ".44 Magnum" to "Magnum" in the kill events
• Fixed scores not updating in time when moving to intermission #142
• Fixed $gametime and $roundtime calculation #346
InstaGib
• Prevent bots from switching to knife
• Disabled the gear selection menu in InstaGib
• Everyone has a medkit as their sole item
• Display a gamemode explanation text + an "INSTAGIB" box in the team selection menu
• Added a gamemode identifier, " - INSTAGIB" next to the game mode name on the map load screen
Gun Game
• Added a cvar g_randomorder (0/1): random gun order on map load
• Fixed scoreboard sorting inconsistencies #319
• Fixed a server crash when two players would win simultaneously in GunGame
Gameplay
• New sound for the Glock when a silencer is equipped
• Minor weapon specs enhancements
• Fixed bot_minplayers not working properly
Menus
• Added support for r_noborder in the menu files
• Fixed weapon verification of items when primary is 'none' #320
• New .arena scripts for maps to include the newer gametypes in the server creation menu
Misc
• Updated default.cfg, server_example.cfg & mapcycle_example.txt
• The command players now correctly displays auth logins and assists were added
Once again we would like to thank the numerous players who reported issues on our GitHub repository, as well as the developers who contributed to the engine and menu files. Many thanks to Iye, Fenix, Karnute, JRandomNoob, lonkamikaze and Thomas Brierley!
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
From all the FrozenSand Dev team, may everyone have a violent killing spree of a Christmas and a bloody mess of a New Year.
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The rapid` Tutorial Series
New Urban Terror tutorials down the road
Before coming up with our end of year greetings, we have some last minute candy to share with you.The old folks hanging around for some years can remember The Daily Nade webmagazine. Providing a global coverage of the games' news, it was also offering on a regular basis some tips and tricks for its players.
Some of you might also have heard about rapid`, a young German player known in Urban Terror's top eSports spheres for playing with Glory and Team Germany. In the Daily Nade's spirit, he decided to dive into the big ocean of gaming tutorials and delivers us today his very first piece.
For this number one episode, the focus will be the game's most popular sidearm: the Desert Eagle.
Enjoy and maybe learn something! As glory.rapid` likes to say train or keep crying!
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NationsCup XX Announcement
It has been 10 months now since Team France won for the 5th time the prestigious NationsCup, positioning themselves 2nd behind Team Portugal in the all time Nations' Rankings.
The very first NationsCup on Urban Terror 4.3 calls for us and can't wait for the action to kick off! Those of you who would like to live again last year's matches can head straight away to the Urban Zone YouTube channel, sit comfortably in your chair and just listen to Seven, Jehar, Ikslorin and Maku's voice.
Schedule
Without further waiting, here's the event's timetable:• December 04 - Captain applications launched
• December 18 - End of Captain applications / Start of the captain's vote stage
• January 01 - End of Voting stage, Captains announcement
• January 03 - Groups published
• January 10 - Start of the first match week
Captain Votes
We will be going through the captain designation process in the UrbanZone forums in a few days. Note that players are still in time and free to apply to become the captain of their country, but competition experience is, of course, expected. The NC staff is also looking for people ready to help them in the organization (GTV cameraman, newswriter, etc). So please step up if you want to help!If you want to be the captain of your nation or region send your written application by mail to nationscup@urban-zone.org by midnight of December 18th. Add the following elements to the application: UrT auth, country, age, clan, and other relevant information which may help voters decide whether you're the right person to be their nation's captain.
Stay tuned!
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Urban Zone Fall Season Announced
We hope you've got your guns polished and your minds sharp because Urban Zone is back with season 29/22/13 of their CTF, TS and BOMB leagues. Signups are now open so head over to the Urban Zone Website to sign your team up.
Some might have expected, as the tweaked UZ logo can suggest, the upcoming competition should be played on the fresh Urban Terror 4.3 new version.
The UZ staff is always willing to lend a hand and answer any questions that you may have, they can be reached via PM on the site or now on Discord !
Signups close on October 31st, so make sure your team is enrolled and ready to play!
Happy Fragging!
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Urban Terror 4.3.1 HotFix Release
Urban Terror players!
Thanks to your incredible feedback after the 4.3 release, we have identified and fixed the FPS drops issues which were affecting a vast number of players.
We promptly decided to release a 4.3.1 HotFix to address them. This release also includes some engine optimizations for the Windows users as well as the fix for Mac OSX 10.12 Sierra users who couldn't launch the game.
Have fun!
Thanks to your incredible feedback after the 4.3 release, we have identified and fixed the FPS drops issues which were affecting a vast number of players.
We promptly decided to release a 4.3.1 HotFix to address them. This release also includes some engine optimizations for the Windows users as well as the fix for Mac OSX 10.12 Sierra users who couldn't launch the game.
Have fun!
Urban Terror 4.3.1 Changelog
• Fixed the FPS drops / lag issue #334
• Slightly improved engine performances on Windows
• Fixed Ghosttown, Paris, Mykonos appearing as 3rd party maps in the server browser #296
• Added instagib to server_example.cfg #342
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