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Community chamber #8

posted 5 days ago

This episode of Community Chamber I would like to devote to Twitch streamers that have been really busy lately. Anyone who does not have enough time to play can hop in to the stream and watch some real time Urban Terror action in many game types. Jumps , pickups , public or even some mapping. Don't believe me? See these short Twitch clips that I have found interesting!

blazefantasyy: Hello!


b0c1aM: ezeee & JsN meeting mid!


Memnon : Soli says hello!


Hampus : sup lads?


Dewar : flying shoot


blazefantasyy : Does anyone need a medic?


holyarni : Capture the Frag?


Memnon : Surprise surprise


blazefantasyy : good night Flash


holyarni : holy crepe


holyarni: ut4_ulbrace_3 Speed run (Personal Best)


Ulbens: Urban Terror need new maps!


All the Streams can be found under the Urban Terror category using this link:


See You soon Terrorists!

Barbatos


[Tipeee] Developer News - August 2023

posted 17 days ago
Information: This Developer News was originally sent 6 months ago to people supporting us on Tipeee. I write these posts with my own words, every month, mostly showing internal development screenshots/videos and explaining the latest features in the works on the upcoming Urban Terror game on Unreal Engine 5.

If you are willing to support the development and maintenance of Urban Terror, the posts are available on Tipeee for as low as a 1€ tip. From now on I'll also repost them here with a 6 months delay. Enjoy the read and let us know whether you like them or not!

Hello there,

August is usually a slow month at FrozenSand, but this year the bad weather might have helped spark some unusually high summer activity! I've included lots of screenshots and videos of the team's WIPs and experimentations.

Last month I talked about adding a new grenade - the Ice Grenade - to the game. X-dcx-x and JohnnyEnglish have created a model for this grenade that I implemented into the game, and this month JohnnyEnglish has put his hands on creating a decal material for it. The idea is to have a good amount of ice spreading all around the grenade impact point, affecting the nearby players. The way it will affect the players and the gameplay hasn't been decided quite yet, so more on that in the next news! However, the decal looks quite good now (screenshots and videos included). The issue we're having right now is that the decal doesn't work well when spawned on multiple planes, for example when the ice needs to spread both on the floor and one or multiple walls. Once we figure out how to fix this issue, I'll focus on finishing its implementation in terms of how it will affect the gameplay.

This month I also worked on the main menu, which was kind of empty until now. It's now displaying the latest website news from an API, and I'm working on also displaying the list of connected Steam friends so one can quickly invite their friends to join them. More on that later!
Talking about Steam, the Mac OSX build is now published on Steam, giving access to the OSX version of the game to the private alpha testers. I'm getting some very decent in-game performances when playing on my MacBook Pro. I can't wait to get some feedback from the QA players.

As a public alpha is getting closer, we need to work on the small bits that need to be done or fixed before going public. In that matter Neon has become our serial bug fixer lately, working very hard on fixing some small but nasty issues reported by the private alpha testers. He's also implemented a small feature that really adds to the feeling of shooting the weapons: some camera shake based on the weapon recoil. At first it was overpowered and even active when slashing the knife :D (videos included), but I then tweaked the values for all weapons. The more powerful the weapon is, the bigger camera shake it produces. I think it looks very cool!

We've released a new QA build this month, and for the first time in over a year we've added a dozen of new testers to the private alpha. We now feel confident to progressively add more people to better stress test the servers. It's also always refreshing to get some new, "outsider" opinion on the state of the game. The new testers have also found several bugs that went unnoticed for many months!

I've included several screenshots of Thingley on which Lizart keeps on doing an impressive work. It's getting more and more textures and the map really is coming alive with models and textures 100% done by the team. Speaking of Lizart, he's also done some examples of customization to the AK47 model. We intend to add customization features to the weapon and player models in the future, this is an example of what it could look like. We're not ready yet though, as there's lots of things to implement in order to deal with customization, but it should happen someday.

See you next month!

--Barbatos









b0ciaM


Flawless UTCS Winter 2024

posted 18 days ago

We are in the middle of new Urban Terror Championship Serie hosted by the Flawless crew. The number of clans that signed up rised up compared to the Fall 2023 edition and that's promising. Let me quickly introduce divisions with both gametypes.

Team Survivor:

Division 1 Clans

ar#MD (ModoDiablo)
asbz# (boomers-zoomers)
eureverie`
jp((+
plOP| (OverPowered)
ve.pilo (Team .pilo)
usno| (No Defiance)

Division 2 Clans

euwG** (Wasted Goats 2)
unorM`` (rMancos`)
us|RFA| (risenfromashes)
pe[Gz] (Gamer Zone)
usXiN` (XiN is Nameless)
euintel* (Intelligence)
usRapid- (Rapid Fire Team)
euYnG| (Youngsters)


Capture the Flag:

Division 1 Clans

ar#MD
asbz#
eureverie`
jp((+

Division 2 A Clans

unorM``
us|RFA|
pe[Gz]
usXiN`
uno[TFG] (The Forge)

Division 2 B Clans

euwG**
usRapid-
euYnG|
us|30+| (30+|FireStorm)

So far many matches are still about to happen and it's realy hard to tell which team will make it to play-off stage. But there is already some Twitch Stream footage to watch for those of you that have missed the LIVE action. Links below!

Match videos:

Clan euwG** vs Clan us|30+| in CTF:



Clan euwG** vs Clan usRapid- in CTF & TS:



Clan euwG** vs Clan euYnG| in TS:



Clan usRapid- vs Clan unorM``| in TS:



Clan usRapid- vs Clan euYnG| in CTF:



Clan jp((+ vs Clan asbz# in TS:



Clan usRapid- vs Clan us|30+| in CTF:



Clan euintel*| vs Clan euwG** in TS:



Clan ve.pilo vs Clan eureverie` in TS:



Hope everyone finds themselves a good match stream to watch. More to come!

Hear you soon Terrorists!

Community chamber #7

posted 27 days ago


Another Community chamber entry I would like to start with the hottest website on the Urban Terror planet right now. Those who don't know it yet let me quickly introduce the story behind it. Two gamers: dearnoldus and beRocket created the interactive webpage where you can test your knowledge about maps and pickup players. With these two categories, Mystery Maps or Guess the Player, you have 5 chances to guess either the name of the arena that is being presented or in the other section the player's nickname based on the short youtube video action. Each time you have a few chances and after every wrong guess the website helps you out with hints. Each correct answer adds points to your account and there is a leader board displaying all contestants' scores. Does it sound like fun to you? Give it a try and test yourself then!

Link to the website is urt.lol To play you will need a valid discord account!

Another Urban Terror review

Recently we've been lucky with some big YouTube channels giving us free promotions. Not long time ago, we had another upload on a big channel called Levan4kGaming. It was the chance to appear to the audience that might have never heard of Urban Terror before. Thanks to this video we are reaching out to over 48K of his subscribers. If you are reading this post blog because of that thank you!
As stated by the author, it's his yearly tradition to play some Urban Terror during the Christmas season. We like it! Keep it up!

Here is the clip I am talking about:

Flawless UTCS Winter 2024 streams

If you are still hungry for some more Urban Terror action here I come. This is an upload from Twitch stream by aRandomDude on his streaming channel with the dose of his shoutcast. The game is played by the teams: usRapid- and us|30+| in Capture the Flag mode for the current Flawless UTCS Winter 2024 CTF season. Two maps match goes smoothly and hell no I won't tell you who the winner is!

Watch and see:

Farloon Urban Terror CTF Frag movie #1

To finish the post with a satisfaction I can't miss the opportunity to present you one more video of the returning player that might have rediscovered the game thanks to the reviews that I have mentioned above. beFarloon the man I am talking about has just posted a video of his 1st week of gaming after a long break. From what we can see in the video it doesn't take much to refresh memory from the past and over 7 mins long clip is full of nice plays done on the public servers. Thanks for posting this movie and I hope it won't be the last one in the series. Keep it up beFarloon

Youtube video below:


See you soon Terrorists!
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Community chamber #6

posted 2 months ago
Welcome back to another Community chamber episode. I would like to start this blog post with two new/old (you decide how to call them) uploads from DisasterCasterLOL. First one is surely done for the entertaining purpose and I feel really sorry for all the guys that took part in this clip not knowing that ended up on Youtube. See for yourself what I mean:



The other video is an extended reupload on his own Youtube channel that have had its premiere over 13 years ago. The movie is edited by tarquin and you can really feel the nostalgia while watching it now. Let's rewind it:



While we are at jumping there's a new upload from meho called Cubix ft. Leo & meho. As always it is a really clean and smooth edit with nice music accompanying some good jumping skills. Good combo if you have 5 minutes to spare. Here is the video I am talking about:



The last clip I would like to share with you today comes from Blaze and is titled Fragshow 7. I wonder if you will be able to spot a bulldozer while watching it!



To wrap up all the things that have happened recently around Urban Terror it would be a shame not to mention that the 5th season of Pickup Games has ended on 11/12/2023. Let me quote the original message:

Final Standings:


If you aren't familliar with Pickups, in other words it's a game based on two teams with 5 players being picked by the captains of each team. With every game you either gain or lose ELO points that put you higher/lower in the rankings. The games are being played based on players locations/map votes and gametype picks. All that happens on a daily basis on an unofficial UrT Community Discord server. There are also tutorials on how to register and join the fun. It's a great opportunity to actually play versus some skilled players if you are tired of overcrowded public servers.

See you soon Terrorists!

Barbatos


[Tipeee] Developer News - June/July 2023

posted 2 months ago
Information: This Developer News was originally sent 6 months ago to people supporting us on Tipeee. I write these posts with my own words, every month, mostly showing internal development screenshots/videos and explaining the latest features in the works on the upcoming Urban Terror game on Unreal Engine 5.

If you are willing to support the development and maintenance of Urban Terror, the posts are available on Tipeee for as low as a 1€ tip. From now on I'll also repost them here with a 6 months delay. Enjoy the read and let us know whether you like them or not!

Hey everyone!

I hope your summer is going great with some holidays and sun. As for me, as a French, I can't really say that I've seen the sun too much lately, huh. :D We hadn't seen that much rain during a July in 20 years!

Anyway, in the last few weeks I've made progress on the Fragmentation Grenade that I mentioned in early May. For those who joined the tippers since then (thank you!), my goal is to implement a new grenade into the game that does less radial damage than the HE Grenade to the nearby players when exploding, but throws fragments all around itself that make players bleed when hit by them.
I've included some videos with and without the debugging stuff, where you can easily see the line traces of the fragments. My goal is to throw a random amount of fragments (with a minimum and a maximum amount) but all around the grenade so any player close to the grenade (and possibly above or under it) can be hit. The fragments currently get scattered up to 7 meters away from the grenade. When hit by a fragment, a player instantly bleeds and takes 5% of damage (per fragment).
We'll probably do some tweaking once the QA testers have a look into these new grenades, but I'm fairly happy with them right now! The third video was recorded tonight with the game running on a MacBook pro M2 btw (the first semi-public OSX video of UrT5!). :)

As I'm kind of into grenades lately, I've asked Johnny and x-dcx-x to design two new grenades, which they've done in no time. I've included some screenshots of the future Smoke Grenade and the Ice Grenade. The models themselves are now almost finished and implemented in-game. I need to work on their code and visual effects now. We'll also need to create some animations for the Ice Grenade, which will have to be armed before being thrown. It'll then spread ice around itself right when hitting the floor, slowing down players, etc. More on that soon!

Lizart is on a roll lately, and makes some great progress on Thingley with the help of Markinho among others. The map is truly starting to come alive now that it is starting to be textured. Those walls, windows and doors look really nice IMO.
JohnnyEnglish made walkthrough of two other maps that look very nice: SkyLines and Uptown.

Neon spent some time on the player selection menu (screenshot included). He created thumbnails for each player model to better visualize which player model is selected. The goal is to create a simple but effective menu for the public alpha version of the game, and improve it later (like many other things!).

Enjoy your summer!

- Barbatos








b0ciaM


Community chamber #5

posted Thursday, 14 December 2023
Between the Flawless League updates there is a time for another Community Chamber episode that I have prepared for every Urban Terror fan out there.

Let me start with the recent upload from M3T4L on his channel that is: a long promised Explosion Clan video, a decade later, but better late than never, huh? clip. The story behind it is simply recovered memories from the play time and evolution of authors clan being put up together into one long movie presenting as many members and clips as it was possible. It looks like they had a good time together and now you can feel it too with the YouTube clip:



While we are in the beta 4.1 - 4.2 era there is another good clip coming from over a decade ago. An updated and extended version of the movie that took part in the UrT Movie Contests hosted by us. In case you missed it like I did all the videos are still available for watching. This particular clip has been updated by DisasterCasterLOL and to me it is even better than the original.



Continuing the chamber post I would like to present you the link shared lately on our Discord server by one of the users proving that our game is still out there on the market and still being discovered by new players each day. I am really happy that there are still up to date reviews being posted on any social platform not strictly related to Urban Terror but games in general and we are still getting some air time on the channels with a decent number of subscribers. Can we prove the author is being wrong to put Urban Terror on the Dead Games list? Use your creativity and powers in the comments section below the clip. Anyways thanks to the Rye Games channel for promoting our game and spreading a good word about our community. Here's the video I am talking about:



This wasn't the only game review that I have discovered lately and the article you are about to read comes from the real depth of internet archives. There was no better source of knowledge and data about Quake 3 & mods than the Planet Quake Platform. I can't really figure the date of this article but it's a good read and definitely the real beginnings of the Urban Terror project. There is a good chat between an Urban Terror developers and Hellchick and all that can be read up with this link: Feel the Terror!

That's it for today. Hear you soon Terrorists!
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Flawless UTCS FALL 2023 Finals

posted Saturday, 09 December 2023

The summary of all the other Finals that have been already played for this season is down below:

Team Survivor

Legends Bracket Final: tr banana. vs io velocity:





Masters Bracket Final: eu gucci` vs ve .pilo:



Heroes Bracket Final: eu wG** vs us XiN` 2 : 1

Capture the Flag

Masters Bracket Final: us Rapid- vs us XiN` 0 : 2

Heroes Bracket Final: us |RFA| vs us |30+|:



See you guys on Sunday!

Community chamber #4

posted Tuesday, 05 December 2023
While we are still waiting for Christmas to come I will use my chance to present you the thing everyone is waiting for. In other words the Urban Terror 5 footage done by one of the developers as a Halloween event in virtual version. If you haven't seen it yet check it out!



Staying in the dark themes we have a new map project waiting for some feedback on our forums called ut4_ancients. The arena is made by dasante and is oriented towards the Capture the Flag game mode.



If you want to learn more about this map feel free to visit the forum thread which contains a download link and an extended gallery.

Besides that we have a new upload from meho following the Halloween scenery with a dark and sketchy map called enigma_b1. Full clip here:



I would like to finish this episode with another retro upload on my YouTube channel dated back to 27/02/2012 and showcasing the For the Win League season 6 GlaD- vs # Tohunga CTF game. Some of the players are still around til this day. Isn't it some real dedication? No matter what you might think of the old 4.1 version this game is worth being published.



Hear you soon Terrorists...

Community chamber #3

posted Sunday, 26 November 2023
In this episode of Community Chamber I would like to start with the hot clip made by Severon called PugBot Masters Episode #3. This is his next episode of the Urban Terror Community pickup action combined with music, transitions and action flow in to the final video. If you are still wondering about trying it out don't waste more time! ;)



Also.. If you had a longer break from Urban Terror or maybe you want to catch up with its history or maybe you want to introduce it to someone new or maybe all of it at once there is no better way than sending them this video that explains a lot about the game, its history and possible future. Feel free to share it and spread the good word. The more the merrier as they say and we would love to see some new people around.



Another community news is that the map that I presented in the previous post is already being considered as a serious business in the jump community. The current world record is being held by Lagtronics. The jump video with the dose of d'n'b vibe. Perfect combo to me.



Later on the week we have had another oldschool map review from JRandomNoob on mastodon.social. The location is taken from real world and got turned into ut_crenshawb2.pk3. More details with the link.




I would like to end this blog with another jump in time back to September 15th of 2016 where we have held the UrT Movie Contest. Remember that? I don't so I have to catch up. Thanks to Disastercasterlol you can get there with 1 click away! Legendary clip that will make you remember it, as they say once you see it, it can not be unseen!



See you soon Terrorists...
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