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FrozenSand has worked hard to fix the autobalance bug and is happy to release the fix in 4.2.017. Please note that dmaHD is turned on by default so if you prefer the older sound engine remember to turn it off from the sound menu.

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Ho Ho Ho!
Santa's elves have been hard at work with FrozenSand to release an update to fix the autobalancer and a few other bugs this Sunday Dec 22nd at 22:00 CET. Check the changelog to see what else has been updated.

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FrozenSand is pleased to announce the addition of HappyDay, p5yc0runn3r and Timbeaux to the development team.
HappyDay is a well known level designer. He has been playing Urban Terror since 2008 and picked up level design in 2009. He had done a little bit of level design before for Duke Nukem 3D, Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3 but only got serious about it with UrT. He has 5 years of experience in GTK Radiant, about 2-3 years experience in Blender and is also proficient in texture creation and manipulation with GIMP. He is looking forward to creating a few more awesome maps for UrT and is excited about the possibilities for lots of detail in the new engine. Here's to a friendly and productive development experience.
p5yc0runn3r is the creator of the dmaHD sound engine and the one who introduced RAW mouse support for Windows in our current gaming engine. He is a self taught professional software developer with more than 15 years of programming language experience including C/C++, C#, .NET, and many other languages including x86 assembler. He has vast experience in telecommunication systems, VoIP and FoIP technologies, game development experience and most of all loves playing computer games.
Timbeaux is a composer and sound engineer and will be helping to create sounds and music for UrT. He has been playing Urban Terror since 2007 and composing music since 1998. He has many years of experience with Propellerheads Reason (13) and Ableton Live (3).
He comes out of the old school techno and freetek scene, but is also interested in other music. Check out his SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/timbeaux

FrozenSand is proud to announce the release of 4.2.016 Monday Dec 9th, 2013. This update brings you not one but two sets of new skins thanks to a request by Driller. Check the changelog for bug fixes and new features.

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FrozenSand is happy to announce that we have a brand new update ready for you! Urban Terror 4.2.015 is now available for download!! This release will reinstate the Auth system and fix a few bugs discovered in 4.2.014.

Simply run the UrTUpdater, follow the onscreen instructions: it will update your game automatically.

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This update brings also a new gift: a new map created by our Nounou named Ghosttown. Ghosttown is a big playground imagined for 12 to 18 players which includes vertical gameplay and many possibilities to jump. It was first designed to be played in deathmatch modes and capture the flag.



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Frozen Sand is pleased to announce that Fruk and Nitro have joined the Urban Terror development team !



Fruk is a computer engineer, currently employed as a software developer & sysadmin, keen on C, python and Java programming.
He will be working on general bugfixes, the demo parser, rewriting GTV, and also Urban Terror HD.

Nitro enjoys helping with server related support and has run many game servers over the years.
He will focus on supporting members of the urban terror community with game server hosting & management, troubleshooting both client & server side issues, and maintaining feedback regarding server features and requests.

Feel free to welcome Fruk and Nitro in our forum.

B1naryTh1ef has departed FS to pursue other interests. He quit the team when he was confronted with the fact that his real name was in the leaked files.

His name can be found multiple times in the NetBeans project properties file:



Not to mention his user name also shows as an owner of the files:



No one else on the team uses NetBeans as development IDE and this nbproject directory has never been committed to our GIT repository. So, this compressed archive released with 4.2 source code belongs to someone who's name is andrei (as visible from the 2 screenshots above).

Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/b1naryth1ef

Also, it's pretty easy to find a match, by simply asking google to do the job for us: http://www.google.com/search?q=b1naryth1ef

There are at least three copies of an IRC chat log floating around the internets (the earliest is from June 17, 2013) of a plot to get B1naryTh1ef to steal the code so they could sell Urban Terror under a different name on Steam using a wrapper to pull the assets from our website. We cannot verify the source of the log, but it does fit with the facts that we do know.

This is an unfortunate development. As a member of the Dev Team he could have fulfilled all of the great ideas he had for the game. He could have gotten help from the more experienced coders when he ran into problems like he did with Gungame and his new logic entities for maps. None of his projects have been finished despite help being readily available.

We have decided not to open a discussion thread for this news. Please do not start one. Many Thanks!

As you may be aware of the event unfolding this weekend we have had a data breach which resulted in all of our sources stolen. This has been confirmed both by our own investigations of the server in question and of course the public release of our code base.

Today RaideR received this email:

Quote of Hacker:

umad?
turns out u guys dont own us
the community fights back
we wont take your s***
u ban us from ur game
u hide your codes
u run
stop
its time for the community to take over
you let idiots like elf and raider run your servers and you expect security
you expect me to run away from a home ipd box
i lold.
you wont figure out how i got in
you wont rid yourselfs of me
guess what happens next
you loose control
no more dictatorship
no more closed source
only community
only success
no more fs
goodbye fs
we wont miss you
Link to source removed as it's a criminal act and we can't verify it's free from viruses.
good bye

Of course this is going to have some long lasting and major impact on how Urban Terror is developed going forward. Honestly, they have had a victory, let's not be naive about that. They got what they wanted and pretty sure it has the desired effect. To say otherwise would be foolish.

However, it is the strong reservation of this team that we will not simply "roll over and die" which seems to be the personal mission of "persons unknown". We won't go after them, such a pursuit would be futile, but almost certainly we will not quit simply because some bullies want us to.

In the coming days we will have some major changes (obviously) in the way that this team will move forward on our project. In addition we would like to make the following statement.

The source code for 4.2 was taken and published without consent and the theft has been reported to law enforcement. While we won't actively pursue the case, this data is stolen property and we ask that should you come across these sources that you do not use them. Crime has been committed here and while we have little to no interest in pursuing the individuals responsible we appreciate any information people have regarding the incident.

This is an attack on Frozensand and this community, we have been abused and forcibly violated. No less by people who claim to be acting in its best interests.

Further information will follow this public statement in the near future!

Regards,

Team FS

You can discuss this on our forums.

Urban Terror 4.2.014 is ready for download !!

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FrozenSand is happy to announce that we are releasing UrbanTerror 4.2.014 on July 14th at 22:00 CEST. This release fixes bugs found in 4.2.013.

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