Urban Terror 4.0 - Now standalone!

Its great to see Urban Terror (UrT) is still going strong. I can remember downloading the first beta they released - and hating it. Downloading the first major release, however, was different and I fell in love. A great example of a true total conversion, moving away from the original game (quake 3), pushing the engine and pulling the talents from the MOD community.

I have not had a game of UrT for a good couple of years now, so as soon as I heard they had released version 4.0, I grabbed it. A new feature for this release is that they have bundled in ioUrbanTerror (based on ioQuake3, and of course the GPL’d source for Quake 3), so players without Quake can play. I chose to install the ioUrbanTerror version as to not fumble around with installing Quake and its Point Release updates again.

One thing I have noticed is that they have packaged the BattlEye anti-cheat engine into ioUrbanTerror. This is a good thing, and from what is being said on the UrT forum many servers are already moving over to ioUrbanTerror from Quake3 and PunkBuster. There seem to be a good number servers online already for it.

So, give it a try. What is there to loose?

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