Urban Terror 4.3.3 Released, An Ioquake3-Powered Game Still Going

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Urban Terror 4.3.3 Released, An Ioquake3-Powered Game Still Going

Many ioquake3-powered games like OpenArena, Smokin' Guns, World of Padman, and others have faded away or at least not put out a new release in a number of years, but I was surprised this morning waking up to a new Urban Terror release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Urban-Terror-4.3.3-Released

[cybertraveler]

Kind of glad I dual boot my Linux lappy with Wintendo 10 these days. Gaming under Linux is even less exciting than it used to be.

I like that term; "wintendo" I hadn't heard it before. I myself have a wintendo 7 system.

Windows has got so bad now in terms of control and privacy, that it's unlikely I will have a wintendo system in the future. Windows now feels like a mini, personally-assigned policeman or spy that I voluntarily accept into my home.

[bnolsen]

I still play this game. It's easy on the hardware and is fast paced. I'm not looking forward to their unreal engine release, especially if it runs poorly on linux.

[aht0]

uhm.. I used to play it sometime 2003-2004 maybe... was still Q3A mod though not a standalone game.

IY 2018 I am wondering WHY would anyone bother with it. No physics to talk about, no ballistics, animations are weird-looking, graphics itself is primitive by modern standards. It can run on a potato obviously but there are more advanced free games that also do that. Waste of time.

[bnolsen]

You have any good alternatives to offer up ?

[aht0]

Brink, Team Fortress 2, OpenJK, Project Reality, Unreal Tournanent (UT4 build, not the original from nineties), Tribes:Ascend, Warface, Warsow, Black Squad.. just a few I've tried over past few years.

Some may work on Linux over Wine or even have native client, some may not. AFAIK all are free to play. Personally I consider everyone insisting playing on Linux nutcases. You use best-fitting OS (driver support, game selection) or you can be anal-retentive and suffer for it..

Btw.paid commercial games tend to have better quality, with some exceptions.