ET: Legacy 2.77 Released For Letting Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Live On In 2021

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 1 March 2021 at 12:00 AM EST. 5 Comments
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ET Legacy 2.77 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game project continuing to advance the open-sourced Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory game from the early 2000's.

See this earlier article should you be unfamiliar with the ET: Legacy open-source game that is continuing to build off the open-source foundation of the original Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. ET Legacy has been one of the exciting community, open-source game efforts to follow in recent years given the greatness of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory back in the day.

With the new ET Legacy 2.77 release there is a new download container system for server PAK isolation to protect against potentially malicious files from servers, among other improvements. There is also a new shoutcaster mode with shoutcast overlay. There is also IPv6 by default, SSL support enabled by default, support for the Raspberry Pi, and many other improvements.

The very brief ET Legacy 2.77 release announcement can be read at ETLegacy.com while it's quite brief indeed as they encourage any interested gamers to simply try out this shiny new release that is more than two years in the making.
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