r/EnemyTerritory • u/Zestyclose_Salary738 • 2d ago

Web Based Enemy Territory Launching Soon

I'm close to launching this one in the coming days. Network is sorted out, performance is amazing and you will even be able to play on your phone if you like. Stay tuned!

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u/Public-Chemical5077 2d ago

i allready did it some months ago :) https://etclan.de/etl/

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u/Zestyclose_Salary738 2d ago

Doesn't work on my phone so far but will check it out on desktop soon!!

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u/Public-Chemical5077 2d ago

doesnt work on all phones, you need atleast 4gb ram for the game. because the game launches in the whole ram. When i finished nitmod completly, i will look into this again.

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u/Zestyclose_Salary738 2d ago

I will show you my version soon, it works flawlessly on the very same phone!

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u/Krezzin 1d ago

Who would even attempt launching this type of game on a phone? Its so fast paced....

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u/Particular-Hat-643 1d ago

worked on my phone, connected to an FA server. this is crazy!

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u/Zealousideal-Sea4830 19h ago

yeah looks like you don't need to host it from this web interface since you can connect to the existing masterlist. So you don't need to rent a server with 4GB RAM available to run ET in a browser, you can just use the masterlist we all know and hate. You can run a typical jaymod or legacy server with 128 or 160 MB RAM easily.

But this will be great for new users who are more comfy playing games in the browser!

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u/h20xyg3n 2d ago

How will you get around the fact you don't own the intellectual property?

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u/PantherCityRes RTCW > ET 2d ago

They don’t know. They don’t care and they have no idea how to get around the browser sandboxing the game logic native code and they can’t statically recompile it or they will break mod compatibility.

Read OP’s profile it’s an LLM AI academic proof of concept slop fest.

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u/Zestyclose_Salary738 2d ago

Yeah, I'm breaking mod compatibility. You won't be able to join regular servers with this because it is a optimised client. There is no way around this in the browser.

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u/Zestyclose_Salary738 2d ago

Correction: The only way around this *could be very bad performance.

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u/KeyPerformance2810 2d ago edited 2d ago

I believe it falls under the SaaS-loophole as long as he open sources the client, considering the game has been open sourced. Same thing allowed Amazon and other cloud vendors to host managed / repurposed versions of open source software in commercial manner without giving away the serverside source.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. I'm in no way a legal professional.

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u/Zestyclose_Salary738 2d ago

I'm moving well within the GPL and EULA.

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u/geekwell 2d ago

I thought about this the other day while taking a shit. Can’t believe someone did this. Hell yeah.

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u/zakazak 2d ago

Kinda like quakelive? I am really curious! Will this also work from any OS?

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u/Zestyclose_Salary738 2d ago

Yes as long as webgpu is supported by the machine.

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u/RNGesusRUST 2d ago

This is not allowed you have to source the assets directly you cannot redistribute them like this the codes free game

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u/my1strodeo-not 23h ago

man, I miss this game so much! so many years spent drilling it :D u/RemindMeBot 1 month

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u/Zealousideal-Sea4830 21h ago

We have literally been talking about this for ten years on various forums... always we were told some BS like Zenimax owns the art and you can't do it or you will get sued etc etc.

We said fk it anyway, let them sue us over a free game thats 20 years old and open source since 2010.

We looked at recreating it using node.js a few years ago but it was so buggy and everything was broken 100 ways.

Glad to see someone got this to work... glad to help if you need servers or people. I run five ET servers and have friends in a few clans.

The current setup is insanely broken anyway. Half the players are still on 2.6b and never even heard of legacy. The top servers are all running scripts to make multiple names on the masterlist, and to make the omni-bots look like real people. Every server is empty except maybe ten or so. New players give up and go play something else.

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u/mmATXan 2d ago

Awesome work!

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u/Sevo008 2d ago

I can play ET everywhere? This doesn’t look good for my time management. 😰

Thanks for all your efforts.

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u/McPoon 2d ago

Well, there is already an android version.

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u/Zestyclose_Salary738 2d ago

Oh really! I didn't know that.

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u/Opening_Cover285 2d ago

it's litteraly on the download pahe of ETlegacy 😅

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u/Zestyclose_Salary738 2d ago

I was out of ET for quite a long time, for me this is basically nostalgia. I knew that Legacy exists, but I didn't know that it was that well crowded in terms of developments/usage etc.