In anticipation of tomorrow's European release and the North American release next week, the first Enemy Territory: Quake Wars patch is already available.

The 22mb update offers various bug fixes, updated Linux client compatibility and improved performance related to particles on some videocards.

Full changelog:

* Updated Linux client compatibility
* Fixed performance drop of soft particles on some graphics cards
* Removed XP award for destroying newly spawned vehicles (spawn camping)
* Improved bot control of the GDF Titan Tank
* Fixed dedicated LAN server administrators reverting to default group on map change
* Fixed players occasionally not being able to change the mission they are on
* Server Launcher now clears the map rotation when changing game mode
* Fixed localized clients reverting to unlocalized if player starts a lite server on the same PC
* Fixed image pure check (anti-cheating) erroneously failing for MegaTextures