A new Enemy Territory: Quake Wars patch is now available, updating the Splash Damage multiplayer shooter to version 1.4. The update includes interface changes, a new tutorial mode, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars TV, balancing improvements and more.

Front End
• Hot Servers listing added to the server browser (includes listing of number of players considering joining the server)

• Server browser now updates player count the instant somebody chooses to connect to it

• Added panel to the server browser screen that displays the users stats and awards progress

• Ticker on server browser screen now links to external web sites

• New options available on Play Computer screen

• Additional option on the Game Settings screen (Advanced HUD, Respawn Text, Draw Fireteam List etc)

Play Computer
• New Tutorial mode with pre-set bot skill levels

• Key tooltips now briefly pause the game in tutorial mode to help lead the player

• Tooltips played in tutorial mode now highlight corresponding HUD elements where appropriate

• Additional new tooltips

• Updated bot AI for Tutorial mode: bots play less aggressive, assist more and pace the completion of objectives

General
• Head hitbox for player models adjusted, damage now scales better based on accuracy

• New VO added for tooltips

• Subtle Motivators added - When players achieve various records in-game they are told so via a pop-up message

• Vehicles at the main base of either side are now immune to damage after spawning, immunity is lost when used by a player

• Spawning vehicles are now static until used by a player to avoid exploiting

• Mines are now highlighted by green or red dots on the HUD

• Fireteam leaders are now displayed with White player arrows, fireteams with Yellow arrows and friends with Cyan arrows

• Vampire Strike beacon smoke effect has been updated

• Revive missions for Medics/Technicians are now Tasks

• Matches can now be paused mid-game via 'pausegame' or 'admin pause/unpause'

• Player models on the limbo menu now rotate 360 degrees when a class is first selected

• Buttons added to mute limbo menu voice tutorial

• End game stats screen has been updated with new stats info (Next Award, Rewards gained this campaign, Personal Bests, Mouse over info on map awards like Best Engineer)

• Advanced HUD option (moves text, reduces space used by obituaries and moves subtle motivator pop-ups)

• Deployables now display the owner's name on Crosshair info

• New HUD icons for parachuting/air-shield and Third Eye Camera

• Reduced decoy fire rate on Tormentor and Anansi

• Reload time increased on Anansi Rockets and Tormentor Plasma Cannon

• Reduced damage done to deployables by Anansi Rockets and Tormentor Plasma Cannon

• Re-balanced Anansi and Tormentor XP

• Basic hacking has had its time reduced and can now also cause damage when hacking an already disabled deployable

• Slightly updated effects on Violator

• Sniper Rifle and Railgun trails are now more obvious/longer duration

• Stroybomb reload time increased slightly

• Adjusted the point at which the attacking team gets a reduced spawn time

• Progress decay on some objectives has been adjusted

• Player's now receive a warning when a turret is targeting them or when they have triggered a mine

• Added more support for loading mods

• A message is printed on the HUD when someone finishes hacking a shield generator

• The game running in fullscreen no longer forcefully captures the mouse, resulting in better multitask behaviour

• 'vstr' now evaluates immediately, rather than adding its output to the end of the command buffer

• Workaround for certain ISPs filtering out legitimate authentication and match making packets

• Multiplayer stereo sound separation algorithm alternative from Quake 4 added, s_earSeperationAlgo 1 to enable (Default and legacy is 0) two additional cvars for control: s_esa1_minVolume (sound never drops below this fraction for either ear), s_esa1_maxWindow (window size in which volume is maxed, fraction of full range)

• Text declarations now take priority over binary ones to make mod development easier

• WriteJumpStartDemo now overwrites existing files

• Added local stats tracking for offline play

• Increased XP reward for players picking up your Health Packs, Ammo Packs and Stroyent Cells

• Added green repair indicators if someone repairs your vehicle.

• The icarus is now more forgiving to lock on to

• The MCP auto-deploys when it has been in the deploy zone for half a second, deploy text on HUD removed.

• MCP does not take damage unless it can move

• MCP driver can now remain inside the MCP when it is disabled

• MCP driver MG cannot be used when the MCP is disabled

• Shotgun pellet count reduced and fire rate increased

• Assault Rifle and Lacerator base weapon accuracy increased

• Sprinting will now pull you out of sighted/scoped mode

• APT turrets now have a 1.5 second delay before it starts turning towards the player.

ETQW:TV
• Added support for spawning repeater server on dedicated server, net_spawnRepeater 1 to enable

• Added support for connecting repeater relay servers to other repeater servers, net_spawnRepeater 1 to enable

• The port the repeater will use can be controlled by net_repeaterPort, the default is 27833 is no port is specified

• Use ri_maxViewers to control viewer slot limit for repeater servers

• Access to the repeater can be limited by the use of ri_useViewerPass, g_viewerPassword, g_repeaterPassword, ri_privateViewers and g_privateViewerPassword

• Repeater server name can be controlled by ri_name

• Viewers may chat to other viewers on the same repeater server, this can be disabled with g_noTVChat

• Viewers may cycle through player views by pressing the attack key, and free fly using the alt attack key

• Broadcasting can be delayed by changing net_clientRepeaterDelay, this is only supported on repeater relays

• Repeaters can be set up to auto-download required content by setting net_clientRepeaterAutoDownload to 1

• For additional information on the ETQW TV feature, please see the ETQW TV Readme file.

Bug Fixes
• Fixed saving some passwords causing the local account to be corrupted

• Fixed typing quickly scrambling user input

• Fixed typing while holding down Shift sometimes causing text overwrites

• Fixed low apparent texture quality if texture quality settings were below the baseline

• Fixed an intermittent crash on startup during the "Loading UI..." stage

• Fixed crash when loading a map on ATI brand cards

• Fixed serverInfo command incorrectly reporting server status

• Fixed filters being applied to History and Favorites list

• Fixed auto-updater being used when running from the Steam version of the game

• Fixed ServerLauncher not reloading the last opened profile

• Fixed ServerLauncher not properly setting the mod

• Fixed being able to corrupt user chat history

• Fixed a crash when deleting the last item in the replay list

• Fixed sometimes being able to send empty messages when chatting

• Fixed jittery bots & vehicles when playing against the computer with unlockFPS on

• Fixed clipping through ceiling when getting out of the Husky in specific locations

• Fixed Player.cpp bad floating point dump-to-console error

• Fixed GDF deployable "jerk" on landing

• Fixed servers having incorrect antilag tuning - antilag tuning CVars are now read-only

• Fixed infiltrator being able to teleport without having full charge

• Fixed bugs with accurized lacerator/scoped assault rifle scoping & unscoping

• Prevented vehicle view FOV issues - FOV limited to 90 when in vehicles

• Fixed loading screen sometimes showing previous server's information

• Fixed relative directory name detection incorrectly marking certain paths as relative, resulting in problems when attempting to create directories or files

• Fixed offline friends in the friends list incorrectly appearing as if they were on a server

• Fixed 5.1 and 7.1 audio not working in certain surround configurations

• Fixed mouse buttons not being swapped correctly when the raw input api was used

• Fixed autocompletion not working in certain situations for files that exist in PK4s

• Fixed bindings.cfg able to be being executed multiple times in a frame due to input language switches, potentially resulting in keys not being bound

• Fixed projection matrix jittering being applied in cases where it shouldn't (for example, waypoint icon coordinate calculation)

• Fixed not always clearing the fireteam name edit box before opening it.

• Fixed 'create' on fireteam menu when trying to create more than 8 fireteams.

• Fixed playing OOB tooltip even though player was dead.

• Fixed inverted "blocked you"/"unlbocked you" tooltips in the friends list.

• Fixed campaign tab being fullscreen when restarting map and going straight to the vote tab.

• Fixed seeing the action icon on enemy mines even though disarming was impossible from that distance.