Urban Terror is a free multiplayer first person shooter game. Urban Terror uuse the ioquake3 engine, as well as being a complement to the Quake III Arena.
This game focuses on combining realism with fast-paced action from shooters such as Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament. The realism in the mod is introduced through a number of changes.
About Urban Terror
Available weapons are less accurate when fired while moving and require a reload after it has been spent. The number of weapons and other equipment that can be transported is limited.
The damage is also realistic, based on dividing the player's objective into discrete areas. In addition to the damage system, wounds require bandages and injuries sustained to the legs or feet significantly slow down the player until they are bandaged.
As well a resistance system is present and is exhausted by activities like running or jumping; Squatting allows the resistance bar to recover faster.
Depending on the map being played, external environments are also more realistic and may include weather effects such as rain or snow.
Game modes include:
- Free for All.
- TeamSurvivor.
- Capture the Flag.
- TeamDeathmatch.
- Capture and Hold.
- Follow the Leader.
- BombMode.
The game maintains very high frame rates while offering excellent graphics, although some maps are better than others.
It also offers other features that you have come to expect, such as multiplayer (which is the specialty of the game as there is no single player mode), and a wide variety of weapons to choose from.
System Requirements
In order to run this game on your computer, It is necessary that you have at least the following minimum requirements for its execution:
- CPU: Pentium 4 1.2GHz or higher.
- RAM: 256MBs (512MBs highly recommended)
- VID: NVidia or ATI card with 128 MB RAM (256 MB or more, highly recommended).
- HDD: 50GB, but the more the better for additional tiers.
How to install Urban Terror on the different Linux distributions?
Officially to be able to install this game on our Linux distribution We will have to go to the project's website and in its download section we will find the links to download it.
The packed game file is 1.4 GB in size so downloading may take a few minutes.
At the end of the download you will only have to unzip the package and inside it comes the installer launcher.
Another method to install this game on our system is with the help of Snap packages. So you only have to have support to install this type of application on your system.
In a terminal we are going to execute the following command to perform the installation:
sudo snap install urban-terror
Here we will have to wait a few minutes, since the download of the game is more than 1GB.
To check if there is an update and apply it, we can do this by executing the following command in a terminal:
sudo snap refresh urban-terror
And ready with it we can start playing this game in our system.
When you first start the game, You will be asked to enter a username that will identify you in all the games you participate in.
The user interface is divided into two sections, outside the game menus and in the game menus.
Both can be used to change controls, system settings, player settings, and other applicable settings.
- The settings menu will allow you to change your profile and keyboard settings, along with changing values for your video and audio settings.
- To start a server, they can configure it manually through the user interface.
- "Other Mods" shows the Quake III mods installed on your computer.
Now to start playing online we simply have to click on the "Play Online" button.