Now here is a pleasant surprise. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory came out in April 2002 and after twenty years, the game finally gets official dedicated servers.
These official dedicated servers run the vanilla Enemy Territory Campaign ruleset, with all six original maps and no mods. In other words, you’ll be getting the original vanilla 2002 experience.
Seriously, this is a pleasant surprise for such an old game. These days, most developers simply take down the servers of older games in order to save resources. And here we have Bethesda offering dedicated servers for a game that came out two decades ago.
But anyway, you can download and play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory for free from Steam. Below you can also find the key features of its latest update.
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Official Dedicated Servers Update Key Notes
- Official servers will be named: “id Software Official Vanilla Server – (Region)”
- Four official servers deployed.
- One official server per region.
- Regions supported include:
- US: Texas
- EU: Netherlands
- AU: Canberra
- UK: London
- All official servers run the “Campaign” game mode by default. Official servers maintain the following settings:
- Server MOTD: Official & Vanilla Servers hosted by id Software. Enjoy! These servers are unmoderated. For issues, help.bethesda.net
- Game Type: Campaign
- Maximum Players: 16 (8v8)
- Friendly Fire: Yes
- Punkbuster: No
- Anti-Lag: Yes
- Max Lives: Off
- Weapon Restriction: Off
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I remember when this came out, was soo confused why it was free. It was such an awesome game.
They probably concluded that it would financially flop had it been sold as a RTCW expansion, as originally planned. The thing was likely already finished when they decided to take the L and release it for free, rather than sink even more money into marketing and getting it into retailers.
This and Quake Wars. Awesome games.
If only Quake Wars could be released from it’s Activision licensing issues f*kery.
don’t worry Microsoft will fix it
How can this be explained? How does this spending make any sense for Bethesda?
Probably because Microsoft asked it. The game was just released on the Windows Store and on Game Pass.
Wow, that’s actually a nice move from them for once
This strongly suggests that a new Wolfenstein game with multiplayer focus is in development.
Having 2/4 servers be in the Netherlands (likely Amsterdam) and UK (London) and only one US server is beyond weird though. From Germany my ping to London and Amsterdam are almost identical so why would they need a London server at all?? UK players could definitely play on the NL server. Is it because Scandinavians have a better connection to the UK? Also unlikely as a reason because Scandis have a great connection any way. I bet they can play on Amsterdam servers just fine. Meanwhile Eastern and Southern Europeans are left out. Very strange.