Bei LinuxGames.com gibt es nun ein Interview mit TTimo, bekannt von der Arbeit am GTKradiant. Dabei kommt er auch kurz auf die Version 1.40 von RTCW zu sprechen:

As far as the next Return to Castle Wolfenstein patch goes, Besset says that a 1.4 patch is in the works. id intends to improve elements of online gaming for players, such as adding server and mod URL support within RTCW to facilitate access to server info. There´s no ETA for 1.4´s release yet, but stay tuned. I asked him what some of his other projects at id are, to which he simply replied „Doom“.

Die deutsche Version von RTCW ist nun von der BPjS auf den Index gesetzt worden. Wie die Entscheidung im Mai zur Indizierung von Counterstrike, bei der ja zwei Spieler angehört werden sollen, ausfallen wird ist vermutlich klar.

In einem neuen Interview hat Kevin Cloud von id Software folgendes von sich gegeben:

Kevin: The group of people at Gray Matter is huge fans of the original game and had wanted to do a follow up for quite some time. They did a ton of research on real Nazi projects and experiments during World War II, took it a slight step further (although you’d be surprised with the bizarre stuff the Nazis believed and were trying to do). We’ve used the X-Files type analogy a number of times, but they really did do a great job mixing the bizarre ideas and imagery with the more familiar World War II settings, to create that type of feeling when you’re playing. There will be another Wolfenstein game. Hopefully we´ll get a chance to work with Gray Matter again. Drew and I will probably meet sometimes later this year to discuss it.

Nach sehr langem Warten auf den Mod Quellcode für RTCW wurde dieser nun endlich freigegeben. Die Größe beträgt 6 MB. Hier der Inhalt der readme.txt:

During development of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, we split the code between single and multiplayer to allow specialization. Although very similar overall, there are specific differences between the code. Both the source for the SP and MP code is provided here. Changes (adding or removing functions) in the game-side of single player code will require a pre-build process, „Extractfuncs.bat“. This is run automatically when compiling, and will generate two header files (g_funcs.h and g_func_decs.h), which are used by the game for savegame functionality. If game code has changed, two builds will be necessary; one to generate the new header files, then another to complete the compilation of the game. Because these files are updated automatically, they should remain writable (not locked, or „read only“). If this automatic process appears to not want to compile and the compiler refers to either of these header files, or „g_save.obj“, first manually delete the header files, then run extractfuncs.bat from the command line or double-click it in windows. This happens rarely, and this procedure should always remedy the problem.

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