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Post by I3lessed on Oct 4, 2011 22:03:06 GMT -5
Evenbalance/Punkbuster has discontinued there support for 6 games: Enemy Territory Prey Doom3 Quake Wars Quake 3 Return to Castle Wolfenstein Save your ETkey. If you loose your ETkey, you might not get one. Seems like Activision contract with EB has expired. www.evenbalance.com/
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2011 14:24:50 GMT -5
I can't believe no one has responded to this post yet. This is the biggest news in ET since it was created! What this means if an alternative is not found? No new players? QAW having to turn PB off? Bans and XP use et key so... no xp save? no bans?
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Post by Dire.Wolf{QAW} on Oct 5, 2011 16:31:30 GMT -5
WOW thanks for the heads up
where is the et key, or how do i back it up?
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Post by Dire.Wolf{QAW} on Oct 5, 2011 16:32:03 GMT -5
lol played this game since it was released and i don't even know that tarded i am
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Post by I3lessed on Oct 5, 2011 17:13:23 GMT -5
"Okay, for those of you who don't know how ETkey's / GUIDs work, I'll briefly explain. Your GUID is a 32 character hexadecimal hash key uniquely assigned to you by PunkBuster. This unique ID is your personal identity on all punkbuster enabled servers. This GUID is stored intelligently in a file called 'etkey' which is located in the etmain folder. To locate your etkey file navigate to one of the following: Windows 32bit: C:\Program Files\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\ Windows 64bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\etmain\ Mac OS X: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Wolfenstein ET/etmain/ (Thanks Mattle!) Linux (*): /home/username/.etwolf/etmain/ *Based on Ubuntu setup. In the etmain folder, you should find a file called etkey. To Back-Up: Go to your email provider (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc) and compose a new email. Attach your etkey file to the email, and put the subject as something like "My ETKey" for future reference. Send this email to yourself. Once you have received the email from yourself with the etkey file attached, you now have a permanent backup of your etkey file. IMP NOTE: You need a webmail email client preferably, so that the email is not stored on your computer, in case of harddrive failure etc.. The whole point of this is that you want to backup your etkey AWAY from your computer. To Restore: Go to your emails, and search for "My ETKey" (or whatever subject you chose when backing up). Download the attachment from the email. Now, copy & paste the etkey file you just downloaded to whichever folder is relevant to you from the beginning of this tutorial. If you are asked whether you want to overwrite the existing etkey, choose Yes. Following this method you should never have to change your GUID because of a silly computer problem." Copied from: fearless-assassins.com/forum/tutorials/article/198-backing-up-restoring-your-etkey-guid/Courtesy of =F|A= Chuckun. (Remove the link if necessary I just felt it was better for me to source it rather then just rip him off aha)
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Post by I3lessed on Oct 5, 2011 18:04:06 GMT -5
Worst part is that now by streaming pb new players are unable to join PB servers because they get kicked for having an empty cd key
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Post by scarface on Oct 6, 2011 2:42:41 GMT -5
omg omg Give us admin level 100, cose when cheater starts to come we are dooomddd
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Post by Solex{QAW} on Oct 6, 2011 13:30:16 GMT -5
Its not the cheaters I'm worried about.......every player needs an ETkey. That includes the cheaters.....but also new players, reinstalled gamers (who havent saved their ETkey). This is really the worst news for ET ......turning off PB won't work, coz afaik, you still need that ETkey, which you won't get anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2011 14:20:10 GMT -5
how did we play before PB was around?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2011 15:20:42 GMT -5
FYI: As of Thurday 3pm Central new players or installers cannot connect to QAW. Just thought I would mention on my home server et.tjw.org last night I did a !listplayers and 2 of the players did not have GUID/etkey. Now we just turned pb off and they connected and played with no issues. I realize that that would make the admins here far more busier looking for hax but just wanted to mention that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2011 15:28:52 GMT -5
Ok this might work:
With "pb_sv_noguidgrace 0" players without key wont get kicked. This is a server setting.
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Post by I3lessed on Oct 6, 2011 17:42:10 GMT -5
Its not the cheaters I'm worried about.......every player needs an ETkey. That includes the cheaters.....but also new players, reinstalled gamers (who havent saved their ETkey). This is really the worst news for ET ......turning off PB won't work, coz afaik, you still need that ETkey, which you won't get anymore. You can play without an etkey if pb is off because its a pb scan that kicks you for it. You can connect to servers and play etc without it but when pb scans it will kick you :/
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 0:30:13 GMT -5
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Post by mungos*{QAW} on Oct 7, 2011 6:02:38 GMT -5
Because punk buster is defective, I suppose that we have to solve problems manually...........
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 13:12:06 GMT -5
Now trackbase has created a site with its own ET key generator and they are offering to store your existing key if you want. etkey.net/
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 20:09:40 GMT -5
Mungos that is why I have not been on reicently....... You all know with my l33t skilz that I am not a haxor but little w still threw it out the window.....
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Post by <AL>{QAW} on Oct 8, 2011 20:44:04 GMT -5
wondering if rtcw is still sold as a punkbuster enabled multiplayer game.
class action law suit?
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Post by I3lessed on Oct 9, 2011 23:38:19 GMT -5
admin and xp save is easy, just need a guid for it and there already are generators available its just you have to be active on a ET forum to ever find a guid generator :/
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 23:59:58 GMT -5
I hope this doesn't mean that ET is going to die : ( I'll be really really sad...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2011 8:48:05 GMT -5
Ive fragged 500,000 & I can't seem to kill it.
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Post by amig0 on Oct 26, 2011 19:48:52 GMT -5
hey blessed, I want to format one of my harddrives that has xp on it...and et of course. I already made a backup of the etkey file...should I backup the entire pb folder as well? or that will automatically created when i join qaw's server?
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Post by BlaZeR on Oct 27, 2011 2:22:46 GMT -5
Actually if he's using the old ET Installer it has an out dated Punkbuster database and it won't let you play on QAW servers cause you will be running an old PB version, so my advice is backup your PB folder too, im bringing this cause someone else had that inconvenient.
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Post by I3lessed on Oct 27, 2011 18:07:48 GMT -5
Actually if he's using the old ET Installer it has an out dated Punkbuster database and it won't let you play on QAW servers cause you will be running an old PB version, so my advice is backup your PB folder too, im bringing this cause someone else had that inconvenient. +1, it used to not matter but if you don't do it now you'll have trouble getting your pb up to date unfortunately
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2011 9:08:27 GMT -5
So i can't come back and play
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Post by I3lessed on Oct 28, 2011 11:31:45 GMT -5
Why not?! We miss you!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2012 21:10:25 GMT -5
i can't come either ill post a picture of the message i keep getting and idk how to fix it!
-darkness
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Jan 24, 2013 19:31:08 GMT -5
Damn, if I'd known this before.... A question: Does anyone knows if the etkey generated at etkey.net (page named above by Order66) works in Linux?
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Post by Cowboy{QAW} on Jan 25, 2013 10:54:39 GMT -5
yes the key will work. ~In your case ~ got to your home folder and press "ctrl + h" to show hidden folders should be one labeled ".etwolf " place the etkey in the etmain folder there if you place it in the etmain folder, in directory where game is installed, it wont work kinda funky setup almost like having game installed in 2 places..but then im new to linux too
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2013 15:31:45 GMT -5
Wow, good to know. I'm about to try and reinstall ET sometime this week, and this would prevent me from giving up before I'd even begin!
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Feb 4, 2013 1:50:09 GMT -5
The etkey.net page is a perfect "going around" THAT problem page. But that's not all, I think. There's a PB folder, among the other game folders, in WIN as much as in LIN that keep PB working fine. And those won't be supported anymore. I don't want to create panic (as I've said in another thread) but I encourage players to backup your entire PB folder.
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