Help wanted: Reviving and refining ETF

We need someone to get social with the playerbase, possibly with other playerbases as well, to attract and motivate people to play ETF, and to organize events and collaborations.

Preferably with idTech3, OpenGL and/or Vulkan familiarity, we need programmers to keep the engine fast and visually stable on modern hardware. We are trying to smash the engine-level bugs by pulling in changes from Quake3e where possible, which needs manual merging. A huge goal for ETe is also continued support of vanilla mods and etjump.

We want an auto-updating architecture for both clients and servers. We need help figuring out the best way to bundle and distribute our code and assets across all supported platforms. This also includes a solid pipeline to host legacy assets, as well as integrating custom player assets currently featured in Craig’s builds.

Deploying and managing a network of dedicated public and 4v4 pick-up game (PuG) servers. On top of this, we want dedicated development servers that can hook into our deployment pipeline to auto-update whenever a new build drops.

Refining the core 4v4 PuG experience with robust round systems and stats tracking, while ensuring stable public matches. A most-desired feature is Omni-Bot AI integration, pulling from the modern ET/RTCW code trees, to support offline and 24/7 available ETF gameplay. In case of interest, we are also looking to expand Lua support to make future modding much more accessible.

We still need polishing and fine-tuning work on the maps ported from QWTF Live to ETF. We want to bring asymmetric Attack vs. Defend maps. We are also planning on experimenting with the Command Point/Territory Control mode.

Textures, models, menus, HUD elements… help us clean them up and polish.

We need someone to hop onto Linux development again, ensure clean GCC/Clang compilation and fix platform-specific engine bugs. MacOS is something we never supported, but we want to change that.