Dark Alchemy 2005 ~ 2017 - 12 Years of Gaming

Dear Regulars, Members and Followers, unfortunately we have to announce that on 31 March 2017 Dark Alchemy will be closed permanently.

This difficult decision was taken after a long period of observation, which led us to the conclusion that nowadays the Enemy Territory community is increasingly shrinking, and that for a community like ours, this reduction generates an activity equal or less than 20 % compared to a few years ago, when to enter the server you had to wait a few free slot.

Since 2005 we have been pioneers and have set an excellent base that allowed us to have fun and entertain many players for over 10 years.

Today we are able to decide to close with pride, avoiding to let the time and the lack of players to force us to do so.

For all the work done over the years, and all the players, the members, the former members and donors, who have honoured us with their presence, I express best thanks, hoping that all these years alongside Dark Alchemy, have left in you something pleasant and positive.

Quote: Old-Owl

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Two weeks after the last release the guys from etlegacy are ready to bring you a new one which includes a client crash fix, bunch of server-side bugfixes and most notably the linux release is compiled with an older glibc, so even users with outdated linux distributions can play ET:L.

ET Legacy Engine:
Rework of download code

Client:
Expanded et:// protocol
Updated icon
Request servers from ET:L master server
Disabled SDL2 Joystick code to avoid possible crash when gamepads are connected

Server:
Fixed vanilla mod compatibilty
Fixed SV_Demo_Record_f for sv_maxclients 64
Added configurable attack log prints to console
Fixed sv_protect 1 (possibly ) and added challenge size check
Added part of the ioq3 com_frame code to fix cpu usage issue
Added option for dedicated servers to receive updateinfo packages
Added protection of SV_CheckDRDoS against time wrapping
Send heartbeat to ET:L master server
Don’t force snaps to 30 - use sv_fps instead

Mod:
Removed cg_railTrailTime
Fixed wrong maxclients count in server browser (windows only)
Fixed scoped rifles generating same stats as standard rifles
Fixed LUA et_Damage callback not taking distance and HS into account
Fixed compatibility issue with older linux GLIBC versions
... we did also fix tons of defects detected by coverity.

Download the new version HERE | ET:Legacy website HERE

Source: dark-alchemy.com | wolffiles.de

Lorenz presents his new sniper map Risk Sniper.

This time the battle takes place on an Risk board, As usual, the game ended with a discussion.
It 's time to decide who won. Have fun.

Thanks to [UJE]Niek for his support.

Source:  [UJE] Niek via FB | Lorenz

	RISK SNIPER  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  01.05.2014  6,383 MB  252

Magic has released his new Allied-attack map, Raid B4. It's a beautiful looking map, with excellent sound effects and gameplay.

~~~Storyline~~~
Axis forces are holding the town library as their HQ and the Allies have made plans to make a raid there for the secret stash of gold that the Axis have hidden in a secure vault.  The Allies must escort their truck and fight their way through the town to the library main doors.

Once there, they must find the keycard that opens the vault and then over-power the Axis forces defending the town library HQ. The Allies must then steal the gold and make their escape by truck and escort it all the way to the barge that will ferry them to safety.

Magic would like to thank  Neil, Ailmanki, KeMon , Sage, Loffy, Niek, Dude, Mongo and Avoc for all their help and advice in the making of this map.

Source: wolffiles.de | Splashdamage - Magic

	RAID Version:Beta 4  Magic  19.04.2014  36,83 MB  235

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - Splatterladder Wolf:ET HD Pack 2.6
This is the updated version of my HD Pack for 'Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory'. There are now two files in the download, however, the larger file is not downloaded by the players joining the server, only the small 14MB file is downloaded directly. - Wolf Enstein

Mod Installation for Server-Admins:
Put the '.pk3' files into the 'etmain' folder only and the small file will be downloaded by players joining your server. They'll have to go to Wolffiles.de in order to download and use the main HD texture pack.

To uninstall this mod just delete the file.

Installation for Players:
Put the '.pk3' files into your 'etmain' folder. If it's also in the 'etmain' folder of a gameserver you join you will see the HD-textures, weapons and uniforms in-game.

Source: forum.splatterladder | wolffiles.de

	SPLATTERLADDER ET HD PACK Version:2.6  Wolf Enstein  21.07.2019  667 MB  991

Omni-Bot 0.84 for Enemy Territory has been released.

We are pleased to announce new version of Omni-Bot for ET. The most important change is that goal_save command does not save all goal properties. The benefit is smaller file size and faster initialization. The drawback is that new goals gm files cannot be opened by previous Omni-Bot versions. If you want to use the latest waypoints, you must update to 0.84. If you use NoQuarter 1.2.7, you should update too, because 0.71 interface is included in Omni-Bot 0.84.

There are also new features in the omnibot mod:
Spectator can edit waypoints and can see all players on the map.
Rendering is more reliable and uses less resources because it does not need the boost interprocess library anymore.
New cvar cg_obituary can disable "killing" messages in the console, so that important messages will not scroll out of the window.
Warm-up time can be set to 1 second. You don't have to wait 10 seconds anymore.

Changes in Omni-Bot Enemy Territory 0.84
    infected mod is supported
    === BOT ===
    Added 0.71 interface (NoQuarter 1.2.7)
    Added trigger Flag dropped
    Added new functions IsCarryingFlag, CanGrabItem, GetNearestDestination, GetAllEnemy, GetAllAlly
    Added TraceLine returns contents and surface
    Added DistanceBetween and DistanceTo parameters can be MapGoals
    Added GetGoals and QueryGoals have parameter Sort (values are none,priority,name,random)
    Added GetWaypointByGUID and GetAllWaypoints return waypoint name in result table
    Added Goto parameter can be a table of vectors
    Added HasAmmo can have 2 parameters (ammotype, amount)
    Added GetNearest,GetNearestEnemy,GetNearestAlly can search for multiple classes
    Added constants SURFACE.SLICK and SURFACE.LADDER
    Added file names in gm script error messages
    Added et_autoexec_user.gm is executed after et_autoexec.gm
    Added SetAvailableMapGoals 3rd parameter can be a table of goal expressions
    Changed MaxUsers trackers are separate for each team
    Changed QueryGoals and GetGoals delete all items from table before writing result
    Changed GetGoals does not sort goals by priority
    Changed console commands are sent to goals even if they are handled by global Commands table
    Changed BlackboardDelay,MarkInProgress,MarkInUse do not require mapgoal parameter
    Changed blocked waypoint connections are visible, color is dark grey
    Changed errors from SetAvailableMapGoals are printed by Util.MapDebugPrint
    Fixed crash if dlclose fails (if Jaymod is used without LD_PRELOAD)
    Fixed Finished did not work inside Enter callback
    Fixed condition if(vector) failed if vector.x was zero
    Fixed GetUsePoint
    Fixed ConfigGet with 2 parameters saved null to config file
    Optimized region triggers
    Optimized initialization of file system and weapons
    Removed options [Script]/Debug, [Script]/EnableRemoteDebugger, [Debug Render]/EnableInterProcess, [Downloader]
    Removed empty lines in error messages
    === MOD ===
    Added killing messages can be disabled by cvar cg_obituary
    Added cvar omnibot_render_distance to limit waypoint drawing distance from the player
    Added spectator position on the map
    Changed InitialDelayTime can be less than 10 seconds on dedicated servers
    Changed drawing does not use boost interprocess library
    Changed spectator can see all players on the map
    Changed warmup can be less than 10 seconds
    Changed message "Omni-bot Loaded Successfully" is printed only after successful initialization
    Fixed spectator position was wrong and spectator could not edit waypoints
    Fixed GetEntityOwner sometimes returned invalid entity
    Fixed crash if print parameter was too long
    Fixed UpdateGoalEntity was called even if omnibot_enable was changed from 1 to 0
    Optimized drawing of waypoint radius
    Added version info to DLL files
    === GOALS ===
    Disabled waiting for medic in NoQuarter mod because of weapon spread bug
    Removed many useless properties from goals gm file in nav folder
    Changed high level goals were moved from library to gm scripts
    Changed ROAMING goal chooses any goal available to bot's team, ignoring class and MaxUsers
    Changed DEFUSE goal prefers dynamite which has been planted sooner if there are 2 dynamites at the same objective
    Changed FLAGRETURN goal has limited range
    Changed REVIVE is disabled on ice
    Changed Covertops don't steal uniform when mounting mg42
    Changed resetxp is used only in Jaymod, NoQuarter, Bastardmod, ETBlight
    Improved MOUNTMG42 can be used concurrently by both teams (neutral mg42 in goldrush)
    Improved soldier does not shoot MORTAR if stupid fieldops stands in front of him to deliver ammo
    Added timedout message in CHECKPOINT, REVIVE, MOUNT, MOUNTMG42, REPAIRMG42
    Fixed priority was not reset to zero after map goal became unavailable
    Fixed new ARTILLERY_S or ARTILLERY_D goals were sometimes created in ground
    Fixed disguised covertops was shooting and lost disguise
    Fixed error if test bot was kicked during Goto
    Fixed GRENADE did not work in NoQuarter mod if goal had Count=1
    === SCRIPTS ===
    Improved server manager to balance number of humans and bots
    Added Util.ChangeCrucialClassForRole
    Added Util.QueryGoal, Util.InvalidGoal, Util.RouteTo
    Added region type in debug messages when entering/exiting re-usable region trigger
    Changed debug messages in disablepush,disablecm,breakabledist regions are printed only for bots
    Changed Util.UpdateSwitchData is called automatically by paththrough switch
    === WEAPONS ===
    Added throwable knives in etpub mod
    Added WeaponType "item"
    Added BAZOOKA in Legacy mod
    Changed rifle grenades have limited range
    Changed SetDesirabilityRange can be less than DefaultDesirability
    Changed sniper weapons have smaller AimError
    Fixed flamethrower was used at long distances (bug in 0.83)
    === COMMANDS ===
    Added cleargoalflags command to delete obsolete 0.71 goal flags
    Improved sag command (ShowActiveGoals) prints priorities and roles
    Improved sei command (ShowEntityInfo) prints entity categories
    Improved rollcall command prints roles, goal, weapon, ammo, health, difficulty, view distance, reaction time
    Improved tracearty command renders pink line to point of collision if trace fails
    Fixed difficulty, resetxp and maxxp commands are listed in help and they don't need connected bots
    Fixed kickbot command worked only for ID, but not bot's name (bug in 0.83)
    Removed TestMap conditions and ShowMovers from makemapgm command
    Removed commands showscriptgoals, console, tbr, aim_debug, fixoffsets, fixnext
    === WAYPOINTS ===
    1944_cherbourg2
    1944_nordwind
    1944_nordwind_summer
    airassfp1
    battle_chess_sniper
    black_forty_four_sniper
    capuzzo_b3
    ds_bunkers_b2
    erdenberg_b3
    es_puffo_sniper
    fragmaze_fixed
    north_italy_sniper
    radar_summer
    raid_b4
    santas_grotto_v1_2
    sniper_from_mars
    transylvania
    uje_city_patrol
    uje_gondola_sniper
    uje_parking
    xmas_bol_sniper

Source: omni-bot.com | etpro.de

	OMNI BOT - WIN/LINUX + WAYPOINTS Version:0.84  omnibot  15.12.2014  35.12 MB  539

Clanbase - Game Over
For those unfamiliar with the name: ClanBase once was a cool site to visit if you were an online gamer. With cups and ladders hosted for games such as the RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike and Call of Duty series, a teenager really had quite some options for multiplayer entertainment. Heck, we even had LAN finals for our renowned EuroCups.

Those days are far behind us and as it stands today, the company that owns the ClanBase site - GGL - is unable to cover the costs required to run the website. Moreover, lately the owners of the site do not wish to cooperate with the voluntary crew, keeping everybody in the dark and thus showing complete disrespect to people who spend many hours a day trying to make our tournaments a success.

The website has now been offline for more than three weeks due to an unpaid bill. No action is being taken by the owner to get the website back online. Having no vision for the future, we - the ClanBase Crew - have lost our last hopes about ClanBase ever coming back online, and unfortunately we announce the end of a great era.

The history and the truth as the ClanBase Crew sees it

A US-based company called Global Gaming League (Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc.) noticed the success of the site and bought it from the original owners in December of 2004. They had financial backing for server hosting and our tournaments. Things were going well until in 2007 CB suffered its first heart attack when GGL couldn’t deliver the prize money they put up for the EuroCup. This can be marked as the start of our downfall.

The CB Crew has always been made up of volunteers with the majority being just teenagers. There was no possibility for us to come up with the money on our own that was promised, yet we were always the ones getting blamed. After all, it was our cup season and our name. It is no surprise that after this blow there was no way for us to host another season with the promise of any kind of prize until the debt was settled with the previous winners.

To this day, GGL owes around €24,000 in prize money which will never be settled. The other sites who were in the same gaming business of course had no problems hosting their tournaments however they wanted. ClanBase, however, lost a great deal of its reputation along with some top teams who never got their winnings.

As time went by the site also started to decay. After the takeover we had paid developers who tried to put the code in shape. There were some noteworthy developments such as the seasonal and invitational ladders, but after the first test run we couldn’t get the necessary changes implemented - because GGL stopped paying the developers.

Money. The source of all evil.

GGL started moving the servers between hosts (RackSpace, Amazon, GreenQloud) to save costs, and to avoid further missed payments. This appeared in the news a few times when providers came out with how they were lied to. We also lost the ability to upload files anything other than demos. Fortunately, a Crew member had the means to help out.

Funding continued to dry up. After the first wave of cuts where we lost the two developers and a head admin, things cooled down for a while. Recently, a general system administrator was cut off which got interesting at one point when CB suffered a denial of service attack to which the host (GreenQloud) responded with moving the servers to a different IP address. However, the domain name had to be updated as well to point to the new address. Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while.

So how do we get money? The site had ads for a while which obviously was not enough. We may have been naive thinking that upping the quality of the site would be a good move, which was promised more times we bother to count. GGL thought otherwise. In fact, many of the cool features our gamers would have loved to see on the website were never implemented - because "CBv2” was supposedly just around the corner.

Their first bold move was trying to get adult banners on CB - a website that was home for thousands of teenagers. The Crew was shocked and appalled by this. Fortunately, we managed to get our voice through (by threatening to go on strike) - but we also lost several valuable crew members who had enough of the poor conditions and bad decisionmaking.

Next to adult material, gambling can also be a good source of income. The Poker and Betting ladders were introduced. It is doubtful that much money was ever made of this, at least nobody said otherwise. The only thing certain is that these projects never got off the ground.

A poor attempt was also made to gather money in the form of offering VIP membership. Nobody took this very seriously and as expected, nobody bothered to opt in after a while. The only benefit to having VIP was the ability to get rid of some of the ads. Perhaps a regular donation system would’ve been more useful.

By the end of August 2013, yet another problem surfaced: the money ran out for the hosting. This is when CB started to go down every month when the time came to pay for the next 30 days.

Of course we tried contacting GGL through our manager who was in charge of handling communications. As you may have guessed by now, he also failed to receive his payment for a while and a company owing money to you, and who knows how many others, is not in a hurry to get back to you.

The ClanBase management tried to directly contact the GGL founder and president Ted Owen (since everyone else left), with very little success. Whenever we got a response it usually consisted of no more than a few words.

The last we heard from him, he stated that "GGL will move on without ClanBase, and besides, why did the Crew never put any money in it?”

Mr. Owen, the Crew put time in it. A lot of time... for free. Every day. And to clarify, nobody has ever reached out to us to ask for any kind of financial aid. Not that we would’ve ever agreed to anything if the money had to go through GGL as that would’ve resulted in the money never reaching its intended destination.

Ultimately, we understand that our users would have expected us to come out with the truth sooner. It has taken us three weeks to make a public statement - but the only reason it took so long is that we were trying to not lose the hope and to reach out to mr. Owen. Unfortunately, our last request (or offer) to him - to release the ClanBase site to the crew for us to be able to continue running it on our own, without the GGL - was not welcomed.

It is thus our sad duty to inform you that ClanBase is gone. We would like to sincerely thank over a thousand admins working on the website over the past 15 years of ClanBase’s existence. And an even bigger thanks goes out to all the players who supported us over the years and who did not lose faith no matter what.

This writing has not come easily because ClanBase has been a big part of our lives, and we definitely did not want to see it end like this.

Clanbase - Game Over
Die Clanbase war einmal eine sehr coole Website für Online- Gamer, mit Cups und Ligen für Spiele wie RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike und der Call of Duty-Serie.

Diese glorreichen Tage sind nun hinter uns, und heute steht es um die Clanbase Website sehr schlecht - wir sind nicht mehr in der Lage, die erforderlichen kosten der Website zu decken.

Die Website war offline für mehr als drei Wochen, wegen einer unbezahlten Rechnung. Keine Aktion wird vom Eigentümer übernommen, um die Website wieder online zu bekommen. Da sie keine Vision für die Zukunft mehr hat. Wir - die Clanbase Crew - haben unsere letzten Hoffnungen die Clanbase jemals wieder online kommen jetzt endgültig verloren, und müssen leider das Ende einer großen Clanbase-Ära verkünden.

Source: etpro.de | clanbase.org

After 9 years the heart of Dark Alchemy is still beating.

Old-Owl managed to do a great job.
We want to thank him and all others who helped (and is helping) to make Dark Alchemy a succes.

We are sure Old-Owl will continue doing the job as great as he always did.

Thank you for everything

We will celebrate our 9 years on 3rd of august.
The place to be for a suprise: Dark Alchemy A1 - 213.239.207.85:27960

Source: wolffiles.de | dark-alchemy.com

After almost 3 years of development, N!tmod 2.3 is finally ready for public use.
One of the major changes in this version is the built-in anticheat, NxAC 1.0.

A few things have changed since N!tmod 2.2, and some of your old server config files might need some adjustments to run with 2.3.
Don't forget to check the Setup tutorial and the NxAC Setup tutorial if you get any problems during the installation/update.

N!tmod 2.3 FINAL Changelog >> HERE

Source: etmods.net | etpro.de

	N!TMOD 2.3 FINAL Version:2.3  N!trox  29.03.2015  5.89 MB  216

Adlernest Roof B1 - Modified with DerSaidin's permission.

Alternations:
- Roof access added from CP spawn and axis spawn after the controls are blown
- Added access to the abyss with rope exit leading to under axis spawn
- Bug jump on the roof removed
- Added rocket launcher (can be used once only), which creates a hole in the roof (near the ammo packs)
- Removed walls next to the ammo packs

It does not change the game play, it just adds some extra fun!

Source: etpro.de | fearless-assassins.com

	ADLERNEST ROOF Version:beta 1  KiSsMySeXyAsS aka MorpHDoc  10.09.2014  8,548 MB  321