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Play on steam?

Tonio92 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:19 · permalink

Is there actually a way to play enemy territory on steam? Seems like punkbuster only works through other download methods

Kori_Luxury7413835021 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:20 · permalink

Just use et legacy

Saber-Arturia · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:20 · permalink

No need for steam. Also, punkbuster is no longer relevant

Tonio92 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:20 · permalink

if its not relevant then why cant i join servers because i 'dont have punkbuster enabled' and when i click enable punkbuster nothing changes?

Saber-Arturia · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:21 · permalink

Idk, but I wouldn't use the steam version. I use legacy which doesn't show punkbuster or ETPro servers. I'm unaware if any such servers are actually active anymore. If they are, you would need 2.6b

totalfps · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:21 · permalink

It's slightly complex but it is possible to play et legacy through steam. Just install steam version then install legacy In the same folder. Delete et.exe and rename etl.exe to et.exe

NesoOP · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:22 · permalink

I use steam launcher to start legacy.

tacticalassault666 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:22 · permalink

What does idk mean?

Tonio92 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:22 · permalink

in steam it showed a lot of populated servers actually. are the steam servers separate from the legacy servers? id like the option to run both if so.

Tonio92 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:23 · permalink

would i be able to play on both steam and legacy servers then? or is there even a difference? seemed like lots of steam servers with punkbuster were populated. figured someone would know how they did it

tubonjics1 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:23 · permalink

'I don't know'

tacticalassault666 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:23 · permalink

I’ve asked loads of people, no one seems to know

Saber-Arturia · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:24 · permalink

I only play Legacy but use 2.6b for testing too. A lot of those server probably are mostly bots. You can get legacy here: etlegacy.com and 2.6b here: https://www.splashdamage.com/games/wolfenstein-enemy-territory/

Mypa_7 · 10 Sep 2026 at 10:24 · permalink

There are literally no populated Steam/Vanilla servers, or populated servers where you would need PunkBuster enabled, so best to just use ETLegacy. If you want to play jaymod/noquarter/nitmod/silent mods install the 32bit version because they do not support 64bit. If you want to play legacy mod where everyone moved to from ETPro you can use 64bit. Hirntot, TeamMuppet and HBC are 3 populated legacy servers. Hirntot doesn't have bots enabled at all, HBC is active after 21:00 CET.