Played it recently and I liked it. Though, it was somehow short and I was expecting more bosses! And probably some twist in the story.

Interesting is that at the end of game I did not have bought all bonuses. Is that ok, or does it say that story was short?

Minigames accessible in the menu are nice bonus, though I didn't play them more than 10 times.

Graphics are beautiful!

In ubuntu 12.04 if you get and error from the installer complaining about missing libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 you need to install ia32libs:

$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

don't use hacks on PunkBuster servers

for OSS better try:

su -c "echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss"
./et.x86

You need ia32libs:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

If you run the server with the default settings, it does not work, the client does not see the server in the LAN list. You need to point at a decent server.cfg[1], put it into base/server.cfg and then run the server.

./etqw-dedicated +exec server.cfg

the minimum you need is:

spawnServer campaign_pacific
set si_minPlayers "2"

The server is included in the client install. You only need to install the server package if you want to run the server on another box.

If you are getting laggy sound on the client:

./etqw +set s_alsa_pcm plughw:0 +set NumberOfSpeakers 2

[1] http://hlds.pl/ETQW_server.cfg