To commemorate Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars' fourth anniversary, we asked you community to send in your favourite ETQW moments and memories, and we've had some great responses in the forums, via Splash Damage Twitter and our Facebook page. It wasn't easy picking just a few select ones from all the submissions and we hope you enjoy reading these as much as we did. Take it away, community:

Seze: Quarry... last 30 seconds of the round. Strogg had just cleared any defenses we (GDF) had left. I was the last alive player in the ship and saw about 7 Strogg approaching, including the carrier of the last Energy Cell. "Well, that's it..." I thought. "We need a miracle to hold that last push", when suddenly a Dark Matter Cannon hits the entrance of the ship. Seven team kills for the poor Oppressor and GDF won the round.

Update: The server password is tapirfest. Go go go!

Original story: To celebrate Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars' recent oldening, we've foolishly decided to hurl ourselves into the multiplayer fray this weekend. We're teaming up with the lovely chaps of the OCB clan and The Group Thing to host a special "Play with Splash Damage" event, allowing you to do unspeakable things to at least several members of the ETQW development team.

Intrigued? Here are the details:

• When? Saturday, 8 October 2011 at 8 PM UK time / 3 PM Eastern
• Where? The OCB server at 193.93.45.50:27733 and The Group Thing's server at 217.146.84.2:27733
• What? Play Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars with Splash Damage!

The server will be password protected to allow us lot a bit of time to get comfortable - we'll reveal the password here on the forums a few minutes before kickoff, so be sure to check back!

We hope to see you then and/or there!

Break out the Stroyent and your intergalactic party hats - Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is an incredible four years old! Released on September 28, 2007 in Europe and on October 2 in the US, ETQW as we've come to call it not only provided an excellent way for human/Strogg conflict resolution, but also marked Splash Damage's first full retail release. In the past four years, we've seen a staggering 1.6 million player accounts, millions of matches, as well as closely fought tournaments and a ton of user-created content. We'd like to extend a huge thank you goes out to everyone who's been part of the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars community, the game server providers, and our partners that helped make the game happen in the first place - we wouldn't be here today without you.

The Xbox 360 version of Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars will be undergoing scheduled maintenance this Wednesday, temporarily putting on hold Violator beams and MCP escorts. Things are set to kick off at 18:00 UK time / 10 AM Pacific and will last for approximately six hours. You will not be able to log into ETQW 360's online services during this time, including matchmaking, online multiplayer, and player statistics. The good news is that when all is said and done, the game's back-end servers will join its PC counterpart in a state-of-the-art data center and be set for the future.

Please note that this outage will only affect the Xbox 360 version of the game - the PC and PlayStation 3 versions will continue operate as normal.

Update: This has now been resolved and everything should be back to normal! Let us know in the comments if you're still experiencing difficulties.

Original story: Those of you trying to log into Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars are currently being greeted by an error message. The accounts server for the game is currently not working properly, causing the vast majority of login attempts to not go through. Word is that things are being worked on, though unfortunately there's currently no solid ETA for the fix. We'll let you know as soon as we have more information.

On this, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars' third birthday, it seems apposite to mention that recent researches and excavations have revealed some stuff that didn't make the final game. You see, following on from Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory's silly mission audio briefings ("Yanks, Banks, Tanks, Krauts, GOOOOLD" etc), we dallied with the notion of doing something similar for Quake Wars. Back for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, we did a pretty direct pastiche of the 1940's March Of Time newsreels, so for the near-future QUAKE Wars, the most obvious equivalent seemed to be some sort of cable news channel.

How on earth could you report an alien invasion? Doing it as a straight Cloverfieldish news-horror seemed inappropriate. The tone needed to be simultaneously vastly confident, obviously ignorant, professionally craven and inappropriately upbeat.

Rejoice, feeble Humans, for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars was released three Earth years ago today, charting the glorious Strogg invasion of your puny world. The Makron is gratified to note the great number of modifications being worked on by your Technicians, and delights particularly in the many contests still being held to find the most skilled warriors among your people.

When the Makron descends upon your pathetic planet in person, these, your bravest and best, shall be afforded particular privileges. They will, of course, be eaten. As will everyone else. But in any case, for now we congratulate you on your persistence.

For the Makron!

A new update for Quake Wars: Tactical Assault is now available containing weapon tweaks and a variety of other fixes. Tactical Assault aims to turn Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars into a more, well, tactical affair by adding realistic movement and increased damage for all weapons. The mod works with all of the 12 stock maps in the game (including bot support) and also comes with a slew of other features such as improved spectator controls, class limits, and several new weapons like the BFG10K. You can find the full changelog for the 0.3.4 update as well as download locations in the Tactical Assault thread in our forums.

With the Tribal Wars modification for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars barely out a month, the team behind it has already released an update containing a variety of tweaks and fixes. Among other things, jetpacks are now more powerful and most of the mod's weapons are on the receiving end of balance changes and new behavior. Visit the Tribal Wars website for the full 1.1 changelog as well as download links and installation instructions.

Want more Tribal Wars goodness? Check out our recent Tribal Wars interview with Alex "Arcanox" Halchuk!

Arguably one of the most anticipated mods for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, Tribal Wars is now finished and available for download! Inspired by some of the elements that made Starsiege: Tribes a gaming classic, Tribal Wars adds a CTF gametype along with jetpacks, several new weapons, and new maps.

You can grab Tribal Wars from one of the following locations:

Windows version:

• Mod-DB
• Fileplanet
• Filefront
• Megaupload
• Awesome Dudes
• Wolfmap

Linux version:

• Bravehardt
• Awesome Dudes
• Wolfmap

Once you've grabbed the release, don't forget to stop by the Tribal Wars forums. There's also a dedicated IRC channel at #twars on irc.quakenet.org.