People, please… The “seta” command is BROKEN in ET… Kaputt! Abgebrochen!
If the cvar you’re trying to set is not in your etconfig.cfg file already, “seta” will NOT add it to the file (unlike it’s supposed to do and does in all the other Q3-based games). Just try it. Start ET and enter in the console:
\seta banana “dancing”
Then quit ET and check the etconfig.cfg file in your profiles directory. You’ll see that “banana” is NOT in there. If you want to add a cvar setting permanently, you’ll have to add it manually to the etconfig.cfg file, or set it in your autoexec.cfg.
On the other hand, if the cvar IS in etconfig.cfg file already, then the value you assign to it will get saved regardless whether you’re using “set” or “seta” to do so.
I hope this clears things up.