Sorry if it's a bit of a downer of a post, it's just a thought that's dwelling in there and needed to get off my chest. What's been happening the last few years just kind of sucks. MTX continue to be more predatory, companies do more shady shit, more and more of people's legitimate purchases get taken away from them, studio shutdowns, the prevalence of GenAI in games, and so on.

I mean look at Fortnite, imagine if your fan favourite character was locked behind a battle pass you needed to grind, or you needed to hope they were present on a shop rotation where if available you need to pay like 10-15 bucks, for a single character avatar.

Even if the IP gets taken out of Epic's hands, who's gonna handle it? A studio under the helm of a big publisher is going to also riddle it with predatory and overpriced mtx. An indie studio certainly cannot afford to purchase the IP, but even if they did, it might be very small in scope and I doubt the small team would be able to replicate the gameplay, feel, and visuals of a UT game, even a simpler looking one like 2004, not without taking a very long time developing it anyway. I know recently there have been some discussions about if the visuals UT typically have matters for the game, I think all the games have their own defining artstyles, and were visually groundbreaking for the timeperiod each entry released in, so yes, being graphically impressive is important to the game for me.

I'd prefer if the IP goes into public domain but I doubt even that would bring the series back in any meaningful way. UT4 was canned, and UT3 wasn't most people's favourites, but I'd say the game died with some semblance of honour at least, imagine if UT4 got fortnite's treatment (and as a reminder, the actual original fortnite also basically flopped and was replaced by the battle royale mode), it wouldn't feel the same at all, it'd be a paraded corpse.

It'd feel shameful if that actually happened. Lots of people fucking hate fortnite, I don't want my favourite series to be associated with such legacy. Anyone else has similar sentiments?

Hey guys, I just wanted to share a set of tools to inspect UT2004's demo4 files.

Back in the UT2004 days I created the =MWatch= software that automatically downloaded dependencies so that one could play back demos that would have otherwise failed to play.

With all the recent AI coding agent fuss I thought I'd try to see if I could use one to decode the demo4 format. When I told a friend, he got interested as well. You can see the some early result below.

Code: https://github.com/clashman/demo4-tools/

PS: I also added a (non-vibecoded, heh) demo_play.py utility to start a demo with the original game. No dependency downloads so far, though.

I'm trying to identify two Assault maps from the original Unreal Tournament (UT99). They may have been custom maps, but they felt very polished and almost official.

First map:

It looked like some kind of Sun Temple, Aztec temple, or Mayan temple. The setting was at night. One team started inside caves or tunnels in a mountain area and had to cross a bridge over a toxic-looking river. After crossing the bridge, there was a relatively simple temple structure where the defending team was located. That's about all I can remember.

Second map:

This one started in what looked like a large cemetery or graveyard with many visible tombstones. It was also set at night. One of the objectives was to ring or activate a bell tower, which would open a large gate or iron bars. After that, attackers had to climb a tower using stairways. The final objective, if I remember correctly, was at the top floor. There was a central area with several statues attached to pillars, and I think the attackers had to shoot or destroy those statues to complete the map.

I vaguely remember the map's name being something related to Cemetery, Masons, Mausoleum, or something similar, but I'm not sure.

Hello everyone, I recently picked up the game again and I am having so much fun, I didn't have in years.

Question is: I saw there are servers but with modded weapons, modded maps etc etc... I think they are ok, but it's just not for me. Are there communities (discord etc) that like me (an oldie gamer) , appreciate good old vanilla maps?

I personally love maps like plunge (F4A)

Hi everyone! I don't know if anyone is interested, but I have some custom-made UT99 Monster Hunt maps. If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to post the download links here.

So The maps released and tested so far are available here. If you try them out and have any feedback, please let me know.

My UT99 MonsterHunt Masp

Ever since external server browsers went out of fashion, I miss being able to monitor the multiplayer activity of all of my games in one place.

Since I've been running some dedicated servers for Unreal Tournament 99/2004 and Q3A, I always wanted a way to just monitor them all in one place like GameSpy3D allowed you to do. So I wrote a classic-style server browser for modern Windows called LameSpy. Check out the video demo and the website if you are interested: https://lamespy.org

Both the website and application offer tutorials to help you get your classic games set up for modern Windows. Frag on!

Hey guys

I heard while back oldunreal revived the games, I'm curious though how is the population now?

Did it actually brought people back or is it the game still pretty dead ?

For both UT99 and or ur2004?

Can anyone let me know before I invest time into it haha

I don't really play bots it has to be for MP

I've added skins and a battle royal mode that ends on an arena battle with power-ups. Arena's have been reworked along with audio and sound fx. Feel free to try it out here.

I am trying to play the mod Out Of Hell off moddb for Unrealtournament 2004. I have installed UT2004 from the oldunreal site. I have downloaded the Out Of Hell patch and merged it with the UT2004 folder. I have downloaded the Out Of hell base game and put it in a seperate folder from UT2004, yet still within a folder containing the two. I have edited the start and targetbox within properties of both the UT2004 shortcut and the out of hell shortcut to match eachother. I feel like ive done everything right, yet each and every single fucking time i get a badmod history app:init error.

Why? I dont know what ive done wrong. I dont know where else to go. It seems like everyone else has downloaded this mod and played just fine. What the fuck is wrong with me? Am i really that smooth-brained?

Please, at this point, I need somebody to sit down with me and guide me step by step. I really am that fucking stupid, but by god almighty i really want to play this game. Please, I need some helo.

Hey everyone,

Got tired of scrolling through the game's built-in skin browser in the settings with like 300 custom skins installed, so I made a mutator that adds a proper skin browser!

What it does:

• search by name, race, model or texture package
• favorites, plus sort/group by race or model family
• toggle between portrait and a 3D preview you can rotate, zoom and pan
• preview red/blue team skins, taunts and voice packs before you pick one
• adds a Skins tab to the ESC menu mid-match, so you can swap and it applies on respawn. Way easier than digging through the settings

You turn it on through the normal Mutators menu. It's made for the OldUnreal patch (3374). It might work on 3369 but I haven't tested other versions yet.

It works in Instant Action and online. Online, the server still has its usual skin-change cooldown.

Screenshots

GitHub Download

GameBanana Download

Planning to add next:

1. keyboard navigation
2. a recently used list
3. maybe a grid view of portraits

Bug reports and feature ideas are welcome. If you end up using it and finding it helpful, a star on GitHub helps a lot!!

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Hi, some time ago I posted here my initial work on ut99 ragdolls vibe coded mod. Here's progress update of using real models instead of boxes and start of better gibing.

youtube age restricted video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSwHqXoM5g

Been running a UT2004 server in Sydney called kAoS and we're after more Aussie players, whether you've been here since 2004 or just reinstalled it.

Mostly the classic team modes (TAM, Freon, ArenaMaster), plus two we built ourselves: Kontrol and Bounty. The mutators have been updated recently, the anti-cheat is current, and we've got a good spread of maps.

We're usually on Friday and Saturday from 8pm Sydney time.

IP: open 51.161.212.19:7877

If you want to know when games are on, or you're stuck getting the game running on the newer OldUnreal patch, join our Discord & checkout the Stats page. Happy to help with settings and install questions.

Anyone else playing in Australia or NZ? Keen to hear what you're running.

I know this is probably old news on here but just in case some new Redditor's haven't seen it, there was a show on Prime called "Secret Level" which was an animation anthology similar to Netflix's "Love, Death and Robots", except this show had short films based on games.

While I was watching it, I was shocked as shit to come across an episode called Xan which was about Xan Kriegor, the final boss in Unreal Tournament single player.

The show included some of the iconic weapopns (no shock combos unfortunately), characters such as the Necris and Malcolm. It was clear the people who made this film were big fans of the game.

If you haven't seen it, or didn't know about it, definitely go check it out. Seeing as we'll never see another Unreal game again, this scratched some of that UT itch I've been having for decades.

With our TWL sponsored 3v3 round-robin tournament winding down, I wanted to remind everyone that the Silly Hats Only community is the home of iCTF in UT2004 and we welcome all skill levels and iCTF gametypes. We’ve got lots of news coming out of our community…

1. Tournament winding down: one more round-robin match will determine the two teams who go to the final championship match! Who will face team Blacklist, will it be the Jabroni’s or the upcoming Previously Ugly Kids!??

2. Expanding PUB nights: We’ve recently added an addition iCTF PUB night on Thursdays @ 8:30p EST. We still play on Tuesdays at the same time, mostly on our Chicago server (IP: 74.91.115.8).

3: New mutator working: We’ve been vibe-coding! With our discord stats bot comes OpenSkill data on every player on our servers; we’ve begun to implement a team balancer mutator that will use the mu and sigma data for each player to attempt to balance teams for PUB matches. It’s a work in progress but we’re confident that it’ll help bring UT2004 into the more modern gaming environment.

4: Another tournament??? The feedback for this tournament (partnered with TeamWarfareNetwork) has been overwhelmingly positive! The admins over at Silly Hats has been discussing doing another tournament sooner rather than later. Check our discord for more info!!

5: Reminder that we also have Vanilla iCTF as a voteable gametype on our servers map voting menu AND we’re looking to add PIG iCTF for those interested!

Silly Hats Discord: https://discord.gg/EbWt7F3tfk

Latest tournament match: https://youtu.be/2OzLgd_7740?is=-iA1y6800gq_KyPa

Hello, could anyone help me get a hold of the admin for the above server? Here is the thread on the ut99 forum in case you're curious why I need to contact bunny from that server Thank you. https://ut99.org/viewtopic.php?p=155689#p155689

A while ago, I saw a post about an original Unreal mouse pad. It inspired me to make my own mouse with the Unreal Tournament logo.

Headshot rate x100 ;)

What do you guys think?

I have a retroid pocket 5 and have downloaded the apk and a copy of goty UT99. Have tried various versions now.

I tried pointing the app to a zip folder. Doesn't work. Tried unpacking and still didn't work. Tried putting the map, system, music, textures, sounds files directly in the android root folder, didn't work.

I just cannot get it to function. If anyone cam help I would be grateful thank you!!

I've been working on my own instagib arena shooter =)

I just found out about the games being available and running on modern systems about a week ago. I haven't played either one in probably over 20 years. I downloaded both UT99 and UT2004 and mostly played single player on UT2004 just to get back in the groove.

The maps, the sounds, everything about it has brought back this flood of amazing memories. They truly are special and huge thanks to the people behind making them available and usable on modern systems. I have been having a blast.

The last 2 nights I jumped in a couple games on public servers on UT99 (I wish more were on the newer game, too)...and wow, what a fun time! I was laughing myself silly on the fast paced instagib CTF maps.

Way back in the day I used to play competitively in a gaming clan. I'm now 58 years old but in two games I was still the top score. Back then, I was more a defensive guy, but on one game last night I had 5 of 6 flag captures for our team. Not that that matters all that much in itself, but it's kinda cool to think that for a round or two this old man can keep up with whoever is playing now. But maybe we're all old? LOL

In any case, these games gave me so much joy back in the day and are once again doing the same. I appreciate all involved, including those of you who are in those public servers and contributing to the fun!

New feature:

• More fine-grained dismemberment: Now forearms / hands / calves / feet can all be seperately dismembered (theoretically a corpse can be cut into 15 pieces, while in prior versions only full arms / legs dismemberment is allowed).
• Skeletons can also be dismembered.
• New option to turn on / off skeletizing effects (Link Gun / Ion Cannon)

Update will be available on ModDB soon.