/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10788431]

>million of players at the time
>thousands of maps and mods
>engine literally designed for modding
>fondly remembered
>works on modern computers with minimum fiddling
>dead community
how does this happen?

[Anonymous No.10788442]

>>10788431
>how does this happen?
Tim Sweeney needs an Impact Hammer up his ass.

[Anonymous No.10788453]

>>10788431
>hasn't had a new game in 15 years
>not free to play
>new players instantly destroyed by boomer autists grinding for 15 years

[Anonymous No.10788475]

>>10788453
>>not free to play
it is now

[Anonymous No.10788485]

Didn't have a PC that could run it back then and now the opportunity to play it is gone forever, damn.

[Anonymous No.10788486]

>>10788485
>now the opportunity to play it is gone forever, damn.
Ah ah ah

[Anonymous No.10788487]

>>10788442
This. No reason Unreal 1 and UT99 aren't remastered like Quake was, and UT2k4 gets a simple re-release with updated compatibility and a community content pack. Fuck Tim Sweeney

[Anonymous No.10788489]

>>10788485
there are servers, I mean, why no one bother with new maps and mods

[Anonymous No.10788493]

>>10788453
>15 years
anon...............

[Anonymous No.10788495]

>>10788431
Move over grandpa. You're way past your expiration date

[Anonymous No.10788497]

>>10788493
It's actually 17.

[Anonymous No.10788520]

>>10788431
would you play a ut2004 battle royale?
>it's actually onslaught without vehicles

[Anonymous No.10788764]

>>10788442
He actually said as much on twitter recently

[Anonymous No.10788808]

>>10788485
>and now the opportunity to play it is gone forever, damn
???
You can find games online if you really want to. Sure it's not as it used to but still. And the pic is just on a tuesday.

[Anonymous No.10788835]

>>10788495
You're in the retirement home, anon.

[Anonymous No.10788838]

>>10788453
>new players instantly destroyed by boomer autists grinding for 15 years
Kex Q2's multiplayer wasn't instantly killed by this, fun fact.

[Anonymous No.10788846]

i only played this and never got 2004. forgotten by literally everyone despite it being the same game but no vehicles

[Anonymous No.10788885]

>>10788431
>dead community
its been renamed "Fortnite" you dumb boomer.
we UT now

[Anonymous No.10788902]

>>10788885
Fortnite isn't allowed on here you dumb zoomer

[Anonymous No.10788921]

>>10788902
fortnite
fortnite!
FORTNITE I'M TALKING ABOUT FORTNITE HERE
see? jannies don't care

[Anonymous No.10788928]

>>10788846
Vehicles always made an FPS so much better for me, man I miss that shit.

[Anonymous No.10789153]

>>10788808
>onslaught
>as-convoy
what abomination is happening there?

[Anonymous No.10789172]

>>10788764
KEK

[Anonymous No.10789175]

>>10788764
>He actually said
Unreal and homosexual.
>>10788495
>>10788885
>>10788921
Get a Ripper, stand in front of a wall, fire the weapon. In Unreal Tournament, of course.

[Anonymous No.10789194]

>>10788431
It's primarily a team game. People don't want to wait for a server to fill up to play a game. It's deathmatch is great and all, but for that people generally pick Q3, due to it's higher skill ceiling.

Epic really ought to make an updated version. Maybe F2P, maybe with a browser based version alongside a proper client/community features. Might be able to get games going again. But they're obviously focused on Fortnite still. Not /vr/s cup of tea, but has a much bigger audience. It doesn't make a lot of sense to cater to a minority. Simply reupping them on storefronts with an updated ient isn't enough since oldunreal patches exist and anyone who wants it can download it from archive.org. they're not going to get sales and the game is already available.
Hard to compete with free. You need to add value. How many 256x256 skins are you going to pay 30 UTokens for in the storefront?

[Anonymous No.10789361]

>>10789175
Weirdly I don't think there's any weapon in Fortnite that lets you kill yourself. Except for the grenade

[Anonymous No.10789365]

>>10788431
Pretty sure no UT ever sold more than 100k

[Anonymous No.10789373]

>>10789365
UT99 sold 2 million

[Anonymous No.10789497]

>>10789361
>Weirdly I don't think there's any weapon in Fortnite that lets you kill yourself.
Fortnite doesn't even have gibs and thus is a game for little kids and faggots. your're a low-effort bait troll anyway

[Anonymous No.10789582]

enforcer>assault rifle

[Anonymous No.10789736]

>>10789497
troll because Fortnite is a good game that is not really any worse than UT? (and that's putting it lightly)
I guess...

[Anonymous No.10789856]

>>10789365
Pretty sure you're fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.10789884]

Whats the difference between UT2003 and UT2004? I only had 2003 back then and never got to play it online. If I want to play online now, which one should I get?

[Anonymous No.10789903]

>>10789884
UT2004 has everything that 2003 has, plus vehicles and new game modes and such.

[Anonymous No.10789925]

No one is working on Unreal Championship 2 for pc that leaked some years ago, right?

[Anonymous No.10789991]

>>10789365
I refuse to believe this game didn't sell

[Anonymous No.10789996]

>>10789884
2K4 is the full game, with all modes, levels, etc.

[Anonymous No.10790006]

>>10788431
https://gog-games.to/game/unreal_tournament_2004_ece
https://www.moddb.com/games/unreal-tournament-2004/downloads/ut2004-v3369-including-64-bit (don't use the 64-bit .exe)
https://github.com/alexstrout/foxWSFix-UT2k4

[Anonymous No.10790012]

When is that faggot Timmy going to release the UE1 source code? He wrote that shit himself, so it's not like middleware is stopping him like UE2/2.5.

[Anonymous No.10790102]

>>10790012
the galaxy audio subsystem is third party

[Anonymous No.10790247]

>>10790012
>He wrote that shit himself
The entire engine all by his lonesome?

[Anonymous No.10790270]

17 years and this map is still unsurpased

[Anonymous No.10790279]

>>10788431
It's a multiplayer game and the netcode is stinky by modern standards. That's really all it takes.

[Anonymous No.10790389]

>>10788485
fortunately for you this is the game with the best vanilla FPS bots

[Anonymous No.10790396]

>>10790270
do people actually think this map has good gameplay?

[Anonymous No.10790403]

>>10790396
children love being the OP sniper

[Anonymous No.10790430]

>>10790396
It was the chill BGM for that map that stuck in peoples minds the most

[Anonymous No.10790512]

>>10790430
And the kino skybox. The Earth panorama moving around the map is still awesome after all these years. Unfortunately, as of gameplay, these days it's constant stalemate. As soon as you peek from behind the tower your head is gonna get popped by a rifle round, ad nauseam.

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[Anonymous No.10791068]

>>10790270
LavaGiant is better.

[Anonymous No.10791106]

Why was the Ripper cut from 2003/2004?

[Anonymous No.10791112]

>>10791106
because it sucks

[Anonymous No.10791157]

>>10791112
No, you suck. Ripper headshots are the most satysfying. And contrary to the popular opinion, people used this weapon in competitive matches.

[Anonymous No.10791206]

>>10789194
>Epic really ought to make an updated version.

Didn't they already try to do this twice though?
There was Unreal Tournament 3 (not sure if f2p) that nobody cared about and then Unreal Tournament 2014, which was cancelled because no one gave a shit and because they jumped ship to work on Fortnite

[Anonymous No.10791209]

>>10791206
UT3 was slow and boring. It definitely wasn't f2p when it launched, either.
Basically, Epic made a bad game then used the negative reception to it as an excuse to kill the series.

[Anonymous No.10791223]

>>10791206
>There was Unreal Tournament 3 (not sure if f2p) that nobody cared
it wasn't free to play and we cared, but it was a console first game and in showed it, pc version was broken into oblivion, by the time the last patch finally fixed everything everyone had moved on
ut3 killed the series

[Anonymous No.10791557]

>>10788846
2004 makes 2003 completely obsolete. 2004 even has 2003's opening cinematic. On top of it, it fixes a lot of stuff. It's not just the vehicles. 2003 is an unfinished product.

[Anonymous No.10791562]

>>10791157
Anon is right. Just because it's a powerful doesn't mean it's a good weapon.

[Anonymous No.10791569]

>>10791209
>UT3 was slow and boring.
I think they experimented to release it on consoles. I believe UT3's console version was slower than PC version. I remember Master Chief character mod on PS3 making it to news.
There were also Unreal Championship games. Could anyone give a rundown of those. I always thought Unreal Championship 1 looked like 2k3 console.

[Anonymous No.10791579]

>>10791562
I didn't say it's powerful or good. Ripper is just fun to fuck around with. I think it wasn't meant to be a straight-up offensive weapon, because in a head-to-head situation you're more likely to be smothered with multiple rockets or Minigun fire. But when there's a fool camping in a cramped space or behind the corner? Start shooting razor blades at their neck height and move the fuck away. Every single time I scored a headshot with a Ripper when dueling my brother he left the game with an enormous ragequit because he was "fragged with a noob gun" lol.

[Anonymous No.10791687]

>>10791569
>I always thought Unreal Championship 1 looked like 2k3 console
it was the same game

[Anonymous No.10792026]

>>10788921
abort, can't be a zoomer posting this

[Anonymous No.10792031]

>>10791557
>2004 even has 2003's opening cinematic
No, they don't?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ljNtBPYzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPPZXT7Z4oQ

[Anonymous No.10792043]

>>10792031
why are you like this?

[Anonymous No.10792058]

>>10792043
As a leftover cutscene they kept in the player yes, you made it sound like UT2004 and UT2003 has such little difference that they copy and pasted the intro over

[Anonymous No.10792063]

>>10792058
you can switch them in the ini or renaming the files

[Anonymous No.10792412]

>>10788431
>ywn challenge all of your
Halo-obsessed friends to Unreal Tournament and witness their whining about the game speed again

[Anonymous No.10793473]

>>10788486
This is how I played the original Unreal Tournament. Snipers only on that floating towers in space map kept me entertained for a while.

[Anonymous No.10793545]

>>10790512
Yep. No other level has ever pulled me in and immersed me this well in a multiplayer game.

Sometimes I'm grateful for having a 2013 HP shittop that hangs if you open more than 7 tabs. I probably wouldn't have given UT1999 a chance otherwise. Only ever played with bots but they are more than good enough. Picrel is my current phone wallpaper.

[Anonymous No.10793772]

>>10793545
where are the stars?

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>>10794558
REVTVRN

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[Anonymous No.10795004]

>>10793772
I just spacefilled the sky with black because it looks better that way on OLED, besides I couldn't be bothered to edit everything to make it fit with the aspect ratio

[Anonymous No.10795641]

>>10795004
it was a space is fake and gay joke

[Anonymous No.10796794]

>>10788495
There used to be a painting of Facing Worlds in Fortnite

[Anonymous No.10796803]

>>10791569
>>10791687
Not exactly. I remember being weirded out that you always spawned with a rocket launcher. There might have been some kind of loadout thing even.
unrelated, goofy ad for ut2k3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blNbWiqfpJE

[Anonymous No.10797395]

>>10788921
That was funny. I hope you're proud.

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[Anonymous No.10797626]

>>10788431
>how does this happen?
quake was always better

[Anonymous No.10797992]

>>10797626
Quake is ruined by its movement exploits.

[angry German No.10798869]

>>10788431
>>dead community

The community fucking sucks, that is how.

There are still active players and groups but here is my problem
1) Kraut version which I bought back in the day is NOT compatible with every other version / heavily censored and I am fed up with censored games
2) I can NOT buy the game on GOG because it does not get listed for me on GOG. I guess it is geo blocked but I am told GOG does indeed offer it but it won't show up in Germany
3) pirate game because I want to play online, asshole fan boys detect that I am running a cracked version and ban me from all their severs. So I can only play with bots now.

I FUCKING HATE THIS AND I FUCKING HATE THIS COMMUNITY!!!!

Ich will Unreal Tournament spielen!!!!!!!!!!1111

[Anonymous No.10798896]

>>10798869
log into GOG through a VPN to buy it
that's how I got Commandos on my account

[Anonymous No.10798897]

>>10788431
it's old, stupid

[Anonymous No.10798926]

>>10788431
no battle pass

[Anonymous No.10798974]

>>10798869
>pirate game because I want to play online, asshole fan boys detect that I am running a cracked version
What? Dude, grab the gog installer and change the master server to the community one (since Epic shut down the official one).

https://ut2004serverlist.com/
They even put a link to the archive where you can download the whole thing already configured. They are not gonna kick you for pirating.

[Anonymous No.10798975]

>>10798896
Epic removed the UT games from all store fronts. Even if you want to buy them, you can't. Pirate the gog version and change the ini to point to the new master server (or just the one from archive in the above post).

[Anonymous No.10799912]

>>10798869
anon, all unreals were delisted 15 months ago
>>10798869
>1) Kraut version which I bought back in the day is NOT compatible with every other version / heavily censored and I am fed up with censored games
just patch it

[Anonymous No.10799916]

>>10798974
he is right, ut has a service for servers to read what keys are banned

[Anonymous No.10799951]

>>10798974
here it is
https://punter.vengefulllama.com/index.php
the first one listed is the gog one, if you want a working cd-key you need to contact support

[Anonymous No.10799954]

>>10788495
here comes the zoombie

[Anonymous No.10799961]

you guys fail to realize just how many dead communities there are for games with little to no surviving record besides wayback machine and scattered youtube vids / forum posts. The fucking spiritual successor to the N.I.C.E. racing series has a dedicated modding community which has been all but scrubbed from the internet. 'member Knytt stories? 'member when SMW Central wasn't the main place for Lunar Magic hacks? Remember how DWI, FFR and Stepmania used to have their own separate communities? Don't get me started on every single Half-Life TC, you can't even *play* Natural Selection 1 through Steam anymore despite it having been more popular than Sven Co-Op at one point.

My favorite forgotten mod scene is Midtown Madness 2, they tried to port over GTA and Midnight Club maps to varying degrees of success. Really you can't ask for much more.

[Anonymous No.10799968]

Isn't it because unlike 1 you need a CD key?

[Anonymous No.10799972]

because
counter-strike
socom
halo 2
cod
was pulling in players also
you are forgetting also
they gave up on it to make gears of war
and then they gave up on it again to make
fortinite

[Anonymous No.10799978]

>>10799961
https://web.archive.org/web/20000304001553/http://www.gamespot.com/

[Kraut No.10800106]

>>10798974

I pirated the GOG version and put some service list there with has a super active community. People were running each other over with cars that play La Cucaracha and I thought
>ha that is just so silly. I feel like being 14 again
but then I got kicked because
>OMG your copy is pirated
and I tried other servers and they all fucking banned me for pirated copy.

Obviously my LEGIT German key I got with my version when I bought it on release day in krautland won*t work with my pirated GOG version.

So please give me a server list I can just add and play online with.
Fuck I do not even mind if it is just a few anons living in Europe (or some time zone as me) to play this online with. THANK YOU!

[Anonymous No.10800119]

>>10800106
patch your game you retard
it's the first time I see someone complaining about this

[Kraut No.10800120]

>>10798974
>https://ut2004serverlist.com/

I just did that server list thing and I remember I had done it in the past. i tried to join multiple servers and this is all I get.

I do not even get why those faggots are so anal about piracy for such an old game. They should be happy that someone is playing their stupid game in the first place and like I said there is no way for me to play it legit. I have my legit German copy.

What is even worse. Now that I am banned on there I could try to get a legit GOG copy via a VPN (which also cost me money) but I would still be banned because my stupid ISP gives me a static IP which I hate so badly. That way you stay banned forever. I do not even know ISPs made static IPs a thing, it ruins everything. Like when I download on 1filchier or any site like that. Back in the day I would just pull the plug of my router and be good to go. Static IPs are cancer.

[Kraut No.10800128]

>>10798975
>Pirate the gog version and change the ini to point to the new master server

no. they all detect that you pirated it and they will ban you.

>>10800119
if I patch the game I will be able to play on those servers? I guess it is pointless by now since I already used the pirated GOG version and all those servers banned my static IP so legit German (patched) version wont work. I also did not know that patched German version would work. I thought those versions are just not compatible with each other.

Also
>it's the first time I see someone complaining about this

duh, what a surprise. You clearly are not German so how many Germans do you talk to who would happen to have this very specific German issue? That is why you see it as the first time someone complaining about it. If you are British or American and only talk to Americans (or even any other Euros) you will not know this problem.

BUT let us ignore the fact that I have the censored Kraut version for a moment: It still does not change the fact that those faggot servers ban ANYONE with a pirated version.
So I could even be American and try to play it with a pirated copy and I end up getting banned.

[Anonymous No.10800129]

>>10800128
you are banned by your game guid, not your ip
I don't believe your key only works in a german copy, it doesn't make sense

[Anonymous No.10800140]

>>10800128
>how many Germans do you talk to who would happen to have this very specific German issue?
https://www.gametracker.com/search/ut2k4/
order by location, anon, it will surprise you
if you really have a problem and you really want to fix it, ask actual german players:
https://www.utzone.de/forum/index.php
https://ceonss.net/
https://fair-gamers.com/index.php/forum/index

[Kraut No.10800309]

>>10800129
>you are banned by your game guid, not your ip

>>10800120
so the error message
>your IP address has been banned
is a lie?

[Anonymous No.10800863]

>>10790270
>you can't hear a picture

[Anonymous No.10800949]

>>10788431
>how does this happen?
Simple, Epic Games never capitalised on the community by ensuring the series was easily accessible on newer systems like Id did with Quake Live.

[Anonymous No.10800951]

>>10791206
>There was Unreal Tournament 3 (not sure if f2p)
You're misremembering.
When Epic Games closed down all the Unreal Tournament game servers and delisted the series, a leaked upcoming free-to-play version of UT3 showed up on Steam but it was cancelled six months later.

[Anonymous No.10801879]

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>>10797431

gotta love those 2002-2006 aesthetic
realistic-ish yet gamey at the same time

and then UE3 showed up in 2007...

[Anonymous No.10801931]

>>10793545
i miss the days when all i had was a shitty mini laptop. i feel like i played a bigger variety of vidya

>>10797431
thanks for the dump anon, ut2k4 really does have a nice artstyle

[Anonymous No.10802808]

>>10788431
>thousands of maps and mods
The modding community was nowhere near as large as Quake or Half-Life's.

[Anonymous No.10803715]

>>10802808
you're right. it was bigger