Unreal Tournament 2004 has been preserved for free and with a handy community patch by a fan community called OldUnreal.
Did it need anything to run on modern PCs? I fire up UT2k4 at LANs once every couple of years generally and have never had problems.
Me to my mom: Mom you can’t just download .exe files from websites nobody’s ever heard of before, that’s how you get viruses.
Me right now: OH FUCK YEAH GIMME THAT .EXE FILE WHOEVER YOU PEOPLE ARE.
You can always play computer nurse later, if need be!
You could always run it on Linux through Proton/Wine
UT2k4 was the least UT to have a native Linux build.
That doesn’t make it (much) safer.
You could always run another virtual linux in your linux to make it safer.
Direct link to project: https://www.oldunreal.com/
Best FPS ever, and still holds up.
This is awesome, still one of my favorite games, and IMO the GOAT LAN-party game.
I’m still self-hosting a dedicated server. Anyone know if I’ll need to upgrade that, or are the “optimizations” all client-side?
I have a server admin question that always bugged me (in fun ways)
some Admins had ability to summon OG unreal characters into the running ctf or death match etc maps.
is there some sort of “cool” server admin commands that exist anywhere ?
Online play on Dreamcast is up too ;)
Oh man, that takes me back. I was once in the top 50 of Dreamcast players globally. Must have been mid 2001.
Thanks to Epic Games too, for not being assholes about suing them.
It may be a low bar, but dang if most companies aren’t ready to limbo.
People made some cool AF maps for this game.
AardvarkLaunch, lfg
Never really played this other than a few times at a friends place back in the day. I was a Halo fan but always thought the vehicles in UT 2004 looked like cooler versions of the Halo vehicles (the UNSC oness mainly but some are similar to covenant vehicles too). Especially the Scorpion, it’s like a sleeker warthog with fucking mantis blades, that’s just objectively super cool.
I played for the sexy voice 'HOLY SHIT!". I was also a big fan of “PANCAKE!” The manta was a lot of fun that way.
I know everyone loves ctf face from ut99 but face 3 is not bad at all
Dat space Egypt
Face is a bad map and so is 2fort, and if you disagree then your programming is inferior!
Finally.
