You know you’re old when games you still play quite regularly turn up in retro reviews! The community master server is still pretty well populated, as are UT '99 servers. These games are still the pinnacle of their genre. No micro transactions, no DRM, no pay to win. Just you, your shock rival, and as much amphetamine as your nerve endings will take.
Unreal Tournament 2004 20 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
Submitted 7 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to retrogaming@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abmiv22Q7xA
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ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 7 months ago
SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
How noob-friendly are those servers? Haven’t played since it’s era, but I’d be interested in booting it up again. I’d imagine I’d just get constantly wrecked by dudes who have been playing consistently for 20 years.
calavera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I played UT99 a few months and yeah I had no chance against the regulars. The only match I got a good position turns out I was playing mostly against bots and hadn’t realized it
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’ll have to set up your game to loom for a new Maser Server. Epic decided to shut the olds one down.
ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’re not hostile to new players, but there are a lot of veterans.
thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
hundreds and hundreds of hours squashing people with the Manta
Peffse@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I still remember the outrage when they announced 2004 wasn’t a free upgrade for 2003 purchasers. Stores did their best to mitigate that, but all my friends were peeved and kept to UT99 because of it.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 months ago
Yeah me too. It was definitely a pretty shitty move though, especially after butchering the 2003 release.
In my memory the graphics looked a lot better though. lol
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I remember playing on a RPG invasion server and it was one of the best gaming experiences up to that point. It was PVE where you’d get XP for every monster you killed and wave you’d survive and you could use it to upgrade your weapons and stats. Sadly just a few days after discovering it, the server went offline and I haven’t found another one like it.
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Those were so much fun!
Hoping to get a flak cannon of infinity and stacking up attack speed and vampire was my go to strategy.
10/10 would lag pc to win again
stoy@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
You should still be able to get the mutator, I believe it is called UT2004RPG, then you can host a server on your next LAN party
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 7 months ago
This was amazing. I remember having LAN parties first with UT99 then with Counter-strike and UT2K4.
Those LANs were peak gaming for me.
ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This game was really awesome! I spent so many hours playing online with whoever. It had several awesome arenas.
Now you make me want to play it again!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
I’m willing to bet you could probably still find servers with a handful of players on the weekend so long as you’re running the last version of the game (the patch is probably not on the official site anymore though).
stoy@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I still play online from time to time, the key is to join an empty server with a friend, others will see and join fairly shortly after
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wait a minute…
Is the Dog Days map just one of DE’s old UT maps converted to their new engine?
lobodon@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
This made me reinstalled ut2k4. Used to play the demo with orbital2 instagibCTF slomo. Good times.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Oh god… I never bothered to consider Unreal Tournament 2004 was 20 years old. I still consider it the “newer” unreal tournament compared to the OG and 2003…
stoy@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
UT2004 is peak UT, UT3 was just a brown mess, and the latest UT never got out of Alpha before Epic shelved it infavour of Fortnite
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I recently had the opportunity to go to a lan party, but the only arena shooter they had listed was UT3. Why even bother having any if that’s what you pick?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
At the time I bought UT2003 a few months before 2004 came out and I was kinda peeved I just spent money for a new release to come out so soon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_2003
I never played UT3 though. Not seriously, anyway. I think I tried the demo and never got it.
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 7 months ago
UT99 is still one of my favorite games of all time. I would love to see a remaster
Marsupial@quokk.au 7 months ago
Oh shit this isn’t 2003 but a third game? I was wondering why I didn’t remember any vehicles.
I just played ‘99 as that’s all my PC could run.
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 7 months ago
Yeah, 2k4 was it's own thing. Also the collectors edition had a set of video tutorials on how to create and modify models in the free version of Maya. As well as how to add them to the game in the unreal editor.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
2003 and 2004 were separate games, but 2004 was basically an improved version of 2003.