6d ago

Fan community announces it will revive Unreal Tournament 2004 with Epic's blessing: 'We're doing this for free because we're fans of the game and we like a challenge'

www.pcgamer.com

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That’s so cool! UT2k3 and 2k4 were absolute staples of our childhood LAN parties. Would be so nice to have a ‘modern’ Linux-supporting version.
Perhaps we could even organize a community event or two for the fediverse crowd? Surely there’s enough cranky old people here willing to feel 16 again for a few hours :)
- A c/pcgaming and c/games UT2004 server would be a lot of fun!
- I still play it occasionally at LANs. And a while ago we actually broke out UT99 for some real old-school nostalgia!
- Call me interested, I still vehemently believe UT2k3 was the best but I know I'm in a tiny minority
  
  Did you mispell ut99?
  
  Bombing Run on Anubis lol, low gravity and insta-gib
Oh man, this is such good news.
UT99 is fine. I played it so much in the early 2000s, would put on Offspring albums while playing with bots; we had dialup and I couldn't play with EU, let alone US. But UT2004 is IMO much better and allows for different styles of play.
I just hope the community will be big enough. A lot of the retro FPS games servers are dominated by people who have been playing for 20+ years and its difficult to get into them (even if you played the games a lot back in the day).
- Ut99 is still the one for me. But I got to play online, and at LAN parties.
  They lost me after that it never felt as responsive.
  There also weren't as many crazy mods as 99 had either.
  
  I'm with you, I like UT 2004 fine, but OG UT was near peak FPS game for me. The only FPS I liked as much was Quake3:Arena, which was out at the same time. It was a golden age for competitive FPS games.
UT2k4 was my bread and butter man. the vehicles and everything, it's awesome. I'm really looking forward to this.
- I remember playing that one Conquest map where you're attacking a ship or station in space and have fighter dogfights before taking ground inside and pushing through it for hours at at time with my friend group back then. That and the 'junkyard wars' style one. Those maps were absolutely peak.
  
  yes! one of my favourite maps was the fighter one.
  Arena/DM shooters back in the day were so good. Just countless hours of UT2K3/4, Q3A, the first CoD, Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam, TFC, so many great games.
I'm ready for snipers and facing worlds.
Amazing news, my childhood and intro to modding.
Loved 99 and 2004.
2004 was basically 2003 2 😂
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I still have my carefully assembled mod pack from back in the day hanging out. I wonder if we’ll see a new wave of mods come from this.
this is awesome news, I hope that this also ends up reviving the ut:xmp mod. as much as I played ut2004 back in the day (I loved the various RPG mods), I played u2:xmp more and miss it a lot. the ut2004 is not exactly the same, but would be great to see.
- If there is a UT2004 revival (say at least couple of hundred CCUs after the launch initial peak), I think there will be a "downstream" effect on mods.
  Between the UT2004 revival and TF2 Classic, it looks I will be able to get back into FPS gaming (I do not like modern FPS releases).
I own three copies of that game. Looking for a pancake.
Hell yeah.
Oh, I was so into UT but not for the reason everyone else was in middle school. I loved level editing and I made stages for friends. UT editor was subtractive and it was more intuitive, plus I had oodles of graph paper to plan out levels during class time when I was supposed to be paying attention.
If you were ever on floor 8 of Sol Heumann at RIT in 2001-2003 you know what's up.

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