Revisiting UT2004 two decades later! This sequel to UT99 (er, UT2003?) from Epic Games and Digital Extremes was a staple of PC gaming in the 2000s, with the ...
Too bad DE is so hard on dark patterns & FOMO, trying to keep you in the game / returning daily. Warframe was great for a while but it became more and more of a chore which soaked all the fun I had out of it. Unfortunately they’ll likely do the same for Soulframe.
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?
oh, you mean at the lan party. There were more reasons not to go, but if the game isn’t listed, I doubt I would be able to get anyone else to play it. Even back in the day, I could never get anyone to play Quake 3. The crew I use to game with moved on to RPing in Battlefield and CoD games.
I mean, the master server that lists everyone else’s games is down. Epic maintained a server that was just a list of other servers. A casual player opening up UT or UT2k4 will see nothing. You can play against bots, at LAN Parties, or direct connect to server you already know about, but you wont find new servers through the game without changing where the game looks for the master server. More technician info on the process is here.
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
It was probably shelved because the company they contracted UT2k3 and UT2k4 out to is now Digital Extremes.
Too bad DE is so hard on dark patterns & FOMO, trying to keep you in the game / returning daily. Warframe was great for a while but it became more and more of a chore which soaked all the fun I had out of it. Unfortunately they’ll likely do the same for Soulframe.
Eh its in a really good place right now. They’ve added a bunch of ways to get archon shards and even some new attempts at an endgame
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?
Why only play listed games?
What is stopping you from setting up your own server and playing UT2004?
oh, you mean at the lan party. There were more reasons not to go, but if the game isn’t listed, I doubt I would be able to get anyone else to play it. Even back in the day, I could never get anyone to play Quake 3. The crew I use to game with moved on to RPing in Battlefield and CoD games.
I mean, the master server that lists everyone else’s games is down. Epic maintained a server that was just a list of other servers. A casual player opening up UT or UT2k4 will see nothing. You can play against bots, at LAN Parties, or direct connect to server you already know about, but you wont find new servers through the game without changing where the game looks for the master server. More technician info on the process is here.
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
https://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.