Hi UT99 going strong! just need a patch and some patience for servers to show up. They even released mods so it looks better on modern PCs.

Unreal Tournament just scratches an itch that many other games can't! I think one of the closest games to UT would be Toxikk. If you didn't try that one, you can download a free version on steam and play on a server, but the game is rather inactive too sadly

Same here crazy how this game gets me emotional I watched my dad play this for hours its a absolute masterpiece

Cod2/4/waw/mw2/bo, CS1.6/s/go and Q3A/QL are surely bigger than BF2?

As many as possible I hope!

I finally got a decent Internet service. First thing I did was fire up ut99. Would be nice to see more people, but at least there are some.

Cant even download the game anymore, what do you mean?

​@@op8ztvyou can pirate it

NIce stuff!

Thank you, you're a hero!

Yup I agree, it's one of the sadder stories in games... However we at least managed to keep the legacy of the series alive as a community! That I consider a victory :)

I believe it has something to do with them not wanting two "unreal" products in the market

Not to be too pessimistic but I wonder how long it will take for the community to evaporate. The fact that game has zero publicity and the process you have to go though to get it going represent giant roadblocks for new players to enter. And even then, despite the community effort, it’s still a half baked product. Like, who else than some UT veterans (myself included) were ever going to play this? I bet even they get tired of playing the same people eventually and ditch…

@@clavius5734 I actively think about the same thing a lot. That's why I play it as much as I can while I'm still privileged to be able to. It's such a shame that Epic is Epic and Tom Sweeners is just doin the ol' capitalist sellout bit totally divorced from reality in his tower made of money.

It was an immense pleasure to work on it and I learned a lot about the community through the fantastic interviews Kurrgan conducted with Phantaci and Exit Next Right. Very glad you enjoyed the video, and greetings back from Germany!

Hey Znatch! I think I came across your name before... maybe in game? I am really happy that you enjoyed the production, and I agree, I think what Epic has done is a major mistake. Why betray such an excellent and dedicated community only to save a few bucks? I think they are missing an opportunity for Unreal Tournament finding a new life, a new playerbase of people who enjoy a challenging bu trewarding, skill based shooter. As you said, the skill cap in this game is basically nonexistant, however it is weird that in a time where games are arguably more competitive than they ever have been, this interpretation of the First Person Shooter is becoming more and more obscure, even though it demands so much from the player. It is sad to see, and I hope that someone, maybe Epic themselves eventually, can relight this interest in the genre. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

They won't understand, Fortnite is making more than enough money for them. Maybe one day when everyone finally stops playing that.

answer is money.

@@ConspiracyCraftersStudio And new generation of kids who likes flashy things and fortnite dancing. And people who actually likes to waste time on games that require waiting lobbies and running on empty map for 10 min till u encounter guy who waits for u that long to kill you.

Wow thanks a tonne!

We are always hopeful for new players to come around -- hope to see you in the arena!

If it's the original disc, it should come with the server included, no? My memory of those days is quite foggy, but I don't remember having to connect to some central server to play with my friends. I had a dedicated server running on Linux for a while that was quite popular on the campus dorm network, which wasn't even accessible from outside the network, and we played plenty of LAN parties in friend's basements where we just had a switch to connect up all the PCs, but no Internet connection.

I am happy I could make the topic justice. Wish everyone well and I hope to encounter you in game!

dion smells bad

@@Cube3830 xd

Never could put my finger on it back in the day, but yeah, I definitely preferred UT over Q3A too. Was a huge Quake fan, although for some reason I never really got into Quake II, but something about Q3A just didn't gel with me.

All the money in the world cannot, will not and should not lead companies to "create" an esport league. Shame the game was left to languish but very few fans would truely want what is proposed above. For the myriad obvious reasons we've seen multiple occasions prior.

At the same time Epics use their money to give us super-duper game engine with amazing tools (like MetaHuman, RealityCapture & MegaScans) and lots of up to date tutorials effectively for free. I mean Unreal fans have everything at their hands to make the game they want. Just grab it and create! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Good job, sir!

Wow! This sounds like a great title to look into!

Thank you so much for watching!

I have a weird view on new doom. Before Doom Eternal came out, Doom 2016 felt more like a Quake experience to me, I can't really put it to words why however. EDIT: To clarify, it felt like a new interpretation of Quake so to speak, not saying it was in any way reminiscent of the classics, rather building atop the Quake foundation instead of Doom's if that makes sense.

@@Cheecken first off, great content my dude! As for 2016 ya I had a similar feeling I believe it was the focus on verticality something I consider a core quake trait. Before quake ID rarely used elevation in exciting was, doom 2 had some cool use cases but compared to what bungie was doing with marathon doom was so far behind. Quake changed everything in that regard imo. I loved doom 2016 and I respect eternals commitment to it's design goals. An amazing game however I do not feel it is the right direction for Quake. I am probably in the minority there but designing an arena shooter now around the core concept of always being pushed to perform seems antithetical to building a diverse and wide enough community for it to stick. Take halo while it has many other issues it made a decided choice to catter to a perceived core audience in each 343i title but halo is a party game. The guns are mascots much like the fighters in smash and it caters to a low skill wide base with many sub cultures and a hardcore mlg culture is only one. Much like UT has bunny courses halo had race courses. And like there are creators in UT halo has forgers. The issue is companies wanting to monetise these subcultures or deeming them unnecessary destroys the internal community structure. So we need a title that can build and iterate on those core appeals that find Monetisation that doesn't cannibalise community roles. If that makes sense. Doom almost cannot be iterated on in a modern 3D setting its essential a different genre with different skill focuses so ID adopted the core visual and audio traits of that franchise and iterated on them in a quakelike game. Essentially using the understanding of the audience that quake was an iteration on dooms formula and going full circle. The reality is playing doom 2016 only looked like doom for the most part but it had been so long that the superficial elements coupled with the core ID dna was enough to skew or rose tinted perception as an audience.

@@Ashamedofmypast I think Doom's natural progression as a game series found its conclusion in Doom 3, being an immersive horror shooter, you could see this development in real time by just observing what the newer games focussed on, with Doom 64 and the PS1 port of the original, being significantly creepier than the originals for instance (and those were pretty grim in their art direction aswell lets not forget!) And you mentioned something interesting here, the fact that many of these mechanically complex games have sub communities which focus on "secondary" aspects of the game. Every old school shooter I have seen, had some form of "Parkour" gamemode. In UT its BunnyTracks, in Fortress Forever its Trimping maps, in Quake its Bunny Hopping courses and in Team Fortress 2 its Rocket Jump academies. Those gamemodes spawned out of player interest and were cultivated out of interest. Nowadays more games sadly gimp the player generated content creation scenes and thus cripple creativity and non standard methods of play, however gigantic IPs still possess these qualities, specifically Counter Strike Global Offensive and Dota 2 for instance. I think UT4 had a chance at getting a self sustainable community going which was willing in supporting itself by buying maps, cosmetics and etc that was created by itself. The community creates and buys for itself and Epic earn a commission. It works for Valve, so it could have worked for Epic aswell. I think UT4 is a wasted opportunity for more reasons than just not seeing this cool game be finalized. It could have become one of the greatest community projects in recent memory, potentially even outperforming the creativity and dedication of other properties such as Team Fortress 2. But we all know what happened instead. Sad really.

@@Cheecken Doom3 being its creative end zone is a brave opinion! And it's true you can see it in real time however 64 and ps1 weren't handled in house and could be argued as reinterpretation rather than continuation. Personally loved the direction of doom 3 but I'd say it was less an evolution as it was a reinvention of the franchise. Dooms gameplay to me would see it's iteration in the combat racing genre. The thing is ID wasn't building upon doom for 3 so much as it was building upon technology under doom. The advent of true 3d and the introduction of a new axis effectively reinvented the wheel and quake was doom for that new world. Doom 3 was ID attempting cinematism. In terms of tone and mechanics 2016 feels far more representative of the original duology to me than 3 ever was. 3 was like a reverse of alien to aliens 2 seperate genre interpretations of a single story. Yes all the great fps title share this need for navigation and movement based sub communities. Marathon, quake, UT, halo, team fortress, CS, Titanfall all have them. A nuanced locomotion model is essential to a deep fps experience in my mind. But thats only one of many community groups. The issue is in order to maximise revenue in the executive's speculative mind, these community roles that were labour's of love and helped build a strong, diverse fanbase have become increasingly curated and in house in the AAA space and any seen as unrequited are thus ignored as they are presumed wasted resources. The truth is the interplay between these sub communities is a huge part of cultivating longevity in a title and the ip as a whole. Valve being the outlier in this regard for sure. It's hard to sell a battle pass when your consumers are free to create content and while we may see the benefits the corporate consciousness only sees a divide in prospective revenue. I think UT4 was still far from being self sustainable but it certainly had potential to get to that place in time had it been given a true launch. The arena genre is also interesting as all the examples people provide as being evidentiary of it being irrelevant in the current market fail to be representative of a true arena title. They all either remove something either big or small that is requisite for a strong community or added elements that detract from the core appeal of the genre. It's quite funny how modern liscencing law and corporate greed have lead to that sort of apprehension when ROBLOX proves the validity more than anything of consumer-creation driven products. It also begs another question. Why are modern AAA companies so afraid of interesting level design and obsessed with pretty but clutered maps. The homogeneous nature of map design and the need for overly complex set dressing that doesn't serve the gameplay is a huge factor in why many "spiritual successors" fail to reach the intended audience, or so I believe. The potential for a game to actually iterate on UT and quake is massive yet all we see are titles paying lip service while being to afraid to reject conventional contemporary design wisdom where is counts. UT may not have seemed profitable enough epic yet it remains a healthy playerbase driven title despite never actually being released. Clearly the is something worth focusing on and if you can cut a large part of the art budget by simply focusing on functionality over aesthetics in level design thing of the myriad ways one could reduce costs to develop a polished, fun, profitable arena product.

I love Unreal (which along with HL were my fantastic introduction to FPS, except maybe Descent), UT, and UT2004, still play UT2004, and will definitely joint UT4 servers. At UT99 times I did not have internet, so I blasted over 150.000 frags (so did the stats say) in single player only. The real experience started with UT2003. I spent so many nights socializing, chatting with some friends in arenas, practicing jumping and such, and suddenly swapping to fragfest mode. And back. To give some credit to Fortnite, in the fights there is occasionally a bit similar intensity as in deathmatch, but of course it is all diluted due to zillion years of waiting for the next spawn. If there only were a UT mod ... no, what I am thinking, I prefer the real thing.

Many many thanks for the support Lucas! Much appreciated! 🙏🙏🙏

the installer version of the game I linked, torrent or on UT4ever, should work out of the box!

I doubt it, they don't even have Cliffy B with them anymore. He quit when tencent took over.

Hey cool stuff! More power to ya 😁

Much appreciated!

That is fair :)

A project like that should have started already. Edit: Open Tournament Project is still on going it seems. But it's not very alive either.

@@simongravel7407 thank you for mentioning open arena. I recently found out about that project, but I could not find any recent updates on their Discord server, so I assume that it is currently on hiatus.

Yup, we can consider ourselves lucky! Also wonder how the console versions compare to the PC version, might buy the PS2 version of UT 🤔

@@Cheecken both Dreamcast and ps2 support mouse and keyboard too. While Dreamcast has online support and an exclusive seganet lvl.I like them both.

@@TheSupersmash97 thank you for the info!

I only speak for my own experience: I think Multiplayer games when too young can be a bit of an issue, more so if games feature things like voice chat. There also are some very violent games I am glad I didn't play too young, and I agree that games are very similar to things such as movies or books, however online games are a sticking point for me. On one hand they can be a very enriching and character building experiences, (much of my english speaking and comprehension can be attributed to Team Fortress 2, I also learned how to shit talk and stand up for myself in that game) on another I believe one has to be ready for online gaming to a certain extent, we all know how some shooter lobbies can be like lol I played games constantly growing up, all sorts too. I don't think my psychology was impacted either and I would let my kid play video games too! I would however think twice about giving them access to online experiences if they were too young. I think if they outsmarted me and just got to play these games somehow anyways, the trial by fire starts, have your fun and your arguements and flame wars, both are part of online experiences :)

@@Cheecken now this is a different thing. I never played online games that much. I only played with friends since I avoid competitive online games for the very same thing you pointed: I've had bad experiences and after trying the online multiplayer of various games and was turned off by the many annoying people I slowly caught myself becoming them and immediately dropped those type of games. I now only play co-op games of games with friends and nothing else when it comes to multiplayer. In this case I am not trying to defend X or Y developer/game but this is one of the moments where you might meet some nasty people that bring nasty things with them. But for single player games: I always liked them even when I was a kid and I enjoy them at my pace with no pressure. The over the top nature of UT, Quake, Half Life or other games of that period impacted my brain in only in one way: they fueled my imagination further.

Sounds like its up my alley! Love playing Doom!

Definitely download the games from sources such as archive.org. The entire series is essentially abandoned, so either download the files on Steam or Gog if you previously purchased the games, or download the games for free somewhere else. As to how to play the different games online, various different guides were made from different community members, they might even include download links to the files you need :)

@@Cheecken thank you so much for responding! Such a great surprise. I’ll look into how to download the games soon, happy holidays btw! Thanks again 😊

@@babysunflower6282 Thank you and merry christmas to you :)

All great suggestions!

@@Cheecken Thank you, food for thought - Quake Wars in a battle royale realm would be amazing! really

I heard those news... bummer

I get it! It is a gem in the very rough! Although the playability of the maps is great. Given that the game is a perpetual pre alpha, the turn off is understandable!

Level 6 from UT2004

Not all, the one that is sourced in the description is by Kubusschnitt. I can update the description later on in the day for the songnames. Most tracks came from the UT3 soundtrack.

In this timestamp Exit is talking about a *very* specific portion of players here, basically the Unreal Tournament diehards that really only play this game and essentially nothing else. Those players who play only one or a few games exist. I am not one of them and I am glad I found an interest in many different kinds of games, this just isn't the case for some people who are really invested in one specific title. If you don't like most Mangas and the only comic in the scene you enjoyed reading was Berserk which is unfinished to this day and never will be, I cannot blame someone for not being interested in the scene as a whole. I don't understand what is so weird about the statement to be quite honest.

@@Cheecken A civilized, respectable and well worded opinion chief. But It just doesn't sit well with me. But not only that statement, the whole "had me in tears thing too," I cannot bring myself to think other way, yet I completely understand where you're coming from. I just hope I didn't come off like purebred cunt. And if I did... then I'm sorry

@@sebs-shenanigans No you are good dont worry! It is sometimes hard to understand where other players are coming from. I personally wouldn't abandon gaming as a whole either for one game being gone, but again, those players do exist!

@@Cheecken Thanks chief. Great video, btw. Glad the lads behind Postal 3; Catharsis reborn mod pointed me your way. Take care!

on it!

There you go! drive.google.com/file/d/1XVy2uDhsUiTciMLu30Ymdp6-l2opq8lL/view?usp=sharing

@@Cheecken Many Thanks!

The one that looks cool to you. I linked some links that relate to ut4 In the description. EDIT: Also to add, I went over in the video where you can get these copies. Check Archive.org or torrent sites. For UT4 there is the website ut4ever.org As for getting to play online you have to create an account at ut4.timiimit.com Have fun!

@@Cheecken They all look cool. I just want to play the one that everyone is playing. haven't touched a UT game since UT2k4 that I still have a copy of. Is UT4 the one that looks like old but new?

I am aware of the story of Der echte Gangster

I'm sure they'll cry real hard about it in the dump truck full of money they have. It's always the money guys that wreck art...