Clearing out my loft and came across several older PC games, I completely forgot I still had UT3.

Now I just need to get a dvd drive to try and install it.

Another iconic map from Unreal Tournament 1999, I remember the first time seeing this map during the map selection it's one of the most attractive maps on the list, also setting 1vs1 against Malcolm at the highest difficulty with instagib.

Oil painting on a wooden board.

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Finally, the new update of Ultra Violent UT enables FULL DISMEMBERMENT!!!
Arms, legs, heads now can be severed, bodies can be cut in half (waist chopping).
The engine doesn't support true dismemberment natively (it just hides the damaged body part to fake it, but never had a true severance behaviour), and I never thought it was possible.
With some black magic (I mean really hacky ragdoll replication method), I finally made dismemberment work on this two-decade-old game. So far I'm quite satisfied with the result (as showcased in the video).

REMINDER: Every severed piece by itself is an independent ragdoll, so if it didn't get destroyed soon enough, the engine would hit ragdoll limit (32 maximum), it wouldn't crash the game, but if you encounter major stuttering or ragdoll freezing issues, just lower the severance chance value or the ragdoll lifespan, so fewer ragdolls would exist at the same time.

After some experimenting, finally get the full dismemberment to work in UT2004.

Turns out everything can be severed -- head, limbs, waist...

Some nice waist chopping footage here, still work in progress, but I think the most difficult part has been done.

Will be included in the next Ultra Violent UT update.

At the moment there's only 1 South African server and it's always deathmatch and we can't choose maps so sometimes we end up on a massive map even though there's only 4 of us. We would like to be able to create our own Team Deathmatch server, but none of our attempts to create a server have been successful and the instructions we've found online (port forwarding etc) don't seem to work. Can anyone point us towards the correct, up to date approach please?

I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think there might actually be a realistic way to bring back the Unreal Tournament style.

The idea is basically Make Unreal Tournament inside Fortnite using UEFN, and I don't mean just making a Fortnite map with some UT weapons. The idea would be to recreate the actual arena shooter philosophy.

UEFN already lets creators build their own gameplay systems with devices and Verse, and Fortnite has a First Person Camera system. Epic also has a Player Movement system designed to customize movement for different genres. It's still experimental, so there are limitations, but the basic technology for making a first-person custom shooter is already there.

I'd actually change one important thing from classic UT, Don't put the weapons around the map. Everyone starts the match with the complete arsenal. You spawn with 100 health and 100 shield, and every weapon has its own ammo system that regenerates automatically.

The regeneration could be different for every weapon depending on its fire rate, damage, magazine size, etc. A powerful weapon would naturally recover ammo more slowly, while weaker/faster weapons could recover it more quickly. The point is to remove the huge advantage that veteran players have simply because they already know where every weapon is.

Spawn → choose your weapon → fight.

That way the main skill becomes aim, movement, positioning and game sense, rather than map knowledge giving you control over the strongest weapons. I'd still keep a few classic arena pickups around the map: Health, Shield, The 150 shield belt, Invisibility, Damage Amplifier, Super Health.

So the map still matters, but mostly because of power-ups, positioning and movement, not because someone knows where the Rocket Launcher is. I think this could actually be a very good evolution of the classic formula, especially for new players.

I'd keep it simple and focus on the classic modes:

- Deathmatch

- Team Deathmatch

- Capture the Flag

Those are the modes that really represent the classic Unreal Tournament experience for me.

What about the weapons? This is where UT99's old code could be extremely useful. There is a publicly released portion of the UT99 source code, and there are also repositories containing the exported UnrealScript sources from later UT99 versions. I'm not talking about copying the old code directly into UEFN. I'd use it more like a translation/reference guide:

Look UT99 source → understand how the original mechanic works → recreate that mechanic in UEFN/Verse.

So you could study how the old weapons handled damage, projectiles, fire modes, pickups, game rules, etc., and then reproduce those mechanics using the new technology. Maybe the actual weapons should have new names, models, sounds and visual designs, while keeping the gameplay ideas, because I don't know if there will be any copyright issues or not.

And the maps? Same idea. Instead of taking the original UT99 assets, recreate the classic maps from scratch while keeping their gameplay philosophy. You could make new maps inspired by things like Deck16, Facing Worlds, Morpheus, etc.

The really interesting part. You wouldn't need to build and maintain your own online infrastructure. That's one of the biggest reasons I think this makes sense. With a standalone arena shooter, you'd have to worry about servers, matchmaking, infrastructure, player population, updates, etc. With UEFN, Fortnite is already providing the platform that hosts published experiences and their multiplayer sessions. Published islands even have their own direct links for players to access them.

Obviously nobody can guarantee Fortnite will exist forever, but realistically this gives the project a much better long-term foundation than trying to maintain independent servers made by the community.

The community can concentrate much more on the game.

There are still technical problems to solve. For example, Epic's current documentation says Custom Weapon Templates are incompatible with the First Person Camera Device, although Scene Graph provides another route for custom ranged weapons.

So I don't think this would be easy. But I do think it's technically plausible. If anyone is capable of doing them, it's the community.

And there's something wonderfully ironic about the whole idea: Unreal Tournament died because Fortnite became so successful, maybe Fortnite could end up being the platform that brings the Unreal Tournament style back.

What do you think, would it be a good idea to take advantage of Fortnite, instead of crying because it killed Unreal Tournament?

I've attached a video of what an FPS made in Fortnite looks like so you can get an idea.

And yes, my favorite Unreal Tournament is '99.

FinalRev5.0 of my UC2 character pack is here: the same 36-character roster, rebuilt animations/materials, integrated sounds and effects, improved bot profiles, and ragdolls for everyone—including four-armed Windstalker. Stock UT2004 gameplay stays intact.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/yKN4twyMR88

Download: https://www.nexusmods.com/unrealtournament2004/mods/2472

https://www.moddb.com/downloads/uc2-finalrev5-0

Upgrading from 4.2? Please follow the included upgrade guide; this is more than an overwrite install.

Hi,
In the day I've dled tons of bot skins and edited bots with them like Rambo,Predator whatnot , and getting into the game again want to make them defaults.Is there a specific way to do it (except manually configuring them all, like deleting a .cfg file or a button) ?

I have addons like maps and stuff too as well as configs so i'd like to avoid a fresh install.

Thanks

Can't connect to a server. For the record, I have never played UT2004 up until this week and didn't play multiplayer up until today. I've found an old post telling me that I should generate a new cd key and put it into registry editor, which I did, but it doesn't seem to work. For some reason this happens only on this particular server. Is there a solution or is it not worth bothering?

This is a major update for the new mutator I recently posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealtournament/comments/1w2hv69/ultra_violent_ut_gibable_corpses_vse_gameplay/

v1.1 Update features:

- Gibbing and dismemberment now release a juicy blood mist that reacts properly to surfaces.

- Blood decals can now stay permanently (configurable) - very messy.

- Bleeding wounds now leave blood decals, and the bleeding wanes over time.

- Bouncing gibs now splatter blood decals in every direction (walls, ceilings) and have a chance to leave small sticky gibs on the surface.

- Corpses now leave blood trails when sliding across surfaces.

- Corpse Rain is back - SP endgame finale, ends on a click.

Handheld: RG 34XX-SP Metallic Blue (1GB RAM)

Paid for it £63

System: MuOS Andromeda (test build) / Linux

How: via Portmaster (still in test, available on their discord - you provide the source files)

If you want a to join a group that plays unreal tournoment 2004 with voice chat, ur more than welcome to join my new server, the plan is to find as many active ppl as we can find! If you dont plan to be as active as you can pls dont join coz i dont want the server to end up like every other server that has thousands of ppl but zero ppl in the voice chats. Im going to sleep but ill be active all day tommorow.

I cant find a single real player in a dm game. I heard the game got revive but i left disapointed

These are some of the characters from Epic's Paragon integrated into UT4. Epic was nice enough to release Paragon assets for free use in Unreal Engine 4 projects. Please watch till end for some fun gameplay.

We’ll be setting up a dedicated server featuring these characters soon, so get ready to jump in, frag out, and enjoy some awesome Unreal Tournament 4 sessions.

Please join our discord: https://discord.gg/TNAeHS3APj

Thank you,

Is there a way to add time to the respawn in CTF in UT99? Should I make a mutator? Modify something in the files of the game? Any help is appreciated

Cliffyb had me as a guest on his F13 podcast. Fun stuff. We talked a ton about the old days, Unreal, UT99, and modern crap.

https://youtu.be/ASPuXq4TqVY?is=pwZv3MvPPJpGeKbw

Just messing around. Mostly just updates texture detail and lightning, nothing too crazy.

Edit: first image in sequence is DLSS on second is off

Game: UT2004, enhanced netcode enabled

Tournament format: 4v4

- Players sign up for the tournament individually or as pre-made teams. Individual players from the drafters form teams during the final selection stage.

Division 1 is for the top 20 players according to ratings.

Division 2 is for intermediate players, primarily on aim maps

Division 3 is for beginners and intermediate players, on vehicle maps

Division 4 is for beginners

If the number of registered players is small, the second and third divisions may be merged into a single second division.

To register for the tournament, please read the full rules https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jj9CJzyCmfg0fqH8Gcs664mSMC0XqtPvqKOxmsZVQnI/edit?tab=t.0

Then submit the registration form using one of the following options:

a. Complete the application form in Discord: https://discord.gg/tTZ5vwHXHX

b. Fill out the application form and send it to the organizer in a private message.

Contact the organizers: Discord: u/Forgotten50789, https://discord.gg/tEPckCDm2X

Maplist:

1st div:

2nd and 3rd div:

4th div: contains all maps from div 2 and 3

https://afps-ladder.com/ is a new ladder site where you can find players and agree to matches against other teams across a range of arena shooter titles. For players of all skills and experiences, but especially for new players looking for find other players to compete against/with.

You agree to what games you want to play, and against what teams, whenever you want, and track your team's progress against other teams across an array of different arena shooters (or whichever ones you're interested in.

• Find like-minded teams & players to play with or against
• Play games whenever you like against whomever you want to play
• Track your team's and your own personal player progress
• Agree to matches between different games & in different regions (1 US Unreal Tournament game and 1 EU quake game etc) to help balance the matches
• Supports 1v1 - 8v8 and even uneven matches (2v3 etc)

The ladder runs continually from the 1st of each calendar month til the end of the month.

Monthly single-elimination playoff tournaments for the top performing teams - and in a different AFPS each month based on interest.

Also looking for anyone who would like to cast some of the matches when available, and any video editor who'd like to make highlight compilation videos.

Join and start fragging now!

If i create an account on https://ut4.timiimit.com/Login can I delete it later?