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Unreal Tournament 2004 has been preserved for free and with a handy community patch by a fan community called OldUnreal.

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago

Did it need anything to run on modern PCs? I fire up UT2k4 at LANs once every couple of years generally and have never had problems.

[–] Doug@piefed.social 65 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Me to my mom: Mom you can't just download .exe files from websites nobody's ever heard of before, that's how you get viruses.

Me right now: OH FUCK YEAH GIMME THAT .EXE FILE WHOEVER YOU PEOPLE ARE.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

You can always play computer nurse later, if need be!

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You could always run it on Linux through Proton/Wine

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago

UT2k4 was the least UT to have a native Linux build.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That doesn't make it (much) safer.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could always run another virtual linux in your linux to make it safer.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

At that point, just use QubesOS. I'm pretty sure you can pass through your GPU to VMs on there, although I don't use it myself.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I use an air gapped system for stuff like that. I read about it here, and I imagine what I think it may be like and I gotta say I like what theyve done with it

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Your username reminds me of something. I don't know what though ...

John Mulaney "Who's to say?"

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago

it is that much that it was impossible for me to check every package but everything has been scanned for viruses

Seems legit

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks to Epic Games too, for not being assholes about suing them.

[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 13 points 18 hours ago

It may be a low bar, but dang if most companies aren't ready to limbo.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 day ago
[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago

People made some cool AF maps for this game.

AardvarkLaunch, lfg

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Best FPS ever, and still holds up.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ONS maps could strike another spark in MOBA crowd if they released that today.

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed. Onslaught is so good, but damn so many good game modes. Double Domination, Bombing Run, Assault, etc. It's all good and so much content. Inject, cube to think of it wasn't there a free expansion which added more vehicles and maps.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago

Yep, the Cicada was a fucking beast.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is awesome, still one of my favorite games, and IMO the GOAT LAN-party game.

I'm still self-hosting a dedicated server. Anyone know if I'll need to upgrade that, or are the "optimizations" all client-side?

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It looks like the patch has improvements for the server, so you might look into upgrading!

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, thanks for finding that!

They even have upgrading instructions, sweet.

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 3 points 1 day ago

I have a server admin question that always bugged me (in fun ways)

some Admins had ability to summon OG unreal characters into the running ctf or death match etc maps.

is there some sort of "cool" server admin commands that exist anywhere ?

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Online play on Dreamcast is up too ;)

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Oh man, that takes me back. I was once in the top 50 of Dreamcast players globally. Must have been mid 2001.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Never really played this other than a few times at a friends place back in the day. I was a Halo fan but always thought the vehicles in UT 2004 looked like cooler versions of the Halo vehicles (the UNSC oness mainly but some are similar to covenant vehicles too). Especially the Scorpion, it's like a sleeker warthog with fucking mantis blades, that's just objectively super cool.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

I played for the sexy voice 'HOLY SHIT!". I was also a big fan of "PANCAKE!" The manta was a lot of fun that way.

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know everyone loves ctf face from ut99 but face 3 is not bad at all

Dat space Egypt

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

Face is a bad map and so is 2fort, and if you disagree then your programming is inferior!

[–] jcorvera@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago