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Old School Game Night! This week: UT2004! Friday 7PM EST. Server info in OP!

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  • BionicPenguinBionicPenguin Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I'd forgotten just how effective it is. I laughed maniacally when I got a rampage with it.

    EDIT: I used to do that fairly often, actually. I'd change my name to HAMMER_TIME and go to town.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    ha I was wondering who that was. I should have known.

    Are just as effective with the chainsaw? I think it's more rewarding. But it's hardly ever turned on in servers, it seems.

    edit: I'm seriously considering renting a server from gameservers for us.

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  • BionicPenguinBionicPenguin Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The hammer's a lot easier to use because of the auto-fire.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I'm fine with UT2k4, since it's the one I played the very most. It's still very well balanced, but now with a more hitscan focus, with the shock rifle firing faster and the removal of the 8 rocket sweep.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    That could be fun. I already have 2004 on steam.

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    AS-Convoy


    Like the demo days

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Zxerol wrote: »
    AS-Convoy


    Like the demo days

    Don't joke like that, there are still Demo DM-Rankin and CTF-Face servers up and full

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  • BionicPenguinBionicPenguin Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I remember playing either a mod or a mutator that added a grapple beam. It was so great having midair battles beneath CTF-Face.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    BionicPenguin wrote: »
    I remember playing either a mod or a mutator that added a grapple beam. It was so great having midair battles beneath CTF-Face.

    ChaosUT, always fun to play with the grapple hook. They have a UT99 and UT2k4 version, and it came on disc 2 of the GOTY version of UT, along with other greats like Unreal Fortress and Jailbreak

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    BionicPenguin wrote: »
    I remember playing either a mod or a mutator that added a grapple beam. It was so great having midair battles beneath CTF-Face.

    ChaosUT, always fun to play with the grapple hook. They have a UT99 and UT2k4 version, and it came on disc 2 of the GOTY version of UT, along with other greats like Unreal Fortress and Jailbreak
    I heard this was in the GOTY edition, which I have. How do I access these mods that are included? I bought the gog.com version if that makes a difference.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    anoffday wrote: »
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    BionicPenguin wrote: »
    I remember playing either a mod or a mutator that added a grapple beam. It was so great having midair battles beneath CTF-Face.

    ChaosUT, always fun to play with the grapple hook. They have a UT99 and UT2k4 version, and it came on disc 2 of the GOTY version of UT, along with other greats like Unreal Fortress and Jailbreak
    I heard this was in the GOTY edition, which I have. How do I access these mods that are included? I bought the gog.com version if that makes a difference.

    I mentioned the disc 2 part for a reason. If you want them now, you have to download them. This is a good idea anyway, since the versions that came with the GOTY are kinda out of date.

    http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/chaotic/builds/chaosut_v1-1_full_nonumod.zip for ChaosUT

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    So who would be interested in 2004 next weekend?

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I'm game; I got all the UT games installed (excepting 2K3, natch).

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I have both 99 and 2k4, so either one is fine. I actually quit a while back, and my current mouse is...not designed for gaming, but I'm pretty sure I can still kick ass.
    I'd prefer 99 since I've played that one far more (about five years now, as opposed to a few weeks with 2k4). It also has my favourite gametype ever: Siege.

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  • BloodfartBloodfart Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    im close to crying because i want some good old times fragging again but i live in a land of slow and controlled internet, but i'll try coming for some 2k4.

    i used to enjoy invasion with good buddies.

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  • BullioBullio Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Definitely down. Between the UT99 night we had and having just finished Masters of Doom, I've been seriously jonesing for some classic fragging.

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I've discovered that Mutant + Instagib + 1.25 gamespeed + force respawn = craziness.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    If anyone has this installed right now, and wants to help me out, try connecting to ut2004://68.186.220.251:7777

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  • verpakeyesverpakeyes Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    You guys are killing me. I can't find my second disk of 2004, I have Unreal 3 on Steam since they accept my activation code. I also think I have all the disks for 2003(3) but I never had 99.

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    If anyone has this installed right now, and wants to help me out, try connecting to ut2004://68.186.220.251:7777
    Is it up yet? I wasn't able to connect.

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  • BullioBullio Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    If anyone has this installed right now, and wants to help me out, try connecting to ut2004://68.186.220.251:7777

    Can't connect.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Ok, try again now

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Still no joy :(

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I am going to be playing with this, so please keep trying to connect

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    For those of you on Windows who don't want to go through the hassle of killing your browser, starting UT2004 and connecting to an address from the server browser, here's a little something that will let you connect to a server through your browser: 
    REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ut2004]
@="URL:ut2004 Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ut2004\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ut2004\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ut2004\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Unreal Anthology\\UT2004\\System\\UT2004.exe\" \"%1\""
    Just change the .exe path to point to your UT2004.exe, save it to a .reg file and run it like any other program - it'll be added to your registry. I promise you, it won't break anything.

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  • Michael HMichael H Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    2k4 seems to hit that sweet spot of 1) being new enough to run easily on a modern system (no futzing with GPU drivers) and 2) being old enough to be able to completely max out and enjoy all settings.

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I like how when you rev the video settings to maximum, the announcer actually goes "HOLY SHIT!" like that's a huge accomplishment.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Ok, I'm going to post a few servers, and we'll see if we can find one that everyone can connect to and isn't terribly laggy

    First up, ut2004://206.217.141.218:7777

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  • Michael HMichael H Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    Ok, I'm going to post a few servers, and we'll see if we can find one that everyone can connect to and isn't terribly laggy

    First up, ut2004://206.217.141.218:7777

    Didn't work. Do we need a channel?

    n/m, playing now! SuperDuck

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  • BullioBullio Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Michael H wrote: »
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    Ok, I'm going to post a few servers, and we'll see if we can find one that everyone can connect to and isn't terribly laggy

    First up, ut2004://206.217.141.218:7777

    Didn't work. Do we need a channel?

    n/m, playing now! SuperDuck

    Working for me as well.

    EDIT: And now it's hanging.

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Tempted to install my Mac OS X disc I've got floating around. But it never received a proper OS X port so it's buggy as fuck.

    Edit: Of '99, not 2k4.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Huh, I guess the server exploded?

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  • Michael HMichael H Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    We were doing so well.

    Hung for me when we were moving to Morpheus.

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Actually, wait, shit, I bought 2k4 back when I was running the Windows 7 Beta. I wonder if I can somehow download load that and insert the files into a mac application....hmm.

    Ugh, not worth finding a Windows disc around here though.

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Ah well. For me there was about a half-second delay between me firing the sniper rifle and the shot actually hitting something - which had interesting results when I got into a close-range sniper duel with someone.

    I'm guessing there isn't anything like ZPP for 2k4?

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Server's back

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I wonder if my PC key would work in the Mac version of the game...

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  • Michael HMichael H Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Stupid question, uh, what's the key for entering in game chat

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    maximumzero wrote: »
    I wonder if my PC key would work in the Mac version of the game...

    Yes.

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    maximumzero wrote: »
    I wonder if my PC key would work in the Mac version of the game...

    Yes.

    Shit. I'm tempted to torrent the Mac version, go install Steam on my mom's PC to get the key and insert that...

    ...ugh, but it's so legally shakey....

    Edit: Alternatively it seems I can download the PC version on another computer, pull all those files over to my Mac and replace the demo's files with them.....problem is I don't have a flash drive or any way to transfer files between computers.

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