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

BionicPenguin

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.

anoffday

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.

BionicPenguin

The hammer's a lot easier to use because of the auto-fire.

elliotw2

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.

anoffday

That could be fun. I already have 2004 on steam.

Zxerol

AS-Convoy


Like the demo days

elliotw2

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

BionicPenguin

I remember playing either a mod or a mutator that added a grapple beam. It was so great having midair battles beneath CTF-Face.

elliotw2

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

anoffday

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.

elliotw2

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

anoffday

So who would be interested in 2004 next weekend?

Zxerol

I'm game; I got all the UT games installed (excepting 2K3, natch).

The Anonymous

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.

Bloodfart

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.

Bullio

Definitely down. Between the UT99 night we had and having just finished Masters of Doom, I've been seriously jonesing for some classic fragging.

The Anonymous

I've discovered that Mutant + Instagib + 1.25 gamespeed + force respawn = craziness.

elliotw2

If anyone has this installed right now, and wants to help me out, try connecting to ut2004://68.186.220.251:7777

verpakeyes

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.

The Anonymous

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.

Bullio

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.

elliotw2

Ok, try again now

The Anonymous

Still no joy

elliotw2

I am going to be playing with this, so please keep trying to connect

The Anonymous

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.

Michael H

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.

Zxerol

I like how when you rev the video settings to maximum, the announcer actually goes "HOLY SHIT!" like that's a huge accomplishment.

elliotw2

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

Michael H

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

Bullio

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.

maximumzero

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.

elliotw2

Huh, I guess the server exploded?

Michael H

We were doing so well.

Hung for me when we were moving to Morpheus.

maximumzero

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.

The Anonymous

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?

elliotw2

Server's back

maximumzero

I wonder if my PC key would work in the Mac version of the game...

Michael H

Stupid question, uh, what's the key for entering in game chat

elliotw2

maximumzero wrote: »

I wonder if my PC key would work in the Mac version of the game...

Yes.

maximumzero

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.