UT2004 - still played around here?

marcusjm · Post by **marcusjm** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:54 am

I noticed that there is a dedicated server so I was curious.

What mods are the most popular (or must haves)? I remember Strike Force for UT which was pretty good.is it still around?

What game modes are the most popular? In UT I allways prefered Assault maps but they were so few.

Thanks in advance
marcus

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:09 am

I'm not sure if Zack still maintains that server, but it has been a long time since I've seen anybody on it. The most popular mode when it was active was Insta-Gib. 1-on-1 tornaments, CTF, all Insta-Gib.

marcusjm · Post by **marcusjm** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:44 am

Is this the general picture? Am I likelly to find empty servers everywhere if I install it?

marcus

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:51 am

I'm not sure when the next UT is slated for release, but I would suspect that all of the other UT games just aren't played that much anymore. Everyone seems to be on GuildWars/WoW/BF2/BF2142 lately. At least, that's what I gather from the threads here.

Creepy_Smell · Post by **Creepy_Smell** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:43 pm

I bet you can find people playing it. While it wont have the numbers of newer games there are probably still a good amount of servers/players at least for the main game. What would be harder to find is mods but there will probably be a few people playing them unless the mod was bad.

I play JointOps MP and it still has populated/full servers to play on and many have moved on from it.

If I had UT2K4 still installed I would check. Might have to reinstall it now.

EDIT: Couldnt resist so reinstalled it (Removed it before to get more HD space but have a bigger drive now). Still tons of Onslaught servers. I didnt notice many other kinds though but only started up the game for a minute.

EDIT2: Im an idiot. Didnt realize ONS was the default game in the filter. Tons of Assault and CTF too. Thats all I looked at so far.

Gwog · Post by **Gwog** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:59 pm

Over 6000 UT04 players when I last checked GameSpy's stats page.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:17 pm

there's no faster way to make a game more undesireable to play than by putting the current year in the title

ChrisGrenard · Post by **ChrisGrenard** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:54 pm

I would play if you were doing Alien Swarm. One of my favorite games. EVER.

Papageno · Post by **Papageno** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:32 pm

Glad to hear someone's still playing this. I loved it and didn't get to play as much as I wanted. I especially liked Onslaught, Assault CTF and Bombing Run games. I'm pretty meh on plain ol' deathmatch.

martindemon · Post by **martindemon** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:35 am

I just reinstalled it. I had a few good games, where I was with similarly skilled people. Then I tried a game instagib with people a little better than me. What I mean by that is, take me for example (10 years of those games, medium skill) and I go against a newbie who has never played in his life and the result will be less catastrophic than the game in which I was owned in all the possible bodily holes. I had the time to shoot 3 times before being gibbed by a guy 400m farther. A gang of virtual professional snipers around me... Then I got back to the "single player" part, just for fun and for training.

Zitterbacke · Post by **Zitterbacke** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:53 pm

I want to play Spawns of Deflebub

Creepy_Smell · Post by **Creepy_Smell** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:10 pm

One of my first rounds of instagib I won on Zaxxons server. Mainly because I would pick them off as they dueled someone else. After that I was pretty much slaughtered especially by anyone with half a talent at UT dodging, which Im horrible at. Good times anyways though.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:37 pm

Blackhawk wrote:I'm not sure if Zack still maintains that server, but it has been a long time since I've seen anybody on it. The most popular mode when it was active was Insta-Gib. 1-on-1 tornaments, CTF, all Insta-Gib.

Yep, the server's still up and running. I've tried a couple of 'revival' nights over the past year or so, but never manage to get more than a couple people on. I think this train's left the station until UT2007, at least on OO.

If I'm wrong and a bunch of people want to get together for an evening of fraggage, I'm definitely in, though, and so is my stats-tracking server.

marcusjm · Post by **marcusjm** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:11 am

Ptity that games are so shortlived. It's amazing really how Counter Strike has managed to keep a consistent fanbase for almost 10 years now.

More games should be like that.

marcus

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon May 12, 2014 12:45 pm

Per the discussion in the New Unreal Tournament thread, I've set up a UT2004 server with stats logging. Stats are here. Server is 174.16.220.160, and the game join password is 'cthulhu.' Maybe we can set some scheduled games up. Anyone interested?

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:06 pm

This week is not great for me, but next and after are fine

Papageno · Post by **Papageno** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:29 pm

Wow, this has got to be the mother of all thread necros. BTW, hi all, longtime no see!

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:30 pm

Hey! Join us!

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:31 pm

Did I play this? This sounds vaguely familiar. I think I died a lot too.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:32 pm

Awesome...would love to join in soon. Now that I've found my copy, the new catch is finding a time to play. My fiancé moved into my apartment a while back while our house is being built, and I lost my office. This means that my gaming PC is temporarily in the bedroom...not conducive to late-night gaming. This could be tricky...

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:41 pm

I've loaded the 3 Community Bonus Packs on the server, as well.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:56 pm

I was reading the thread then saw nov 2006. i felt a wave of nostalgia hit me. Wow where the hell does time go?? 2006 was just a 3..maybe 4..years ago.....sigh guess not.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Tue May 13, 2014 3:33 am

installing now. i forgot that the installation media is on CDs and not DVDs... why did it take so long for PC game manufacturers to switch over? do i have to install this in XP compatibility mode?

UPDATE: "Please enter the 20-digit CD key found printed on the back of your manual. Type the CD key exactly as it appears..." uhhh ... do i still have the manual for this??

DOUBLE UPDATE: ...it's under the Play disc CD tray. : /

TRIPLE UPDATE: were installers really this primitive-looking in 2004?? well, i guess my answer is they were still distributing games on CDs... and after the disc-swapping, i still have to install the community packs... people re-buying this on Steam: enjoy your modern-day conveniences.

UPDATING SPREE: i found "Zaxxon's UT 2004 v1.1" DVD-R! dated 04/04/05. also a CD-R i had made with "Maps + Packs + Editor". might even install this on my work Linux laptop, since there's a client for it.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:12 am

If you could put that DVD content on Dropbox or something, that would be awesome, as I can't find it.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Tue May 13, 2014 9:50 am

I know that I still have my disc, but I'm pretty sure it's packed away...maybe in our storage unit. If I can find it around home, I'll try to get it uploaded somewhere.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue May 13, 2014 10:11 am

I see Arcanis has successfully joined a match, so it looks like the server is indeed working. Would tomorrow night work for anyone for some quick fraggage? Say, 10 PM Eastern?

miltonite · Post by **miltonite** » Tue May 13, 2014 12:09 pm

Zaxxon wrote: Would tomorrow night work for anyone for some quick fraggage? Say, 10 PM Eastern?

I'll be there.

Is there VOIP or do we need to use the mumble server my friend runs?

crumsteel · Post by **crumsteel** » Tue May 13, 2014 12:43 pm

What a coincidence. After life has taken me is so many direction I decided to look back here to see what is going on and I see this thread.

I have reloaded the game from steam and will be trying to join also. Hope my fingers can still do what they used to.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue May 13, 2014 12:55 pm

W00t!

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue May 13, 2014 1:41 pm

I choose this thread. I'll let the other one be for the new game.

Dug out my Big Book of Physical Media, Volume 3. Installing.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue May 13, 2014 1:53 pm

W00t^2!

Reemul · Post by **Reemul** » Tue May 13, 2014 2:05 pm

well I installed it and all the maps etc and played some single player. Brought back some memories, I was a CTF i-GiB player normally.

Shame i am on uk time but will check the server late at night etc and see if anyone is online.

Reemul · Post by **Reemul** » Tue May 13, 2014 2:13 pm

How do I actually enter or find the OO server. Doesnt seem to be a simple option

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue May 13, 2014 2:19 pm

Reemul wrote:How do I actually enter or find the OO server. Doesnt seem to be a simple option

On the Buddies or Internet tab, right-click and Open IP, then enter the server's IP. You can then right-click the server and add it as a favorite.

IP is 174.16.220.160, password cthulhu.

Reemul · Post by **Reemul** » Tue May 13, 2014 2:23 pm

Zaxxon wrote:
Reemul wrote:How do I actually enter or find the OO server. Doesnt seem to be a simple option
On the Buddies or Internet tab, right-click and Open IP, then enter the server's IP. You can then right-click the server and add it as a favorite.

IP is 174.16.220.160, password cthulhu.

Excellent that worked

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue May 13, 2014 2:25 pm

Sweet. Let me know if you want to do a quick test match.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Tue May 13, 2014 4:12 pm

Zaxxon wrote:If you could put that DVD content on Dropbox or something, that would be awesome, as I can't find it.

If I buy on Steam, what might I need in addition to the base game?

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue May 13, 2014 4:13 pm

Pyperkub wrote:
Zaxxon wrote:If you could put that DVD content on Dropbox or something, that would be awesome, as I can't find it.
If I buy on Steam, what might I need in addition to the base game?

Community Bonus Packs are also loaded on the server. If you pre-install them you won't have to wait for the server to send you maps.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Tue May 13, 2014 4:24 pm

Zaxxon wrote:If you could put that DVD content on Dropbox or something, that would be awesome, as I can't find it.

i can do this in the next few days. PM me your dropbox info.

i could also scp it to your machine, or whatever alternate method you want.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue May 13, 2014 4:28 pm

I don't know that I can request a file via Dropbox. I think I would need your email in order to give you upload access.

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