I wish they'd go further and offer maintained versions on their store, ideally free or very low cost as GOG.com and Steam have done. That said, it's appreciated.
From what I gather Epic delisted various of their Unreal Tournament games across all stores a couple years ago due to them not supporting their modern online services (including chat). This was within days of being fined $500m for, among other things, allowing on-by-default text chat in one of their other games that is available for children/teens to play, so some believe they'd rather delist than update some of their older games.
Unreal Tournament multiplayer with mutators[1] was awesome fun, like the one that made the player avatar grow bigger when the player scored a kill, and vice versa.
It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept. Being able to easily tweak the gameplay mixed it up and added extra challenge or fun.
I wish they'd go further and offer maintained versions on their store, ideally free or very low cost as GOG.com and Steam have done. That said, it's appreciated.
From what I gather Epic delisted various of their Unreal Tournament games across all stores a couple years ago due to them not supporting their modern online services (including chat). This was within days of being fined $500m for, among other things, allowing on-by-default text chat in one of their other games that is available for children/teens to play, so some believe they'd rather delist than update some of thei…
Unreal Tournament multiplayer with mutators[1] was awesome fun, like the one that made the player avatar grow bigger when the player scored a kill, and vice versa. It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept. Being able to easily tweak the gameplay mixed it up and added extra challenge or fun. [1]: https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Mutator
> It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept.
The terminology didn't catch on, but the idea is out there. Compare "game modes" in Overwatch, for example: