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Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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Re: Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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I spent so much of the early year 2000 playing Unreal Tournament instagib mode on Facing Worlds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facing_Worlds

those were truly the golden years of online gaming

do you remember the monster hunter mod ?

huge random monsters would spawn and it would take multiple people to take them down

Re: Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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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.

Re: Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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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

Re: Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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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…

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Re: Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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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:

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/22938941/introduci...

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