Some of the oldest #UT99 screenshots that I could find on my drive. Must have been late 2000.
Apparently, some 40 FPS was good enough back then to have fun. So much so that I didn’t even bother to reduce texture detail or lower the insanely high resolution of 1024x768? “Nah, this is fine, let’s go.”
If you have ~4 hours to spare, here’s Elliot Cannon, the maker of maps like Deck16, talking UT99:
Only problem is, there are hardly any UT99 FFA servers left – let alone servers that use vanilla settings. No mods, standard maps (and not just Deck16), more than just Deathmatch, that’s what I’d like to see.
Since I’m playing #UT99 FFA again every now and then, I made a little CLI server “browser”, so I don’t have to launch the full game.
Kata 📎
anna.💫$ lsut 127.0.0.1:7778 185.242.112.2:6678
--[ Another UT Server (1/16): DM-Deck16][ ]--
: 3 cathy
--[ DECK16][ ALL WEAPONS [DE][by PlayUnreal.eu/discord] (2/12): DM-Deck16][ ]--
: 39 quacho
: 34 Stealth
https://movq.de/git/lsut/file/README.html
(Actually just an excuse to write a tiny little bit of Rust again. Still a total noob at this, because I don’t use it nearly enough.)
This brought back so many memories. #Quake3 and #UT99 were a huge part of my life back then, genuinely good times.
Now #gameplay footage from #Quake4: The Awakening has surfaced on #YouTube, an expansion that was cancelled after only ten months of development. The footage shows early environments, experimental mechanics and content that was clearly never finished.
Mostly documentary value, but still a fascinating look at what could have been.
Apparently some elements like the Dead Zone #multiplayer mode actually made it into the 1.3 update back then.
Bittersweet to watch.
Been playing UT FFA almost daily lately. 🤔
Works really well on Linux, assuming the server lets me join (some anticheat stuff requires Windows) and assuming I restart the game every now and then: There’s a memory leak somewhere and at some point it just crawls to a halt.
Deck16, of course. Probably the most-played map in history. 🤪 (It is great, though, isn’t it?)
TECC 
