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UT2003 Demo Ready
captainstupid writes "The friendly folks at EPIC have working hard getting a build of the UT2003 demo ready for release. The official word from Mark Rein (VP of Epic games) is that the demo is done and it's being uploaded to the Infrogrames site as we speak. PlanetUnreal has the scoop including snippets from the IRC chat log. The linux demo is on the way as well! Gentlemen! Start your downloads!" With Icewind Dale 2 coming out recently, who has time for a FPS? Update: 09/15 02:00 GMT by T : HyperMagma submitted a link to the Linux version (as found on linuxgames.com) as well -- thanks.
the linux version works fine :) :)
Had to make my GeForce2 pro my primary X screen instead of my TNT2 (PCI), and I have to toggle the fullscreen option off and back on again to get mouse control, but otherwise it works very nicely
Let me ge this straight. They have a linux version which has %10 of the market share that macosx has, which is only %5 of what Windows is at? That does not make any bussiness sense and it would make more sense to port to Windows and macosx first and linux last if ever.
I hope I do not get flamed for this but I was under the impression that sdl was inferior to both directx and game sprockets api's. I believe apple is trying to port some of apple's audio api's to linux to make a smooth transition.
If I was in charge of development I would apple's api's so I could create a dual macosx and linux release.
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It doesn't just look like quake3... it IS quake3. Every single thing in the game, from the menus to the bots to the gameplay is quake3. The only difference is the detail of the textures. And with about 1.4gigs of textures on the release version, it's a bit higher detail than quake3. But it feels absolutely identical to quake3.
;D ), and I'm extremely disappointed. When UT came out, it looked and played so well, that I was hoping this release would be the same. Instead, they removed the Assault game type (my favorite), and added in the Bombing Run. Unfortunately, Bombing Run is entertaining, but it requires far more teamwork than you'll find on your typical public server. With Assault, you could win even if your team didn't know what to do, because all they had to do was frag. Bombing Run is like the vip maps in Counter-Strike. And without a lot of teamwork, you'll lose everytime.
I've been playing the full release for sometime now ( helps to have friends at epic
Altough the game has pretty graphics, it's just not fun. Unless you loved the way Quake3 felt and played, don't bother downloading this.
Yeah but, how many linux-using people are there who don't dual-boot with windows? I doubt that there are many gamers running *only* linux.