Unreal 2 Multiplayer Patch Announced

Posted by simoniker on Saturday July 5, 2003 @04:51AM from the announcement-actually-quite-unreal dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to HomeLan Fed's story indicating Epic have announced a free multiplayer add-on for Unreal 2 is in development. This announcement comes in an official Unreal 2 messageboard thread posting from Epic's Mark Rein, and briefly states: "Lack of multiplayer is a temporary issue with Unreal 2. Legend are currently reviving their XMP design for multiplayer and it will be released as a FREE downloadable add-on for people who own Unreal 2." Might this partly be because developers Legend are doing multiplayer work for the alleged Xbox conversion of Unreal 2, after the so-so reception of the PC version?

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Temporary issue?? by neostorm · 2003-07-05 06:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

"...lack of network code is a temporary issue with Unreal 2."

As I recall they were initially adamant about NOT having multiplayer in the game. I think the addition of this is because
1) that's what people wanted all along, and
2) because their purported "best single player experience ever" fell flat on it's face.

Oh well, good co-op can make even the worst games a total blast, so this is still a good thing.
Anyone know if they are going to be updating Unreal 2s version of UED with this patch at all?