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Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo Released
JSDopefish writes "The demo for the PC game Unreal Tournament has been released, and Blue's News has a full list of mirrors [including BitTorrent links from GameTab and AIXGaming] for downloading the 209mb Win32 client. If you like classic Deathmatch, it's a great game - I still love one on one deathmatch. The site explains: 'The Unreal Tournament 2004 official demo includes five playable game modes, and offers fans their first taste of Unreal Tournament 2004's two new game modes: the introduction of the hyper-charged Onslaught mode and the return of the fan-favorite Assault mode, which last appeared in the original Unreal Tournament. The demo also features established gametypes like Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Bombing Run'."
Another mirror at runuo.com (Plug: Check out the site while you're there! ;-) )
UT seems to be moving more and more towards tribes, and this is from a guy working on Tribes 3, which also uses the unreal engine, albeit heavily modified... ;)
Glenn Fiedler,
Irrational Games.
And who could forget the UT 2004 Linux server: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/ut2004-lnxded-dem o-3120.tar.bz2.torrent
Here is a torrent, if you need it.
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If the linux install is on the CD I'll be buying another game at near full price. :)
I was thinking of posting this myself but I haven't gotten around to stop playing the thing to do so. the emphasis seems to be more on teamwork than solo rambo stuff as before. it runs about as good as UT2003, which isn't saying much as my GF3 is really showing its age. I will definitely be buying this when I see it at Bestbuy, unless of course Doom3 or Halflife 2 suddenly decide to appear on the shelf.... go download it
Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=18034. Enjoy. Quit your bitching about no OS X and just look around a bit. There are other mirrors, this is just the first I found.
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Anyone got an ETA on the linux version?
Once Nvidia becomes a bit more solid on 2.6, I imagine a AMD64 compiled unreal 2004 with 2.6 would be quite a nice experience. Although there are still some K8T800 chipset support problems for linux with the popular boards like MSI K8T neo and others. The Nvidia chipsets don't seem to cut it in the benchmarks at the moment, so unless they drop their price point the VIA is the way to go.
For those of you looking for other games on linux. Savage the battle for Newerth has just released a huge update for their retail version which speeds things up nicely. THE game of late 03 early 04 is Savage. Definitely worth a look-see if you haven't tried it yet.
Thinks are looking up for a linux desktop:
2.6 kernel
open office 1.1 is nice
new KDE and Gnome releases
mozilla 1.6 and firebird steadily approaching a 1 release
GIMP 2 comming up real soon, and that SVG one (name?) too.
Jahshaka and Gstreamer are promising for video editing, as is the commercial Mainactor from Mainconcept.
Enemy Territory native, Savage Native, Quakes, Tons of stuff under WINE.
Seeing some rad stuff from GPL Blender 3D, commercial Maya and Apple Shake working in industry.
Good ol' apache tanking along.
some of the GPL databases slowing moving from mid-commercial to big iron.
Innovation in python and php.
This damned well rocks. I don't code, so thank you to all the coders who have made this the year of the FULL desktop switch.
There must be about as many PC's that can actually handle this game as there are macs. It's not like my dad's P-II 400 with a matrox G200 is going to be able to handle this.
;-)
That's actually an interesting point. The specs on games these days are pretty insane compared to the average PC in the family home. Even if a family has a, say, 1.4GHz machine in the home (and I'd guess way less than half of homes is at that level), it probably has a really crappy video card in it.. or even on-board video. This means that 90%+ of machines out there can barely play these games at 20fps in 640x480.
Given this, it really seems like the PC games industry is propped up by gaming die-hards.. whereas the console gaming market is propped up by everyone who owns one. Perhaps we should all remember this when we start bitching about the gaming freaks who mod their cases crazy all the time.. it's these guys who keep the PC industry in games
Yup, it's out for the Mac as well. Macgamefiles.com has a couple of mirrors for it...painfully slow mirrors, but mirrors none the less.
"There must be about as many PC's that can actually handle this game as there are macs."
Uh...huh.
Maybe you should take a look at the high end PC market some time? An insane number of top of the line video cards, memory modules, processors and motherboards are available and they sell like hotcakes. Because PCs are far less generational than Macs there is a tendency for a lot of people to gradually upgrade and thus keep relatively up to date in terms of hardware.
Sorry to ruin the illusion but at a totally uneducated guess I would put money on the number of PCs worldwide that can run this game being in a ratio of at least 50:1 to the number of Macs.
Read Pynchon.
For those interested, UT2004 is using an open-source codec for voice communication between players. It's also probably the first game to support wideband (16 kHz) communication.
Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec
Download the zipped file then open the .torrent with your favorite BT client.
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http://www.elroyonline.net/misc/ut2004torrent.z
Download the damn demo and try it before you bitch.
I'd hereby like to thank Ryan 'icculus' Gordon for his hard work on the Linux and Macintosh clients. (linux one is forthcoming tomorrow, Ryan needs to sleep before he can coherently fix a bug that's still in the linux client)
Andrew 'ashridah' Pilley
I'm not a big fan of the Quake-style deathmatch type games, I much prefer smaller locations, CS/DoD style..
However, the Demo is a LOT of fun. Assault mode is very good, at least it shows off a good map. There's 6 seperate objectives for the attackers to do, and it's fast paced enough to keep it interesting.
Onslaught mode is really good too. I'm not a big fan of the map, but the mode itself has promise. It's basically a sci-fi BF1942, just a lot faster.
And it runs just as well as UT2003. Good programming.
No kidding. I don't understand who could possibly play games on a 9" black and white screen with a one-button mouse anyway. Maybe some Mac people here can provide us with more information.
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Hmm... Reminds me of something...
Here ya go ...
t or rent
http://www.harmless.de/ut2004-mac-demo.dmg.bz2.
> It does not hold up against Halo, let
> alone any of the next-gen titles like HL2.
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