UT2004 Editor's Choice Edition Released

Neophytus writes "Earlier today the 'Editor's Choice Edition' addon for Unreal Tournament 2004 was released to the public. The official bonus pack contains new maps, models and vehicles for UT2004. The ECE torrent is available, alongside direct downloads provided by BeyondUnreal. Rereleased alongside, the Game DVD bundles eleven of the best community-created mods alongside the new content."

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A new demo was released as well..

[Propagandhi]

As seen on Blues News a new demo for UT2k4 has also been released, basically the same as the old one with some engine updates and a few extra maps.

FYI 3d Gamers always has a torrent up of the files it mirrors.

Two things to note:

[unclethursday]

1. The 84 MB is a self-extracting zip file. OS X users CAN download the exe, change it to a zip, open with Stuffit Expander (open with>stuffit expander, the default app will not open the file, so Stuffit must be used, this works, I am on OS X and have successfully installed the new updates), and manually move the content to their UT2004 app folders if they wish to do so before MacSoft gets around to releasing a Mac installer. Just don't move the DLL files (no need on Mac OS X) and you don;t have to worry about overwriting your user.ini.

I'm sure a similar Linux workaround can happen as well before the Linux version is released, but I don;t know exactly how it would work on Linux.

2. The ECE update does NOT contain any mods that will ship with the retail version; just the maps, models, vehicles and engine tweaks. If you want the mods that are shipping with the retail version you can download them from their respective sites:

Air Buccaneers
Alien Swarm
Chaos UT2
Clone Bandits
Deathball
Domain 2049
Frag.Ops
Jailbreak
Red Orchestra
UnWheel

Most of these mods come with installers (.exe), or are UT4 files (UMod), while I know Red Orchestra has a Mac OS X installer and others can be downloaded as zip archives for manual instilation for OS X and Linux users..

Re:Two things to note:

[CrusadeR]

Linux users can unzip and copy the folder contents into their UT2004 directory to use the new content as well without issue.

Re:Two things to note:

[mahdi13]

Here's what Ryan says to do to install on Linux

1) Download the file
2) unzip it somewhere
3) Delete System/User.ini and Help/UT2004Logo.bmp
4) Copy the rest of the files into your installation.

Extra credit for deleting the .exe and .dll files, but there isn't any
harm in them sitting there.

--ryan.

Simple enough
One guy on the mailing list claims that he extracted the whole package to his install and started a listen server without any problems

Re:Two things to note:

[mahdi13]

Here's a download for a tarball that has no installer or Windows files "to pick out"
http://0day.icculus.org/ut2004/ut2004-ECEBonusPack .tar.bz2

Also Linux Gamers are working on getting this into a Loki Installer, hopefully we'll see it early this weekend

HALO in UT2k4

[Anonymous Coward]

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