Updated UT2004 Demo Available

Coneasfast writes "A new Unreal Tournament 2004 demo is available. The new UT2004 demo has all the fixes and updates in the latest full version of UT2004, and also includes two additional maps, ONS-Primeval and CTF-FaceClassic, as well as the Instagib CTF game type. In addition, new demo servers are compatible with full version clients, so if you run a demo server, anyone can join it. The windows version is 282Mb, and the linux version is 77.2Mb." Update: Looks like the site is wrong, the linux client is 275 megs.

Comments

Re:Why the size discrepancy?

[wscott]

It's not. The linux version is 275 megs. Their webpage is just wrong.

BTW the first download link is a torrent that is maxing out my line at 351 kB/s with all seeds and no peers. (gotta love bittorrent)

Re:Please

[hawkbug]

That sounds like a major driver issue if you ask me. There is a reason I quit buying ATI you know ;) Seriously, not to start a flame war because I know people who have good luck with ATI, but I never have. I have owned several ATI products in the past, and each one of them seemed to have beta-like drivers for the entire time I owned the products. I used to like the AiW products, but half the advertised features never did work for me, always causing a crash, and it took months in between driver updates. I know ATI has gotten better about drivers in the last few years, but once I went Nvidia I never looked back because of their rock solid driver update schedule. I'm not going to say Nvidia is perfect in that area, just better than ATI.

Cool except ONS-Primeval is WORST MAP EVAR

[billybob]

I played the original demo for probably 2 months and then bought the full version. The main reason I played and bought the game was for Onslaught. I loved Torlan and all of the ONS levels in the full retial package range from pretty good to damn sweet... EXCEPT for Primeval. This map is just a piece of crap. It seriously feels like it is someone's first ever map, made by Billy (age 7)

The past few months I was actually playing the demo more than the retail version because I love Torlan so much and just wanted to play that for a while. But now the old demo doesnt work anymore with their master servers, you have to run the new demo, this totally sucks because I do NOT want to play Primeval. Everytime I was on the retail version and this map came up, I would change servers. I'm actually really pissed at them for including such a horrible map.

Other than that, it's cool they released a new demo with all their updates up til this point.

Re:Cool except ONS-Primeval is WORST MAP EVAR

[News for nerds]

I think I love Torlan and its compact tactics as possible, and like to play demo as it's faster in loading textures and skins than retail (the retail version takes 30 - 60 seconds loading time for each ONS play because of its fat textures and more complicated online coordination)

But Primeval is not bad IMHO. It's kind of brain-less team death match with some vehicles, just killing each other, it's simple and intensive fight to last very long if teams are even. Sure it often brings lag since many ppl are packed in a small map, nevertheless condensed all-out war is very exciting in itself. In larger maps such as Red Planet you have to run alone very long distance to see your first enemy which is boring sometimes.

Re:Cool except ONS-Primeval is WORST MAP EVAR

[Solder Fumes]

No no no...the level does NOT take a full minute to load. That happens to be the default setting, but anyone who knows anything has already turned the "precache skins" setting off. Even if you have more than 512MB of RAM, it makes no sense to have that setting turned on. If someone joins the game, it takes almost instantly to load just that skin, rather than loading all of them and not using hardly any.

I don't mind Primeval actually, though I didn't like it at first. After playing it for a while, you start to see the strategy. It's the one map where the Hellbender plays a pivotal role. In order to win you must park the Hellbender far away from the central node, but close enough for line of sight. Then you float skymines over the node and opposing team's field and keep carpet-bombing the area. Perfect area denial, as long as everyone on your team understands what you're doing, and heals the Hellbender when possible and don't jump in a charge into the middle of a heated battle.

Re:Did they fix the 64-bit version?

[RussGarrett]

It's an integrated installer - from the readme:

AMD64 vs x86:
If you install this on a 64-bit version of GNU/Linux, then you'll get the
64-bit binaries. Otherwise, you'll get the 32-bit ones. You won't get the
64-bit version unless you've got an amd64-compatible chip and are running
a 64-bit OS on that chip. If you don't know, then you're on a 32-bit
platform.

Please note that the amd64 binaries are considered experimental at this
time, as is the entire amd64 Linux system at the time of this writing.
We accept bug reports for them and strive to fix them, but we don't promise
stellar performance or stability. You have been warned.

And indeed:

russ@russ:~/ut2004demo/System$ file ./ut2004-bin ./ut2004-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Updated Mac demo also available

[dn15]

The original post neglected to mention that there is also an updated Mac version of the demo.

Re:Updated Mac demo also available

[Quobobo]

My bad. It seems like the 3D Gamers link is good, but the other two aren't.