Epic Store's Unreal Tournament page now has free download links to Unreal, Unreal 2, and Unreal Tournament '99 (www.epicgames.com)
from simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 11:14
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lilja@lemmy.ml on 11 Dec 11:28 next collapse

The links all go to the OldUnreal site, so I guess Epic has just left it up to the community to keep their legacy alive. Not necessarily a bad thing, but hopefully they send some of their Fortnite fortunes over to the maintainers.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Dec 12:42 next collapse

Hell, give them some part-time developers or something since we know they won’t give any money.

Localhorst86@feddit.org on 11 Dec 13:52 next collapse

also, it would have been great if Epic linked the appropriate archive.org pages. OldUnreal only hosts windows installers that grab the files off of archive.org

DacoTaco@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 15:22 collapse

You know damn well they wont :p
Imo the oldunreal people should have gotten access to post the original games on the store for publishing. The games still get small updates from the community from what i noticed when i got the linux versions going

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org on 11 Dec 12:51 next collapse

You know what would be even more awesome? Open sourcing them like Id did with Doom and Quake.

dougiejones@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 13:11 collapse

Not the same thing but keep your eye on SurrealEngine.

Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg on 11 Dec 13:16 collapse

There’s also github.com/OpenTournament/OpenTournament for those looking for something more modern (RIP UT4).

TGhost@lemm.ee on 11 Dec 13:24 next collapse

Is there people online ? or avalaible servers ?
I loved the hype on UT4

Pacmanlives@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 21:46 collapse

I played UT99 not that long ago. Community is still active and it was easy to get match’s

Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 14:26 next collapse

I am surprised Unreal Tournament 2004 is not part of this initiative.

xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Dec 15:17 collapse

Licensing/legal issues very likely. They licensed that version of the engine for Killing Floor and some other games.

Delta_V@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 17:40 next collapse

Anyone know what version of TacOps mod is compatible with OldUnreal’s version of UT?

nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org on 11 Dec 21:53 next collapse

Giving away the only UT game that matters? Wow.

hark@lemmy.world on 12 Dec 04:01 collapse

2004 was also great! Too bad that’s not available for free as well.

nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org on 12 Dec 18:27 collapse

I thought that they tried too hard to align with Quake 3’s twitch-gaming.

yggstyle@lemmy.world on 12 Dec 20:27 collapse

CTF Face Instagib

IYKYK. Fond memories.