With the blessing of Epic Games, the team at OldUnreal continue maintaining the classic Unreal Tournament and they have a big new release out.
To this day the original Unreal Tournament still stands up exceptionally well, because Epic really had the feel of the gunplay and the level design nailed down quite nicely. On modern platforms though, the original is a bit — uh, well it has issues. The OldUnreal team thankfully continue pushing out upgrades. And if you weren't aware, the original did have a Linux build available too.
OldUnreal release 469 is out now with tons of bug fixes for this classic. It's a long list, with plenty of attention given to the Linux version too. Here's some Linux fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the mouse would get stuck in the middle of the game window on Linux and Mac.
- Fixed several issues that caused network connections to be terminated unexpectedly on Linux and Mac.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game viewport to have the wrong dimensions after resizing the game window on Linux or Mac.
- The ucc make commandlet now works on Linux and Mac.
- S3TC/DXT1 texture compression should now be available in the ucc tools for Linux and Mac (though obviously not in UnrealEd).
- The Linux and Mac clients now have clipboard support.
- The Linux and Mac clients finally support unicode! The most visible consequence is that player names with non-ascii characters in them will now display correctly when playing on Linux servers (provided that you use font textures with the proper unicode glyphs).
- Added selectedcursor support to the Linux and Mac clients.
- Added the -SETHOMEDIR= command line option. Normally, the game looks for the UnrealTournament.ini and User.ini files in ~/.utpg/System (on Linux), ~/Library/Application Support/Unreal Tournament/System (on Mac), or in UnrealTournamentSystem (on Windows). With this option, you can override the preferences path (e.g., ./ut-bin-x86 -sethomedir=~/.loki/ut/System).
Unreal Tournament Linux. File(s): ut-install-436.run. Unreal Tournament Mac. File(s): ut436update.sit. Creative Labs EAX Patches for Unreal (may interfear with OMP) File(s): eaxutsys.exe File(s): uteaxctf.exe File(s): uteaxdm.exe. Unreal Tournament Server. Windows: File(s): ut-server436final.zip.
For those curious, the OldUnreal patches also add in numerous other enhancements including a more modern OpenGL rendering system, SDL2 for Linux which should make the experience so much nicer, PNG support for screenshots, faster server downloads, raw input support and much more. You can pretty much considering it the ultimate version of Unreal Tournament.
- Unreal Tournament is a first-person shooter (FPS) video game co-developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes.It was published in 1999 by GT Interactive.Retrospectively, the game has also been referred to as UT99 or UT Classic to differentiate it from its numbered sequels. The game is based on the same technology that powered Unreal, but the design of UT shifted the series' focus to competitive.
- This is an early version of the Unreal Tournament experience, featuring new content and returning classics. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but you’re able to participate, today, and earn in-game rewards available only to Pre-Alpha participants.
The great news is that the 469 release is network compatible with 'all previous public releases of UT (down to 432)'. See more on it here.
It does need the original data files of course, which you can buy easily on GOG.com or Steam. You need to add the OldUnreal 469 release on top of an existing install. If you need help installing the original first, Lutris has a few installer scripts available.
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