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Epic Store's Unreal Tournament page now has free download links to Unreal, Unreal 2, and Unreal Tournament '99 (www.epicgames.com)
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[–] lilja@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

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 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] dougiejones@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not the same thing but keep your eye on SurrealEngine.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 13 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

CTF Face Instagib

IYKYK. Fond memories.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Giving away the only UT game that matters? Wow.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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