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Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper
Originally posted by: CP5670
I spent thousands of hours with UT99 many years ago, mostly CTF and domination, but I haven't played it all since 2001. Is there still significant activity on it?
Yes and no. It's impossible to find a populated public DOMination server now, which is very, very sad.
Populated CTF servers are still around, but many of them are instagib, sniper, or modded. There are still a couple populated regular weapons CTF servers around, however, but they run at higher speeds.
In North America, try the FOCR server:
FOCR 125 speed regular weapons: 66.151.7.44
It's 125 speed regular weapons CTF.
Now...that having been said...much of the regular weapons CTF action is at PUG matches. These are spontaneously-organized clan-match style Pick Up Games and they are a tremendous amount of fun. It's real UT CTF the way it was meant to be played! Players on a five-man team have assigned positions and try to use team work and voice comm.
To get involved in the PUG match scene, you need to know how to use IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and Teamspeak2 (a free download -- http://www.GoTeamspeak.com )
In a given IRC channel, people sign up to play in the next match by typing .join. A program called the Pugbot (the Abot in this case) keeps track of the number of people who have signed up to play and when it gets to 10, two people become captains and draft the other 8 players in a 1-2-2-2-1 order with the first captain having the first pick and the second captain having the next two picks, etc., with the first captain getting stuck with the last pick. Then they all hop on Teamspeak, join their team's channel, and then hop on the server to play a best of three maps match.
Come give it a try sometime:
Server: irc.GameRadius.net (home of the North American UT99 CTF community)
Channels:
#speedpug (reg weapons, 125 speed)
and
#mlut (reg weapons, 100 speed, need to be logged in to the IRC server, has a higher skill level)
Originally posted by: dighn
I think UT3 will be the biggest if only because of its name. I'm not counting on Crysis being great in terms of gameplay. TF2 is probably my favorite out of those four, but I see it as sort of a niche franchise. QW I don't know.. feels like the UT3 name is bigger.
Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper
The good news is that UT3 is supposed to feel a whole lot more like UT99, but we'll just have to wait for the demo and see.
Originally posted by: n7
Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper
The good news is that UT3 is supposed to feel a whole lot more like UT99, but we'll just have to wait for the demo and see.
Only you crazy 99 players feel that's "good" news
I like UT2k4's movement style just fine, though it should be a little faster.
What's bad about UT2k4 isn't movement, it's the overpowered hitscan & far too large maps or far too small playerscale...
Originally posted by: Unkno
What about Left Four Dead?
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
It seems to me that people, longterm, prefer games without vehicles. In games like BF1942 the mad dash for a tank or plane at each spawn gets kind of old and you start to wonder why you can't just play the game. Whereas something like Counter-Strike is so enduring because each round is a fresh start on equal footing.....nobody is gonna be waiting for you to spawn with a tank barrel aimed at you and no tweaker bastard is gonna outrace you to the last plane and leave you running across a huge map or firing a rocket launcher at a tank parked on a maintenance spot.
Originally posted by: fierydemiseThe only thing that I could see sinking UT3 is if Conquest sucks, if it is well executed enough to excuse the lack of onslaught or assault then UT3 will be a huge success, if not then it will likely be a lot less of a successful (although still very successful) until some modders add those modes back in.
Originally posted by: BD2003
UT2003/4 was much faster, the weapons much weaker, the players thinner, and with the double jump/dodge it usually just became a frantic mess that you could barely keep track of wtf was going on. It took two rockets to down someone that was flying around you like a jackrabbit...just too insane.
I'm all for them going back to the original formula.