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Unreal 2 Multiplayer Patch Announced 27

Posted by simoniker from the announcement-actually-quite-unreal dept.
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to HomeLan Fed's story indicating Epic have announced a free multiplayer add-on for Unreal 2 is in development. This announcement comes in an official Unreal 2 messageboard thread posting from Epic's Mark Rein, and briefly states: "Lack of multiplayer is a temporary issue with Unreal 2. Legend are currently reviving their XMP design for multiplayer and it will be released as a FREE downloadable add-on for people who own Unreal 2." Might this partly be because developers Legend are doing multiplayer work for the alleged Xbox conversion of Unreal 2, after the so-so reception of the PC version?
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  • Temporary issue?? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by neostorm ( 462848 ) on Saturday July 05, 2003 @01:14PM (#6372955)
    "...lack of network code is a temporary issue with Unreal 2."

    As I recall they were initially adamant about NOT having multiplayer in the game. I think the addition of this is because
    1) that's what people wanted all along, and
    2) because their purported "best single player experience ever" fell flat on it's face.

    Oh well, good co-op can make even the worst games a total blast, so this is still a good thing.
    Anyone know if they are going to be updating Unreal 2s version of UED with this patch at all?

  • Wouldn't multi-player Unreal II be UT2003?

    • It memory serves (and it usually doesn't) UT2003 was based on the old Unreal Engine (although much updated). Unreal II is based on a differt/more advanced engine than UT2003.
  • I want multiplayer on the console on my xbox with Unreal Championship. It is an exact clone of UT2003, and I can play online with Live, but I want to be able to have two people play locally split-screen. I don't know why they thought that was cool to leave that out.

    Chris

  • Maybe they should do something useful... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Da VinMan ( 7669 ) on Saturday July 05, 2003 @02:23PM (#6373227)
    Like reduce the infernal load times in the game! Seriously, I couldn't stand it anymore so I didn't even finish the game. Unreal2 goes down as the most disappointing game purchase for me in recent memory. They had a good thing going, then they let that load time issue slip through. It really wrecked the game for me.

    • Yeah, that'd be nice. I used to think UT was bad, but UT2003 is phenomenally bad.

      I suspect that most of it has to do with texture loading times. At least those directories seem to be what is being accessed during the wait.

      SB
      • I dunno what they're doing. It wouldn't be so bad if the transitions didn't use the 3D engine too. If they used FMV for those, that would at least be quick. But having that delay for the transitions and the game scenes is a complete PITA. Also, I tend to reload the game a lot too because I like to try to redo screw ups. A game load causes a complete reload of textures, etc. AFAIK and this takes forever. It all adds up to a game that I enjoyed between long sessions of grinding my teeth.

        I very much dou
  • I still hate all those XBox fanboys who insist Unreal Championship ISN'T UT2K3. Honestly, who do they think they are fooling?

    So will Unreal 2 be "Unreal Legacy" or some stupid thing?

  • Good (Score:2, Interesting)

    by JavaLord ( 680960 )
    I'll be glad to see U2 get multiplayer since I wasn't happy with UT2k3 after Unreal Tournament. Myself, along with a lot of players never migrated to UT2k3 since it seemed like a downgrade in everything except graphics.
    • I definitely agree that there's a lot of things that were better about original UT than UT2k3, but I think there were also some improvements. The double jump/wall jump/double dodge was a great addition, it enables you to do some incredible moves that no one would have even thought of in UT (Like jumping over a gap, off a wall, landing behind the jerk who just tried to tag you with a lightning gun and blowing his guts out with flak).
      And the lightning gun is a huge gameplay improvment over the old sniper rifl

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