Subj : Retro shooters
To   : Al
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Mar 04 2022 09:28:31

  Re: Retro shooters
  By: Al to Nightfox on Thu Mar 03 2022 07:21 pm

 Al> I bought UT3 right after it was released. It was said/thought at the time
 Al> there would be linux binaries for UT3 but it never happened for some kind
 Al> of legal reasons. They were not included on the DVD. 

 Al> I can play UT3 on steam but I never enjoyed it as much as the other UT
 Al> offerings. I still play UT2003/2004 at times, also great fun. 

 Al> I see a PKGBUILD also for the new UT4 engine but I am not sure how to get
 Al> any game data for it or what games it supports. I'll have to look into
 Al> that more. 

I don't really remember what differences there were between the original UT and UT3.  Maybe a better graphics engine?  I do remember the rocket launcher behaving differently - I think in later versions of UT, you couldn't load as many rockets to fire at the same time with the alternate fire button, I think?

Also, I don't know if it was just me, but over time, I wasn't as good with the sniper rifle as I used to be.  With the original UT, there were some maps that had spots that were good for using the sniper rifle, and I used to be pretty good at that even when the opponents were fairly far away.

At one point, I found a couple UT3 servers that were playing some classic UT maps, and I enjoyed playing those.

Also, I thought I had read somewhere that Steam supposedly allows playing some Windows games in Linux, but I'm not sure how well it works.

Nightfox
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