Subj : Retro shooters
To   : Nightfox
From : Al
Date : Fri Mar 04 2022 10:39:02

> I don't really remember what differences there were between the original UT
> and UT3.  Maybe a better graphics engine?

It probably was an improved engine but I never liked the way the maps in UT3 looked so I haven't spent a lot of time in UT3.

> 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?

The alternate fire in UT is a grenade launcher and in UT2003+ you can launch three rockets in a tight circle or a wider field. I don't remember if that changed in UT3.

> 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.

The sniper rifle is deadly but you become a sitting duck so you have to hide well!

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

There are quite a few maps and map packs for the UT games. mapraider.com is a good source.

One of my favourites is a DM-Roughinery (from UT2004) remake for UT. It is pretty much the same map but for UT. It's very well done.

> 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.

When I log into steam with the native linux client I can only access games that run natively on linux, like the valve games.

In order to run UT3 I have to log into steam with the windows steam client under wine. I haven't used wine for many things but UT3 works well with it.

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