Subj : Retro shooters
To   : Al
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Mar 04 2022 12:53:09

  Re: Retro shooters
  By: Al to Nightfox on Fri Mar 04 2022 10:39 am

 >> 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?

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

I don't remember a grenade launcher in UT, but now I seem to remember the original UT would let you load up to 5 rockets, and it seemed they decreased that to 3 for UT3.

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

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

That's cool that UT3 runs under Wine.

Nightfox
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