UT2004 Released!

Riftwing · Apprentice Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 293

UT2004 Retail was released today. Does anyone have it yet? Also have they ended up giving discounts to those who bought UT2003?

Zepp · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 6:02 am Post subject:

I have it but haven't tried to play it yet. Looks intense though probably can't even run it

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Imek · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject:

I have it pre-ordered, but in the UK we have to wait until the 19th :evil:

.. I still can't wait though, I've played the demo to death and want all the maps/vehicles/weapons.
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Mr-Pope · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 5

I bought it on Sunday, I think the store sold it too me too early. Unfortunately it crashes occasionally and it has pretty poor performance. There's probably some tweaking that I can do.

Boricacid · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject:

I pre-ordered the special edition from Amazon.ca but since I placed the order, the special edition disappeared from their website, but still shows up in my order.. fishy. I just hope I'll get it on dvd, I am not interested in 6 cds...

If these people dont mention it's shipped by tonight I am storming a store to get a copy dammit! :twisted:

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Moofed · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject:

I ordered my SE from gamestop.com and after (seemingly) endless screwups about the shipping (they said it shipped last Thur.) it should be here within 3 hours.

cartman| · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 50 Location: southpark

I hope it will contain a linux installer with an upgrade option so that my 987 maps will work under ut2004 too, as they have promised it

snakattak3 · Guru Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 468 Location: Seattle

Whoohoo. I just bought it. Had to drive around to a few stores to get it though. There's no special edition in the stores, so I just got the regular version. Its on 6 cds

, and the install takes about 5gigs. Gonna play in about 20 minutes.
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Riftwing · Apprentice Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 293

Regular retail is 6 cds? ouch

nbensa · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 12:28 am Post subject:

6 CDs!!!!??????

C'mon!!! It's just a game!

Minxit · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 1

I got the special edition for the same price as the regular ($39.99), and that all comes on one dvd, much better. But...i installed it fine, and then when i goto start it the splash screen comes up....and then goes away. And nothing else happens. It's being shown as running, but...it's not! I can't figure it out! Arg.

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semiSfear · Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 302 Location: Adelaide, SA

Just for the record. Does the 6CD release (or DVD release) contain a linux installer?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just looked at linuxgames.com and the first thing I see is a screenshot of the UT2k4 linux installer, wohooo

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Riftwing · Apprentice Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 293

What is on the "Special Edition" version besides just being a dvd instead of 6 cd's anyway?

Garak128 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 93

6 CD's? omfg i gota get a DVD-rom already.

Thats insane, I mean it better have lotsa videos with it for that size. But at 100+ maps its almost justified. 100 maps... could never play them all.

Developers have to invest in compression tho, just because they can make games huge, doesn't mean they should. 5gbs means i can install maybe 10 games tops. Where N64 had games that were as little as 8MB, that had better graphics, sounds, everything then tons of playstation games that took 4 CD's.

Getting the game tomorow, guess it's time to delete some junk.

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 596 Location: USA

yeah, 5.5GB is way too much. And I thought UT2003 was bad requiring 3.5GB...

I just picked up a copy at Best Buy today. Had it on sale for only $30. Very sweet deal. The box even mentions that Linux support is included (unlike UT2003), although it says technical support is not provided for Linux. Fair enough, as long as I get to play the game...

However, I can't get the damn thing installed! It keeps failing with this, on Disc 2:

snakattak3 · Guru Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 468 Location: Seattle

Damnit! I'm getting errors already. Got it installed, but every once in a while it just crashes for no reason. I had no such problems with the demo. Where can I file a bug report? Heres the error

Evil Dark Archon · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:00 am Post subject:

http://bugzilla.icculus.org for bug reports, and the dvd special edition has on the second dvd some tutorial videos on how to play and mod ut2004.
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neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

works fine here. no errors.

semiSfear · Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 302 Location: Adelaide, SA

Why is everyone (almost everyone) complaining about that the game takes up 5,5 GB of space? Today harddrives are so cheap, and they are making em larger and larger, capacity wise

I mean I don't know anyone that has a harddrive that is less than 60 GB

Anyway, I am not ranting here, just thinking out loud I guess. If you have to complain on something then I'm gonna complain about burning those damn 6 CD's. Not all got a DVD-RW. That if you don't buy the game :wink:

But then again who burns these day, doesn't all got plenty of space?

Just:

d3c3it · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject:

wow i didnt know there was a rebate, hmm only 1week till pay day, hmm time to buy it me thinks.

i wasnt sure that there was support for linux for it, sweet
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snerfu · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject:

I picked up my copy of UT 2004 last night, after having played the demo for several days. I got the 6 CD version(1-5 install cd's and a play cd). There was a card included in the box, that you could fill out and send in with the original cover of the UT 2003 manual to get the $10 rebate.

The game was quit easy to install and worked right off the bat for me. It is a slight hassle changing out all those CD's though, and ends up being around 5.5 gig. I have not tried out the voice chat with it though yet, or measured any frame rates or anything. Maybe I will post that later.

On the box itself it states that it runs on linux, but is unsupported. Even has a little penguin on the back of the box with all the other logos.

cirofren · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject:

It doesn't come out here (Australia) until Friday, I can't wait.

syowr · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 2

I was going to get SE, but its sold-out everywhere it seems.
So does anyone know what is a good alternative headset to use for the VOIP features?