welcome back!
not many "old" players you know still playing, a handfull
newer "old" players play nearly everday some hours,
but mostly around 2-4am "european time"..
3 of your maps, long hall, boomin, dinkdankdunk still available
and played every now and then...
you going to create new ones??? (mobster is out of time and ideas ;-) )
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@mobster: the megapack is huge and includes the 3369-patch, but dunno
if all the ons/assault-maps etc are needed to play here ?!?
@goth: i think it was around 2006/2007 when she left, not sure if all these shields
existed that time, guess she needs much more input about all the new stuff
gameplay:
basic intro (but a bit outdated because some pu´s dont work anymore like in the infos)
about most of the old still existing powerups you find here: (scroll down to the pu´s)
http://www.gamingmadness.org/forum/view ... =10&t=1167
some of the old powerups and artifacts were removed from the game due to
causing problems or still need to be bugfixed. the new powerups/artifacts
are more or less self-explaining.
most changing part is, we have classes now, if you click on a class in the
abilitys, press the infobutton and read how they work (ingame).
you can try them all, but in case you start new as level 30 (not lvl10 like back in time)
i recommend chose the more important things first. well... it can be important
too to survive longer, so a good beginner class would be the one where you can spawn
a bunker-like box around you every x minutes (its disappearing after x minutes).
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to your questions:
if you need to use the cd to play i guess you made a fresh install with no patches?
dont know on what system you play, xp, win7-10, linux,
here is a site with the normal v3369-patch, also with a
linux and 64-bit-version (scroll down to "related downloads")
http://www.fileplanet.com/140688/140000 ... atch-v3369
if you dont want every month download all stuff from server
again and again, because ut2k4 deletes cache contents by default
every 30 days or so, go into your ut2k4/system-folder.
search for a file called "ut2004.ini" (NOT the user.ini!)
open the file in notepad, for example.
search the following lines:
[Core.System]
PurgeCacheDays=???
dont remember what default setting is, maybe 10, 15, 30 or such.
change it to 3650 and it deletes cachefiles every 10 years...
someone told me, changing it to "0" will never delete any cache.files,
but i never tried that.
as an alternative, if you want keep the downloaded files, but in the correct
folders, you need a cache extractor, that moves from server
downloaded maps and other files into these ut2k4-folders.
i just tried, many links are broken, this is one of last
working downloadable and also REALLY WORKING version:
https://gamefront.online/files/9061957/ ... tor210.zip
if you join classic server, then disconnect and you want try to connect
with new server (or vice versa) WITHOUT QUITTING and restarting ut2k4,
you will allways get a version mismatch with some files. (mostly if i
remember right its because of 2 different xeffects6-files)
if its other files for example with the patch number 180 or 181 in its name
(or 179 for classic server) you also might to delete them manually
from the ut2k4/system-folder, in case you dont find them in cache folder.
also, if you cant connect and the mismatch version is an old map you have,
it might be its fixed here but not renamed, you need to delete the old map, too.
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downloading server-files
if you want try both servers and dont like long loadingtimes, here
is a zip-file with most of the biggest 179-files. might be some small
files still needed, but they dont need 2 hours to load...
(BE CAREFULL HITTING THE CORRECT DOWNLOAD-BUTTON!!!)
(its the dark blue one with an arrow in a cloud!!)
http://www.file-upload.net/download-119 ... s.zip.html
and here 2 zips with the 180-files:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-119 ... s.zip.html
http://www.file-upload.net/download-119 ... 2.zip.html
(its not a splitted zip-file, i called it part 2 cause i forgot 3 files)
when you unzip these files, you need to move them manually
into the correct folders:
*.ukx-files into ut2k4/animations
*.uax-files into ut2k4/sounds
*.usx-files into ut2k4/staticmeshes
*.utx-files into ut2k4/textures
*.u-files into ut2k4/system
i made some mappacks some years ago, but the links are not valid anymore.
regular maps should not be problem to download from redirect server, some new
maps take a bit longer. when i have time i make new uploads with these mappapcks.
but cant do that untill coming weekend..
ok, hope that helps so far, if theres more trouble, feel free to ask.
ats
p.s.: your old name deadly_kisses still exist in this forum!