Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free to download from the Internet Archive. Epic Games is said to have given its blessing for this positive step for game preservation.
I saw a comment the other day claiming Epic shut down the servers for Unreal and UT and I was really confused by that considering the servers for those games were never ran by Epic in the first place. Players host their own in those. Like all multiplayer games other than MMORPGs back in the day.
games that offer the option to self-host dedicated servers often have a central “master” server. dedicated servers advertise themselfs to the master server and clients can ask the master server for a list of servers. might be that the comment was talking about a server like that.
the master server for ut 2k4 that was run by epic had to be replaced by one from the community for two years now for example.
As someone who played a lot of U2:XMP back in the day, I can confirm this is the case. Honestly I’m not sure why Epic killed their master servers, since it seems like something that can run on a toaster in a supply closet, but good that it was relatively easy for the community to reverse engineer and adopt.
I saw a comment the other day claiming Epic shut down the servers for Unreal and UT and I was really confused by that considering the servers for those games were never ran by Epic in the first place. Players host their own in those. Like all multiplayer games other than MMORPGs back in the day.
games that offer the option to self-host dedicated servers often have a central “master” server. dedicated servers advertise themselfs to the master server and clients can ask the master server for a list of servers. might be that the comment was talking about a server like that.
the master server for ut 2k4 that was run by epic had to be replaced by one from the community for two years now for example.
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all ut games have community run master servers thread at ut99.org
As someone who played a lot of U2:XMP back in the day, I can confirm this is the case. Honestly I’m not sure why Epic killed their master servers, since it seems like something that can run on a toaster in a supply closet, but good that it was relatively easy for the community to reverse engineer and adopt.