Is this game still worth buying?

[hayley]

^ Title.

[DO NOT ADD]

Yes. Best UT ever, say no more. That alone makes it worth buying. Still a bit of an online community as well.

[hayley]

Alright, thanks.

[Thaine Of Iver]

Yep! And hell, even bot matches are good. Honestly, I've not played a whole lot online (save LAN games), and I've been playing for years. Between intense bot matches and the modding community, there's more than enough to keep you entertained.

[WHIPperSNAPper]

I'm a huge UT99 fan. But really, it's not worth buying at this point. The servers are pretty empty and what is around are heavily experienced players playing all sorts of esoteric mods, if there are any players at all.

Now for the good news -- a NEW UT game is in development -- and it's going to be FREE -- and you can play it today! Get the UT4 pre-alpha. It's already fun and very playable.

http://www.UnrealTournament.com

[EnricoM]

Yes yes yes. One of the best playable fraggers. While online activity isn't booming anumore, it's wonderfully playable even with and against bots.

[Gata]

Don't listen to @WHIPperSNAPper. S/He likes to discourage people.
This is a fine game with the best of UT, imo.
Plus you can install it even on your toaster and take it to your friends' house for a LAN party.

[WHIPperSNAPper]

Origineel geplaatst door Rapha:

Don't listen to @WHIPperSNAPper. S/He likes to discourage people.
This is a fine game with the best of UT, imo.
Plus you can install it even on your toaster and take it to your friends' house to a LAN party.

If your goal is to play the game in online multiplayer with human players, would you be able to do that with UT99? Let's suppose I wanted to play regular weapons CTF. Could I find populated servers for that at most hours of the day? (By populated, I mean servers with real human players, not some server where the admin faked the player count so that their server shows 18 people online in the server browser but is actually empty when you join.)

[Gata]

Origineel geplaatst door WHIPperSNAPper:

If your goal is to play the game in online multiplayer with human players, would you be able to do that with UT99?

Stop whining and trying to make people choose what you want.
Just go, play your precious UT4 and leave us alone. It's a fresh and "free" game, as you seem to care about it.

GameRanger, GameMaster and Evolve have plenty of people paying. Even dedicated servers.
The day I bought this game (few days ago) I got destroyed by people playing online. A full team deathmatch small map room (no bots) 6x6.
Also, the "Internet" tab here seems pretty populated:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/helpfulrapha/screenshot/397799405597689362

[WHIPperSNAPper]

Origineel geplaatst door Rapha:

Just go, play your precious UT4 and leave us alone. It's a fresh and "free" game, as you seem to
care about it.

Rapha, you do realize that the future of UT is UT4, right? It's where the player base is going to go and where the action and development is going to be. It's looking great, so we should all embrace it. You make it sound like you dislike UT4?

This thread is about whether or not UT99 is worth buying. People reading this thread are going to want honest opinions as to the state of UT99. I love Unreal Tournament and played the heck out of UT99, and at this point it's best for people who are new to the franchise to just come to UT4.

[Gata]

It took you two days to come up with a generic reply?
"It's the future" is NOT an answer.

UT99 is still worth not because it's "next gen graphics future of gaming now free to play pay to win". It's worth because it's fun. It does not have issues running on anything (it runs on my netbook - 1.6Gh - at 30 fps!). It's lightweight and easy to set up a LAN (or VPN - Evolve / Hamachi) party. It's cheap. Every single UT gives the same amount of fun as any of them. The only BIG difference are the graphics. The only one I didn't play is this new one (for being in development). And THAT's what OP need to know.

You're not comming up with real arguments you're based only on "it's new" and "it's free".
That's why I'm ignoring your next answers. You're just going from here to there discouraging people. That's sad. Shame on you.
Have a good day.

[WHIPperSNAPper]

Origineel geplaatst door Rapha:

You're not comming up with real arguments you're based only on "it's new" and "it's free".

I provided an excellent reason to avoid spending money on UT99 and you completely ignored it or failed to respond.

If your goal is to play the game in online multiplayer with human players, would you be able to do that with UT99? Let's suppose I wanted to play regular weapons CTF. Could I find populated servers for that at most hours of the day? (By populated, I mean servers with real human players, not some server where the admin faked the player count so that their server shows 18 people online in the server browser but is actually empty when you join.)

How difficult is it to comprehend that the problem is that there isn't anyone to play the game with? Maybe there's some DM action out there, but for CTF it's basically dead.

[Thaine Of Iver]

Rapha's point is that, while there is a new game out there, this game, in itself, is still more than worth buying. While, yes, multiplayer is said to be next to dead, the game is so damn good all on its own.

I think OP and everyone else should also get a taste of UT4 and see what it has to offer as well, but that's up to the player. I personally love UT4. I love all the UT games, quite honestly. I'd be scared to see all of the hours that I put into these games outside of the Steam versions xD

That aside, this isn't an "A" OR "B" situation. You can choose both. And to argue about the integrity of any UT game is honestly ridiculous, if you ask me. They all, regardless of internet connectivity or match availability, are completely stable and worth quite a damn bit all on their own. But that's not everyone's opinion, is it? Others might prefer to have that connectivity to other players, but I wouldn't let that start a flame war between another person and myself.

So why do you?

[Brandon]

I would wait for a sale, or just buy the Unreal Anthology on eBay for $10. It includes Unreal Tournament, Unreal Gold, Unreal 2, and UT2004. This game doesn't use unique CD keys, so it will work just fine. UT2004 does use a unique key so it might not work online if someone else is using it, but all of the other games should be fine as well. Whatever the case, the anthology is a better deal than paying $10 just for UT99 on Steam.

However, I haven't tried using the steam overlay with the non-Steam version so I can't say how well it works.

[WHIPperSNAPper]

At one time the Unreal Anthology was selling for $2. It might be worth a shot to look for it on eBay, but you'd probably want a new version so that the UT 2004 key will work.

[Brandon]

Origineel geplaatst door WHIPperSNAPper:

At one time the Unreal Anthology was selling for $2. It might be worth a shot to look for it on eBay, but you'd probably want a new version so that the UT 2004 key will work.

Yeah I bought a copy on eBay for $5 when my disk got ruined. Didn't use the key that came with it though, but I'd imagine it probably works as long as the person who had it before didn't post it online somewhere.