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by radiic 1 view

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Its come to my attention that some of us here like to play Unreal Tournament ( i put the name for people that dont know what UT stood for) I just found the game about a month ago due to a good friend on TR. Yes LordInfidel. After reading a reply toa thread that was going around a while ago I decieded to plug the letters UT into my trusty google search engine. Low and behold I found it. http://www.unrealtournament.com

I quickly D/L the evaluation version and then went to best buys that night and bought the game. I am hooked and love to play online. I have scoured the net and have found good tips here and there, but there is nothing better than sharing with some real experts.

I figured that we could share some good tips,tricks and whatnots, like favorite servers to use.

Ill start. Being a newbie to UT I finally figured out that I could right click a server and add it to my favorites tab. Simple trick yes. But when your new to the game and concentrating on getting your frags up, its a tip that will save you some time. Sometimes the simple tricks are the best ones.

Looking forward to the comments.

Rad

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by radiic

But we can post things like How our users are idiots and Lots of humorous stuff. Do you think thats appropriate? Its not like I am asking for the crack for UT. I was just asking for Tips and Stuff.

This is a discussion area...is it not>?

by lordinfidel

As any SysAdmin knows,

1st Person Shooter games (like UT and HalfLife) are mandatory for our survival.

I would not trust any admin who is not willing to discuss, make references to or stop and play UT during the workday in an blatent attempt to avoid work and users.
(~BOFH~)

I myself have been playing UT when the CEO has walked into the NOC and not cared.

This is the discussion area. And sinces gaming is kind of technical, especially UT. And since UT is a time honored pastime of SysAdmins, much like baseball and apple pie to us americans.

Not only should it be discussed, but embraced and cherished for all time.

~RAMPAGE~

by radiic

I agree totally. When ever someone walks in my office and sees me playing a little UT or Halflife they say what are you doing. My patent answer is "TESTING THE NETWORK" this game pings other servers and the lower the ping rate the better our network is running. And the better i can frag other players.

A little gameing is part of Sys Admins job. It hones our mouse and keyboard skills. =>

by tomsal

haha.. I'm glad someone reply to that first post fast. Games, while maybe not what TR had in mind when they made this discussion forums are a hell of a lot more relavant to technology then many posts of seen on here through the 10 months or so I've been coming to the site (I'm really not sure how long I've been coming here I know its been a while though).

And though this one may really get some hard nosed anal CIOs in a a hissy fit, but guess what is STILL the most demanding application on aPC/Server? Database, nope. Cad - close, but no cigar (believe it or not), spreadsheets - wrong again. Two mags did tests on this in years past (I just remember facts like this - don't ask why)..remember a mag called PC Computing? How about Computer Gaming World? They are both ZD pubs. Anyway its GAMES I tell you GAMES... No single application pushes hardware to the brink so continuiously (if my spellings wrong - I really don't care, long day..too tired) than games. In particular dedicated servers that host 3d shooters - they are more taxed than any SQL Server or even Oracle PC server (now you must compare apples to apples don't tell me your million dollar AS400 for a 30,000 employee company works harder than a 1.3 ghz PC serving Tribes 2, um...DUH! but apples to apples the gaming box works MUCH harder).

Anyway my UT skills have fallen down a bit, since I've moved on to Counter Strike, then Max Payne, Red Faction and now I'm hooked on Return to Castle Wolfenstein where I'm still learning the maps.

Guys...seriously man..if you guys like UT - GIVE Wolfenstein a try! It's AWESOME in multiplay!

by rdschaefer

Ok, Ok, I'll cry Uncle. I submit to the will of the majority.
Only once in my career have I been able to play - I mean test - while at work. When Quake first came out, four of us chipped in and bought it, installed it on a hidden vol and 'tested'during lunch. Every other place I've been, the mgt has been too uptight.

Ralph

by lordinfidel

Keep moving.... It's the most important one of them all. Never stop moving......

Right click on a weapon will produce some nice effects.
1. Rocket launcher loads up rockets for tossing.
2. Ripper sends exploding razors.
3. Pulse gun sends stun ray that is devastating.

Hone in on someone with the rocket launcher until the red light comes on (looks like a bullseye) Then fire. The bullseye locks on to a person and the rocket will follow them.

The redeemer will kill you if fired in a closed room. Be wary of it. But holding down the right click (or is it the left) you can guide the missle.

Download as many maps as you can. Basically maps, mods, voice packs and textures are pretty easy to install. Just extract themor unzip them and put them in the appropiate system directory. It's that easy.

by tomsal

Actually....

Theoretically you could just say that UT is testing hardware.

Let's face it - with the killer graphics (not to mention many resolution modes) and the cards it supports - test 1: Video Card

Then the whole network thing, right there's a no brainer...- test 2: Network Card

Then we have sound cards, you know executives and secretaries will die if their PCs don't say "You've got mail!"...test 3: Sound card.

Then there's also the stress relieve theory, hey they don't let postal workers play games...oh I mean ... run tests with UT, and look what they do! LOL

-later

by lordinfidel

My buddy downloaded the multiplayer version, and since my laptop is a piece of crap for gaming; my cheap ass integrated nvidia chip won't support castle wolfenstein.

I have heard really great things about the new release. I have not had time to play it yet at work.

(Big fan though of the original; 15 years ago on an apple 2e, actually blew up hitler)

I wonder if you can get that version anywhere for pc.

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