Grunt wrote on 2022-05-25, 17:44:
For years I lived in delusion. I thought UT1 was open source for years.
Sadly not. id Software did very generously release the Quake 3 source code (and did the same for other Quake and Doom games), and so some good freeware third party games were made using the Q3 engine, such as Open Arean, and World of Padman, but these never appealed to me as to me they play too fast, I'm an Unreal Tournament man through and through, rather than a Quake 3 man. I'm just one of the 50% (or whatever the true figure is) of gamers who preferred Unreal Tournament* to Quake 3.
So I hoped that the UT engine (in UT99) might also be released, so modders could release standalone games using UT99's superb gameplay mechanics, but sadly it never happened (I even e-mailed Epic, but never received a reply). Still, both UT99 and UT2004 have so many great mods, levels (maps), mutators, etc, that I am happy just to keep replaying those two games. And to this day, I haven't played another PC arena shooter that (to my mind) Is better than those games, as ancient as they are now.
* By 'Unreal Tournament' I mean both the 1999 game, and Unreal Tournament 2004, I'm not too bothered about UT 2003, or UT 3 as to me UT2003 and UT 3 are inferior to UT99 and UT 2004, so I don't play them.