But you could hear him at 1:24 picking up Flak ammo. It's called "orienting by sound cues".

@@w3ltschmerz If I was the one playing, I probably would have guessed that he was picking up an ammo pack either there or somewhere else nearby, since the spatial audio isn't great in this game, but then again I'm not the legend that pulled off this run lol

I used ALAudio device at the time of the recording, it helped me with spatial sound orientation. Thank you for your comment 🙂

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No need. It was and still is great. It's just forgotten by the same company that developed it nearly 25 years ago. But it's not forgotten by us, the players.

@@w3ltschmerz Couldn't say that better. Thank you, my man.

Thank you for subscribing 🙂 Have a nice day.

Thank you, I appreciate comments like these. It's always nice to know my video had this kind of effect on someone. Good luck and good speed.

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Yes, you can. There are still plenty of servers for this game today: www.gametracker.com/search/ut/ Using GOG version and v469d patch here. Works fine. It worked fine for me with v436 patch as well. Check out some of this guy's tutorial videos if you still can't get it running online: www.youtube.com/@UT99/videos

It's not just aesthetics choice. I find that white crosshair is more difficult to overshadow by the surroundings. And the crosshair size should be convenient enough to shoot distant targets as well (now I use smaller dot compared to what you see in this run).

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Yes, they did. If you have Bonus Pack 1 installed (same as Epic Bonus Pack), then you're going to play Arcane, Malevolence and Shrapnel instead: unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_Single_player#Deathmatch_ladder_2

You thought right. Peak is the only map I was actually forced to camp to beat it (otherwise it would take eons in "Godlike no Deaths" scenario). The only reason I didn't mention it as the hardest map to beat in my video description is because you can easily camp it to win (using spam), otherwise it becomes virtually impossible to beat; all the other maps in the ladder are doable without camping, including three of the hardest maps I mentioned: DM-KGalleon, DM-ArcaneTemple, DM-Phobos. But if we're going to play Peak without camping ("Godlike no Deaths" challenge), it sure would become the hardest one (and the craziest one) to beat.

Да, были времена… Рубились в UT в начале далёких двухтысячных… Ну а на Галеоне застрять не зазорно - паскуднейшая карта. Сам каким-то "чудом" преодолел её для этого забега - 2 недели пытался. И повторять больше не хочется 🤪

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@@w3ltschmerz Ok, yes, you have right. I was drunk when I watched it.

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Unless you consider Flak altfire a shot!

Ok, trying to be self-critical here: just what exactly my "ignorance towards the Flak altfire" is? I used Flak alt pretty successfully in the game quite a few times, as anyone who carefully watched my video knows. Examples: 7:13, 7:50, 16:47, 21:36, 24:22, 28:28. Also (talking about ignorance), you're wrong: Bio Rifle alt (full charge) has even higher direct-impact damage in the game: "Charged BioRifle (at least 7 ammo) is sufficient enough to kill a player with 199 health and 150 armor". Flak is not able to do that. Links: unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Bio_Rifle#Unreal_Tournament unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Flak_Cannon#Unreal_Tournament

Damage is very random, sometimes direct hit from the alt fire is not enough to kill a bot with just 100 health, sometimes it kills them when they are 100 health, 100 armor.

True, but the point he made was about maximum possible damage. So that's what I addressed.

@@w3ltschmerz Oh, indeed, my bad. Pretty much forgot about it, as it takes ages to charge, and as I'm mostly doing SP now, Bio instantly feels like those short fast altfire taps :) Flak, though, does all that for no additional cost, so under ignorance I mean not using it constantly :) Say, I always keep Flak above all else in the priority list, and only do non-alt if forced(?) into close combat - only alt all the time otherwise :)

I understand. So it wasn't actually ignorance on your part (in traditional sense of the word, which is referring to the "lack of knowledge") but it wasn't ignorance in that sense on my part either ('cause I knew how Flak's secondary fire works and what damage it can accomplish). Of course, there was a context which suggested that by "ignorance" you meant something else, so that's what caused semantic confusion. But if we're going to define "ignorance" your way, then I also was "ignorant" towards the Impact Hammer (135 max damage using full primary charge), Bio Rifle (1 shot 1 kill using full alternative charge), Ripper (headshotting using primary fire), etc. Just like anyone else would who didn't use "constantly" (why should they?) any particular weapon and the firing mode of someone else's choice. Also, constant Flak alt wouldn't be very interesting to watch (unless you're addicted to it) and often it's not the best weapon of choice, especially considering more open-spaced maps against bots with hitscan weapons. It's pretty obvious to anyone who's ever played UT99 on a higher difficulties.

Yes, you can play UT99 online even today. Here are some useful instructional videos to get you started: www.youtube.com/@UT99/videos

Yeah, it's one of the most difficult (and annoying) maps in the ladder. Took me numerous attempts to beat it. Keep trying, you'll succeed.

@@w3ltschmerz This level is hard because map's control / camping are not evident, there have many unfair spawns and I think the visibility of somes portions of this map are bad, too dark. Not to mention that sometimes for a reason than I ignore, the 1rst bot of the match takes many kills anormaly quick and put me an insane pression.

Yes, it's not a very playable map to say the least. It's better than Galleon or Peak, that's for sure, but that's not saying much. Here you just try to control the main powerups such as Belt and Amp, keeping yourself away from the lower central parts of the map, where you're an open target. And if you've got one of the lower spawns, you're off to a really rough start 'cause you've been left without Belt, Armor or Amp. In "no-death" scenario (on a higher difficulties) that means you're pretty much screwed. If you're not controlling the map, it would be difficult to keep the score on Arcane in your favor - true. But you must play Phobos (Lightning Deathmatch) to fully appreciate what it means to play against the clock. It's insanely difficult to keep the pace out there and the bots will easily overtake your progress any moment leaving you behind. Tough as hell.

​@@w3ltschmerz I finally beat Arcane, flak cannon and sniper helped me so much for this level! I spend my time of the top to the map for picking the armor and flak munitions, I give up to count on the shock riffle because every time a bot pick up this weapon before me and I prefer the flak cannon for secure the upstairs. Yes the spawns in the low portions of this map are awful, you just have to pray for find the most quick possible a safe acces for the upper level of the map. Phobos, I remember, this level was hard even in Skilled difficulty, I don't imagine in Inhuman or God difficulty but I just want to say sometimes if you are unlucky the first bot can take kills very quickly and surprise you whatever the level.

Cool 🙂 Continue to your Tournament. Let me know how it goes 🙂

Why not! One would argue it's the most versatile UT99 weapon and the one which makes this game stand out from the rest. Of course, it's not all about Shock Rifle (for example, I didn't use it on Liandri at all) but it sure makes this game pretty much unique.

At least it pays off sometimes.

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Thank you for your kind comment, mate. Have a good one 🐱

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Interesting question. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure, but I would assume that bots do know your location at any given time.

What the hell are you talking about? 😄

@@w3ltschmerzthis is why I shouldn’t multitask. I was thinking about how stupid hero games are now yet I loved the comments UT characters had for one another in-game for dunking on others. It was and is awesome.

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Dude, it's too bad you haven't got a chance to play UT online, actually it's one of the best FPS multiplayer games to this day. Hope you got a chance to play it on LAN though. Godlike challenge is fun and demanding too (when it comes to single player) - nice to know you accomplished it.

@@w3ltschmerz if they ever make a mew UT it should have the most brutal campaign yet. Single Player Divisions: DEATHMATCH KING OF THE HILL (solo Classic Domination) LAST MAN STANDING MUTANT (2k3) BETRAYAL (UT3) RELIC WARS (no big power ups, only Relics from the Relic Mutator in UT99) HAZARD ARENA (Deathmatch plus Volatile Ammo and Weapons Mutators, PLUS every map is intentionally designed with a crazy trap or hazard; Pressure, Fractal, Deathfan, or simply maps with excessive water, high rise buildings, lots of fire/acid pools, high speed or low gravity, a single Vehicle in a non-vehicle team game map TITAN (UT3) TEAM GAMES: CLASSIC DOMINATION (with up to 4 teams) DOUBLE DOMINATION (2k4) CAPTURE THE FLAG VEHICLE CAPTURE THE FLAG BOMBING RUN INVASION ASSAULT ONSLAUGHT AKA WARFARE I'm sure there are many other brilliant ideas

Interesting thoughts. Although I'm not sure they'll ever make new UT at all. Everything they've done to the Unreal franchise indicates exactly the opposite. One can only hope.

@@w3ltschmerz a sad reality yes

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Not very efficient but at least it worked out. Didn't want to lose my challenge at that point, so I played safe for eleventh frag.

Yep, got lucky there. Another case was on the Galleon when I also got extremely lucky (ten HP): 30:23. But I played this damn map so many times that I should have got lucky at least once!

Not only Arthur Schopenhauer's fan but David Benatar's as well 👍😎 Much into ethics myself. Interestingly, you have a number of videos in some of your playlists that I have in my favorite list myself. Oh, you can speak to me in Russian if you want, it's my native language.

@@w3ltschmerz whoa are you also in any of the groups on telegram?

No, I'm not. If you want to contact me, you can do so by writing to my email address.

Indeed. And that's considering it's a tracker music.

Thank you. Today I use Logitech G403 (set to 1000 DPI); my in-game mouse sensitivity is set to 42.000000 (together with "MouseX=Axis aMouseX Speed=0.06" and "MouseY=Axis aMouseY Speed=0.06").

@@w3ltschmerz where did you get the mouseX and mouseY settings? i dont see them in the regular options?

It's in your User.ini file in the System catalog of your UT99 installation.

Meaning UT2004? Sorry, never been a fan of the later Unreal games. And we never got a chance to experience the full version of UT4, which Epic canceled in 2017. What a shame.

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You've understood everything correctly. unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Minigun - it says the following: "Secondary Fire Minigun is 1.43 times more fast and half as accurate".

@@w3ltschmerz Oh, lol TIL 🤣

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Thanks mate. Keep practicing, you'll get better. I've played UT since it's release, so my experience contributed to my "insanity" 😉

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For the audio device, I use ALAudio. First you need to download and install oalinst.exe from openal.software.informer.com/download/ Second download and install OldUnreal multimedia patch (OMP-UT-V0.2) from www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unrealtournament/multimedia-patches/ Third open your UnrealTournament.ini and write "AudioDevice=ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem" in the "[Engine.Engine]" category. Set the settings of "[ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem]" according to your liking. Here you go. Hope this helps.

thanks man! , will try this right now, and thanks for responding so quickly you are so loyal to the community < 3

My pleasure. Let me know if it works for you.

yeah it worked but when i get a kill it doesn't tell me "headshot" or "first blood" besides that it works fine

Are you saying that the announcer stopped working? Pretty strange. Did it work all right before? Check for your announcer volume in your audio settings. Here's my ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem settings just in case (I use v451 of the game): [ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem] UseAutoSampleRate=False OutputRate=44100Hz bSoundAttenuate=True UseDigitalMusic=True EffectsChannels=64 MusicVolume=64 SoundVolume=64 SampleRate=44100Hz ALDevices=DefaultDevice UseOriginalUnreal=True UseReverb=True ReverbIntensity=1.000000 Channels=64 DopplerFactor=0.000000 AmbientFactor=0.500000 OldReverbIntensity=1.000000 EmulateOldReverb=False

It's about time someone called or implied me being a cheater again 😄 If one can't read that's not my problem. Not going to justify myself, although I could met your challenge without too much of a trouble. There's no incentive for me to do that though, so I'm not gonna do that. But I gotta say I was surprised the way Xan missed his important shots at the HyperBlast - he was usually on point with his hitscan aim during other few matches I failed there. Happens sometimes too.

Pretty sure Loque in the Campaign (DM-Malevolence) is different from Loque in practice matches. Loque in practice matches has Camping set to 0, meanwhile campaign Loque based on my experience very often starts camping next to Sniper, Shock or Pulse.

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One of the most beautiful comments on my video ever 👍😉

Finally my philosophy minor degree pays of! Nah, just kidding. But when it comes to insults, Schopenhauer is king!@@w3ltschmerz

"But when it comes to insults, Schopenhauer is king!" - have no idea what you're talking about. Unless you're one of those people who consider truth to be an insult. Schopenhauer was not politically correct, I'll give you that. And for that he has my deepest respects. There's enough bullshit as it is. Anyway, it's a gaming video, not a philosophy one.

I'm sorry, but I'm not planning to do Assault in the foreseeable future. You can still watch lobo's AS run without deaths. Links are in the video description.

Thanks, glad you liked it. As for Peak, never in a million years would I have thought anyone would like that match. I was pretty much forced to camp all the way in that room to beat it. Otherwise there is pretty much no chance not to die at least once.

😎 I remember watching Quake III Arena WCG 2002 games, and there was a really skilled player by the nickname of "Socrates". So it's not unheard of that some FPS players choose nicknames of such kind. But you can call me "Weltschmerz" if you like, that's my usual nickname 😉

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