Unreal's Return Is A Win For Preservation

Rare Epic W.

Im playing Ut 99 with steam :D o bought it at 99 cent 😊

I don't understand why only Unreal Tournament 1999 and not the first Unreal 1998 or Gold 1999 on video
Does that mean Unreal1 is meaningless to you? @java java

Always UT99, Always UT99.... 😢

You thought I was gone forever?

i remember some ppl were trying to bring back unreal 4 (the newest one) any news on that?

Yes! Let Mortal Kombat begin!

Downloaded it I just want to know now how to add mods but umods doesn't work anymore ?

Community took care of the other games, and 2004 for example there are still a hand full of used servers.
At this point epic might as well f off, the community had to pick it out of the trash after epic tossed the entire franchise for fortnite server cap.
I would rather have them fuck off

If this is an attempt by Epic to "win back" some goodwill from us players, then I gotta be honest, it's working a little. Still mad about the other games being unavailable, but they didn't have to release these again for free

Never liked multiplayer. Always sucked at it, and I enjoy progressing through a good narrative. That being said, I loved the original Unreal (single player)

This is great news, however they did not histed anything right? They just gave the permission for the community to legally host the already uploaded files, right?

The one and only thing Evil Epic finally did partially right.

I wish 2004 was even purchasable.

I could hear the music and sound effects of the gameplay.

Unreal 4 Ever! ❤

Hey Jawa,

Thanks for sharing the news, appreciated. 😊

Too bad game is dead and filled with bots unless you find people who wanna play on discord, just like any Arena Shooter. Unless you live in Europe, for some reason american gamers hate arena shooters more than any other country.

WTF are you talking about, UT99 is for sale on GOG has been for over 10 years. 😂

I hope Unreal 2 and UT2004 will also be available.

I find it strange how this video mentions Unreal is free but on oldunreal has zero news on the main page? ( it's still good news Unreal is available )

Nice!

At this point they should stop calling it the Unreal Engine and call it the Fortnite Engine if they're never gonna make another Unreal game

Ha Ha Ha! Oh Yeah! You Suck! You like that? Just by seeing this gameplay, i want to start playing Unreal Tournament again.

This game was so addicting. Normal Weapons and Instagib in DM, TDM, CTF. Good times. 😎👍

Whereas at Valve the original Half-Life and Half-Life 2 still get updates over 20 years later. Unreal was a fine game back in its day and would have deserved a company that cared.

Awesome! My UT clan used to host our own server for UT, UT2k4 and UT3Black but shut it down last year due to cost and lack of players due to it being impossible to buy the game any more.

UT AND QUAKE 4 LIFE!

I remember purchasing Unreal at Mediaplay in the late 90s and it was quite an experience. As I recall, i bought unreal gold on steam and I thought unreal was still on steam?

The problem is that UT99 doesnt have NAT integration so you have to mess around with port forwarding to play an online DM with friends, to the point that everyone gives up. If it had a Steam integration with Steam servers where you could just host and connect to a server like in Half Life 1, that would be massive.

What i would give to have UT3 back

I want someone to do to Unreal what Crowbar Collective did with Half-Life when they made Black Mesa.

Luckily for me, I already own all the Unreal games ever released, but despite this step, I will NEVER forgive Epic for what they did, to UT series (including 4), but also Paragon (for which they originally started killing UT, ironically).

Brother! YES! This is exactly what we want, what a glorious victory. I couldn't get UT99 to work and now I'm downloading it right now.

I would like to play some matches with you if you are down

Community unreal matches?

Unreal news is the news I need

this is how every company should handle legacy games that they don't want to support anymore

I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA!

This is awesome news. I own original CD copies of those games and I start them up occasionally, but it’s great for people that never had a chance to play these classics.

I know somebody from Nightdive Studios, which is a developer that remasters old PC games, and I asked about the Unreal series once. They told me that Nightdive has been asking Tim Sweeny for a license for years now, but for some reason he's very stubborn and protective of the rights. He's not interested in selling the original versions at retail, he's not interested in remasters, I don't understand him. I love traditional PC shooters, the Half-Life series is what got me into first-person shooters, I've played through all of Id Software's old games, although I've yet to try Unreal. For some time now I thought the only way to play the Unreal games was to either find boxed copies on eBay or yo-ho-ho on the internet. Now if this website has received Epic's blessing then this is a great first step in the right direction. Accessibility is part of what keeps an old piece of software alive so that new people like myself can experience it. I have a friend who has a low-end laptop and is looking to get into PC gaming, I'll show him this and maybe he can get into the series as well.

Havn't seen an official Epic announcement, this sounds like a strong "Trust me bro" by OldUnreal. And it's better to get the versions of GOG anyways, they're out there as well.

cant fucking believe that 2 days ago I saw that you couldn't play this anymore only to be right on time for it's comeback, wtf

I have the whole collection on Steam, bought it long before they were delisted, luckily.

Ubisoft: takes note
Hahaha, for sure! Get out!~

I still have my physical copy of Unreal Tournament, works fine on modern systems.
BUT THIS IS AWESOME! I love this! Hell yeah! Game Preservation score! \o/
Now if I could only get someone to make me a single player mod so I can play as the female robots in campaign.. ;;

Old is gold

The game is a lot of fun. Personally I think UT99 is the best version of UT. It only lacks a bit quality of life in some areas. For example the netcode and anti-cheat could be improved and I really liked the HUB system from UT4. A faithful UT99 remaster with modern graphics, a responsive gamefeel and some additions like ranked modes for CTF, TDM, Duel and Battle Royale would be amazing

I personally think with the release of the secret level episode on Unreal Tournament, on amazon in December I think we are in for a resurgence of Unreal. I can not wait to see what happens with it after that episode. Maybe Epic has something up their sleeves. Why would they update the 1999 intro to a modern day? My fingers are crossed we might be in for a treat.

What would make my day is an applicable patch for the old Unreal Engine games, so I could install my old Harry Potter games and just play them 😅

i played UT4 a bit recently (4 is the newest one, just called UT)

I. AM. SO. EXCITED.
HOLYSHITT 🥲 These games are my childhood.

Played through a little bit of the campaign two years ago. It is one of the most fun FPS of all time. Just as fun as it was back in 1999.