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Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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466 points chocmake | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 03:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.282s | source
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magicalhippo ◴[20 Nov 24 04:48 UTC] No.42190903[source]▶
Unreal Tournament multiplayer with mutators[1] was awesome fun, like the one that made the player avatar grow bigger when the player scored a kill, and vice versa.

It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept. Being able to easily tweak the gameplay mixed it up and added extra challenge or fun.

[1]: https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Mutator

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duskwuff ◴[20 Nov 24 05:04 UTC] No.42190970[source]▶
> It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept.

The terminology didn't catch on, but the idea is out there. Compare "game modes" in Overwatch, for example:

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/22938941/introduci...

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mylons ◴[20 Nov 24 06:16 UTC] No.42191241[source]▶
overwatch is essentially the anti-UT. there’s no simplicity, just complexity and toxicity.
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1. duskwuff ◴[20 Nov 24 08:39 UTC] No.42191887[source]▶
Not saying it's a good game (or otherwise), just saying the idea's out there.