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Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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473 points chocmake | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 03:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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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1. hyperman1 ◴[20 Nov 24 10:17 UTC] No.42192460[source]▶
In a LAN party, we hacked a mutator together from code scraps of other mutators. It replaced all weapons with the green one, modified to replace the bullet stream of little plasma balls with a stream of redeemer rockets.

Turns out, if a redeemer rocket flys over, sound frequency goes slightly lower. If a few 100s of these fly over, sound frequency goes rock bottom, making the announcer say stuff like: Monsterkiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuooorrgglllll. And then the whole level explodes because hundreds of redeemers tend to set each other off in a chain reaction

Fun times.