Levels-4-You No UT2003 - UT2004 Network Compatibility
Posted Jan 20th, 08:23pm by Equinox Modified Jan 20th, 08:24pm by Equinox
Epic's Tim Sweeney mailed the UT2003Mods mailing list with the following news:
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Networking won't work between UT2003 and UT2004. We had initially planned to support that, but the network code has changed so much in order to reduce bandwidth, support vehicles, and increase performance, that we couldn't keep the two games network-compatible.
Originally, a patch was going to be issued to allow UT2004 players to play on UT2003 servers. This change will also probably affect mod compatibility.
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RED-FROG
Posted 20th Jan 2004 9:17pm
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Hm they have to do changes on the mods, if the patch releases. (which would be great when it would increase the network performance on UT2003 also)
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Kyouryuu
Posted 21st Jan 2004 3:57pm
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Although there are valid technical reasons for this, as well as economic ones, it seems this would only splinter an already shrinking gaming community.