Unreal Tournament (PC, 1999)

Unreal Tournament
Developers: Epic Games, Digital Extremes, Westlake Interactive (Mac OS Classic) Publishers: GT Interactive (Windows), MacSoft (Mac OS Classic) Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic, Linux (unsupported) Released in US: November 30, 1999 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

Unreal Tournament is Unreal with a focus on multiplayer and a lot of mods and custom levels.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Unused Skins Very different skins for the Necris characters and earlier versions of the Blood Reavers skins!

Unused Textures Lots of unused textures are hiding in UT99. NSFW content inside!

Leftover Unreal Content

EVERYTHING from the original Unreal is included in UT, except for the maps and music. Code, monsters, sounds, weapons, models... all present, accounted for, and fully operational. This seems to be a holdover of UT originally being developed as an Unreal expansion pack, and kept as an easy way to provide backwards compatibility with old DM maps and mods, a resource for mod makers, and due to Epic being lazy and reusing the same engine.

Unused HUD Elements

UDamage Icon

A very early UDamage icon can be found in botpack.u. The icon is shaped like the HUD icons in Unreal. The UDamage itself is interesting, as it uses a texture not seen in the final game. Instead of being gold, the center of the UDamage is red, while the rim of it is a brown-ish stone texture. This icon, along with the UDamage design, can be found in Botpack220, making it a very early leftover.

Antigrav Boots

An early Antigrav Boots HUD icon can also be found in botpack.u. The icon uses Unreal 's Jump Boot icon, but has a blue background instead of Unreal's dark stone texture as a background. It can be found in Botpack220's files.

Green and Gold Flag Icons

Icons for green and gold team flags are in botpack.u. These seem to suggest that there was supposed to be green and gold teams available in CTF at one point. Like the previous HUD textures, these can be found in Botpack220's files. However, as of Version 222, which is a fairly early prototype, there isn't any support for this. This suggests that the green and gold team in CTF were scrapped early and nobody bothered to remove the icons.

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Red and Blue Dots

Tiny red and blue dots are found in botpack.u. In the Version 222 prototype and some pre-release videos, these icons are used to designate who is holding the flag on the scoreboard in CTF.

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Unused HUD Mugshots

A collection of various HUD mugshots with transparency instead of a black background can be found in Faces.utx. The package only has mugshots for Xan, the necris, the Blood Reavers, and the Dark Phalanx, suggesting it was made before the final roster was completed.

Default HUD Mugshot

If the player is using a skin that does not have a mugshot defined, the game will use a black and white picture of CliffyB, one of the game's designers, as a placeholder. This picture is also used in an easter egg in DM-Codex.

Unused Weapon Details

Enforcer Reload Animation

A reload animation for the Enforcer can be found in its model file. In the Version 222 prototype, the Enforcer has to be reloaded after 20 shots are fired.

Ripper Blade

An early razor blade fired by the Ripper can be found on one of the Ripper's textures. This blade looks a lot like a giant CD. It doesn't look very cool, which is likely why it was removed and replaced with the blade seen in the final game.

An early video shows the Ripper with the old razor blade.

Unused Ripper disk texture	Early Ripper

Unused Level Parts

DOM-Bullet

Past DOM-Bullet's boundaries is a small piece of the map that isn't connected to the rest of the map. It consists of two very small rooms with light fixtures on the wall that have a metal shaped-beam bridging the gap between the two rooms. What this was supposed to be for is unknown.

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DOM-Olden

Past the Middle control point is a strange 3D shape that looks vaguely like a tornado. It doesn't use any of the textures seen in DOM-Olden and doesn't appear to have any purpose. Even stranger is that the mystery shape does not appear in the DOM-Olden found in the Version 222 prototype, so it was added between March and November, when the game was officially released.

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  The mystery shape.

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  Inside the mystery shape.

Unused Music

A few music tracks that aren't used in any official map for the PC release exist in the game's files.

Save Me [Savemeg.umx]

The only major difference from [SaveMe.umx] is the percussion theme in the 0:06.5-0:19.5 segment.

Unused Music Tracks

Several unused patterns also exist within the songs. Below are the most interesting of these.

Colossus (Michiel) [Colossus.umx]

Unused intro patterns.

Mission Landing [Mission.umx]

Unused ending patterns.

Skyward Fire [Skyward.umx]

Unused patterns. Sound very different from the used patterns.

BOTPACK #9(By Michiel) [Botmca9.umx]

Unused	Used

Unused patterns that create a significantly extended version of the song.

Unreal Tournament Title [Uttitle.umx]

Unused	Used

Unused patterns from an early version of the intro theme.

Unused Sounds

Unused Assault Mission Briefs

Inside botpack.u are voice-overs explaining the goal of the map for the attackers in AS-HiSpeed, AS-Oceanfloor, and AS-Overlord.

Some of these voice-overs are used in Version 222.

AS-Hispeed

Alright people, our goal is to take control of this train. 
Proceed as fast as possible to the front cabin, where you must toggle the operational switch on the main control. 
Good luck!

Alternate AS-Hispeed Voice-over

The files contain another version of the AS-Hispeed voice-over called "motiveTrain". This one has a slightly softer voice tone from the same voice actor and is worded differently.

Unused Voice-over	Used Voice-over

Unused Voice-over	Used Voice-over
Alright people, our goal is to stop this train. Proceed as fast as possible to the front cabin where you must knock out the main control. Good luck!	Alright people, our goal is to take control of this train. Proceed as fast as possible to the front cabin, where you must toggle the operational switch on the main control. Good luck!

AS-Oceanfloor

Good evening, people! 
Your mission tonight is to assault the underwater base located just below our sub. 
To take control of the base, you must first find and disable its four computer terminals. 
Good luck!

AS-Overlord

All right men, the D-Day troops will be arriving shortly and our task is to take out the long-range cannon guarding this beach.
We'll proceed past the enemy defenses to a large cavern deep inside the cliff walls which houses the cannon and its control room.
Destroy the equipment and the control room to render the cannon useless.

One thing to note is that the briefing mentions destroying unspecified equipment and the control room. In AS-Overlord, the attacking team just needs to shoot the control room's panels to win.

Callsigns

At one point, characters were supposed to be assigned callsigns based on the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet used by the US military until 1955. These would be used to mention someone by voice when a command was given. For example, if the player tells Archon the bot, whose callsign is "Baker", to defend the base, the human player would automatically say "Baker, defend the base" after selecting the command. These were scrapped before the final game was released, but the sound effects are still in each character's voice package. In the final game, no name is mentioned when a player issues a command.

Callsigns are used in the Version 222 prototype.

Female1

File Name	Track	Transcript
F1abel		Able
F1baker		Baker
F1charlie		Charlie
F1dog		Dog
F1easy		Easy
F1fox		Fox
F1romeo		Romeo
F1tango		Tango
F1victor		Victor
F1zulu		Zulu

Female2

File Name	Track	Transcript
F2abel		Able
F2baker		Baker
F2charlie		Charlie
F2dog		Dog
F2easy		Easy
F2fox		Fox
F2romeo		Romeo
F2tango		Tango
F2victor		Victor
F2zulu		Zulu

Male1

File Name	Track	Transcript
M1abel		Able
M1baker		Baker
M1charlie		Charlie
M1dog		Dog
M1easy		Easy
M1fox		Fox
M1romeo		Romeo
M1tango		Tango
M1victor		Victor
M1zulu		Zulu

Male2

File Name	Track	Transcript
M2abel		Able
M2baker		Baker
M2charlie		Charlie
M2dog		Dog
M2easy		Easy
M2fox		Fox
M2romeo		Romeo
M2tango		Tango
M2victor		Victor
M2zulu		Zulu

Xan Kriegor

File Name	Track	Transcript
Babel		Able
Bbaker		Baker
Bcharlie		Charlie
Bdog		Dog
Beasy		Easy
Bfox		Fox
Bromeo		Romeo
Btango		Tango
Bvictor		Victor
Bzulu		Zulu

Unused Taunts

Three unused taunts can be found in the game's files; two from the Male1 soundpack, and one from Xan Kriegor's soundpack. There doesn't seem to be any specific reason why the Male1 sounds were cut, but Xan's might've been cut because it doesn't fit his character.

Speaker	Track	Transcript
Male1		It's clobberin' time! (used in Version 222 prototype)
Male1		Suck it down!
Xan Kriegor		You jack off!

Unused Announcer Clips

Several unused announcer sound effects are buried in the announcer's voice pack. The unused clips appear to be a mix of announcing regular events in a match (like reaching first place in a match), single-player specific sounds, and an unused killing spree announcement. The most interesting sound clips are ones hinting at mechanics that do not exist in the final game, like an assist system.

Transcript	Track	Notes
Assist!		There isn't an assist system in the final game.
Capture!		Probably played when a flag was captured in CTF, but if it was meant to play for everyone, a certain team, or the person that captured the flag is unknown.
You have failed to proceed.		Might've been used if a single player ladder match was lost.
Last Place!		N/A
Lost the lead!		N/A
Nice catch!		There isn't any sort of catching system in the final game, unless grabbing a falling flag is considered catching.
Prepare for battle!		Likely played before a match.
You may proceed.		Probably played when the player won a single player ladder match.
Taken the lead!		N/A
Triple kill!		Likely replaced with "Multi kill!".

Unused Flag Capture Sound

CaptureSound.wav is an unused sound meant to play when the flag was captured in CTF. It is a brief guitar riff. This sound file can be found in Botpack220 and is used in the Version 222 prototype.

Unused Domination Sounds

Two unused sounds can be found in the Domination section botpack.u. The sounds appear in Version 222 and are unused.

File name	Track	Notes
ControlSound		Might've been used as a sound for a nearby control point.
WarningSound		N/A

Unused Male Death Sound

Deathc52.wav is an unused death sound for the male player models. This sound is used in the Version 322 demo, but is not played in the latest demo and the final game.

Level Preview Differences

Some of the level preview screenshots show earlier versions of a level. Most of these earlier versions can be seen in the Version 222 prototype.

CTF-Face

The Blue base uses darker textures. V222 reveals that these are from the Crypt2 texture package.

Preview screenshot	In-game screenshot

CTF-Lavagiant

The Blue base has different textures and the ground texture is darker and rockier-looking.

Preview screenshot	In-game screenshot

DM-Grinder

The red lights are less vivid than they are in the final version of the map.

Preview screenshot	In-game screenshot

DM-Oblivion

The left path in the crate room has two metal slopes on its sides. A small bit of the skybox can be seen on the far left, which shows the sky as a blue-wavey pattern instead of outer space.

Preview screenshot	In-game screenshot

DOM-Cryptic

The Gargoyle control point is in front of the door that leads to the teleport exit, not to its left.

Preview screenshot	In-game screenshot

DOM-Gearbolt

The preview screenshot doesn't have the upper path to the Bridge control point in the acid room and doesn't have the cubby hole with items in it.

Preview screenshot	In-game screenshot

DOM-Ghardhen

The right doorway does not have a walkway that connects it to the upper part of the engine room and the door uses a door texture from Unreal's mine texture set.

Preview screenshot	In-game screenshot

DOM-Leadworks

The room leading to the Storage control point has tan bricks instead of grey bricks.

Preview screenshot	In-game screenshot

Early Xan Kriegor name

The package "faces.utx" contains an unused mugshot of Xan that calls him "Bane" instead of Xan.

Unused Minigun Arena Mutator

Code for an unused Minigun Arena mutator exists in botpack.u.

Armor Texture Hidden Text

The Armor's texture sheet has "Unreal Tournament" written in the margins.

DM-Codex Easter Egg

There is an easter egg in DM-Codex featuring CliffyB, one of the designers behind UT99. In order to access it, go into the room with the four paths meeting at one point. Look for the stairway that has a rocket pack to its right. Go up the stairs and look for the small glass shapes on each side of the wall. Shoot them, then go into the center room with lava at the bottom. Go to the path that has an elevator on the right. Past the elevator is an opening that leads to a small room with CliffyB's face and “Pretty fly...” underneath him. Staying in the room will constantly damage the player. Shooting the “Pretty fly...” will turn it into “(for a white guy!)”. Shooting the text again will revert it back to “Pretty fly...”.

Of note is that CliffyB designed DM-Codex.

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  Shoot these glass shapes...

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  ...and these glass shapes to open the way to the easter egg.

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  Where the easter egg is located.

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  Pretty fly...

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  ...for a white guy!

PowerVR Support

Unreal Tournament, like most Unreal Engine 1 games, uses a plugin system for its renderer, so as to allow more flexible support for multiple video card types. Interestingly enough, the PowerVR SGL plugin, while dummied out, is present, compiled for Unreal Tournament, and works fine with minor bugs on versions of the game before the v428 patch (the skeletal animation support breaks it). Of course, you actually need to HAVE a PowerVR card to use it, and you'll need to have Kernelex 4.5.1 installed and the game set to Windows 98SE compatibility mode.

Version Differences

The Dreamcast version of the game (including the prototype) has additional instrumentation in the song "Go Down", as well as a section of "Organic" that sounds different, as illustrated in the following videos. While it was initially speculated that the Dreamcast songs might sound this way due to having the original quadraphonic channels on the tracker files downmixed to stereo (whereas on the PC, the additional channels won't play), but use of OpenMPT to analyze Go Down (by saving a quadraphonic file) shows that the additional channels do not contain the Dreamcast instrumentation. It's possible that Alexander Brandon may have provided a different version of the song to be used for the game instead.

Kuokka77 (Amiga/tracker Youtube archivist) reportedly e-mailed Alexander Brandon, who did not recall submitting a special version.