User:Thorag

Hi there,

Unreal Games were always fun and still are. The game I was most addicted to was Unreal 2 XMP, and at a time, the game was already dying, I joined clan HoC. The clan is not active any more, but I can say it was fun to play the game with this clan <3.

As I am also a software developer, I once felt that it would be fun to create a stand-alone app that could be used to query the u2xmp master server and the game servers as well. With that tool (UGameTray) it is possible to see which servers still host the game and what players are currently playing on them. I once planned to extend the tool to cover all versions of Unreal games (all Unreal Tournament versions etc.) but then time became short and I have to admit that there are already great programs to do this, most people use the great XFire tool or other similar programs. But it was really fun to work out the implementation of the master and game server protocol :)

I am still hoping that some day the concept of Unreal 2 XMP will be ported to a current Unreal engine (UTXMP does this, but it was not that widely accepted, as the feeling of old U2 XMP was missing (that was at least my personal impression of the UT2004 mod)). Maybe this will work on UT 3, and I hope the feeling of that great game comes back.

Unreal 2 XMP really had a great multiplayer concept where tactics played a big role and I want to thank everyone who contributed to this.

So long, ]HoC[ Thorag <3