Unreal Tournament v469b released and added to Luxtorpeda for Steam

Context 1:

Unreal Tournament is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. The second installment in the Unreal series, it was first published by GT Interactive in 1999 for Microsoft Windows, and later released on the PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast by Infogrames in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Players compete in a series of matches of various types, with the general aim of out-killing opponents.

OldUnreal took over maintenance of the Unreal Tournament code base after reaching an agreement with Epic Games in 2019.

Context 2:

[Luxtorpeda is a] Steam Play compatibility tool to run games using native Linux engines. List of native games supported by Luxtorpeda:

https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages.html

For detailed Luxtorpeda review:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/try-out-luxtorpeda-a-steam-play-tool-to-run-games-in-native-game-engines

News:

OldUnreal released Unreal Tournament Version 469b for Linux, Mac and Windows.

u/d10sfan has added Linux version of Unreal Tournament Version 469b to Luxtorpeda repos. Thanks to that, native Linux version of Unreal Tournament (1999) can be played as a Steam game.

Installation:

Retail:

Official Windows and Linux releases are distributed as file archives. They are meant to be unpacked on top of an existing installation of Unreal Tournament.

https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/blob/master/README.md#official-releases

Steam:

Follow "Installation (using tarball)" method, pick Luxtorpeda as Steam Play compatibility tool for Unreal Tournament, install and run the game.

https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda#installation-using-tarball

submitted by /u/rea987 to r/linux_gaming
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