Skankey Maps features three cool CTF maps, including CTF-PolarOpposites, shown above. The Dirt: We get a lot of questions about where the Unrealed.exe help file is. There is no official help file for this, as it's beta software released to you by Epic, but you can check out Bleeding Nali's user-made one, with Wolf's tutorials, here. Use at your own risk, and remember, it was written for Unreal, not UT, so some things have changed. Mailbag topic: Are the Epic Capture the Flag maps biased? Headlines: Slave Master Weekend Server Adding RA:UT Servers To UT PU Welcomes Skankey Maps Rocket Arena UT! Shrinker Mutator Released

		Site News: Sat · Apr 15 · 2000	Send Us News!

	Slave Master Weekend Server - QAPete      4/15/00 5:58 PST - PlanetUnreal Happenings The boyz at Slave Master are running a server this weekend, starting today. You can get details from the site, as well as download this really unique and fun mod.
	Adding RA:UT Servers To UT - QAPete      4/15/00 5:50 PST - PlanetUnreal Happenings Drunken Master mailed in these instructions on how to add RocketArena UT servers to your UT server browser. It's a little wordy, but here it is in its entirety: You are going to add/change lines to 2 files in your UnrealTournament\System\ folder: UBrowser.int and UnrealTournament.ini (if you aren't used to making changes to these I would recommend backing them up first). First, open UBrowser.int in your favortie text editor. There should be about 13 lines - most of which read something like "UBrowserxxx=SomeGameType". Add a line that reads "UBrowserRA=RocketArena" (don't include quotes). Make sure it is on its own line and don't do anything stupid like delete an existing line. Save and close the file. Second, open UnrealTournament.ini. Search for "ServerListNames" There should be a bunch of lines that look like: ServerListNames[0]=UBrowserUT ServerListNames[1]=UBrowserLAN ServerListNames[2]=UBrowserPopulated ... Go to the first one that says None. (i.e. "ServerListNames[10]=None") and change the None to read "UBrowserRA" (should now look like "ServerListNames[10]=UBrowserRA"). Now scroll down just below that long list to all the items that look like: [UBrowserCTF] ListFactories[0]=UBrowser.UBrowserSubsetFact,SupersetTag=UBrowserAll,GameType=CTFGame,bCompatibleServersOnly=True Copy one of them and paste a duplicate line. Then change the duplicate item to look like: [UBrowserRA] ListFactories[0]=UBrowser.UBrowserSubsetFact,SupersetTag=UBrowserAll,GameType=RocketArenaGame,bCompatibleServersOnly=True Save and quit. Fire up UT - if you did everything right you will now have a new tab under Find Multiplayer games that will just show RA:UT games. If it's not there go back and check for typos. Thanks, Drunken Master! To find this information after it's scrolled off our news page, just use our News Search, located in the left sidebar of PU. If you guys haven't gotten RocketArena UT yet, what are you waiting for?
	PU Welcomes Skankey Maps - QAPete      4/15/00 5:39 PST - PlanetUnreal Happenings PlanetUnreal is proud to announce the addition of Skankey Maps to our bevy of excellent hosted sites! Skankey features his UT and Unreal maps, including CTF-PolarOpposites, CTF-Infrastructure and CTF-Increase. Stop by, view a couple of screenshots, and download away!

		Site News: Fri · Apr 14 · 2000	Send Us News!

	Rocket Arena UT Released! - Stallion      4/14/00 23:36 PST - Mod Central Unreal Update: RAUT Version 1.1 is out! You can download the 1MB patch, or the 10MB full install -- in ZIP or UMOD format. Also, please visit the site for more information on how to get started, what the patch fixes, and the user interface! PlanetUnreal's own hosted site, Rocket Arena: UT, has released version 1.0 of this highly anticipated modification. Rocket Arena has its roots in the Quake scene, where it has kepy many gamers up all night (including myself!). Epic Games along with several community developers (including fellow PU admin Mongo) have created the mod for UT. There are a ton of new enhancements capable with the Unreal engine, and more are on the way! Here's a clip from the post on the Rocket Arena page. Here it is! Rocket Arena UT v1.0 is ready for release. A couple notes on this version. Please read the documentation! There is a lot of stuff in there that will help you get your game set up and running properly the first time. There is also information for server operators. One bit of extra info for server operators. Make sure that if you use RocketArenaUT with the Bonus Pack that you make RocketArenaMultiMesh in your ServerPackages. That will make the bonus pack meshes show up properly. Thanks to Stefan 'Eavy' Daniel Schwarz and Mike 'Mongo' Lambert for programming help on the project. Thanks to Shane Caudle and Steve Garofalo for art. Big thanks to Cliff Bleszinski, Warren Marshall, Cedric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino, Eric 'Ebolt' Boltjes, Rich Eastwood, and Sidney 'Clawfist' Rauchberger for maps. Finally a huge thanks to David 'CRT' Wright for letting us do the mod! This is where I step out! I've got to get back to working on Epic stuff as we start working on our next game. Mike 'Mongo' Lambert is going to take over from here and he's got a great idea where to take the mod. Aside from fixing the bugs that you report, he's going to be adding more gametypes and more features. We've also got a few mappers like Willhaven working on additional maps for the next release. Head over to RA:UT for the rest as well as the mirror link.
	UTBooty shakes down DM-Beng, DM-Gate, & AS-Riverbed - Rooster      4/14/00 17:08 PST - Elsewhere on the Web Check them out here.
	Planet Unreal announces the offical launch of JadtheGerbil Productions! - Rooster      4/14/00 15:12 PST - PlanetUnreal Happenings JadtheGerbil is the latest site dedicated to Unreal Tournament Mods. They've opened their doors to the public! Let's make them regret it! Check out mods such as Animalia and JtG Weapons.
	EverGlide Large Attack Pad reviewed by Chemwar - Rooster      4/14/00 15:00 PST - Elsewhere on the Web ChemWar.org has put up a review of the EverGlide Large Attack Pad. Chemwar's not sure if it works with Optical mice, but I can attest it does just fine. (IMHO: The EG Large Attack Pad is the best thing since sliced bread!)
	ZeroPing petition started - Rooster      4/14/00 14:52 PST - Elsewhere on the Web PurpleCfh{CTINC} has created a petition for ZeroPing. Check it out, read it - sign it if you like. I assume this petition would be going to Epic but it's not very clear.
	deCyber releases CTF-Amon. - Rooster      4/14/00 14:49 PST - Elsewhere on the Web deCyber has released another map - this one is called CTF-Amon. If it's as good as CTF-deCyberBridge we're in for a treat!

		Site News: Thu · Apr 13 · 2000	Send Us News!

	Unrealty Status Update - Yoda      4/13/00 17:57 PST - Elsewhere on the Web The Unrealty site was updated recently, with a status update. There are currently 2 issues to be resolved (with the client), before the release. If you want to check it out yourself, you could click here, or perhaps here, to do so.
	Shrinker Mutator Released - QAPete      4/13/00 15:45 PST - Mod Central Unreal UnrealTower has released the Shrinker mutator for UT. Here's Meltdown from UnrealTower to tell you about it: I always liked Duke Nukem 3D. One of the nice things was the shrink-gun. Well, here it is, for Unreal Tournament! You aren't able to squish small opponents (yet), though. When a player is shrunk, he: Walks slower Jumps lower Causes less damage Receives more damage After a period of time a shrunk player will grow back to his/her original size. As far as I know this baby works in botmatch as well as in a networked game. You can grab this, and other interesting work, over at UnrealTower.
	PU Welcomes F.E.B.A. - QAPete      4/13/00 15:17 PST - Mod Central Unreal PlanetUnreal is proud to announce the addition of F.E.B.A. to our growing list of excellent hosted sites! F.E.B.A., Forward Edge Battle Area, is a new website focusing on the development of Real Time Strategy modifications for Unreal Tournament. F.E.B.A. will infuse Unreal Tournament game play with in depth strategic planning, resource management, new player classes, and original game types. Stop by and welcome Richard Osborne, Project Lead for F.E.B.A., to the site!
	Machinima.com Which Engine Feature - QAPete      4/13/00 15:10 PST - Elsewhere on the Web Machinima.com posted part three of their 'Which Engine' feature, this time dealing with the central graphical features of the currently available engines, as well as their potential as far as re-coding them goes, with a few comments from John Carmack and Tim Sweeney explaining sections of their respective engines. There's some educational info available there, so stop on by for a read.
	Scavenger Hunt Mod and Maps - QAPete      4/13/00 14:59 PST - Mod Central Unreal Our own Dr. Schwa has, due to the badgering of the mappers involved, dug up, finished and released his Scavenger Hunt mod for UT, as well as the Scavenger Hunt Map Pack. The mod goes like this: 2 teams need to find flags worth 5, 10 , 25 and 50 points and bring them back to their base to score. There are also black flags worth -50 points which you should take to your enemy's base :-). A mixture of Domination and CTF maybe... The map pack includes SH-TombScavenger done by Robert "Slapshot" Missionario and 3 conversions (SH-Coret, SH-Elsinore and SH-Morpheus) done by Gareth "WelshDragon" Krantz. You'll also find a half-baked version of Schwa's own SH-Peak in there. You can download all of this goodness from Dr. Schwa's Laboratory.
	RUNE Character Shots - QAPete      4/13/00 14:55 PST - Games in Development Tim Gerritsen mailed in to remind you that they're continuing to pump out new shots every week. This time around you can catch "the Dishonored, Viking warriors considered unworthy of entrance into Valhalla, the honored hall of warriors (it's also a big beer hall, which is probably why this guy looks so angry) and a Goblin Warrior decked out in full body war paint." Where, you ask? Stop by the Human Head Studios Catwalk Page.
	MatrixDM Mutator - QAPete      4/13/00 14:52 PST - Mod Central Unreal Avat@r just released a brand new mutator for Unreal Tournament. The mutator is called MatrixDM and you can jump higher and run faster with it, and it limits you to the (highly underrated) Double Enforcer. You can download it here.