Well, I play a lot of UT. Both flavours, but I can't decide which I like to play the most.

UT99 has the ripper, and the warcow, and the necris.

UT2004 has the necris now, but the action seems to be 'slower' as the levels are more open, with larger rooms.

What do the wireheaders think?

(UT was really my world before this year, cos of the bot support)

I've only played the original UT.  The Flak Cannon felt a little too strong, but otherwise most everything else felt fine.  I also severely disliked the dodging controls.  I turned dodging off as I'd invariably "dodge" off a ledge accidentally.  

Like Phoenix, I've only ever played the original. I got some enjoyment out of it, but never really had the opportunity to play it online.

I'd have to say that UT2K4 is my favorite UT game.

UT2k4 is my favorite.
There is so much do to so it is pretty hard to get bored.

Plus the bots are cool.

I think I prefer an Unyielding Tourniquet over Unreal Tournament.

I was a huge fan of UT99 back in the day, but once I got into Quake it was hard to go back. With UT2004, there's deffinitely some things I miss from UT99, like the ripper and the enforcer, but especially after modding 2k4 to my tastes, UT99 feels very primitive.  I would say the greatest weakness in UT2004 right now is the movement physics. In quake, there is a whole science to movement which obviously I don't hav e to elaborate on. Even in UT99, there was some skill to running most of the time and only jumping or dodging on occasion. In UT2004, if you're not constantly dodge-jumping then you're going too slow, and it doesn't take any skill. At the same time, it dilutes combat because dodge-jumping doesn't require building momentum and you can do it instantaneously. It's too easy to just instantly pop in the other direction when there's a rocket coming at you. Even blind double jumping allows you to hang in the air avoiding much incoming fire with little effort. Furthermore, it totally changes map flow because anything that's not the size of Rankin is too small for constant dodge-jumping. Even after downloading remakes of classics from UT99 like Malevalence, Shrapnel, Turbine, Grinder, etc, I still mainly just play Asbestos, Rankin, and Antalus because the old maps just don't play right with UT2004 physics. Not to mention, Curse just isn't Curse without the Ripper.

UT2004 may have UT99 licked in terms of technology and even weapon balance, but there's something to the feel of UT99's close range combat that's missing in UT2004. I suppose removing double/dodge- jumping and speeding up running to match UT99 would help, but what would really be cool is if someone with more coding skills than me were to make a Quake-stlye-movement mutator for UT2004. Onslaught and the other new modes are actually pretty good. Classic Domination, my favorite non-dm gametype, has been brought back via community mod. Weapons and items are easy to fix (I've allready remade 90% of Quake's weapons into UT with little-to-no coding skills). But movement, that's the major missing peice in UT2004.

I think this says exactly what I think too: I prefer UT99 over the newer sorts, but was not sure why exactly.

I play on truff.net (UT99) if anyone wants a game sometime.

Idon't really like mutators to turn one game into another. why not just play the original game?

because the graphics in that game suck .

true, but I like the gameplay with the old game. It's a lot faster now I am aware of it while playing and I like the people that play it. the forums are better. (bit like wirehead!)