ChaosUT2: Evolution, Public Release 3

**legacy-Shuri** · 06-06-2004, 07:45 AM

Download: Name: ChaosUT2: Evolution
Version: Public Release 3
Compatibility: UT2004, v3204 or higher
Description: ChaosUT2 for UT2004 is the next in the series of Chaos mods from Chaotic Dreams, following on from Chaos DM (Q2), the original ChaosUT and the UT2003 version of ChaosUT2.

Chaos contains:

New Gametypes: From the old classic King Of The Hill, to the Chaos rendition of Capture The Flag, to the highly customizable Duel mode.

New Weapons: A set of weapons to replace or cycle with the UT2004 ones. On offer are multi-ammunition Crossbows and Grenade Launchers, the Enhanced Rail Delivery Weapon (ERDW), the Multi-Utility Gun, and many more, all with top-class models, sounds and effects. There is also a full melee fighting system incuding weapons such as a mace and a bastard sword.

New Features: Enhance your game with Anti-Grav Belts, heartbeats to let you know when the enemy is low on health, Chalk outlines to mark the location of a kill, and other such features.

New Maps: Includes maps for Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, King Of The Hill and Duel, coming to a total of 29 new maps.

New Players: From a Temple Knight to a Drow princess, the new Chaos player models help bring a Chaotic atmosphere around the game.

Screenshots:

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Credits: The Chaotic Dreams team, and people who helped the mod.

Homepage: http://www.planetunreal.com/chaotic

Download: Links at homepage.

**legacy-The Swan Mocker** · 06-06-2004, 08:16 AM

Love it dude, but you should change the tag to TC mod from Delete Me

**legacy-Shuri** · 06-06-2004, 08:25 AM

Thanks for the reminder.

**Radiosity** · 06-06-2004, 09:28 AM

Got any more mirrors planned? Those listed on the site are all the height of suck. Vileplanet as usual has a cue, DB Center is giving an errror saying I don't have permission to access the link, NitroClan isn't loading and FPS Central requires registration which I'm not even going to consider simply to download a single file.

More Mirrors = :up:

**legacy-^»{@mBRo$e}«^** · 06-06-2004, 09:35 AM

Well beyondunreal is working on their mirrors, but when it's done.. Beats me (i'll just download it from fileplanet.. 11 minutes to wait, but ok..)

**legacy-Mr Evil** · 06-06-2004, 09:49 AM

Yes, more mirrors please, I've been unable to download from any of the existing ones!

**Nemephosis** · 06-06-2004, 09:52 AM

Originally posted by ^»{@mBRo$e}«^
Well beyondunreal is working on their mirrors, but when it's done.. Beats me (i'll just download it from fileplanet.. 11 minutes to wait, but ok..)

11 minutes? My wait was going to be 68. :bulb:

**legacy-Gobi** · 06-06-2004, 10:12 AM

Tried to play a quick botmach after download but the only way to get the bots into the map is with the addbots command nothing else will work for me.

**legacy-Da Wrecka** · 06-06-2004, 10:56 AM

Why am I not surprised at the number of people having problems downloading from the mirrors that are there?

We need more mirrors! The sooner BeyondUnreal's are sorted the better :/

**legacy-Gobi** · 06-06-2004, 11:10 AM

I'm still searching for the hoverboard, there is no vehicle entry in the ChaosUT.ucl

**legacy-Orcymorky** · 06-06-2004, 11:13 AM

Hoverboard isnt in this version.......

but hopefully it will be in l8ter v.

**legacy-Gobi** · 06-06-2004, 11:31 AM

Originally posted by Orcymorky
Hoverboard isnt in this version.......

but hopefully it will be in l8ter v.

Oh yes it is!!!

If you are creating a .ucl file with this content it works:
Vehicle=(ClassName=ChaosUT.HoverBoard,FriendlyName =ChaosUT.HoverBoard.VehicleNameString,FallbackName ="ChaosUT Hoverboard",FallbackDesc="ChaosUT Hoverboard")

**legacy-jbirney** · 06-06-2004, 11:42 AM

summon chaosut.hoverboard

It just was not ready for prime time...but you can play with it..and even fire your players weapon...it will be worked on ASAP.

**legacy-gareee** · 06-06-2004, 12:21 PM

Ok, I downloaded the zip, and extracted it inot my ut2004 floder. Now what? I don't see any chaos mod listed, and I if I try to join a internet game, I don't see the chaos gametypes listed at all.

Is there a exe in the chaos system folder I'm missing, or what?

**legacy-Gobi** · 06-06-2004, 12:24 PM

Originally posted by gareee
Ok, I downloaded the zip, and extracted it inot my ut2004 floder. Now what? I don't see any chaos mod listed, and I if I try to join a internet game, I don't see the chaos gametypes listed at all.

Is there a exe in the chaos system folder I'm missing, or what?

Start UT2k4, click on community, you can start it out of the mod list.

**legacy-gareee** · 06-06-2004, 12:53 PM

Finally figured that out, but it seems that it won't connect to the server. There are no games showing at all.

regular 2004 works fine though.

**Nemephosis** · 06-06-2004, 01:29 PM

Okay I got it downloaded thanks to JB and the weapons and everything work, but how do I get into a duel gametype?

edit: And if I copied over the UTX and UPL files for the player skins, would I be able to use them in regular 2K4?

edit: Alright I activated Chaos through the Community tab, but when I try to play a Duel game type, I'm forced into spectator mode and I can't actually play. My opponent spawns and I don't. And also I have it set to "use bot roster" and I have 7 bots in there, but the game only spawns one in the player list.

So to recap:

-I get one bot in the game and not 7
-I don't get to actually spawn and play

**legacy-jbirney** · 06-06-2004, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by Nemephosis
Okay I got it downloaded thanks to JB and the weapons and everything work, but how do I get into a duel gametype?

edit: And if I copied over the UTX and UPL files for the player skins, would I be able to use them in regular 2K4?

edit: Alright I activated Chaos through the Community tab, but when I try to play a Duel game type, I'm forced into spectator mode and I can't actually play. My opponent spawns and I don't. And also I have it set to "use bot roster" and I have 7 bots in there, but the game only spawns one in the player list.

So to recap:

-I get one bot in the game and not 7
-I don't get to actually spawn and play

to get the chaos models to show up in normal ut2k4, add this to your ut2004.ini (below the other stuff)

[Core.System]
Paths=../ChaosUT2/Players/*.upl

Thats a nasty bug you have. ATM I can not reproduce it. We here that bot roster is being a pain...try to select 5 random bots and make sure you dont hit specator (just checking)

**Nemephosis** · 06-06-2004, 04:42 PM

alright I'll give that a shot.

edit: Nope, I found the problem. Cleared the mutator list and that fixed it right up. Works now. I think I know which one it was too, it was this thing called "Jump anywhere" which lets you do a jump or a dodge at any time, even when falling. These jumping mutators have a bad tendency to change default stuff in the player class, and I guess Chaos wasn't ready to handle it and so never spawned me. I think that was the one, cause it works now.

**legacy-compjarg** · 06-06-2004, 05:24 PM

@Nemephosis:
The bot thing is not a bug, there is an optian to have more than two bots/players at a time, the thing where you can't spawn and play is probably because you have a mutator runing and is conflicting with chaos, remove them they are all dirt compared to chaos. LOL

EDIT: oops, didn't read you last post, i forgot to refresh this tab after i went in to replicate your probs.

**legacy-DD_133** · 06-06-2004, 10:20 PM

Dude, the wait was horrendiously long, but the payoff was totally well worth it. The new weapons LOL, I had so much fun playing with bots and destorying them in chaos duel with melee weapons. Now for the other modes I haven't touched yet. This, along with UT2004RPG, will give UT a whole new life. Well done dude, well done.

**legacy-jbirney** · 06-06-2004, 10:50 PM

Melee weapons can be used in All of the Chaos Game types...not just duel. In fact its fun to see a sniper, sneak by him with the grapple then supprise them with a melee...up close...and personal

**legacy-DimensionSeven** · 06-07-2004, 07:58 AM

w00tage!!!

:up:

**legacy-DD_133** · 06-07-2004, 10:50 AM

Originally posted by jbirney
Melee weapons can be used in All of the Chaos Game types...not just duel. In fact its fun to see a sniper, sneak by him with the grapple then supprise them with a melee...up close...and personal

Actually, there isn't an option for weapons in any other chaos mode.

**legacy-jbirney** · 06-07-2004, 11:04 AM

Originally posted by DD_133
Actually, there isn't an option for weapons in any other chaos mode.

Sure there is as Chaos DM, Chaos CTF, Chaos Duel (depending on your mode of duel), Chaos Koth and Chaos Team KoTH all have a melee selection screen while your playing the game, hit the "esc" in game menu to bring it up, look for the weapons tab, there is your melee weapon of choice

**legacy-EazyCheeze** · 06-07-2004, 03:25 PM

Very odd. I have no mutators loaded, yet I cannot see bots in the games (besides duel) I start up. Can someone help me here?

EDIT: It seems that that 'Map Defaults' option is not used; only the number of bots I specify (or I can use the bot roster I guess but I don't wanna). Even if the 'Map Defaults' option is selected, the number of bots spawned is the number I specify in the box (which gets grayed out but that doesn't matter to the game).

**legacy-DD_133** · 06-07-2004, 09:01 PM

Aha! I found the mutator, and with a combo of WoRm and chaosut mutators, I was able to make a melee DM game mode. O_O lol Good job on this mod. It rocks alot.

[ChaosUT announcer]Well done![/ChaosUT announcer]

PS. Fav new weapon is the Cutter blade launcher thingy. That is so cool.

**legacy-jbirney** · 06-07-2004, 10:50 PM

Originally posted by EazyCheeze
Very odd. I have no mutators loaded, yet I cannot see bots in the games (besides duel) I start up. Can someone help me here?

EDIT: It seems that that 'Map Defaults' option is not used; only the number of bots I specify (or I can use the bot roster I guess but I don't wanna). Even if the 'Map Defaults' option is selected, the number of bots spawned is the number I specify in the box (which gets grayed out but that doesn't matter to the game).

Yes we know about it and hear some other mods have the same issue. We are still trying to work out what and where it got broke and seeing if we can get a work around in place ASAP.

**legacy-BWRyan** · 06-07-2004, 11:30 PM

Holy crap, I just gave ChaosUT I quick runthrough. WHAT A BLAST!!! Wow, that is just awesome fun. Great work all around to everybody who helped develop this gem. People complaining that the 'vanilla' UT is too humorless, just give this mod a shot. I was cracking up laughing the whole time I fragged. The weapons are just freaking over-the-top crazy madcap fun.

Can't wait to try this online.

**legacy-MarZer** · 06-08-2004, 04:21 AM

Congrats to the Chaotic Dreams team. They have managed to create in ChaosUT2 the most original and fun mod for an FPS that I have ever played.

gg.

**legacy-Avius** · 06-24-2004, 11:22 AM

I know that i'm being a noob by just now downloading this mod, but OMFG it is awesome! The only problem is I can't play it online. I've already posted a thread on trouble shooting, go see that and please help me. But besides that, this is so f-ing cool. Duel mode alone with melee weapons is great for hours of fun. their is something strangely satisfying about slicing your opponets head off with an axe.

**legacy-Outlander2k4** · 06-24-2004, 08:43 PM

The melee combat is awesome... a little bit of strategy involved, but not enough that you actually have to... go forbid... THINK. I was also very impressed by the grappling hook... what a blast. I spent like an hour just messing aroun with it solo on Icarus.

**CVROY** · 06-25-2004, 11:43 AM

The Chaos team has always put out some of, if not the best custom Unreal stuff. Their work is even better than many game companies out there, and I'd say the Chaos team sets the model that others should follow.

All their weapons are great and fun to use... as long as they keep the mod simple and FUN they will always do well.

I remember when it came out for ut99 and I have to say it has always been a fav